Remember when we said the prize package for this year’s EU-Startups Summit Pitch Competition was worth more than €622k? Well, we slightly underestimated things. Since then, we have added new partners, more credits, and additional opportunities, pushing the total prize value to over €1 million. Yes, you read that right! As the EU-Startups Summit 2026 ... Read more ›
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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO of Personio, a leading European all-in-one HR software platform built for small and medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2105 in Munich, Personio supports companies across the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to payroll, performance, and people analytics. Today, the ... Read more ›
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Paris-based VC firm daphni has reached the final closing of its latest fund, daphni Blue, at €260 million. The fund, which exceeded its initial target, is designed to transform Europe’s scientific strength into globally relevant startups tackling environmental and societal challenges. The final closing was achieved in under nine months from the first, and daphni ... Read more ›
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We are pleased to announce that Wouter Durville, Founder of TestGorilla, will join the speaker line-up at the EU-Startups Summit 2026 on May 7-8 in sunny Malta! Founded in Amsterdam, TestGorilla is reshaping how companies hire by replacing traditional CV screening with science-backed, skills-based assessments. The platform helps organisations identify the right candidates faster, more ... Read more ›
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Dealroom.co, an Amsterdam-based data platform and source of record for startups, high-growth companies, venture capital, and technology ecosystems, today announced a €5.8 million ($7 million) funding round for international expansion, with an initial focus on scaling its presence in the US. The round was led by Índico Capital Partners, with participation from Rabobank and existing ... Read more ›
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Recare, a Berlin-based provider of technology solutions for hospitals and care providers, has closed a growth financing round of up to €37 million, including a €7 million option, to scale its AI platform and expand its international business. The round was led by DNV, the independent assurance and risk management provider, with participation from CIBC ... Read more ›
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Dragonfly AI, a London-based innovator in AI-powered creative testing, has announced a €5.7 million (£5 million) investment to further advance its neuroscience-led technology, which takes a “fundamentally different approach to AI“. The round was led by 24Haymarket, with participation from Guinness Ventures and Foresight. Dragonfly AI is also appointing Fiona Dent to its board of ... Read more ›
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Lund-based MedVasc has raised €2.2 million through subscriptions exclusively from existing shareholders, as well as completing production and testing activities for their anesthesia catheter Solutio, advancing toward FDA clearance. This follows May 2025’s €917k financing round, as covered by EU-Startups. ”The strong participation from current owners demonstrates continued confidence in MedVasc’s strategy, execution capability, and ... Read more ›
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When Europe’s highest-potential startups and largest corporates collaborate, we see innovative technologies fast-tracked into game-changing products and services. The European Innovation Council (EIC) is bridging the innovation and collaboration gap between Europe’s cutting-edge startups and established multinational corporations with the Corporate Partnership Programme (CPP). Since 2017, the EIC CPP has organised 91 Corporate and Multi-Corporate ... Read more ›
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Sokin, a British business payments company, has secured a €83 million ($100 million) long-term debt facility from Oxford Finance LLC to accelerate their expansion across North America, Asia, the Middle East, and South America, and fast-track the acquisition of further regional licenses, banking partnerships, and global infrastructure scaling. Additionally, investments will fund the development and ... Read more ›
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Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics company that applies general-purpose Physical AI to optimise warehouse operations, today announced an €8.3 million ($10 million) Series B extension to accelerate its commercial operations in the U.S. The round round led by Cogito Capital Partners. With the newly added funding, Nomagic’s total funding now exceeds €70 million ($84 million). ... Read more ›
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Founded three years ago by Winfried Vogt and Christina Paap, the Innovation Award was created with a clear objective: to give innovative founders access to what often makes the decisive difference for early-stage success. Visibility, recognition, and entry into strong professional networks remain out of reach for many startups, particularly in highly regulated sectors such ... Read more ›
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b2venture, a Berlin-based early-stage investor, has closed its Fund V at the hard cap of €150 million, the firm’s largest early-stage fund to date aimed at accelerating the next wave of European tech leaders building scalable, defensible technologies and digital business models from the earliest stages. Fund V is backed by a mix of long-standing ... Read more ›
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Carbonaide, a Finnish startup with a mission to turn building materials from a large emission source into a carbon sink, has raised €3.7 million in its latest funding round to scale its operations and accelerate key strategic initiatives. The combined investment consisted of equity and supporting financial instruments. The round was led by Carbonaide’s existing ... Read more ›
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Düsseldorf-based Co-reactive, a ClimateTech startup focused on decarbonising the construction industry at scale, has closed a Seed financing round totalling €6.5 million to scale its CO₂ mineralisation technology that uses CO₂ and binds it permanently in construction materials. The round was led by HTGF, with participation from NRW.Bank, HBG Ventures, AFI Ventures (the early-stage impact ... Read more ›
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Nuremberg-based ZOHO.VC, the new venture capital arm of ZOLLHOF – Tech Incubator, today announced the successful First Closing of its inaugural fund – with a target volume of €10 million – already securing securing 70% of the target fund volume ten months ahead of the final closing. The focus of the fund, which currently sits ... Read more ›
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Ascension Ventures, a British VC investing at the pre-Seed and Seed levels, has received a new up to €11.5 million (£10 million) commitment, enhancing access to capital for early-stage businesses across diverse sectors and ensuring that founders outside of London and the South East have access to the patient capital required to scale. The commitment ... Read more ›
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Following our series of country articles, today we turn our focus north to Finland, exploring the forces shaping its startup ecosystem and the companies driving innovation across deeptech, energy, health, AI, and mobility. Finland has long been recognised for its strong engineering tradition, world-class education system, and close collaboration between academia, industry, and the public ... Read more ›
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SamanTree Medical, a Liège-based innovator in surgical imaging innovation, has secured €20 million in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) in order to support the development of an advanced confocal microscopy scanner for rapid imaging of the internal microstructure of tissue samples during surgical procedures. The operation is backed by InvestEU, the EU’s flagship ... Read more ›
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Evaro, an NHS-licensed digital healthcare platform serving over 2 million patients, today announced it has closed a €21 million ($25 million) Series A funding round to expand across treatment areas (women’s health, men’s health, and longevity medicine), clinical capabilities such as cutting edge diagnostics and aftercare, and platform development (API-first infrastructure for seamless brand integration). ... Read more ›
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