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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Rupa Popat, founder of Arāya Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm backing ambitious founders building the next generation of impactful, technology-driven companies. With a strong focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs and emerging sectors such as AI and healthtech, Arāya Ventures is working to reshape how capital ... Read more ›
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As digital technologies continue to reshape how people interact, share data, and access services, questions around privacy, trust, and control have become increasingly central. In response, European initiatives like TrustChain have been working to develop more secure, decentralised, and human-centric digital infrastructure aligned with European values. Now, following three years of work under the EU’s ... Read more ›
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Covalo, a Zurich-based ingredients discovery and data platform for the personal care industry, today announced a €3.5 million Seed extension to support its transition from a marketplace to the industry’s reliable data infrastructure. The round was led by Hi inov, with participation from existing investors HTGF and seed+speed Ventures. Along with this funding, Covalo also ... Read more ›
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Connectome, a Zurich and London-based NeuroTech startup, has closed a pre-Seed financing round of approximately €1.7 million ($2 million) to transform the interpretation of brains and offer a clearer, more personalised view of cognitive health by making it measurable. The round was led by Redstone, with participation from leading early-stage venture funds, including Concept Ventures ... Read more ›
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MOVEMENTS, a Spanish platform that enables the creation, scaling and sustainability of citizen movements, has reached its initial target of €300k in its pre-Seed round and is opening an extension round up to €350k to bring in strategic investors before the final close. This milestone follows initial backing business angels Miguel Vicente (Antai, Wallapop, Glovo), ... Read more ›
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Nexus, a Belgian agentic AI platform enabling enterprises to deploy autonomous agents, announced a €3.7 million ($4.3 million) Seed funding round scale its platform and accelerate enterprise adoption of production-ready AI agents. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, Twenty Two Ventures, Phosphor Capital, and other angel investors ... Read more ›
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Pickmybrain, a Tallinn-based startup building AI-powered Digital Brains for celebrities, experts, and public figures, has raised a €1.8 million ($2.1 million) pre-Seed round to grow its team, scale into new markets, and enhance the product. The funding was secured from a group of business angels, such as Garri Zmudze (a longevity and BioTech investor and ... Read more ›
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Audicin, a Finnish NeuroTech startup using brainwave entrainment and music neuroscience for real-time focus, productivity, stress recovery and sleep, today announced €1.6 million ($1.9 million) in funding. The round includes private investment, follow-on participation from Oura ring co-founder Petteri Lahtela and Virpi Tuomivaara, and support from Business Finland’s selective Deep Tech Accelerator. The raise builds ... Read more ›
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On May 7-8, 2026, the EU-Startups Summit returns to sunny Malta, bringing together around 2,500 founders, investors, and startup ecosystem leaders for two days of networking, inspiration, and knowledge-sharing. Europe’s space sector is entering an exciting new phase, driven by ambitious founders developing technologies for orbital infrastructure, in-space research, and next-generation aerospace applications. As innovation ... Read more ›
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Alice & Bob, a Paris and Boston-based quantum computing company aiming to create the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer, has been awarded €3,404,446 ($3.9 million) from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC 3) programme. This funding will support the development of fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focused ... Read more ›
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Metafuels, a Zurich-based aviation technology company developing proprietary sustainable fuel technologies, has secured grant funding from the Dutch government to fuel its e-SAF project in Rotterdam. Metafuels’ Dutch subsidiary, Metafuels Nederland B.V., has received a €1.92 million grant from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). This funding, provided through the TSE Industry Studies – Hydrogen & ... Read more ›
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Berlin-based ecoworks, a company focusing on the cost-efficient decarbonisation of Europe’s residential building stock, has received €23 million to deliver Germany’s largest cooperative serial renovation to date. In the city of Hagen in Northrhein Westfalia, twelve residential buildings will undergo comprehensive energy-efficiency upgrades through serial renovation. The goal is to bring all 192 apartments up ... Read more ›
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Kestra, a French open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure and business workflows, today announced a €21 million ($25 million) Series A funding round to accelerate the launch of Kestra 2.0 and expand go-to-market operations across North America and Europe. The round was led by RTP Global, with continued participation from Alven, ISAI and Axeleo ... Read more ›
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London’s 9fin, the AI-native platform for global debt markets, has raised €148 million ($170 million) in Series C funding at a €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion valuation) to develop their AI capabilities, expand its proprietary dataset, and support continued growth in the United States. The round was led by HarbourVest, with participation from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) ... Read more ›
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Test of Things, a Finnish cybersecurity startup, has raised a €1.2 million pre-Seed funding round for its automated compliance management and cybersecurity testing platform for connected products and services. The round was led by Vendep Capital and supported by a group of industry veterans, including Aapo Oksman, Zach Shelby, Neil Costigan, and ScanABC. Additionally, Business ... Read more ›
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On May 7-8, 2026, the EU-Startups Summit returns to sunny Malta, bringing together around 2,500 founders, investors, and startup ecosystem leaders for two days of networking, inspiration, and knowledge-sharing. For many startups, international expansion is a major growth milestone, but entering a market as large and complex as China requires the right strategy, partnerships, and ... Read more ›
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Enkei, a Stockholm-based startup that turns construction waste into refined, low-impact materials, has closed an oversubscribed pre-Seed round at a €3 million valuation to advance its circular material platform. Enkei’s new investors include Danish architect Anders Lendager, founder of Lendager Group, Christina Åqvist, co-founder of recycling group Vinning and ex-CEO of pan-European distributor Distrelec, Ulf ... Read more ›
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Standing Ovation, a Paris-based FoodTech startup specialising in precision fermentation, has announced a €30 million ($34.2 million) Series B funding round today to speed up the commercialisation of its proteins in North America, before expanding into Europe and Asia. The round comprises €25 million ($28.5 million) in equity, led jointly by the Ecotechnologies 2 fund, ... Read more ›
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It has long been established that there is a distinct lack of female representation in the tech industry, with one recent report revealing that women occupy just a third of leadership roles. But take a closer look at the SaaS sector and this imbalance becomes even starker. According to the SaaS Industry Council, one in ... Read more ›
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Riplo, a London-based startup developing the agentic operating system for consulting, announced it has raised €2.6 million (£2.3 million) in pre-Seed funding as it emerges from stealth. The round was led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Blue Lion Capital, the founders of QuantumBlack (McKinsey’s AI arm), and prominent angels from McKinsey, BCG, OpenAI, Apple, ... Read more ›
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