Orbit Capital, a VC firm out of Prague, announces the second closing of Growth Debt Fund II at €107 million, surpassing its initial target and reinforcing its position as a main venture debt platform in CEE. Anchor LPs in the fund include the European Investment Fund (EIF), Rentea, Česká spořitelna/Erste, and Conseq. It also includes ... Read more ›
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In 2026, European VC fundraising continued to concentrate around specialist funds targeting DeepTech, DefenceTech, AI, FinTech, quantum, BioTech, climate technologies, and early-stage software infrastructure. Based on fund announcements reported this year, the ten largest VC vehicles identified account for approximately €3.29 billion in capital. This list ranks the funds by 2026 fund size, rather than ... Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup Dawnguard has announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, alongside an additional €2.8 million ($3.3 million) in pre-Seed funding. The round came from existing investor BNVT Capital in the UK, with new participation from Curiosity VC in the Netherlands and eCAPITAL in Germany. According to the company, the fresh ... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley’s unofficial motto is “Move fast, break things”. Software companies build, launch, iterate, and scale, hoping that by the time debt catches up you have enough customers and resources to deal with it. And when the main risk is a bug that your client most likely ignores, this approach to scaling is completely justified.However, ... Read more ›
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London’s Ruya Ventures, a solo GP venture capital firm founded by DeepTech investor Rick Hao, has announced a €43 million ($50 million) fundraise for its first VC fund, aimed at supporting global DeepTech innovation as it moves from the lab into real-world deployment. The fund reached its final close in less than a year and ... Read more ›
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Telum Therapeutics, a Spanish biotechnology company, today announced the successful completion of an €18 million Series A financing to advance its lead program targeting hospital-acquired (HABP) and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VABP). AMR Action Fund led the financing round, with participation from new investor Inveready and continued support from existing investors Invivo Partners, CDTI with its ... Read more ›
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London-based Tapestry VC is today launching its €70 million ($80 million) Fund III to double its scale and deepen its focus on backing repeat founders across Europe and North America. At almost three times the size of the firm’s previous funds, Fund III is co-anchored by a €35 million ($40 million) commitment from new sovereign ... Read more ›
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Prague-based EquiLibre Technologies, a frontier AI trading research lab applying reinforcement learning to financial markets, announced the close of its Series A round at a valuation of more than €438 million ($500 million). The round was led by Creandum and reportedly representents their largest investment to date. The majority of the capital will go towards ... Read more ›
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Build, a British and U.S.-based AI-native infrastructure company helping governments, developers and investors accelerate critical projects, has raised €7.4. million ($8.5 million) in Seed funding to expand its engineering and infrastructure teams, accelerate R&D and deepen its presence across North America and Europe. The round was led by Index Ventures. Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures and Tiny.vc ... Read more ›
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Vienna-based Epitome Therapeutics, a BioTech company advancing precision epigenome editing for programmable gene expression, today announced a total funding of €4 million to advance development programmes and grow the company’s team. The pre-seed round, comprising an oversubscribed €2 million pre-seed round and €2 million in non-dilutive grant funding, was co-led by XISTA Science Ventures and ... Read more ›
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Lucida AI, a London-based speech-to-speech AI platform for global communication, has raised a €6.1 million ($7 million) Seed round to expand into new languages and geographies, develop its proprietary AI infrastructure, scale its enterprise offering globally, and accelerate product development. The round was led by Velocity Capital and included participation from Next Tier Ventures and ... Read more ›
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Six Robotics, an Oslo-based DefenceTech company, has announced a €12 million Seed round to accelerate the development and deployment of its autonomy software platform for unmanned systems. DTCP leads the round through DTCP Defence, a recently launched €500 million venture capital fund dedicated exclusively to defence, security, and resilience technologies. With participation from EIFO and ... Read more ›
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London-based Verkko Robotics, a DeepTech European AI research lab, has unveiled VOLTAIC, an AI system designed to keep learning over time, retain what it has learned, and operate using far less energy and computing power than today’s leading multimodal models. If its early performance claims hold true, the technology could challenge the economics of the ... Read more ›
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Across Europe, LGBTQIA+ founders are building companies in areas where feeling safe, understood, and represented can make a real difference. From mental health and travel to sport, recruitment, dating, social discovery, and wellbeing, these startups are responding to needs that mainstream products have not always fully addressed, with solutions that are more thoughtful, focused, and ... Read more ›
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Vilnius-based climate finance company InSoil has secured a €120 million senior secured credit facility to expand their capacity to provide mid-term debt capital to agricultural SMEs adopting sustainable farming practices, including no-till cultivation, cover cropping, diversified crop rotation and reduced use of synthetic fertilisers. The credit facility has come from Pollen Street Capital, marking one ... Read more ›
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London-based Verkko Robotics, a DeepTech European AI research lab, has unveiled VOLTAIC, an AI system designed to keep learning over time, retain what it has learned, and operate using far less energy and computing power than today’s leading multimodal models. If its early performance claims hold true, the technology could challenge the economics of the ... Read more ›
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After Istanbul and Tashkent, INMerge Innovation Summit concluded its 2026 Event Series in Berlin on 29 June in AXICA Convention Center. The summit brought together founders, investors, corporate innovators, C-level executives, startups, venture capital representatives, and technology leaders to explore new opportunities for investment, partnerships, and market expansion across Europe and Central Eurasia. As the ... Read more ›
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Archimede, a DeepTech startup based in Italy, has successfully closed a €1.5 million Seed funding round (surpassing its initial target of €1 million) in order to strengthen its technical and commercial teams, complete the industrialisation of its product, accelerate pilot projects with enterprise customers, and expand into international markets. The round was led by Primo ... Read more ›
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Openchip, a Barcelona-based scale-up specialising in the design and marketing of high-performance, energy-efficient chips, has secured an investment of €115 million to accelerate the design of high-performance, energy-efficient chips for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The backing came from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), which reports to the Ministry for Digital Transformation ... Read more ›
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Wultra, a Prague-based provider of post-quantum authentication and digital identity solutions for banks and FinTechs, announced a €6.8 million Series A raise to scale their platform and accelerate development of digital identity wallet capabilities to support the rollout of the European Digital Identity Wallet ecosystem The round was backed by lead investor Seventure Partners, followed ... Read more ›
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