This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Karim Saleh, Co-founder and CEO of Cerrion. This Zurich-based company is building agentic AI that watches factory lines around the clock and intervenes in real time to prevent safety incidents, scrap, and costly downtime. By plugging into standard cameras and understanding production flows like an ... Read more ›
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London-based dementia care startup Punto Health has raised €2.3 million ($2.7 million) in a Seed funding round to accelerate product development and commercial expansion across the UK and Spain. The round was co-led by Shilling VC and Plus Partners, with participation from Exceptional Ventures, Heartfelt, Fondo Bolsa Social, and ABAC Nest. “Dementia is never just ... Read more ›
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Trendtracker, the Ghent-based AI-driven strategic intelligence platform, has raised €5.9 million (€$7 million) in Series A funding to accelerate global expansion, with a particular focus on the US and Middle East markets. The capital will also be utilised to fund the company’s next phase of AI and product development. The round was led by Armilar, ... Read more ›
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EpilepsyGTx, a Cambridge-based BioTech startup focused on research and development of  gene therapies to treat refractory epilepsy, today announced it has raised €28 million ($33 million) in Series A financing to advance its lead programme EPY201 through Phase 1/2a clinical trials. The round included investment from XGEN Venture, the British Business Bank (who invested €12 ... Read more ›
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Mondu, the Berlin-based innovator in B2B payments, today announced it has secured a €100 million debt facility from J.P. Morgan Payments to scale their B2B payment solutions and support its expansion across Europe. This collaboration is aimed at providing J.P. Morgan Payments’ clients with seamless access to Mondu’s flexible payment options, helping them to improve ... Read more ›
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APEX, a Oeiras-based investment firm specialising in sports assets, has announced the launch of a new private equity fund targeting €300 million ($350 million) to back minority investments in European sports teams, leagues, and related businesses, with a focus on small to mid-size assets historically ignored by larger institutional investors. The new fund will focus ... Read more ›
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Amplifold, a Munich-based BioTech startup developing rapid diagnostic tests using DNA-origami nanotechnology, has announced the closing of an oversubscribed €5 million Seed round. This spin-off from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) aims to use this capital to industrialise its DNA-origami–based signal amplification platform for lateral flow assays (LFAs). The round was co-led by Matterwave Ventures and XISTA ... Read more ›
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European venture capital firm U2V (University2Ventures) has announced the first closing of its €60 million Fund I. With this fund, the spin-off from Earlybird-X aims to back early-stage DeepTech startups from European tech universities. It will invest in pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups across Europe, focusing on AI novel computing, IndustrialTech and CleanTech, with up to ... Read more ›
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Evertrust, a Parisian cybersecurity software vendor specialising in digital trust, has raised €10 million in Series A funding from the US venture capital firm Elephant. The company plans to use the investment to strengthen and scale its sovereign Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) software suite, while accelerating its expansion across key ... Read more ›
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Equixly, the Verona-based cybersecurity startup using agentic AI to automate API security testing, has raised €10 million in Series A funding to expand its team, advance its proprietary AI models and accelerate its international presence, beginning with the launch of a UK sales and marketing function next year. The round was led by 33N Ventures, ... Read more ›
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Anaphite, a Bristol-based battery technology company, has secured €1.6 million (£1.4 million) in a Series A follow-on round through the Innovate UK Investor Partnership Programme. Half of the funding comes from Innovate UK’s Clean Energy and Climate Technologies competition, with the other half provided by aligned investment from climate-focused venture capital funds Elbow Beach and ... Read more ›
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Orbital Marine Power, the Scotland-based operator of what it describes as the world’s most powerful tidal turbine, has secured a €8 million (£7 million) investment to support its international commercial pipeline and contribute to wider efforts to decarbonise energy systems. The round brings together existing shareholders, including Scottish Enterprise, alongside new investor PXN Ventures, the ... Read more ›
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Catalpa Ventures has announced the first closing of its €30 million Catalpa Health Fund I, the first early-stage HealthTech-focused venture capital fund based in Luxembourg. The fund has secured commitments from entrepreneurs, family offices and industry leaders, and is aiming for a final close by Q1 2027. With the vehicle now active, Catalpa Ventures will begin ... Read more ›
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As Europe accelerates the deployment of AI across its economy, the gap between labour-market demand and available AI skills is becoming a structural constraint on growth. While most national strategies still focus on higher education and adult reskilling, a quieter shift is now happening much earlier in the talent pipeline: AI entrepreneurship is moving into ... Read more ›
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Across Europe, buildings account for nearly 40% of total energy use and over a third of CO₂ emissions. Yet every year, less than 1% of the housing stock is renovated to modern efficiency standards when experts say 2–3% is needed to reach the EU’s 2030 and 2050 decarbonisation targets. This “renovation wave gap” is one of Europe’s most pressing and underestimated climate ... Read more ›
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Melt&Marble, the Swedish biotech scale-up using precision fermentation to produce designer fats, has just raised €7.3 million in Series A funding, to scale production and bring its first ingredients to market. Designed to deliver enhanced functionality, taste and even health outcomes, the company’s ingredients offer sustainable, high-performance alternatives to conventional oils and fats for use ... Read more ›
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Helsinki-based news service Freepress has raised €1 million in seed funding to further develop its AI-powered platform and prepare for international expansion. As part of its growth strategy, the company plans to enter global markets together with local publishers and will share up to half of its revenue with them to support quality journalism. Founded ... Read more ›
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ReSoil, a Paris company supporting French farmers in the agroecological transition of their operations, has raised €4 million in order to scale its regenerative agriculture projects and expand its digital carbon-management platform. Participants include Banque des Territoires, InvESS Île-de-France Amorçage (initiated by the Île-de-France Region), and Generali Impact Investment – two funds managed by INCO ... Read more ›
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Why do so many promising startups trip at the regulatory stage? It’s not because they’re careless or underqualified. It’s because they treat regulation as a bureaucratic chore, not a strategic advantage. By the time someone notices how much those rules shape timelines, costs, and investor confidence, it’s already a scramble. But it doesn’t have to ... Read more ›
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