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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Coremont, a London-based provider of real-time, multi-asset class portfolio management software and analytics, has received a €34 million ($40 million) strategic growth investment from funds managed by Blue Owl Capital. The investment will drive Coremont’s growth by expanding its product coverage into new asset classes, using AI to broaden access to advanced analytics, and strengthening ... Read more ›
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yuv, a British beauty technology company developing a smart hair colour lab system for salons and freelancers, today announced the close of its €10 million ($12 million) Series A funding round. The round was led by Nineyards Equity, with participation from yuv’s Founder Francisco Gimenez, existing investor VNV Global, and a network of strategic angels. ... Read more ›
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For me, agriculture has never just been about yields; it has been about resilience. In my family, this meant keeping a horticultural business alive in wartime, or building one of the first tissue culture labs in Europe. Today, for me, it means asking: How can we take the most fragile, manual steps of plant propagation ... Read more ›
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Leeds-based OceanSaver, a UK-based eco-friendly cleaning brand has raised €2.1 million (£1.9 million) to continue its expansion and get its products on to more supermarket shelves. The funding from NPIF II – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), will enable the company to ... Read more ›
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Annette, a Paris-based medical support platform dedicated to chronic obesity care and patients using GLP-1 treatments, has raised €2 million to provide a follow-up delivered by a clinical team and coordinated through a clinical companion app. The round was led by Redstone, Ring Capital and AFI Ventures (Ventech – early stage fund) Clover VC, and ... Read more ›
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London-based Track Titan, the AI-powered “Strava for motorsport”, has raised a €4.4 million ($5 million) Seed round in order to expand its AI coaching platform, deepen product capabilities, and grow its global community of sim-racers and real-world drivers. The round was co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, the fund led by Alpine F1 co-owner ... Read more ›
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Laigo Bio, an Utrecht-based company pioneering novel and highly differentiated therapies using its proprietary SureTAC precision membrane protein degradation platform, has successfully raised €11.5 million in Seed financing. The funding round was co-led by Kurma Partners and Curie Capital. The other investors were Argobio Studio, Angelini Ventures (the venture capital arm of Angelini Industries), Eurazeo, ... Read more ›
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Paris-based Spark Cleantech today announced the successful completion of a €30 million Series A funding round (including €17 million in equity) to enable the decarbonisation of heavy industries (glassmaking, metallurgy, polymers, batteries) through a clean alternative to fossil-fuel combustion. The round was led by 360 Capital and Taranis, with participation from the Île-de-France Reindustrialisation Fund (initiated ... Read more ›
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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, Emmet King, Founding Partner at J12, a venture firm investing early in frontier-tech and AI-driven companies across Stockholm, London and Paris. J12 is known for backing highly technical founders at the earliest stages, taking a strong thesis-led approach and helping teams build defensible infrastructure rather than short-cycle apps. Their ... Read more ›
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Brevo, a French innovator in customer engagement software, has closed its latest €500 million financing round, officially becoming a unicorn and accelerating its external growth strategy. General Atlantic, a leading global investor, and Oakley Capital, a leading, pan-European mid-market investor, are joining the Company’s shareholders. Bpifrance and Bridgepoint remain minority investors, with the latter reinvesting ... Read more ›
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Ray studios, a Paris-based innovator in medical tattoo removal, announced the completion of a €10 million fundraising round in order to double the size of its network across Europe again within the next two years, while reinforcing its clinical leadership and technological edge. The round was co-led by Factory Capital and Nickleby Capital. Nickleby Capital, which ... Read more ›
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French FinTech platform ECAIR has raised €11 million in funding to transform how Europe finances its energy transition. The funding will be used to accelerate the roll-out of its new lending product and expand operations across France as the first step in its roadmap to galvanise Europe’s energy shift. Participating in the round were Planet ... Read more ›
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