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Overwatch AI secures $1.5M to streamline airline operations
Overwatch AI, an aviation operations platform for pilots and airline crews, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding in a round backed by United Airlines Ventures, Baobab Ventures, Pegasus Innovation Lab and Masia, alongside angel investors including David Bennett and Alex Brooker. Founded in 2025 by former airline pilot Leo Kotil and technology entrepreneur Nikita read more
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Qurie bags €2.2M to scale sustainable cooling technology
Freiburg-based climate technology startup Qurie has raised €2.2 million in funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds, Technology Transfer Fund TT49 and Aepikur GmbH. The HVAC industry is facing increasing regulatory and environmental pressure as the European Union phases out conventional refrigerants under the F-Gas Regulation. Existing alternatives to compressor-based cooling systems have struggled to achieve commercially competitive read more
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Dunia Innovations unveils €280M Berlin GigaLab to industrialise AI-driven materials discovery
Dunia Innovations today announced plans for Berlin GigaLab: a 6,000 m², €280 million facility designed to discover and develop advanced materials at industrial scale. Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS will provide core technology. Dunia Innovations is an AI-driven materials company building autonomous infrastructure to discover, develop, and validate advanced materials at industrial scale. read more
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CircuitHub raises $28M to scale automated electronics manufacturing across the US and Europe
CircuitHub, a company focused on streamlining electronics production, has raised $28 million to accelerate hardware development and manufacturing workflows. The funding was led by Plural and will accelerate the expansion of CircuitHub’s automated factories across the US and Europe, grow its engineering team and extend the platform into full-service electronics manufacturing. Founded by CEO Andrew read more
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RemotePass raises $17.4M to scale global payroll and hiring platform
Global employment, payroll, and spend platform RemotePass has raised $17.4 million in Series B funding led by the EBRD Venture Capital (EBRD), with participation from 500 Global and existing investors Oraseya Capital, 212 VC, Access Bridge Ventures, and Khwarizmi Ventures. Founded in 2021 by Kamal Reggad and Karim Nadi, RemotePass solves a problem incumbents have read more
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NEX Health Intelligence secures €1M to tackle hospital infection spread
Healthtech startup NEX Health Intelligence has raised €1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Brighteye Ventures, with participation from Adeline Arts & Science, AFI Ventures, Momentous Ventures, the Conception X Angel Syndicate and a group of industry angel investors. Healthcare-associated infections affect a significant proportion of hospital patients and contribute to longer hospital read more
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Monzo reports revenue and profits leap
Monzo today reported rocketing revenues and profits, helped by adding three million customers in its financial year. The UK digital bank reported pre-tax profits of £87.3m in the year ending March 2026, a 44 per cent jump on the year, while revenues were up 39 per cent to £1.7bn on the year. The figures were read more
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Exhibitly bags €1.4M to modernise B2B events
Ghent-based Exhibitly has raised €1.4 million in a pre-seed funding round led by New School VC, with participation from 100IN, Allusion Ventures and a group of angel investors including Louis Jonckheere, Jeroen De Wit, Pieter Vanermen and Tanguy Serraes. Additional investors include Piet van Waes, Bernard Rossel, Stefaan Rossel, Matthias Stevens, Jürgen Degrande, Wim Vernaeve read more
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Mistral acquires Austria’s Emmi AI
Europe’s leading AI model firm has acquired an Austrian AI startup, in an effort to build out its offering for aerospace, automotive and industrial businesses across Europe. France’s Mistralhas acquired Emmi AI, marking its second acquisition, for an undisclosed sum. Emmi AI, founded in 2024 and which last year raised the largest-ever seed round for read more
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Retailgrid targets retail spreadsheets with €358K pre-seed round
Helsinki-based retail technology startup Retailgrid has raised €358,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Finnish B2B SaaS investors Ali Omar, Henry Nilert and Pekka Ylitalo, with participation from Innovestor Angel CoFund. Retailgrid develops an AI-powered workbook designed for retail pricing, assortment planning and forecasting. The company focuses on mid-market retailers and FMCG companies that read more
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Shaping Europe’s Tech & AI Future: Why Innovation Leaders are converging at Nexus Luxembourg 2026
As the European AI Act moves from paper to practice, the tech landscape is shifting. For the continent’s innovation leaders and decision-makers, the challenge is no longer just “building fast,” but building with sovereignty and scale. Nexus Luxembourg 2026 has emerged as the premier forum where these critical conversations turn into action. Strategically located at read more
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Lexroom to build legal AI for civil law Europe with $50M Series B
Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Left Lane Capital, with participation from Base10 Partners, Eurazeo, Acurio Ventures, Entourage and View Different. The round comes eight months after the company’s Series A and brings Lexroom’s total funding to more than $73 million. Lexroom develops AI read more
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CRACI raises €1.4M for EU cybersecurity compliance platform
Finnish cybersecurity startup CRACI has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from First Fellow Partners and Wave Ventures. The funding will support product development and the expansion of the platform ahead of new European cybersecurity regulations coming into force in 2026. Founded in 2025 by Juho read more
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Mouro Capital secures $400M first close for latest fund
Mouro Capital has announced the first close of its third fund, securing $400 million from Banco Santander, the firm’s longstanding strategic partner. The latest fundraising brings Mouro Capital’s total investment commitments to more than $1 billion. Mouro Capital is an independently managed venture capital firm focused on financial services and technology. Since 2015, Mouro Capital’s read more
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Dust raises $40M Series B to build the “multiplayer” operating system for enterprise AI
Agentic AI company Dust today announced a $40 million Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog. With this round, Dust has raised over $60 million in total funding. Most companies have adopted AI, but they haven’t become meaningfully more intelligent as organisations. One person prompts an assistant, gets an read more
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Cosmico raises €12M in Series B round
Milan-based future of work company Cosmico has raised €12 million in a funding round combining equity and debt, led by P101 SGR. Existing investors, including Prana Ventures, also participated in the round. Alongside the funding round, Cosmico completed the acquisition of Flatmates, a creator agency focused on applying Talent-as-a-Service models to the creator economy across read more
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Former Vercel executive says voice agents will be won on infrastructure, not models
UK voice AI startup SLNG says the voice labs that have dominated the market have been systematically overcharging enterprises — and that the industry is heading for a price correction. “The market has been shaped by voice labs whose business model depends on maximising compute at every step of every call,” says Luke Miller, SLNG’s read more
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UK startup Greenpixie raises £4.7M to cut AI and cloud energy waste for enterprises
Energy SaaS startup Greenpixie has closed a £4.7 million pre-Series A round to help the world’s largest companies cut millions of dollars in wasted IT spend. Created to provide a crucial layer of sustainability intelligence to decarbonise cloud and AI infrastructure usage, the investment in the UK-based company is led by VERBUND X Ventures, the read more
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LawX raises €7.5M to build Europe’s legal operating system
Berlin-based legaltech LawX has raised €7.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Motive Partners, with participation from WENVEST Capital, xdeck and SIVentures, alongside several angel investors from the technology and legal sectors, including Christoph Cordes and Ralph Müller. LawX is developing an AI-driven platform for law firms and notaries that automates operational read more
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Alcolase raises €1.5M to tackle alcohol intolerance with enzyme technology
Danish biotech startup Alcolasehas raised €1.5 million with investment from Ada Ventures, Delphinus Venture Capital, Antler, Manigoff Invest and a group of business angels. Alcolase is developing an enzyme-based technology designed to break down alcohol in the stomach before it is absorbed into the bloodstream. The technology is aimed at approximately 540 million people in read more
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