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Clean Food Group raises £4.5M to scale yeast-derived oils and fats from food waste
UK biotech manufacturer Clean Food Group (CFG) has raised £4.5 million in investment led by Clean Growth Fund and New Agrarian. CFG has also successfully secured a £700,000 non-dilutive grant from Innovate UK, which further improves the Company’s financial position. Clean Food Group enables a more sustainable and resilient global food system by producing essential read more
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StirLight raises £1.25M to bring real-time quality assurance to friction stir welding at scale
UK startup StirLight has secured £1.25 million to commercialise its technology and accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing processes at scale by major industrial original equipment manufacturers. The company combines friction stir welding expertise with StirSense, a proprietary real-time process-monitoring and quality-assurance platform. StirLight serves R&D engineers and production teams in the nuclear, aerospace, defence, read more
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Kelluu raises €15M to scale autonomous airship intelligence platform
Kelluu, a Finnish deeptech company operating the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has raised €15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by the NATO Innovation Fund, marking its first investment in a Finnish company. Additional participation came from Keen Venture Partners, GungnirCapital, and Tesi. The funding follows Kelluu’s successful completion of two read more
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Zell raises €500K to scale AI-powered sales management
Berlin-based Zell, an AI startup focused on automating sales management workflows, has raised €500,000 in a funding round. The round was co-led by P3 Ventures, SkyDeck Europe, UC Berkeley SkyDeck, Lendlease, and the Cariplo Factory accelerator, alongside a group of international angel investors and venture capital firms, including Mamba Ventures, Nicola Pivaro, Flavio Di Palo, read more
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Round raises $6M to scale its AI-powered finance automation platform
London-based Round, an AI-powered finance automation platform, has raised $6 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its financial infrastructure and expand its product offering. The round was led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Backed VC and Love Ventures. Around 10 per cent of Round’s existing customers joined the round, alongside angel read more
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Wearable Robotics closes €5M Series A to scale development
Wearable Robotics, an Italy-based company developing wearable robotics for neuromotor rehabilitation, has raised €5 million in a Series A funding round to support international expansion and product development.The round was led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from MITO Technology, LIFTT, SIMEST, RoboIT, and Toscana Next, a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital. The read more
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Generare secures €20M to scale molecular discovery platform
Generare, a Paris-based biotechnology company focused on generating molecular data for drug development, has raised €20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Alven and Daphni, with participation from existing investors including Galion.exe, Teampact Ventures, and VIVES Partners. Drug discovery has historically been constrained to a relatively narrow chemical space, read more
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Cafeyn acquires Readly’s non-Nordic operations to scale European press platform
Press aggregation platform Cafeyn Group is acquiring Readly’s non-Nordic operations, marking a significant step forward in its European expansion. Cafeyn offers unlimited access to over 2,000 national and international titles across multiple formats and devices, while Readly provides a single subscription that gives users access to over 8,000 magazines and newspapers. Following the transaction, Cafeyn read more
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Sensmet secures €1.5M to scale real-time metals monitoring for Europe’s raw materials supply
Finnish developer of continuous metals monitoring technology, Sensmet, has received a €1.5m investment from EIT RawMaterials to help secure the supply of critical and strategically important raw materials. Sensmet’s breakthrough technology, Micro-Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy (µDOES), enables online multi-metal analysis of aqueous samples. Critically important applications include the continuous monitoring of lithium and other battery read more
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Semarion raises $3.8M to scale cell assay technology
Semarion, a University of Cambridge spin-out from the Cavendish Laboratory, has raised $3.8 million in funding to support the expansion of its cell-based screening technology. The round was led by Parkwalk, with participation from The FSE Group, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Oxford Innovation Finance, Found Capital, Cambridge Capital Group, and Start Codon. This round follows the read more
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Standing Ovation raises €30M to scale precision fermentation dairy proteins globally
French precision fermentation company Standing Ovation has announced a €30 million Series B financing round, including €25 million in equity, led jointly by the Ecotechnologies 2 fund — managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifrance as part of the France 2030 initiative — and Crédit Mutuel Innovation. The round includes its existing investors read more
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Midas closes $50M Series A to scale on-chain investment products
Midas, a platform for composable on-chain investment products, has raised $50 million in Series A funding. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Creandum, with participation from Framework Ventures, HV Capital, Ledger Cathay, Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, M1 Capital, Anchorage Digital, FJ Labs, North Island Ventures and GSR. The round brings total funding to read more
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Allday Goods raises £765K to scale its cult, recycled-plastic knife brand
We don’t get many press pitches about consumer brands these days, so when I heard about a kitchen knife company that had raised VC funding, my interest was piqued. Allday Goods is an East London-based kitchenware brand crafting colourful, chef-quality knives. Ex-chef Hugo Worsley started making knives using recycled plastic and a toastie maker in read more
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Deeptech startup Renasens lands €10M to scale textile recycling in Europe
Renasens, a Stockholm-based deeptech company developing textile recycling technology, has raised €10 million in a seed funding round led by Extantia, with participation from Course Corrected VC and continued backing from Norrsken Launcher. Renasens is addressing a structural challenge in the textile industry, where more than 12 million tonnes of waste are generated annually in read more
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Parallel raises $20M to scale AI solutions for hospital administration
Paris-based Parallel, a startup developing AI agents for hospitals, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Frst, Y Combinator, Hexa, and several angel investors. The funding follows a $3.5 million seed round less than a year earlier, with the company’s technology already deployed across multiple public read more
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Rhonexum secures $1M to scale cryogenic electronics for quantum computing
Swiss quantum technology startup Rhonexum has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding, led by QDNL Participations, with participation from Venture Kick and additional grant support. Based in Lausanne and spun out of EPFL’s AQUA Lab, Rhonexum develops electronics capable of operating at cryogenic temperatures close to absolute zero, conditions required for quantum computing, where conventional read more
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Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to scale fossil-free absorbent materials
Elea & Lili, a deeptech startup spun out of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has raised €2.5 million in seed funding to industrialise its cellulose-based superabsorbent material, a fossil-free and biodegradable alternative to conventional polymers. The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from Ikorni Invest Oy Ab and Baltiska Handels Sverige AB. read more
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Ukrainian-Estonian Defencetech Black Forest Systems raises $400K to scale infantry drone platform
Kyiv-based company Black Forest Systemshas received $400,000 in investment from Front Ventures and Hede Capital Partners AB. Founded in 2024, Black Forest Systems develops vertically integrated unmanned systems and tactical drone platforms for infantry and Special Operations Forces operating in forward positions. Their solutions combine proprietary electronics, secure communications, and control software into vertically integrated read more
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Delfos Energy secures €3M Seed extension to scale AI “virtual engineer” for energy infrastructure
Delfos Energy, an AI company building “virtual engineer” technology for the energy industry, today announced that it now supports more than 1,000 energy sites across Europe, alongside the close of a €3 million Seed extension round. The round includes new investment from Vox Capital/COPEL, existing investors include Headline, Contrarian Ventures, DOMO VC and EDP Ventures. read more
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Neuramancer lands €1.7M pre-seed to scale deepfake detection tools
Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH (formerly Neuraforge) has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding round led by Vanagon Ventures, with participation from Bayern Kapital and a group of additional venture capital firms and business angels. The investment consortium also includes the Nuremberg-based ZOHO.VC and family office Lightfield Equity. In addition, the founding team is supported by read more
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