Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 20 -July 24)
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ispace-EUROPE lands €65 million ESA contract to deliver and operate MAGPIE, Europe’s first lunar polar ice exploration rover
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Why player trust is becoming Europe’s next iGaming growth layer (Sponsored)
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Manchester-based PropTech startup Street Group secures Hg investment at a valuation of over €233.8 million
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How the EU-Startups Summit resulted in investments, a new CEO and even a padel partner!
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Cambridge’s TidalSense raises €16.6 million to turn the tide on respiratory diagnostics with patented AI tech
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Grow and scale globally with an EOR that fits hyper-growth (Sponsored)
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Oxford-based Moa Technology raises €25.9 million to tackle herbicide-resistant weeds
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Can the UK’s Tech reset deliver real business outcomes?
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German DeepTech startup kausable raises €12 million to develop reasoning-first AI that adapts without retraining
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The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Lena Hackelöer, founder & CEO at Brite Payments
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Munich’s Aampere charges up with €4.2 million to expand its used EV resale platform across Europe
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10 books founders can take poolside to upskill while cooling down
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Nernst Electric raises €1.7 million to scale on-site oxygen generation technology for aquaculture and heavy industry
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YC-backed telli raises €13.1 million to build AI for B2C customer operations
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Spanish energy startup Catalyxx picks Portugal for €120 million bio-based chemicals plant
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Zürich-based Immitra Bio secures €2.58 million to scale its scalable in-vivo genetic medicine platform
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Europe’s energy reckoning is turning into its biggest opportunity
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Brenus Pharma raises €11 million Series A extension to advance immunotherapy for hard-to-treat solid tumours
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Months after raising €102.5 million, Helsinki’s AI infrastructure company Verda secures €22 million NIB loan
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London’s Modo Energy secures €14.9 million to scale its AI-powered energy benchmarking and valuation platform
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New Unicorn! Humanoid secures €133 million at €1.1 billion valuation to scale industrial robotics and physical AI
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Why Europe doesn’t need another Silicon Valley to succeed
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Omio raises €8.7 million strategic investment for Asian expansion
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Profitable space startup deltaVision secures €10.2 million to provide the “cardiovascular system for spacecraft”
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Cloud Combinator partners with Vanta to deliver AI security and compliance for AWS startups (Sponsored)
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Italy’s Circular Materials secures €11.8 million to recover critical raw materials from industrial wastewater
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Bristol startup Ponda leads €2.76 million initiative to build a UK wetland biomaterials supply chain
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Berlin’s Deutsche Sanierungsberatung raises over €10 million to accelerate climate-neutral home renovations
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ORiS secures €5 million to develop wireless power transmission systems for space and dual-use applications
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Top 10 most active investors in Europe in 2026 – so far
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Spain’s female-led FoodTech startup Sensesbit raises €1 million to scale its AI-powered sensory intelligence platform
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Your next client could be Europe’s next unicorn: Join the EIC Service Catalogue
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Leeds-based Xentra secures €3.18 million to scale cybersecurity services for SMEs
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No talent, no sovereignty: The blind spot in Europe’s Tech strategy
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CuspAI raises €393.2 million at €2.2 billion valuation; launches AI Materials Foundry to accelerate materials discovery
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Milan-based Contents acquires Spanish financial wellbeing platform Balio in sixth buy-and-build deal
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Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 13-July 17 )
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US investor Lockheed Martin Ventures commits at least €87 million to Europe as it opens new office in the UK
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British aerospace technology company Greenjets raises €35 million Series A with NATO backing
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Germany’s Prior Labs raises €1 billion and exits to SAP 18 months after being founded
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Lakestar closes €262.2 million Resilience I Fund to back European defence and dual-use companies
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Is 2026 the year SaaS dies or the year it is reborn?
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EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance brings startups and defence groups together to scale unmanned technologies
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Antwerp’s Sightera Biosciences raises €3 million to scale its patient-derived AI drug discovery platform
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Grenoble-based ENGO raises €5.1 million to scale its lightweight AR glasses for athletes
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Email is still the #1 attack vector for startups. Here’s what founders get wrong.
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Paris-based Syntetica raises €26.1 million to industrialise process that cracks a major nylon recycling barrier
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German TravelTech success Omio Group agrees to acquire Rail Europe in major rail distribution deal
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Cambridge’s Silicon Microgravity secures €7.08 million to scale its GPS-free sensing and navigation tech
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The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Tim Schumacher, General Partner at World Fund
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SWISSto12 secures €61 million Series C amid rising demand for sovereign space infrastructure
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Espoo-based Hyperion Robotics raises €6.4 million to bring physical AI to European infrastructure
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London-based Applied Computing raises €17.4 million to scale AI that works for the energy industry
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Palantir alumni raise €27 million for construction robotics startup Monumental
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4 questions every founder should ask when choosing a startup ecosystem
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British Business Bank adds €58 million Soho Square deal to recent run of UK investments
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Madrid-based Buenavista Equity Partners secures €75 million in commitments for its third buyout fund
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Norrsken Evolve formalises Dutch presence following €62 million fund close
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Why the EU-UK AI divergence founders fear isn’t real
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Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raises €612.7 million Series C as it prepares for US expansion
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Paris-based Mio emerges from stealth with €1.9 million to build an AI colleague that lives inside Slack
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Float raises €4.5 million to help European tech founders scale without equity dilution or needless bureaucracy
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Dutch startup Destinus leads consortium to develop anti-missile defence system for Europe
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MeOut Summit: Bringing Europe’s startup ecosystem to Budapest this November
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Revolut and ElevenLabs among first bets from Aspire11’s €100 million capital deployment
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Dutch Clean Tech raises €15 million after acquiring 25% stake in Guatemalan drinking water firm Agua del Mariscal
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Europe’s scale-ups are raising and hiring to build AI, but who are they hiring to govern it?
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How AI and circular farming can support small farmers in emerging economies
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London-based Prolo secures €4.9 million to bring AI-powered procurement to SME construction firms
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Europe’s only Gallium Oxide epiwafer producer NextGO Epi raises €2 million pre-Seed funding
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Netflix alumni-founded Nopan reaches €7.2 million in funding to scale account and wallet payments across Europe
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€300 million for Iberian BioTech and DeepTech as CriteriaCaixa rebrands its VC arm
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The next creator economy won’t be built around entertainment
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Mycelium-based paving material developer Visibuilt raises €3.34 million out of Denmark
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Austria’s Sodex Innovations secures €4 million to scale automated construction-site surveying
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10 European ClimateTech startups turning decarbonisation into big business
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SFC Capital to support 100 more British companies with €11 million commitment
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Spain’s Acurio Ventures launches €115 million vehicle to provide liquidity to European VC funds
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Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 06-July 10)
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En Carta Diagnostics raises €5 million to bring at-home molecular tests for Lyme disease and STIs to market
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Luxury watch platform Groupe Chaumont launches with acquisition of two Swiss watchmaking startups
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Paris-based Aria raises €7 million and launches €240 million debt facility to tackle Europe’s late-payment crisis
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Why building under regulation is an advantage for European founders
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AI puts UK startup funding back in the big leagues with strongest first half since 2022, new data shows
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Kraken Technology Group makes waves as Europe’s newest maritime defence unicorn with €152.9 million Series B
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New Lithuanian unicorn: Oxylabs ends bootstrapped streak after securing €113.6 million at €3.1 billion valuation
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Bristol startup Uplift360 to boost NATO Europe’s defence resilience with sovereign advanced materials supply
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What the rise of AI means for your startup’s comms approach
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University of Sheffield spin-out Pixel-Flo raises €6.1 million to scale microLED display manufacturing
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Pornography addiction recovery app Unchaind snapped up by Rocapine after reaching €875k ARR
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The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Job van der Voort, CEO and co-founder of Remote
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Belgium’s e-peas secures €19.2 million to scale ultra-low-power energy harvesting and power management solutions
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Alchemab Therapeutics secures €29.3 million as British Business Bank makes its largest life sciences investment yet
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Munich’s QuantumDiamonds raises €91 million to scale its quantum-based semiconductor inspection technology
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Can entrepreneurs have children and still succeed? New survey digs deep
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Why AI provider dependency is becoming Europe’s next startup risk (Sponsored)
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Toulouse-based Bohr Energie secures €10 million to scale its AI-powered renewable energy aggregation platform
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As power demand rises from electrification and data centres, London’s Axle Energy raises €21 million for energy flexibility
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MediaFuse launches TechnologyWire, a press release distribution platform built for the Tech industry
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How EIC-backed startups are turning international exposure into real business
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YC-backed Fleek raises €22 million to build AI infrastructure keeping global secondhand fashion on fleek
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Leipzig’s Birdsview takes flight with €2.5 million Seed to scale Avys, its AI email marketing agent for online shops
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Dutch startup Aardaia raises €5 million to turn wild plants into new crops and develop its “protein potato”
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Spanish cybersecurity startup 8Layers extends pre-Seed round to €2.5 million total funding
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World Cup: The 5 startups set to transform fan experiences
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Oxfordshire-based Luffy AI raises €9.4 million Series A to scale neuroplastic AI for real-time adaptive control
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Beyond the raise: How private investing works for European founders
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London-based HIVE raises €13.1 million to build “silicon brain” for industrial machines
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Largest European fusion investment on record sees Proxima Fusion raise €411 million
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Lisbon-based BIZAY raises €48.7 million Series D; set to surpass €88.6 million revenue and reach profitability
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Leiden-based Whispp raises €5 million to scale on-device voice reconstruction AI technology globally
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BGF surpasses €5.8 billion deployed after 15 years backing UK and Irish startups
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Europe’s magnet supply chain push gets €8 million boost from German startup alqem
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From cash deposits to everyday rewards: London-based Stoa raises €2.1 million
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UK startup Worldmodeldata raises €8 million to turn video games into training data for physical AI
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Quantum security: The clock is already running
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Finland’s CurifyLabs raises €12 million to expand 3D printing-based medicine compounding
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France’s Skello secures €200 million to grow its AI tools for frontline workforce management
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Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (June 29-July 03)
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Espoo-based IQM goes public on Nasdaq in European quantum first with €127 million in PIPE financing
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London’s geoSurge raises €10 million to help brands understand AI-generated outputs
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Why legal literacy is becoming startup currency
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Danish climate VC Climentum Capital launches Fund II with €60 million first close
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Why software is the solution to the AI energy crisis
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BidScript reports up to 50% higher tender win rates as it secures €701k pre-Seed funding
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The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Jos White, co-founder of Notion Capital
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Quantum Systems lands €1 billion Series D in one of Europe’s largest DefenceTech financings
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Czech VC firm Orbit Capital raises Growth Debt Fund II to €107 million
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10 of Europe’s largest VC funds of 2026, so far
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Dutch cybersecurity startup Dawnguard lands €2.8 million for AI-native security architecture automation
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The four barriers every DeepTech founder hits before they scale and how to overcome them
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Ruya Ventures goes deep with €43 million fund to get lab-born tech into the real world
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Telum Therapeutics raises €18 million to advance treatments for hospital-acquired infections
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Tapestry VC launches €70 million Fund III with British Business Bank as co-anchor
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EquiLibre secures Series A at €438 million valutation to scale AI trading agents handling billions daily
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British-U.S. startup Build secures €7.4 million to accelerate “agentic real estate” platform
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Austrian BioTech startup Epitome Therapeutics announces €4 million in funding to advance programmes and grow team
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UK speech AI startup Lucida AI lands €6.1 million to develop speech-native AI for global communication
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Six Robotics lands €12 million to advance unmanned systems software with Norwegian defence partners
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Verkko Robotics launch VOLTAIC, a cost and energy saving Spiking Neural Inference Model (Sponsored)
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10 LGBTQIA+ focused startups going beyond visibility to build real inclusion across Europe
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With 3,500+ agricultural SMEs financed, Estonia’s InSoil lands €120 million to expand regenerative agriculture lending
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INMerge Innovation Summit concludes its international event series with INMerge Berlin (Sponsored)
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Syracuse-based Archimede closes €1.5 million Seed round for remote infrastructure monitoring
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Spain’s Openchip lands €115 million SETT investment to strengthen Europe’s semiconductor capabilities
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Czech cybersecurity startup Wultra lands €6.8 million to support Europe’s digital identity wallet rollout
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From charging EVs and drones to powering data centres: London-based Gaussion raises €24.5 million
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Can European startups learn from U.S. storytelling?
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Amid rising UK cyber talent growth, Osney Capital closes oversubscribed €69 million debut fund
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British Business Bank portfolio passes 50 companies after €695 million scale-up push
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Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (June 22 – June 26)
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Lab-free testing moves closer to home as Germany’s Intu Diagnostics raises €1.1 million
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EIFO commits €200 million to Scaleup Europe Fund to back European tech scaleups
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UK BioTech Thalia Therapeutics raises €3.1 million and acquires Sanmirna Therapeutics
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What’s actually ‘hot’ in the new era of post-hype TechBio
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Bosch and Siemens Energy partner Almetra raises €16 million Series A for manufacturing intelligence platform
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Amid a €500-700 million SME HRTech opportunity, Ireland’s HR Duo secures €1.6 million for growth
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Leyden Labs secures €40 million to develop intranasal protection against influenza and coronaviruses
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The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Tarek Müller, co-founder & co-CEO, About You
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Impact Sips 2026: Corporación Hijos de Rivera and EIT Food launch open innovation programme (Sponsored)
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British Business Bank commits €104 million to support UK venture capital fund managers
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