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iPremom raises €15M seed to predict pregnancy complications early

Valencia's iPremom raised a €15M seed led by Amadeus Capital Partners to predict preeclampsia from a first-trimester blood test, built on 26,000 samples from Spain's PREMOM study.

Stéphane Paillard · September 4, 2026 · 4 min read

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HyImpulse raises over €50M to scale Europe’s hybrid rocket launches

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Conveo raises $50M Series A to make consumer research always-on

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iPronics raises $125M Series B to rewire AI data centres with light

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August 11, 2026

The most digital companies in the world are opening coffee shops

The AI industry runs on GPUs, APIs and Discord servers. So why is an AI insurance startup valued at $4 billion signing a lease for a…

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The empty startup area: why tradeshows fail at startup sales

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August 10, 2026

The empty startup area: why tradeshows fail at startup sales

Picture this. A strategy director at a major exhibition calls with six weeks to go before the show. The brand new startup area has sold exactly…

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Funding · Sep 3

INLEAP Photonics raises €20M seed to scale laser drone defence

Europe's anti-drone market is compounding at 27.5% a year, and a Laser Zentrum Hannover spinout just raised one of Germany's biggest deep tech seeds to arm it.

Stéphane Paillard

Funding · Sep 2

A Japanese Giant Just Led €108 Million Into a Spanish Rocket Company

PLD Space's €108 million Series C extension, led by Mitsubishi Electric, takes the round to €288 million – and turns Spain's launch company into proof that Europe's hardware is now…

Stéphane Paillard

Funding · Sep 2

A London Startup Just Raised $220 Million to Fix American Imaging

Scan.com's $220 million raise – a $90M Series C led by Noteus Partners plus $130M in debt – is the story of a London company consolidating the market US healthcare…

Stéphane Paillard

Startups · Aug 28

What is a scaleup? When a startup stops being a startup

A scaleup is a company whose search is over: the model works, and the job becomes deploying capital into it fast. The markers, the maths and Europe's gap.

Stéphane Paillard

Startups · Aug 28

European unicorns: where the billion-euro companies are

Where Europe's unicorns actually are, country by country – and why a paper valuation is a milestone, not a scoreboard.

Stéphane Paillard

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Company	Round	Lead	Sector	Amount
Ki 13 Climate · United Kingdom	Seed	HICO Investment Group	Climate	€4.3M
Conveo Martech · Belgium	Series A	DST Global Partners, Balderton Capital	Martech	€43.2M
iPronics Industry · Spain	Series B	Maverick Silicon, Light Street Capital	Industry	€108M
iPremom Health · Spain	Seed	Amadeus Capital Partners	Health	€15M
Pharosyn Health · United Kingdom	Seed	Moonfire Ventures	Health	€2.6M
HyImpulse Defence Tech · Germany	Series A	JOIN Capital, Ace Capital Partners	Defence Tech	€50M

€43.5B across 1,365 rounds tracked · Sesamers round tracker · methodology

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Slush 100 2026

Slush stages its flagship pitch competition in Helsinki, and the prize is a EUR 500,000 investment and no equity is taken. Eligibility is tightly…

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MEDICA Start-up Competition 2026

Medical technology teams pitch on the MEDICA trade fair stage in Dusseldorf, across tracks covering AI in medicine, robotics, laboratory diagnostics, and cybersecurity and…

Deadline · September 10, 2026 Apply →

How to Web Spotlight 2026

Held alongside the How to Web conference in Bucharest, Spotlight is Central and Eastern Europe’s early-stage pitch competition. Entrants must be under five years…

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iPremom raises €15M seed to predict pregnancy complications early

HyImpulse raises over €50M to scale Europe’s hybrid rocket launches

Conveo raises $50M Series A to make consumer research always-on

iPronics raises $125M Series B to rewire AI data centres with light

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INLEAP Photonics raises €20M seed to scale laser drone defence

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