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Backbone raises €4M pre-seed to automate food quality compliance
Ex-Henchman managers raise €4M from Pitchdrive, London funds and Belgian food producers Agristo and Darta to put AI on food quality paperwork – a pre-seed with the customers on the…
Octave.energy raises €10M Series A for European battery storage
A profitable Belgian integrator raises €10M from the Périer-D'Ieteren family office and two banks: proof that C&I battery storage has become a fundable, bankable business in Europe.
AI Score raises £4M seed to keep enterprise AI agents in check
Fuel Ventures leads a £4M seed into AI Score, the London platform policing enterprise AI agents, in a bet that the trust layer, not the models, is where UK security…
Atira raises $15M seed to automate industrial sales engineering
Accel leads a $15M seed into Munich's Atira ten months after founding, betting AI agents can turn industrial RFQs into finished bids in a CPQ market growing 15.74% a year.
Ki 13 raises $5M seed for affordable synthetic fuels
London's Ki 13 raised a $5M seed led by HICO Investment Group to pilot biomass electrolysis, splitting wood residues into the two feedstocks synthetic fuels need at a fraction of…
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cato AI · Italy | Seed | Keen Venture Partners | AI | €6M |
| Octave.energy Climate · Belgium | Series A | SPDG Growth | Climate | €10M |
| AI Score AI · United Kingdom | Seed | Fuel Ventures | AI | €4.7M |
| Piney Proptech · Cyprus | Seed | Uni.fund | Proptech | €1.6M |
| Zeit AI AI · Germany | Seed | – | AI | €5M |
| Backbone AI · Belgium | Pre-seed | Pitchdrive | AI | €4M |
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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…
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…
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