Stéphane Paillard
Covering European fundraising, first-time fund managers, and the founders behind the rounds. Previously built event and community products across the French tech ecosystem; now runs Sesamers and hosts the Sesame Summit.
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Onodrim Industries raises $300M Series A to buy defense suppliers
Amsterdam-based Onodrim raised $300M at a $1.3B valuation, nine months after its seed, to take controlling stakes in European defense and industrial suppliers.
T-Therapeutics raises $133M Series B for TCR bispecifics
Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Eli Lilly joined Sanofi Ventures on the T-Therapeutics register while both of its TCR bispecific programs are still preclinical.
Granit raises €5M to take billing work off French clinicians
Seedcamp led €3.5M of the Paris company's €5M first round, with Bpifrance adding €1.5M non-dilutive, to put AI agents on the billing work of…
Mindmax raises $3.3M pre-seed for a spoken AI tutor
Mindmax, built by Memrise's Ed Cooke and Daniel Zohar, raised $3.3M (£2.5M) in a pre-seed round led by Concept Ventures for a spoken AI…
FluoRok raises $30M Series A for HF-free fluorochemicals
Orano Venture Fund and Supernova Invest co-lead an oversubscribed $30M round for the Oxford spin-out making LiPF6 battery salt without hydrogen fluoride.
Kabilio raises €10M to put an AI agent inside Spanish accounting firms
Kabilio, the Barcelona AI accounting platform, raised €10 million led by Picus Capital and Visionaries Club, with CDTI, to finish an AI agent for…
Claimlane raises €5.6M Series A for aftersales AI agents
Claimlane raised a €5.6M Series A led by Verb Ventures to build warranty and returns AI agents. Half of its new customers now come…
Vensum Power raises €9M Series A to cut power losses
A 20-person Finnish team gets €9M from three co-leads to take software-defined converters into mass production in 2027, with AI data centers as the…
Conlio raises €6.4M to check Europe’s freight paperwork
Berlin-based Conlio has raised €6.4 million in a round led by Piton Capital to automate how freight forwarders check CMR waybills, proofs of delivery…
Green Voltis raises €13.5M Series A to trade Europe’s batteries
Green Voltis raised €13.5 million from Lochpine Capital to trade batteries with AI, as SolarPower Europe forecasts annual European storage installs quadrupling to 138…