Tumbleweed €6.9M Seed round led by Pact VC Quint Computing €9.1M funding round led by Vsquared Ventures Hypersonica €100M Series B round led by Lightspeed Marble Cognition €3.4M ($3.8M) Pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital Ares Intelligence €2.6M Seed round led by Creandum Fractile €691.9M (£577M) raises a Series C round Bleu Robotics €5M Pre-seed round led by Contrarian Ventures Pixel Systems €2.7M ($3.1M) Seed round led by Unconventional Ventures Braid €34.1M ($38M) Series A round led by Octopus Ventures Talky Labs €1.5M raises a Pre-seed round KineDB €850K Pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital FLTRD €500K raises a funding round i23 €5.9M (£4.9M) Seed round led by Four Cities Capital VUSE XR €1.2M Pre-seed round led by IACD Ravical €15.3M ($17M) Seed round led by MMC Ventures MuRay €3.5M funding round led by First Momentum Ventures ALLOX €9.5M ($10.5M) Seed round led by Asabys Partners Fronted €1.7M (NOK 18M) Seed round led by Kaknäs Invest Easol €17.9M ($20M) raises a Series A round Magic Vision €600K raises a funding round

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