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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
At SIAL Paris 2026, a frying machine won the top prize
SIAL Innovation received more than 2,750 products this year and kept 775 for its selection, a record after several slower editions according to the organizer’s opening-day press briefing. The Grand Prix Or went to…
Ben Costantini · October 21, 2026 
AI is taking the work around the event. The room is what’s left
Ben Costantini 
Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M seed for cryogenic quantum control
Stéphane Paillard 
Plinto raises €2.9M pre-seed for AI financial controlling
Stéphane Paillard 
XRlabs raises $8.4M seed to put surgical AI in every operating room
Stéphane Paillard 
Nouscom raises €120M Series D to intercept cancer before it starts
M Ventures and Revelation Partners co-lead a €120M Series D for Basel's Nouscom, funding one global registration trial of NOUS-209, its vaccine to stop cancer in Lynch syndrome carriers.
Linkener raises €7.5M to digitise business energy management
Alantra's Klima fund leads a €7.5M round in Valencia's Linkener, a 2011-founded energy management platform with 2,000 customers and 1.7 TWh under management - and acquisitions on the plan.
CoComply raises £1.9M to govern the hidden contractor workforce
Mercia's NPIF II leads a £1.9M round into CoComply, the Alderley Park platform that finds workers hidden in supplier contracts and classifies them before IR35 does it the hard way.
Vessla raises $3.3M pre-seed for AI agents in property management
Seedcamp leads a $3.3M pre-seed into Vessla, the Stockholm startup founded in 2026 that puts AI agents to work across the fragmented systems running Nordic property portfolios.
Unravel Health raises £2.5M pre-seed for at-home hormone testing
London's Unravel Health has closed a £2.5M pre-seed co-led by Conduit EIS Impact Fund and Wrightwood. Its Glasgow-born Micro Lab reads four hormones from saliva at home, with first devices…