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Talky raises €1.5M pre-seed to learn each company’s accounting rules
Madrid's Talky closed a €1.5M pre-seed with HelloWorld, Silence VC and Motive Force for AI that learns each large company's unwritten accounting rules and posts entries straight to the ERP.
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Ares Intelligence raises €2.6M to show firms where AI pays off
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KineDB raises €850K pre-seed for a database that works offline
Stéphane Paillard VUSE XR raises €1.2M pre-seed to make mixed reality training easy to build
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MuRay raises €3.5M round for muon imaging of rocket engines
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Easol raises $30M Series A extension for festival AI agents
London-based Easol closed a $30M Series A extension on 28 October 2026, $20M in equity and $10M in Viola Credit debt, to launch Teammates, AI agents for festival and experience…
i23 raises £4.9M seed to put AI agents inside insurance broking
Former UK minister Bim Afolami's insurtech i23 closes an oversubscribed £4.9M seed co-led by Four Cities Capital to build AI agents that take admin off insurance brokers.
ALLOX raises $10.5M seed to map drug pockets on hard-to-target proteins
A Barcelona spin-out of the CRG closes a $10.5M seed led by Asabys, with CDTI and the Institut Català de Finances, to find drug pockets on hard-to-target proteins.
Ravical raises $17M seed for AI that runs across whole accounting firms
Ravical, the Belgian AI platform for accounting and tax firms co-founded by Silverfin's Joris Van Der Gucht, raised a $17 million seed led by MMC Ventures, with Lakestar, Pitchdrive and…
Samplix raises €25M first close led by WLan to scale Xdrop
Danish antibody discovery startup Samplix closes €25M first tranche led by WLan, the vehicle of ex-Evotec CEO Werner Lanthaler, with a €30M target to scale Xdrop.