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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Microbiotica raises £36M Series C for precision microbiome medicines
British Business Bank leads a £36M first close for Cambridge's Microbiotica, with Tencent back in, to test an eight-strain gut capsule in Phase 2…
Wavo raises €10M to free the cash SMEs bury in stock
Wavo buys its clients' stock and sells it back as they sell, no debt and no interest. Eurazeo just led a €10M equity round…
Duvo raises $32M Series A for its enterprise execution OS
Tomáš Čupr's second act raised $32M from Balderton ten months after launch. Duvo maps how enterprises actually work, then sends agents to run it…
Salience Labs raises $125M Series B to wire AI clusters with light
Bullhound Capital leads an oversubscribed $125M Series B into Oxford's Salience Labs, with AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joining to scale optical switches for…
Alchera raises £2.7M seed to plan UK roads and buses with AI
Cambridge's Alchera closed a £2.7M seed, with Maven Capital Partners leading £2M through the South West Investment Fund - a bet that UK roads…
Ubitium raises $14M seed to put physical AI on one chip
One reconfigurable RISC-V array that senses, infers and controls - proven on Samsung's 8nm - just earned Ubitium $14M from Ibex Investors. Evaluation chips…
Undecimal Bio raises $18M seed to take RNA medicines beyond the liver
An $18M oversubscribed seed co-led by 4BIO Capital and IQ Capital backs a Cambridge spin-out betting the next phase of RNA medicine is delivery,…
Causa Prima raises $20M seed for AI agents that settle B2B invoices
Three months after a $10M pre-seed, Munich's Causa Prima has raised $20M from Base10 Partners to put AI agents on both sides of the…
Epyr raises €15M Series A to electrify industrial heat
SlateVC leads a €15M Series A for Epyr, whose firebrick heat batteries already cover a quarter of a WEPA paper mill's steam - next…
CarbonFarm raises €7M Series A to cut methane from rice
An oversubscribed €7M Series A led by Colam Impact takes CarbonFarm's satellite MRV for low-methane rice from 19 countries into Latin America, with Proparco…