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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Goodweek raises $12M to become the AI manager for SMBs
Eight funds and Bpifrance back Strasbourg-born Goodweek with $12 million to give SMBs one governed place to run Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Mistral. The AI control layer is becoming its own category.
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Microbiotica raises £36M Series C for precision microbiome medicines
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Wavo raises €10M to free the cash SMEs bury in stock
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Duvo raises $32M Series A for its enterprise execution OS
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Salience Labs raises $125M Series B to wire AI clusters with light
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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 and buses get planned on data,…
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 land in 2027.
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, not silencing - starting with the…
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 B2B invoice - and to open…
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 up, a 35 MWh unit taking…