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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Primo raises €6.9M to send AI agents into corporate IT
Paris-based Primo raises €6.9M co-led by returning backers Headline and Global Founders Capital to deploy autonomous AI agents that run corporate IT end to end.
Biolevate raises €30M Series A for life sciences AI
Biolevate's €30M Series A, co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, puts Dataiku alumni behind evidence-grade AI agents for pharma and opens a Boston office.
Verda raises $189M Series B to scale Europe’s full-stack AI cloud
Helsinki's Verda raises a $189M Series B led by Emergence Capital at a $1B+ valuation, becoming Europe's newest unicorn and scaling its full-stack AI cloud from renewable-powered Nordic data centres.
Spott raises $21M Series A for AI-native recruitment software
Balderton Capital leads a $21M Series A in Spott, the Leuven startup whose AI-native ATS and CRM already runs hundreds of recruitment agencies, with revenue up more than tenfold since…
Metris Energy raises $5M seed for AI-run solar asset management
London's Metris Energy has raised a $5M seed led by Berlin's PT1 to put more than 10,000 solar plants under AI management, with Octopus Ventures and AENU returning.
Sprive raises $10M Series A to shop away UK mortgages
Sprive turned 567,000 shoppers' cashback into £26m of UK mortgage overpayments. Now a $10M Series A led by Ascension funds the push to make debt paydown a daily habit.
Arcos raises €5.5M seed for Europe’s civil security infrastructure
A Munich seed for the unglamorous layer of European resilience: Arcos raised €5.5M from HTGF, Bayern Kapital, Pact, Haufe and Robin Capital to build and run the control rooms watching…
Unit1 Studio raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour
Balderton leads a £20M round into Unit1 Studio, the London team promising avatar concerts that move between venues in days rather than the years and £140M ABBA Voyage needed.
Penelope Health raises $100M for real-time payer policy intelligence
A one-year-old founded out of London now holds a $100 million commitment led by Thoreau to turn the coverage rules of American health insurers into structured data for both sides…
syte raises €9M Series A to map what Europe can build
Germany's cooperative banks just led a €9M Series A into syte, the Münster platform that maps 62 million land parcels and turns weeks of planning checks into minutes.