Insights
Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
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.
Treble raises $18M to teach physical AI how the world sounds
Treble's wave-based sound simulation already tests Amazon and Logitech hardware. An $18M Series A extension led by Paladin Capital Group now points it at physical AI.
TUSK IC raises €15M Series A for satellite chips made in Antwerp
Antwerp's KU Leuven spin-out landed €15M from a German, Dutch and Flemish syndicate to mass-produce Ka-band beamformer chips in CMOS - the silicon that sets what a satellite terminal costs.
Fever raises $250M to take live experiences beyond 55 countries
Madrid-founded Fever lands a record $250M led by EQT, the largest round live entertainment tech has seen, at a valuation Music Business Worldwide puts near $5.2bn.
Laki Power raises €6M Series A to guard Europe’s power grid
The NATO Innovation Fund's first Icelandic investment goes to a nine-person Reykjavik team whose devices draw 300 watts straight from live power lines to watch the grid.
Bravi raises $1.8M seed to put an AI product expert in every field rep’s pocket
Bravi, founded in Cholet in 2025 and a Y Combinator F25 alum, has raised a first round of $1.8M from US and French funds, European and American angels and YC,…