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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Nomos raises €20M to power Europe’s white-label energy brands
Index Ventures leads a €20M round into Berlin's Nomos, the licensed supplier behind white-label electricity plans for heat pump and solar brands. Bolt, UiPath and Nord Security founders joined.
iGii raises £22.7M Series B to grow carbon, not mine it
Stirling's iGii raised a £22.7M Series B led by the Scottish National Investment Bank, with Scottish Enterprise, PXN Ventures and Archangels, to take its grown-not-mined carbon into industrial supply.
Jack & Jill raises $40M Series A for its AI hiring agents
Ten months after a $20M seed, Jack & Jill lands a $40M Series A led by Air Street Capital. Its voice agents have arranged 25,000 interviews - and the US…
Hackuity raises $19M to tame the AI-driven vulnerability flood
Forgepoint Capital International leads a $19M round into Lyon's Hackuity, with Bpifrance and Seventure returning - a bet that AI-found vulnerabilities need triage at machine speed.
Veridion raises $20M Series A to map every business in real time
Bucharest-born Veridion has raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures. All five existing backers returned to scale its live map of 642 million companies.
Exein raises $270M to secure the machines AI now lives in
Rome's Exein becomes Italy's newest unicorn: $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation, with ARR up 4x and 2 billion devices running its embedded security.
Half the Slush 100 builds hardware
Fifty-two of the 100 companies Slush selected for 2026 sell something that exists in the physical world: a battery, a robot, a membrane, a sensor, a reactor. Fifty-six of them…
EUCLYD raises €200M+ Series A to break the AI efficiency wall
Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries co-lead one of Europe's largest Series A rounds, with ex-ASML chief Peter Wennink taking the chair.
Greencovery raises €1M to turn cocoa waste back into food
Wageningen's Greencovery has raised €1M led by ROM InWest to move cocoa upcycling into industrial production in Zaandam, with a further €3M round already closing.
Ferm Labs raises €3M to scale fermentation-made cheese flavour
A Zug HQ, a Bolzano fermenter and a €3M round led by CDP Venture Capital: Ferm Labs turns liquid whey into aged-cheese flavour and just signed up a wafer dynasty…