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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
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.
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…
Open Cosmos raises €300M to build one satellite a day for Europe
Oxford's Open Cosmos has raised €300M, one of Europe's largest space rounds this year, to scale four factories already able to build a satellite a day.
Fortaegis raises $50M Series A to bake security into silicon
Fortaegis has raised a $50M Series A led by Serendipity Capital, with TEL Venture Capital and TNO joining, to put quantum-safe security inside the chip itself from 2027.
Chift raises €10.5M Series A to connect Europe’s financial software
BlackFin leads a €10.5M Series A in Brussels-based Chift, whose single API already connects 150+ software companies and 50,000 SMEs to Europe's fragmented financial systems.
Tandem Health raises $100M Series B led by the EU’s €5bn scaleup fund
The EU's €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund makes its first healthtech bet: $100M into Stockholm's Tandem Health, the AI medical assistant already used by 10,000 care organisations across 14 European markets.
Furo raises $4M to put software in charge of industrial batteries
Munich's Furo, formerly Lumera Energy, lands $4M led by New York's TQ Ventures to run commercial battery storage with AI - 800 businesses across 6,000 sites already use it.
Arlequin AI raises €28M Series A to scale Europe’s answer to Palantir
Paris-based Arlequin AI raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures to scale topological neural networks - Europe's homegrown answer to Palantir, now with 30 clients in…