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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
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…
Implicity raises €35M to scale AI cardiac monitoring in the US
Paris medtech Implicity lands €35M from IRIS and Five Arrows to take FDA-cleared cardiac AI deeper into the US, on evidence of 26% lower patient mortality across 120,000 monitored patients.
IFA 2026: the twenty startups who pitched, and the one who won
A company that prints implantable human tissue won a pitch competition at a consumer electronics fair. Cellbricks Therapeutics took the IFA Pitch Battle 2026 on the Dream Stage on September…
Olenbee raises €7M to make the meal voucher card disappear
Four Sodexo alumni in Rouen raised €7M led by Go Capital to pay meal vouchers straight through employees' own bank cards - 260 companies signed, 80,000 users targeted for early…
Ground A raises €9.1M pre-seed to put laser drone defence on a pallet
Munich's Ground A raised a €9.1M pre-seed led by Vsquared Ventures, with Quantum Systems joining, to bring its pallet-sized GA 1000 laser counter-drone system into series production.