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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Limetax raises €36M to build an AI-powered group of German tax firms
Motive Partners leads a €6M pre-seed while German banks lend €30M more: eight months in, Limetax owns four tax firms and wants a big share of Germany's 54,000.
The Exploration Company raises $450M Series C to fly Nyx to the ISS
Munich's The Exploration Company lands a $450M Series C from Bessemer, Atomico and EQT to fly Nyx to the ISS in 2028 - Europe's biggest space round and a record…
Veridue raises $4M pre-seed for energy deal due diligence
Episode 1 Ventures leads a $4M pre-seed into Veridue, whose AI platform compresses due diligence on renewable energy and data centre deals from weeks to hours.
Hope Care raises €6M Series A to scale remote patient monitoring
Iberis Capital leads a €6M Series A into Hope Care, the Portuguese platform already monitoring patients across 45% of the SNS - next stops Germany and Romania.
Mistral AI raises €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B+ valuation
Samsung Electronics leads a €3 billion Series D in Mistral AI at a €21B+ valuation - a European equity record that puts sovereign AI on a real balance sheet.
Tickets for Good raises £3.9M to take fair ticket access global
Sheffield's Tickets for Good raised £3.9M led by NPIF II - Mercia Equity Finance to take discounted live event tickets for key workers international, after doubling revenue in 2025.
Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed to automate creator marketing
Six months after launch, Stockholm's Fluencify has $2M ARR, 13,000 creators and a $4.3M pre-seed led by byFounders to automate creator marketing and land in New York.
Jaipur Robotics raises €4.3M seed to give Europe’s waste plants eyes
A 40-person team in Manno taught machines to read 5 million tonnes of waste a year. EquityPitcher and HTGF just co-led a €4.3M seed to take that operating system to…
Cato raises €6M seed to bring AI to Europe’s public tenders
Keen Venture Partners leads a €6M seed for Milan's Cato, whose AI reads 27,000 tender sources and pre-fills bids. Twelve months in, Italy's founder flywheel is doing exactly what it…
Creoir raises seed funding to give European defence a voice
A 2012-vintage Oulu company that built speech tech for Saab, Leidos and TKMS just raised its first defence seed, led by Sweden's Gungnir Capital. The amount is undisclosed; the signal…