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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…
Piney raises €1.6M seed to clean up short-term rentals
Nicosia-founded Piney has raised a €1.6M seed led by Uni.fund to run cleaning, linen and logistics for more than 5,000 short-term rentals - and to take its playbook from Southern…
Zeit AI raises €5M seed to automate mid-market data engineering
Two Palantir alumni raised €5M with no lead investor for ZeitMind, an AI data engineer already inside 30 mid-market firms - Munich's second agentic-AI seed this week.
Backbone raises €4M pre-seed to automate food quality compliance
Ex-Henchman managers raise €4M from Pitchdrive, London funds and Belgian food producers Agristo and Darta to put AI on food quality paperwork - a pre-seed with the customers on the…
Octave.energy raises €10M Series A for European battery storage
A profitable Belgian integrator raises €10M from the Périer-D'Ieteren family office and two banks: proof that C&I battery storage has become a fundable, bankable business in Europe.
AI Score raises £4M seed to keep enterprise AI agents in check
Fuel Ventures leads a £4M seed into AI Score, the London platform policing enterprise AI agents, in a bet that the trust layer, not the models, is where UK security…
Atira raises $15M seed to automate industrial sales engineering
Accel leads a $15M seed into Munich's Atira ten months after founding, betting AI agents can turn industrial RFQs into finished bids in a CPQ market growing 15.74% a year.
Ki 13 raises $5M seed for affordable synthetic fuels
London's Ki 13 raised a $5M seed led by HICO Investment Group to pilot biomass electrolysis, splitting wood residues into the two feedstocks synthetic fuels need at a fraction of…