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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
CarbonFarm raises €7M Series A to cut methane from rice
An oversubscribed €7M Series A led by Colam Impact takes CarbonFarm's satellite MRV for low-methane rice from 19 countries into Latin America, with Proparco and Bpifrance aboard.
HyLight raises €13M Series A for hydrogen inspection airships
Four autonomous hydrogen airships already patrol French power lines and gas pipelines for Enedis and Téréga. A €13M Series A led by Rubio Impact Ventures aims at fifteen aircraft by…
CMR Surgical raises $400M from Stryker, with a buyout option
Stryker takes preferred equity, exclusive US sales rights to Versius and an option to buy 100% of CMR Surgical - US scale capital arriving for a Cambridge-built robot with 50,000…
Monopulse raises over €2M for jam-resistant NATO drones
Lithuania's Coinvest Capital leads over €2M into Danish-Lithuanian drone maker Monopulse, with 68 angels behind it, to take jam-resistant Falcon drones into Germany, France and the Netherlands.
1KOMMA5° raises €70m at $1.35bn valuation for Heartbeat AI
Hamburg's energy unicorn adds €70m at a $1.35bn valuation, with Tokyo cleantech fund Marunouchi Innovation Partners the only named backer, and points all of it at Heartbeat AI.
Scarlet raises $50M Series B to certify AI medical devices
A London notified body founded by ex-Babylon engineers just raised $50M from Headline to clear the queue between AI medical devices and the patients waiting on them.
OllyGarden raises $4M seed to clean up telemetry data
Berlin's OllyGarden raised a $4M seed to clean telemetry before it reaches the observability bill - with rivals Datadog and Grafana Labs both investing, a rare joint bet on the…
SpectaCell raises €6M seed for cell therapy analytics
Four founders out of imec, VIB and Ghent University raised €6 million to measure how single cells respond to therapy - with every cheque from Benelux institutional capital.
Klarent raises €7.13M seed to test the code AI writes
Two ex-Google engineers in Zurich raised €7.13M from Mosaic Ventures to sell verification in the AI coding boom: Klarent's agents write deterministic tests for code other agents produce.
TrueLayer raises $27M led by CDP Venture Capital for its Italy push
Italy's sovereign venture arm just led a $27M round into a London fintech founded by two Italians. TrueLayer counts 30M+ pay by bank users across 22 countries.