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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Inbolt raises €11M to scale vision-guided factory robots
Shift4Good leads an €11M round in Inbolt, whose 3D vision already guides 200+ robots in 100+ factories for Toyota, Ford and Stellantis - next stops the US, APAC and data…
Foundational raises £8.2M pre-seed for satellite laser ranging
The London startup leaves stealth with £8.2 million, the largest pre-seed any European space tech company has raised, to turn satellite laser ranging into a commercial service.
Metaview raises $60M Series C for agentic recruiting
Metaview's $60M Series C, led by Insight Partners, takes the London agentic recruiting company to $110M raised and puts an autonomous AI recruiter in front of its 7,000 customers.
Restate raises $20M Series A to make AI agents crash-proof
Apache Flink co-creator Stephan Ewen has raised again: Paris fund Singular leads a $20M Series A into Berlin's Restate, with Redpoint and Capital One Ventures, to make crash-proof AI agents…
Breye Therapeutics raises €67.5M Series A for oral eye drug
Hørsholm's Breye Therapeutics closed an over-subscribed €67.5M Series A to swap eye injections for a pill in early diabetic retinopathy, with a Phase 2 trial set for 2027.
AnaCardio raises €62.5M Series B for oral heart failure drug
Stockholm's AnaCardio raised a €62.5M Series B co-led by Novo Holdings and the Ljungström family office, carrying its oral heart failure drug AC01 through a 400-patient Phase 2b to Phase…
Onomondo raises over €100M as Aspirity takes majority stake
Aspirity Partners takes a majority stake in Copenhagen's Onomondo, with Denmark's EIFO re-upping - a €100M+ growth deal for the IoT operator that runs Maersk's network at sea.
ANote Music raises €2 million to scale royalty investing
Luxembourg's royalty marketplace adds €2 million from Seventure Partners and ScaleFund, with 52,000 accounts and €28 million traded since 2020 - and a $40 billion royalty market behind it.
Cotierra raises €2.6M for on-farm biochar in coffee supply chains
PINC, Paulig's venture arm, and Carbon Removal Partners co-lead €2.6M into Cotierra, whose reactors turn coffee residues into biochar on Colombian farms - carbon removal funded by the coffee trade.
Marble raises €6.5M Series A to automate fraud and AML compliance
Two Shine alumni turned an open-source rules engine into compliance infrastructure for 100+ institutions. Smartfin now leads a €6.5M Series A to make the platform agentic.