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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Reverion raises €154.2M Series B for carbon-negative power plants
Bavaria's Reverion has closed a €154.2M Series B led by Kembara to lift reversible fuel cell production tenfold. European institutional money is now funding climate hardware at scale.
DOD Solution raises $2.1M pre-seed for GPS-free drone autonomy
Estonian-Ukrainian DOD Solution raised a $2.1M pre-seed from nine backers including Draganfly to scale AURA, its combat-deployed onboard AI for drones flying under GPS jamming.
Aptadir raises €40M seed to switch silenced genes back on
Milan's Aptadir raised a €40M seed led by 4BIO Capital - among the largest European biotech seeds we track - to push CAP1-FMR1, an RNA drug built to switch the…
Rayon raises €10M Series A to bring 3D and AI to interior design
Partech leads a €10 million Series A in Paris-based Rayon, the browser drawing tool for interior designers that has logged four million drawings. Version 4 brings 3D and agentic AI…
IPercept raises $16.5M Series A to give CNC machines a health check
A KTH spinout that clamps a sensor onto any CNC machine has raised $16.5M from Isogon Ventures and 2150 - and its customer list already reads Airbus, Bosch, Volvo. Next…
bilt.me raises $700K pre-seed to turn prompts into mobile apps
Six engineers in Tallinn hit six-figure ARR in a year, then raised $700K from Superhero Capital and the founders of Bolt and Lightyear to turn plain-language prompts into native mobile…
Granite raises €4M to ship sovereign cloud for AI agents
Bifrost Studios leads a €4M round into Granite, whose containerised sovereign datacentres give AI agents compute, memory and permissions under European jurisdiction.
Humanos raises $3.2M seed to give AI agents a risk score
Anthemis leads a $3.2M seed into Lisbon's Humanos, whose 0-100 risk scores and risk passports aim to let insurers and lenders underwrite autonomous AI agents - 350+ deployments already.
Creative tech in Europe runs on grants. San Sebastián’s finalists prove it
Ten startups pitched at the San Sebastián Film Festival on 24 September. I went through every one of them afterward and couldn’t find a single disclosed venture round. The biggest…
Complaion raises €13.5M to automate SME compliance in Europe
Milan's Complaion pairs software with certified auditors and says it automates up to 80% of compliance work. Eurazeo and Italian Founders Fund just co-led a €13.5M round to take that…