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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Clastix raises €2.9M seed to run Europe’s Kubernetes at scale
Mistral backs its own supplier: Naples-based Clastix raises €2.9M led by CDP Venture Capital to turn six years of Kubernetes open source into Europe's infrastructure layer.
Prevision Medicine raises $5.4M seed for functional cancer testing
Zurich's Prevision Medicine tests a patient's living tumour cells against 100+ treatments and returns a ranked report in three days. ACE Ventures leads a $5.4M seed aimed at reimbursement first.
Kasvu Therapeutics raises €30M Series A for depression drug
A University of Helsinki spinout closes €30M to test whether the antidepressant power of psychedelics survives without the trip - and the all-Nordic cap table is the real story.
Noxtua raises €100M+ Series C as C.H.BECK takes majority
A publisher founded in 1763 now controls Europe's best-funded legal AI. C.H.BECK takes majority ownership of Noxtua in a €100M+ Series C, with Austria's MANZ joining the round.
Reecall raises €3.5M to sell white-label voice AI to software vendors
Lyon-based Reecall raises €3.5M led by Founders Future, with Holnest, Mesh, Evolem and BlaBlaCar co-founder Francis Nappez, to industrialise white-label voice AI across Europe.
Wealthcome raises €15M Series B to equip France’s wealth advisers
Breega leads a €15M Series B for Bordeaux's Wealthcome, whose WealthPro platform aggregates over €80bn for 6,000 wealth advisers. Next stop: banks, insurers and an AI assistant named Binom.
HighLife raises $90M+ to start US pivotal study for its mitral valve
Paris medtech HighLife has landed more than $90 million from four French co-leads to fund a US pivotal study, months after CE marking its transcatheter mitral valve system.
Kontext raises $4M seed to police what AI agents actually do
Munich's Kontext raised a $4M seed led by 42CAP with a16z CSX and HTGF to check every AI agent action against policy before it runs - agentic AI security is…
Benford raises €5M pre-seed to run audits, not sell audit software
Three Palantir, Goldman Sachs and One Peak alumni raised €5M from firstminute capital and fintech's best-known founders to run statutory audits end-to-end, not sell software to auditors.
StandardX raises £10M seed to build a London isotope refinery
Two nuclear engineers are building a refinery for the isotopes cancer care and fusion cannot buy today. StandardX raised £10M from Vsquared, East X and firstminute to start in London.