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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
AI replaced 3D printing in composites pitches
In 2019, 3D printing was the loudest thing in composites. Across that year’s JEC Composites Startup Booster applications it ran at 24.7 mentions per 10,000 words of founder text, ahead…
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.
50skills raises €5.3M to put AI agents to work in HR
Four co-leads back Reykjavík's 50skills with €5.3M to scale an operating system where AI agents run HR workflows for Icelandair, Domino's and the City of Reykjavík.
Basecamp Research raises $140M Series C for AI-designed medicines
S32 leads a $140M Series C in London's Basecamp Research, with Nvidia and Anthropic's fund aboard, to turn a 30-country biodiversity data network into AI-designed medicines.
Tekever raises $580M Series D at a $6.4B valuation
UC Investments and Baillie Gifford co-lead a $580M first close valuing Tekever at $6.4B. The Lisbon drone maker proved its model over Ukraine; now pension capital goes direct into European…
mika raises €6M seed to automate accounting for German SMEs
Smedvig Ventures leads a €6M seed for Berlin's mika, whose AI runs the books for 750+ German small companies. The quiet bet: the tax adviser becomes software.
Zeliq raises €7M seed extension to launch AI sales agent Zelia
Zeliq has closed a €7M seed extension led by The Moon Venture, taking total funding to €21M in under three years, and is putting Zelia, its AI sales agent, into…