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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
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…
Primo raises €6.9M to send AI agents into corporate IT
Paris-based Primo raises €6.9M co-led by returning backers Headline and Global Founders Capital to deploy autonomous AI agents that run corporate IT end to end.
Biolevate raises €30M Series A for life sciences AI
Biolevate's €30M Series A, co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, puts Dataiku alumni behind evidence-grade AI agents for pharma and opens a Boston office.
Verda raises $189M Series B to scale Europe’s full-stack AI cloud
Helsinki's Verda raises a $189M Series B led by Emergence Capital at a $1B+ valuation, becoming Europe's newest unicorn and scaling its full-stack AI cloud from renewable-powered Nordic data centres.
Spott raises $21M Series A for AI-native recruitment software
Balderton Capital leads a $21M Series A in Spott, the Leuven startup whose AI-native ATS and CRM already runs hundreds of recruitment agencies, with revenue up more than tenfold since…
Metris Energy raises $5M seed for AI-run solar asset management
London's Metris Energy has raised a $5M seed led by Berlin's PT1 to put more than 10,000 solar plants under AI management, with Octopus Ventures and AENU returning.