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Every story from the Sesamers desk — funding rounds, data, interviews and opinion across European tech.
Goodweek raises $12M to become the AI manager for SMBs
Eight funds and Bpifrance back Strasbourg-born Goodweek with $12 million to give SMBs one governed place to run Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Mistral. The AI control layer is becoming its own category.
Stéphane Paillard · October 18, 2026 
Microbiotica raises £36M Series C for precision microbiome medicines
Stéphane Paillard 
Wavo raises €10M to free the cash SMEs bury in stock
Stéphane Paillard 
Music startups and their buyers go to different conferences
Ben Costantini 
Duvo raises $32M Series A for its enterprise execution OS
Stéphane Paillard 
Informa just bought the rooms. Here’s how startups get in
Every week another AI agent promises to book your meetings, score your leads and write your follow-ups. So why did Informa just agree to pay £2.24 billion for a company…
Salience Labs raises $125M Series B to wire AI clusters with light
Bullhound Capital leads an oversubscribed $125M Series B into Oxford's Salience Labs, with AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joining to scale optical switches for AI datacentres.
Alchera raises £2.7M seed to plan UK roads and buses with AI
Cambridge's Alchera closed a £2.7M seed, with Maven Capital Partners leading £2M through the South West Investment Fund - a bet that UK roads and buses get planned on data,…
Ubitium raises $14M seed to put physical AI on one chip
One reconfigurable RISC-V array that senses, infers and controls - proven on Samsung's 8nm - just earned Ubitium $14M from Ibex Investors. Evaluation chips land in 2027.
Undecimal Bio raises $18M seed to take RNA medicines beyond the liver
An $18M oversubscribed seed co-led by 4BIO Capital and IQ Capital backs a Cambridge spin-out betting the next phase of RNA medicine is delivery, not silencing - starting with the…