| sesamers | Issue #5 | | | | Weekly brief | | Monday 28 September 2026 · Week of 21 Sep–27 Sep | | | €1.3B Raised · 38 rounds | 70 Open calls | €6.5M Median round |
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| This week: Fundraising · Last calls · Opinion · Podcast · Next events |
| 01 · Fundraising | | The rounds that matter | | Company · backers | Round | | Tekever Defence AI · Lisbon · UC Investments, Baillie Gifford (co-leads) | €498M SERIES D+ | | Verda AI · Helsinki · Emergence Capital | €164.8M SERIES B | | Basecamp Research AI · London · S32 | €120M SERIES C | | Noxtua Unclassified · Berlin · C.H.BECK | €100M SERIES C | | HighLife Unclassified · Paris · Sofinnova Partners, Andera Partners, Supernova Invest, Mérieux Equity Partners | €80M GROWTH | | Anaconda Biomed Unclassified · Barcelona · Omega Funds | €49.2M |
| | All rounds in the tracker → | |
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| 04 · Podcast | | Episode 120 · 23:01 | | André Loesekrug-Pietri | | What if Europe had its own DARPA? André Loesekrug-Pietri, co-founder of JEDI, explains how a privately funded agency runs moonshots on rare-earth refining, laser communication and antibiotics, who pays for them, and why he thinks Europe keeps funding projects instead of winners. | |
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