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Week of 10–17 October 2026 · AITech This week’s AI funding came to roughly $1.6B across six rounds. The amounts are large, but what...
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Startup Profile: Building an Ecosystem, Not Just a Startup — Luciano Almeida’s LDR Project Connects Brazil and Europe
Petto Design: A California Startup Is Turning Pet Furniture Into Modern Interior Design
Startup Profile: AloFor Is Building a Global Travel-eSIM Business from Romania — Without Owning a Network
Stephan Airapetian: The Los Angeles Attorney Bridging Personal Injury Law and Emerging Technology
Pixella Review: How Content Creators Are Producing 10x More Visuals Without a Design Team
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Headwai Acquired by Agent Mama in Swedish AI AdTech Consolidation
Swedish AdTech Startup Camphouse Raises €5M Series A to Scale Media Management Platform
Yoola Drops YoolaStats: The Analytics Tool That Finally Shuts Up the Guesswork in Creator Economy
Energy Robotics Secures €11.5M to Scale AI-Powered Inspection Robots Across Critical Industries
Notion Capital Closes €114M Growth Fund to Double Down on AI and FinTech Scaleups
- AITech
AITech Weekly: An $870M Series A, Seed Rounds That Look Like Series B, and AI That Owns Outcomes
AITech News: Stockholm’s Capable Launches a CRM That Your AI Runs for You
AITech M&A: Swedish-Founded Listen Labs Is Being Acquired by Salesforce in a Potentially $2B Deal
FinTech News: Stockholm’s Grasp Opens New York Office, Seeks US Managing Director
AITech Funding: Klang Raises SEK15M to Help European Businesses Make Conversations Searchable and Usable
- AgriTech
BioTech News: Agteria Biotech Rebrands to Root Bio, Broadening Scope Beyond Methane
Italy’s Biorsaf Raises €5.2M and Acquires Cooki to Expand Its Food RegTech Platform
Nijmegen’s Gravity Gardens Raises €2.6M for Dry, Chemical-Free Seed Activation Technology
AgriTech Funding: Paris’s Tellia Raises €4.3M to Scale Voice-Enabled Data Capture for Farmers
UK’s EcoNomad Solutions Lands €466K to Turn Livestock Waste into Renewable Energy for Small Farms
- BioTech
BioTech Funding: Oxford Spin-Out OMass Therapeutics Lands €275M Series C to Bring Novel Small-Molecule Therapies Closer to Patients
BioTech Funding: France’s WhiteLab Genomics Raises €23.2M Series B to Accelerate AI-Driven Genomic Medicine
France’s Rivercell Emerges from Stealth with €22M for AI-Powered Drug Discovery Infrastructure
Gothenburg’s Aventix Raises €1.2M Pre-Seed to Build the Future of Bioanalytics
Umeå’s Omnio Raises €2.9M to Advance Chronic Wound Therapy Toward Clinical Trials
- CleanTech
Leonardo DiCaprio Makes His First Direct Investment in a Swedish Company, Backing Energy Subscription Startup Elvy
Sweden’s Abundry, Co-Founded by Einride’s Founders, Merges with Energy Storage Startup Ertzy to Build a Complete Grid Decision Platform
CleanTech Weekly: 1KOMMA5° Eyes the US, Epyr Bets on Industrial Heat, and Battery Recycling Gets Real
Swedish National Team Stars Back Hydro Diagnostics’ Rapid Water Tests as the Startup Raises SEK3.4M
Refinyx Emerges from Stealth with Acquisition of Northvolt Recycling Technology and First Major US Customer
- Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Funding: ‘One Click’ Cyber Company OneClickComply Raises £1M to Make Security Simple
Cybersecurity Funding: SCI Semiconductor Raises £5M to Meet “Overwhelming Demand” for Its Memory-Safe Microchip
Leeds Cybersecurity Startup Xentra Bags €3.18M to Scale SME Compliance Platform
Swedish Government Selects Intric’s Sovereign AI Platform for Secure Public Sector AI
Europe’s Cloud Sovereignty Push Has a Catch — and Startups Will Feel It First
- FinTech
Sweden’s Turbine Capital Closes Fund I at SEK 608M, with Mycronic Joining Saab, Scania, Volvo Cars and Stena
E-commerce Investment: Embracer Founder Lars Wingefors Buys into Swedish Ticketing Company Tickster
Invest Forum Malta 2026
FinTech News: Stockholm’s Brite Payments Brings Its International Pay-by-Bank Network to the UK
Float’s Co-Founder on Why Fast-Growing AI Companies Can Be Risky Borrowers
- HealthTech
Sweden’s Most Profitable Tech Company Audiowell Goes Public via Reverse Takeover of Sleep Cycle in a SEK 2.25B Deal
HealthTech Funding: Sweden’s Yazen Raises €50M, Its Largest Round to Date, to Scale Digital Weight-Loss Care Across Europe
JSK Investments Backs Imperial Spin-Out MintNeuro’s $5M Round to Build Chips for Neural Devices
HealthTech Funding: London’s Cori Clinical Raises €3.8M Seed to Accelerate Clinical Trials and Cut Delays
London’s MintNeuro Raises €4.4M for Neural Chips Aimed at Parkinson’s, Epilepsy and Depression Devices
- PropTech
Endra Launches Power Studio and Acquires Planlabs to Expand into Mechanical Engineering
Earth Ledger Gives Every Parcel of Land Its Own AI Intelligence Layer
London-based Prolo raises €4.9M Seed round to modernize construction procurement with AI
Cleean Raises €550K to Scale Drone-Powered Building Cleaning Services
Endra raises $50M Series A to scale AI-powered MEP platform
- E-commerce
Approov Secures €5.7M to Tackle AI-Era Mobile App Threats
Fleequid Raises €3M to Digitize Europe’s Used Bus Market
Minimist Secures €350k Pre-Seed Funding to Empower Second-Hand Sellers Across Europe
Paris-based Phacet Secures €4M to Expand AI Solutions for SMEs
Ukrainian Startup Beholder Receives Gift from PRNEWS.IO at Latitude59 Pitch Competition
- FoodTech
FoodTech Funding: Swiss-Italian Ferm Labs Secures €3M Seed Round to Scale Clean-Label Flavor Production
FoodTech Funding: Dutch Startup Greencovery Raises €1M to Bring Cocoa Upcycling Technology to Industrial Scale
Italy’s Biorsaf Raises €5.2M and Acquires Cooki to Expand Its Food RegTech Platform
From Regional Silos to a Unified Innovation System: Meet NILLA, Sweden’s AI for Startups
Proteinish Secures €450K Grant to Power AI-Driven Food Production Innovation
- Crypto / Blockchain / Web3
Amsterdam set to welcome thousands of Digital Asset professionals as Dutch Blockchain Week 2026 reveals the program
Cardinal Launches “Masspredict” — AI-Powered Prediction Markets Without Gambling
Dutch Blockchain Week 2026 Strengthens Its Position as Europe’s Leading B2B Blockchain Event Week
Best blockchain startups 2026: infrastructure, DePIN, RWA & AI leaders
Akurateco and Aquanow Join Forces to Power the Next Generation of Crypto Payments
- EdTech
EdTech Funding: Warsaw’s Coding Giants Secures Up to €6M in Venture Debt to Expand Its STEM Education Platform Beyond Europe
Serbian-Hungarian InsurTech Ominimo Becomes a Unicorn with €20.1M Series B Round
How to Rise to the Occasion
Oxford Medical Simulation Secures €5.78 Million to Tackle Healthcare Training Gap with Virtual Reality
Top 10 education startups that changed the approach to learning
- SpaceTech
SpaceTech Weekly: Orbital AI, Lasers and a Seed-Stage Gold Rush
Japan’s Tenchijin Surpasses 100 Municipal Contracts for Satellite × AI Water Leak Solution “KnoWaterleak”
UTES2026: Free Exhibition Space for European Startups Working on Drones, Space Tech, and Autonomous Systems
FLEXOO Raises €11M to Scale Physical AI Sensors — Technology Already Powering NASA’s Lunar Rover
The top 11 aerospace startups
- GameTech
Auxy Expands Beyond Software With First-Ever Music Hardware Instrument
Why Australian Gamblers Are Abandoning Crown for Digital Startups: A $4B Market Shift
How Online Casino Startups Are Disrupting Australia’s $25B Gambling Industry
Why Online Gambling Software Is Key to Today’s Casino Experience
Eschatology Entertainment Secures €10.2 Million to Fuel Game Development
- Mobility
Mobility News: Roboat Enters a New Phase as Joshua Jordan Succeeds Ynse Deinema as CEO
PortXL Presents Its 2026 Cohort of 11 Maritime Startups and Scale-ups
How About a Career in the Drone Industry?
Heart Aerospace Completes First Flight of World’s Largest Electric Aircraft
Swedish Startup Cognivity AI Partners with California Luxury EV Maker to Bring AI Directly Into Battery Systems
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Capable, a Stockholm-based startup, has launched a CRM that users can run through the AI tool of their choice, via MCP. The pitch from...
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Listen Labs, the San Francisco-based AI-first customer research platform for brands, is being acquired by Salesforce. The company was founded by Swedish serial entrepreneur Alfred Wahlforss and...
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Grasp, the Stockholm-based AI analyst for finance, is opening a New York office and is on the hunt for a US Managing Director to build and...
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Flox Intelligence, a Stockholm-based startup building AI-driven systems to prevent human-wildlife conflict, has secured €2.5M ($3M) in a Seed+ funding round to accelerate deployments across North...
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Staer, a Malmö-based startup developing physical AI for autonomous mobile robot fleets, raised €3.5 million ($4.1M) in pre-seed funding last year, although the round was not...
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As artificial intelligence expands beyond software into real-world machines, one challenge is becoming increasingly clear: AI systems need better physical data to interact with the...
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Neurological diseases are among the most expensive and under-served healthcare challenges in Europe. Now, a Vienna-based HealthTech startup is betting that AI-powered digital therapy can help...
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The global race to build scalable autonomous driving technology just intensified. London-based AI startup Wayve has raised €1 billion ($1.2B) in a Series D round, pushing its...
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Acorel, a French specialist in passenger flow management, has unveiled a new Origin-Destination solution that combines AI-driven journey reconstruction with real-time counting data —...
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A Global Transit Crisis As we move through 2026, the promise of “seamless travel” feels more like a distant memory than a modern reality....
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Paris-based venture studio OSS Ventures has announced the first closing of €40 million for a new investment vehicle targeting a total fund size of...
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Paris-based venture firm Quantonation Ventures has closed its second flagship fund above target at €220 million, cementing its position as the largest dedicated quantum...
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Stockholm-based Agaton has closed a $10 million seed round to scale its AI-powered platform that helps enterprise sales and contact centre teams extract measurable...
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