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Week of 27 October – 3 November 2026 · HealthTech This week brought 15 rounds worth about $285M, one €40M venture loan, and two...
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- News
- Startup Profile
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
- Startup Profile
- Verticals
- AdTech
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
DeepTech Funding: Freiburg’s VUSE XR Raises €1.2M Pre-Seed to Bring AI-Powered Mixed Reality Training to Enterprises
AITech Weekly: Anthropic Files to Go Public, Cohere Gets a Government Shareholder, and Europe Bets on Robots and Air Defence
AITech Funding: Kuaishou’s Kling AI Completes About $2.98B Round Just Months After Its Previous Raise, Ahead of a Planned IPO
AITech Funding: South Korea’s Furiosa AI Raises $623M Series D at About $2.89B Post-Money Valuation to Take Its AI Chips Global
AITech Weekly: DeepSeek Raises $15B, Four Startups Become Unicorns, and Robots Get Their Own Funding Boom
- AgriTech
AgriTech Opportunity: Swedish Forestry Giant Södra Launches an Innovation Challenge to Tackle Wildlife Browsing Damage
AgriTech Weekly: Microbes Replace Chemicals, Robots Pollinate Avocados, and a Moroccan Marketplace Shuts Down
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
- BioTech
BioTech Weekly: Formation Bio Raises a $600M Fund for Stalled Drugs, Dren Bio Funds Its Launch, and Anthropic Buys a One-Person Biotech
Denmark’s Samplix Secures €25M First Close to Scale Antibody Discovery
BioTech Weekly: Cloned War Dogs, an Ex-OpenAI Lab Bringing Drug Chemistry Back to the US, and Lycia Jumps 67% on IPO
BioTech Funding: Sheffield Spinout Silvia Bio Raises £3M Seed Led by Northern Gritstone to Scale Its Biomanufacturing Platform
Switzerland’s Nouscom Raises €120M Series D to Bring Off-the-Shelf Cancer Interception Immunotherapy Closer to Registration
- CleanTech
Germany’s Proxima Fusion Signs MoU with Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering During Chancellor Merz’s Visit to Strengthen the Fusion Supply Chain
Germany’s Rabot Energy Raises $50M Series B to Turn Homes into a Virtual Power Plant
Estonia’s Skeleton Technologies Becomes a Unicorn with a “9-Digit” Siemens-Led Investment to Power AI Data Centres in the US
CleanTech Weekly: AI’s Power Crunch Mints an Estonian Unicorn, Homes Become Power Plants, and Amazon Goes Nuclear Again
Leonardo DiCaprio Makes His First Direct Investment in a Swedish Company, Backing Energy Subscription Startup Elvy
- Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Weekly: AI Agents on Both Sides of the Firewall, a $30M Exit With No VC, and Q3’s $6.8B Haul
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
- FinTech
FinTech Weekly: Guidewire Pays $1.7B for AI Underwriting, Wealthsimple Hits C$13.8B, and Debt Facilities Outsize the Equity
Madrid’s Talky Raises €1.5M Pre-Seed to Teach AI the Unwritten Rules of Accounting
FinTech Funding: Former UK Minister Bim Afolami Co-Founds AI Insurance Broker i23, Reportedly Raising £4.9M Seed
Guidewire to Acquire UK Agentic Underwriting Startup Hyperexponential for $1.7B in Cash
Sweden’s BackingMinds Hits First Close of Fund III at Over €50M, with Minecraft and King Founders Joining as Investors
- HealthTech
HealthTech Weekly: A $1.4B Fertility Exit, China’s Brain-Implant Race, and Healthcare Incumbents Back the Startups They Buy From
HealthTech Funding: Spain’s Impress Signs €40M EIB Venture Debt Loan to Expand Its Digital Orthodontics Network Across Europe
FinTech Expansion: Sweden’s Solace Care Launches in the Netherlands, Its Fifth Market, with Bouvy Advies as First Dutch Partner
HealthTech Milestone: Sweden’s Navari Surgical Uses Its AR Surgical Navigation on a Human Patient for the First Time
Sweden’s Suturion Secures SEK 20M Convertible Investment from Cradle Growth to Accelerate Commercial Expansion
- 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
Dutch Blockchain Week announces 2027 dates and return to Johan Cruijff ArenA
Crypto Weekly: Tether Turns VC, Tokenized Assets Hunt for Liquidity, and Farcaster Gets Its Third Owner This Year
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
- 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 Weekly: Robovans and Pilotless Planes Raise Big, Nordic Money Electrifies the Global South, and Ukraine’s Ground Robots Consolidate
Dimitri Rudenko: Fixed Schedule Means Paying for Work Nobody Needs
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?
- AdTech
HealthTech
Barcelona-founded digital orthodontics network Impress has signed a €40 million venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The money will go toward its AI platform across a...
HealthTech
Stockholm-based Solace Care, a platform for legacy planning and guided loss support, is launching in the Netherlands, its fifth market. Its first Dutch partner is the financial...
HealthTech
Gothenburg-based Navari Surgical, a Chalmers Ventures portfolio company, has used its augmented-reality surgical navigation technology on a human patient for the first time. The operation took place...
AdTech
According to experts in Poland, the greatest impact on poor air quality, and thus on the health of our citizens, has pollutants coming from...
AdTech
The new Movens Growth Equity fund, of which you are one of the founders, will invest in companies from the SME sector. Why is...
FinTech
Mental health startups are becoming increasingly relevant in our society as they draw attention to arguably one of the most veiled taboo topics in...
AdTech
According to ICOM’s latest museum survey[1], the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis is particularly worrisome: nearly 13% of museums may close their doors...
AdTech
A sector still based on traditional know-how and aesthetics Although many craft companies have industrialized their processes, few have truly integrated a design approach....
FinTech
French start-ups raised €800 million in April, buoyed by several large-scale operations and a high number of deals (60). With three of the month’s...
AdTech
What does Prevlly do? PREVLLY is a Polish company, which was established out of necessity and passion. Our product – an intelligent preventive anti-decubitus...
HealthTech
Tech for Good, what is it actually? What exactly are the goals of startups from this industry and what are the best and most...
AdTech
A machine as a colleague or rather as a competitor? This question is difficult to answer conclusively. Robots can make the working world of...
FinTech
Between the multiplication of e-commerce sites and the democratization of click & collect, digitalization has become more than ever the sine qua non condition...
PropTech
