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German TravelTech success Omio Group agrees to acquire Rail Europe in major rail distribution deal
Omio Group, the Berlin-based multimodal travel scale-up, has today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Rail Europe, a French rail distribution platform founded over 90 years ago. Upon completion, Rail Europe will become part of Omio Group, joining Omio’s B2C booking platform, its B2B distribution business, and its travel discovery brand, Ro
SWISSto12 secures €61 million Series C amid rising demand for sovereign space infrastructure
SWISSto12, a Lausanne-based SpaceTech company, today announced the close of its €61 million ($70 million) Series C as it continues to scale its multi-orbit payload and satellite business to meet growing commercial and sovereign demand. While the investors of this round were not disclosed, it follows the €73 million raises in January ($84.8 million) from Euro
Palantir alumni raise €27 million for construction robotics startup Monumental
Monumental, an Amsterdam-based company automating construction with robotics and software, today announced a €27 million ($32 million) Series B to grow their engineering team, scale the number of robots deployed, expand the range of construction tasks the robots can handle, and fund its expansion into the US. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with […] Th
Norrsken Evolve formalises Dutch presence following €62 million fund close
Norrsken Evolve, the Swedish pre-Seed fund investing in founders tackling climate, health and resilience challenges, has closed at €62 million after oversubscribing its initial €40 million target. The fund also announced it will formalise its amsterdam presence by taking up base at Norrsken House Amsterdam at the formal opening on September 1, 2026 – the […]
British Business Bank adds €58 million Soho Square deal to recent run of UK investments
The British Business Bank continues its recent spree of investments in British innovation with a cornerstone commitment of €58 million (£50 million) to Soho Square Capital Fund II to help established SMBs looking to grow further. The Bank is joined by several unamed US institutional investors in the fund. Walid Fakhry, co-Managing Partner, Soho Square Capita
Dutch startup Destinus leads consortium to develop anti-missile defence system for Europe
Dutch DefenceTech startup Destinus has been appointed consortium lead and prime contractor for Bliksem EXO, a new multinational project intended to establish Europe’s first sovereign exo-atmospheric upper-layer missile defence programme. The Katwijk-based company is the only startup among the five founding industrial partners, which also include Airbus Defen
Europe’s scale-ups are raising and hiring to build AI, but who are they hiring to govern it?
It’s no surprise that European companies are racing to build AI and hiring accordingly, but according to new data, the people needed to govern those systems are not being hired at the same pace. New research from compliance consultancy Axipro found that companies across eight EU countries advertised 6.7 AI builder roles for every AI […] The post Europe’s sca
Revolut and ElevenLabs among first bets from Aspire11’s €100 million capital deployment
Prague-based VC Aspire11 has deployed the first €100 million of its €515 million fund of pension capital into a portfolio including Revolut, Databricks, VAST Data, Vinted, ElevenLabs and Baseten. The news came along with the announcement that former Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan investor Zaya Kadyrova has joined as co-founder. The fund was launched in late
€300 million for Iberian BioTech and DeepTech as CriteriaCaixa rebrands its VC arm
CriteriaCaixa, the Barcelona-based holding company that manages the business assets of ‘la Caixa’ Banking Foundation, today announces a reboot of its startup investment business to facilitate the growth of science and technology-based high-potential emerging companies. Through its two funds, Criteria Bio Ventures and Criteria Venture Tech, it plans to invest
Mycelium-based paving material developer Visibuilt raises €3.34 million out of Denmark
Visibuilt, a Danish BioTech company developing biobased alternatives to conventional carbon-intensive construction binders, has secured €3.34 million in Seed funding to move from lab pilots towards market validation and industry tests. The round was co-led by EIFO and Unconventional Ventures followed by Proptechfonden and backed again by earlier investor EMD
Spain’s Acurio Ventures launches €115 million vehicle to provide liquidity to European VC funds
Bilbao-based VC firm Acurio Ventures today announced the closing of Acurio Secondaries I FCR, a European fund with a size of approximately €115 million that invests exclusively in fund-level secondary transactions involving European VC funds. Through its direct investment strategy, Acurio Ventures has invested in approximately 120 European companies. The dir
SFC Capital to support 100 more British companies with €11 million commitment
British early-stage investment firm SFC Capital has received an additional €11 million (£10 million) from the British Business Bank under the Regional Angels Programme, extending the Bank’s total commitment to €41 million (£35 million). The Regional Angels Programme is designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance. Following
Austria’s Sodex Innovations secures €4 million to scale automated construction-site surveying
ConTech startup Sodex Innovations, a Vorarlberg-based innovator of automated surveying and documentation of construction sites, infrastructure projects, and mines, has successfully closed a funding round of €4 million to accelerate the company’s next stage of development. The round was led by Capmont Technology, with participation from Bloomhaus, Look AI Ven
Luxury watch platform Groupe Chaumont launches with acquisition of two Swiss watchmaking startups
Swiss watchmaking startups Efteor and Télôs Watch have been acquired by private equity operator Vam Investments alongside established companies Le Composant and Henri Robert – marking the official launch of Groupe Chaumont. Groupe Chaumont is a new industrial platform headquartered in Neuchâtel and focused on producing movements, cases, tools, and components
AI puts UK startup funding back in the big leagues with strongest first half since 2022, new data shows
UK startup funding recorded its strongest opening half since 2022, as investors placed increasingly large bets on AI, computing infrastructure and science-led companies. New findings shared with EU-Startups show that capital is returning at scale, although the recovery is being shaped by fewer deals and a small group of unusually large rounds. Analysis from
Bristol startup Uplift360 to boost NATO Europe’s defence resilience with sovereign advanced materials supply
Following NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte launching a multinational project on defence critical raw materials at the NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum, British advanced materials startup Uplift360 has been awarded a multi-year framework agreement with the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (DOD). Under the arrangement, Uplift360 aims to strengthen Europe’s
Pornography addiction recovery app Unchaind snapped up by Rocapine after reaching €875k ARR
Following their €11.2 million Series A raise in June, Paris-based AI-native wellness app publisher Rocapine has acquired the Christian pornography recovery app Unchaind – which has reached 500k downloads since launching in 2025. Today’s acquisition comes after Rocapine and Singapore-based studio Applo co-developed the app from scratch, with Rocapine acting a
Spanish cybersecurity startup 8Layers extends pre-Seed round to €2.5 million total funding
Madrid-based cybersecurity company 8Layers has closed a €1 million extension of its pre-Seed round to strengthen their GTM strategy and accelerate commercialisation across the European market – raising its total funding to €2.5 million. Today’s raise marks the entry of two strategic investors from the Spanish corporate venture capital ecosystem: Criteria Ven
How EIC-backed startups are turning international exposure into real business
As power demand rises from electrification and data centres, London’s Axle Energy raises €21 million for energy flexibility
Axle Energy, a British energy flexibility platform that turns EV chargers, batteries and heat pumps into grid-balancing capacity, has raised €21 million ($25 million) in Series A to expand across the UK and international markets, allowing Axle to connect more distributed energy assets and expand partnerships with OEMs, utilities and fleet operators. The roun