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Norwegian HR-tech startup Fronted has closed a NOK 18m seed round led by Sweden's Kaknäs Invest. The money will fund a commercial push and an operational footprint covering 70 countries.
Ghent-based Ravical has closed a $17m seed round led by MMC Ventures, taking its total to $25m. More than 100 European accounting firms use its software, and the startup now plans a US launch.
The two-year-old Basel company has a $10m Creandum-led seed and a newly disclosed $2.5m pre-seed. It builds an AI model of human biology that predicts how virtual patients respond to drugs before Phase II.
The Hamburg DESY spin-out pairs a €3.5m private round led by First Momentum Ventures with €3.6m in grants, and plans a first industrial imaging service in 2027.
Google's Project Suncatcher prototype has run its first AI prompt in orbit. Asked for a haiku about space, the Gemma 4 model on board wrote one and sent it down as the satellite passed over Svalbard.
Cradle, the Amsterdam and Zurich startup whose software helps scientists design better proteins, has raised a $73m Series B led by IVP, taking its total funding past $100m.
The Berlin enterprise AI platform has dismantled the US parent it set up for investors and Y Combinator, betting that a European legal home will help it win cautious customers.
London-based Tessl, the AI developer-tools startup from Snyk founder Guy Podjarny, has disclosed $125m in funding: a $25m seed and a $100m Series A led by Index Ventures, months before any product ships.
Dust, the Paris and San Francisco AI agent platform, has raised a $40m Series B co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake Ventures and Datadog joining. Total funding now tops $60m.
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