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The Stevenage biotech's ARC Ventures-led round funds preclinical work on NEO22, engineered bacteria that dissolve the tissue wall shielding solid tumours, and brings in Laura Chow as CMO.
The TU Dresden spin-off has closed a Series A of undisclosed size, with Lockheed Martin Ventures and GlobalFoundries joining. Total funding now stands at $90M as it bets on sparse AI inference chips.
The Copenhagen accounting-automation startup raised roughly six times its pre-seed in under a year, after signing Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Baker Tilly and most of the Nordics' biggest firms.
The Paris start-up, founded in April by three former BCG consultants, is building the GDS-10 X-band radar to spot small drones at 10 km and plans to take orders from early 2027.
Barcelona's Kabilio has raised €10m, with Spain's CDTI joining its two existing lead backers, to launch an AI agent for accountants. Its customer base has grown from about 100 firms to nearly 500 in a year.
Four months after flying Austria's first commercial satellite, Vienna's Tumbleweed has raised €6.9m led by health-tech investor PactVC. It plans three missions in 2027 and sample return in 2028.
The Munich maker of a nine-seat battery-electric aircraft has €30m from Dutch-led investors for its first conforming prototype, and an EU Innovation Fund selection for a €94.5m assembly-plant grant.
The Stockholm start-up, which runs and trades more than 1.2 GWh of battery storage, took its Series A from a single investor and is putting part of it into a plan to supply data centres from 120 MW of Nordic land.
The Espoo power-electronics company has now raised €15.2m in total. The new money moves its software-controlled converters into volume production next year, first for EV charging and storage, then for AI data centres.
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