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The Jülich spin-out's oversubscribed seed, led by Mérieux Equity Partners with Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly venture arms, will fund preclinical work in cancer, autoimmunity and fibrosis.
Five months after a €5.5m seed, the TUM spin-out has raised $30m from Accel, Keen, Lakestar and Seedcamp to hire, open a UK office and fulfil defence contracts in Germany and Ukraine.
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.
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Atlas Bio co-founder and CEO Simon Romanski is listed as a speaker at Slush 2026 in Helsinki (18-19 November). His session title and time are not published on the speaker page.
The founder-first startup and investor event, with matchmaking built into the programme.
Twelve hardware and climate startups pitch to an audience of 150 investors, followed by open office hours.
25–26 November 2026. Focuses on sustainable innovation, climate solutions, impact startups and corporate partnerships. Best for: climate tech, sustainability and impact investing.
Starling Bank is featured among speakers at FinTech Connect 2026, a major UK fintech conference held 1-2 December 2026 at ExCeL London.
The European edition of the B2B SaaS conference: scaling ARR, go-to-market and fundraising.
Celonis' own annual flagship conference on enterprise AI and process intelligence, held in Munich on December 2-3, 2026, with company-run teaser videos counting down on its YouTube channel.
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