The quantum bottleneck isn’t chips — it’s lasers, and Vexlum wants to fix it

For Vexlum CEO and CTO Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, in Finland, there’s a simple way to tell if a company has moved from startup to scale-up: whether it has a sauna in the factory. “We do. So we consider ou…

Linexa closes €2M pre-seed to advance AI-driven manufacturing

Linexa, a Munich-based startup, has raised€2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Project A, with participation from angelinvestors including Thomas Böck, Bastian Nominacher, and Christian Schlögel.Fou…

Cooling becomes strategic: Calyos brings passive thermal tech to Europe’s defence stack

Europe’s push for technological sovereignty is reshaping even the most overlooked parts of the stack—including how systems are cooled. Data centres and compute platforms are essential infrastructure …

StirLight raises £1.25M to bring real-time quality assurance to friction stir welding at scale

UK startup StirLight has secured £1.25 million to commercialise its technology and accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing processes at scale by major industrial original equipment manufactu…

Edmund secures €2.5M to bring AI-driven troubleshooting to the factory floor

Edmund, a Czech startup developing an AI-powered debugging platform for industrial maintenance, has raised €2.5 million in funding led by FORWARD.one, with participation from University2Ventures and T…

New Belgian AI platform Backbone aims to cut costly quality failures in food production

Former managers at Belgian legaltech scale-up Henchman are launching Backbone, an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in the food industry, with Seed funding from 100IN. Backb…

Sensmet secures €1.5M to scale real-time metals monitoring for Europe’s raw materials supply

Finnish developer of continuous metals monitoring technology, Sensmet, has received a €1.5m investment from EIT RawMaterials to help secure the supply of critical and strategically important raw mater…

German deeplify raises €2M to modernise infrastructure inspections

German industrial AI startup deeplify has announced the successfulclosing of a €2.0 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by D11Z Ventures, with participation from Vanagon Ventures, EWOR, …

Level Nine raises €4M to unlock local feedstocks for chemicals

Berlin-based Level Nine, adeeptech company developing next-generation catalysts for more sustainablechemical production, has raised €4 million in a seed round led by Visionaries Tomorrow, bringing its…

This open-source bet is paying off as United Manufacturing Hub takes on industrial giants

For years, manufacturers have experimented with Industry 4.0 — running pilots in predictive maintenance, production monitoring, and AI-driven optimisation. Yet many of these initiatives struggled to m…