nFuse raises $2M to let small retailers order via WhatsApp
nFuse raises $2M to let small retailers order via WhatsApp

Two former Coca-Cola operators built a messaging-first ordering platform after watching B2B eCommerce initiatives repeatedly fail in fragmented trade. The platform claims 70% retailer adoption and order processing costs up to 20 times lower than tradit…

Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes
Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes

Satellites on Fire, founded in 2020 as a school project by three Argentine teenagers, has closed a seed round led by Dalus Capital. Its software-only platform integrates satellite data from multiple agencies and detects fires faster than NASA’s FIRMS s…

Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection
Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection

The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were not disclosed. Penemue, the Freiburg-based TrustTec…

Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton

The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series A, with SIMEST providing international expansion funding through Italy’s Ministry…

Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.
Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.

Eighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the company told Business Insider that it has crossed $100 million in ARR, a milestone that in enterp…

Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”
Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”

The Tallinn-based platform, formerly WOIS.io, hosts over 1,000 professionals including Rovio co-founder Peter Vesterbacka and ex-Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John. AI handles routine questions; high-value queries go to the expert via 1:1 asynchronous video…

Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant
Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

The Swiss startup’s Turbe project at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam will be the first commercial deployment of its aerobrew methanol-to-jet technology, and a blueprint for large-scale e-SAF production across Europe. Metafuels, the Swiss avi…

Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M
Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via background audio. Its new Sleep Headband targets secure environments where phones are banned. A…

Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents
Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents

The Brussels-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup counts Orange among its early enterprise customers, which deployed a customer onboarding agent in four weeks. General Catalyst led the round. Nexus, the Brussels-founded AI agent deployment platform bac…

Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play
Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play

German consumers throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food every year, worth roughly €6 billion. Austrian startup Afreshed just bet that the solution is consolidation, not competition, acquiring Munich-based rival Etepetete and raising a mid-seven-figure s…