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…

myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health
myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health

The Ontario startup combines AI with trained human professionals to help patients navigate PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, and perimenopause, the conditions with the longest diagnostic delays and most fragmented care in the system. Graphite Ventures le…

Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste
Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste

The Paris-based precision fermentation startup has already validated industrial-scale production of its Advanced Casein with Bel Group. The Series B will fund its US commercial rollout in 2026, with Europe and Asia from end 2027, pending regulatory app…

Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete
Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete

ReCeramix™, made from over 90% recovered ceramic and construction waste, is already in use at Stockholm boutique hotel Ett Hem, members’ club Angel House, and Fotografiska. The round was valued at €3M; the raise amount was not disclosed. Stockholm star…

Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit

The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship-class spacecraft designed to be the first orbital data centre cost-competitive with terrest…

Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods

The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. Its founder’s longer-term ambition: making commercial real estate itself modular and on-demand…

TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth

The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit. Its CTO ran ESA’s Solaris SBSP initiative until the agency paused it in 2024. Daphni led th…

tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant
tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant

The Munich startup’s demo plant at Chemical Park Gendorf in Bavaria processes 1,500 tonnes of battery waste a year and produces 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate, at costs the company says are twice as competitive as conventional miners. A fu…

Laigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs
Laigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs

The Dutch biotech’s SureTACs platform targets membrane proteins that have long eluded conventional drug discovery by engineering them out of existence rather than blocking them. Biovance Capital joins as new co-lead alongside Kurma Partners in a final …

Keith raises £2M to become the UK’s most automated law firm
Keith raises £2M to become the UK’s most automated law firm

Andy Shovel and Pete Sharman, who built THIS into a market-leading plant-based food brand, are pivoting hard. Keith is an AI-native regulated law firm targeting conveyancing first, with a 24/7 AI client agent and a target of reducing transaction times …