Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents
Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ven…

Epoch Biodesign closes $12M to prove its nylon recycling enzymes can work at scale
Epoch Biodesign closes $12M to prove its nylon recycling enzymes can work at scale

The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now excee…

Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows
Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows

The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC part…

Lace raises $40M to replace chip-making light with helium atoms
Lace raises $40M to replace chip-making light with helium atoms

Lace Lithography, founded by a University of Bergen physicist, uses a beam the width of a single hydrogen atom to etch chip features up to ten times smaller than what current extreme ultraviolet lithography can achieve. Atomico led the Series A, with M…

Foreverland raises €6M to scale its cocoa-free chocolate ingredient across Europe
Foreverland raises €6M to scale its cocoa-free chocolate ingredient across Europe

The Italian foodtech, which makes Choruba from Mediterranean carob and has already signed four European confectionery partnerships, now has €9.4M in total funding to push commercial expansion and develop an organic product line. Foreverland, the Italia…

Startup Dash0 hits unicorn status with $110M Series B
Startup Dash0 hits unicorn status with $110M Series B

The OpenTelemetry-native platform founded by the team behind Instana has grown to 600 customers in under two years. Its Series B, led by Balderton, with Accel, Cherry, and Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, will fund Agent0, an AI layer that doesn’t just su…

Foodtech Swish closes $38M Series B at $139M valuation
Foodtech Swish closes $38M Series B at $139M valuation

Bengaluru’s Swish has now raised $54M in 18 months, values itself at $139M, and is betting that owning the kitchen, the technology, and the last mile is the only way to make ultra-fast food delivery work at scale. The timing is pointed. In the months b…

Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M
Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M

The Munich startup is building what it calls a ‘context graph’, a continuously updated map of how operational decisions actually get made inside an enterprise, drawn from millions of real cases rather than documentation that may never have been written…

Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap
Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap

A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pressing military capability shortfall. The phrase ‘air defence gap’ has become one of the defin…

BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally
BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind BBLeap is disarmingly…