Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed
Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed

Paris-based Lucis, a preventive-health platform that pairs blood biomarker testing with an AI-driven companion app, has raised a $20m Series A led by Singular, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator and angel investors including Céline …

Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform
Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform

The Tampere startup wants to rebuild physics simulation as the data engine for AI-driven hardware design. Tampere-based Quanscient has closed a €10 million Series A to scale its cloud-based multiphysics simulation platform, in a round led by Danish qua…

PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank
PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank

The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a …

Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity
Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity

Tyrol-based REPS has plugged its first “road power plant” into the Port of Hamburg. The next test is whether the economics survive contact with anywhere else. Tyrol-based REPS has raised $23.6m to scale a technology with an unusually literal premise: i…

Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed
Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed

The Paris and New York-based start-up, founded in 2023, will use the new capital to deepen ERP integrations and push its agentic procurement platform into more enterprise environments. DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix are already on the customer list; $3bn …

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments
Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more…

This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins
This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched th…

Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain
Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously…

Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI
Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI

Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup’s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Milan-based Lexroom, the legal AI startup focused on civi…

Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI
Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing. Law…