Arkadia Space raises €14.5M for green propulsion system
Arkadia Space raises €14.5M for green propulsion system

The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DARK system became the first hydrogen peroxide propulsion system flown in orbit in Europe, laun…

PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles
PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles

The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and Creandum led; Lombard Odier, Atlantic Labs, …

Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital…

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…