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Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap

The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is by now well documented. In April 2024, Iran launched roughly 300 drones and missiles at Israel. Defenders intercepted […]

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eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumulated a graveyard of credible-sounding startups. The engineering problem is genuinely hard: harvesting tomatoes or cucumbers requires handling irregular, delicate, […]

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Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has to navigate the legacy software, pull the right records, select the right codes, and enter them correctly. In […]

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Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates

Recruiters spend hours a day calling, leaving voicemails, and asking the same questions. Ringtime automates the whole thing, and has already found a second home in real estate. There is a well-worn frustration in blue-collar recruitment. A warehouse operative applies on Monday, hears nothing by Tuesday, and has accepted a job somewhere else by Wednesday. […]

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Reson8 raises €5M pre-seed funding to scale Europe’s first customisable speech AI

Amsterdam-based Reson8 has raised €5M in pre-seed funding to challenge US-centric speech platforms by building a high-precision, industry-specific speech recognition platform tailored for European languages. Reson8, a hyper-customised speech AI startup that ensures real-life, accurate, industry-specific language recognition, has raised pre-seed funding to scale its infrastructure and expand its speech models across more than 20 […]

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Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin Lautier says he got the idea for Homaio on the Eurostar. He was reading a Financial Times article about European Union Allowances, the […]

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Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale

The San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with Mayfield backing and a pitch that treats ad creative as a continuous learning loop, not a quarterly deliverable. Every B2B marketing team knows the problem. A campaign launches, the creative is fresh, the targeting feels right, and then, slowly, it starts dying. Audiences tune out. Click rates […]

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Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical trial. Clinical trials are, by almost any measure, one of the most information-intensive processes in modern medicine, and one of the least efficiently […]

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Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic

Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil and groundwater as it degrades. The hygiene industry has long regarded it as an engineering necessity: nothing else absorbs as fast, as much, or […]

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Tracebit raises $20M to scale cloud honeypots as enterprise deception security grows

The startup, which plants millions of decoy assets across cloud environments to catch intruders in the act, closed its Series A led by FirstMark as enterprise security teams warm to deception as a primary detection strategy. The logic of cyber deception is almost disarmingly simple. You leave something valuable-looking in a place where it has […]

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