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Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

The Swiss startup’s Turbe project at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam will be the first commercial deployment of its aerobrew methanol-to-jet technology, and a blueprint for large-scale e-SAF production across Europe. Metafuels, the Swiss aviation technology company developing synthetic sustainable aviation fuel, has been awarded €1.92 million in grant funding from the […]

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Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via background audio. Its new Sleep Headband targets secure environments where phones are banned. Audicin, the Finnish neurotechnology company using brainwave entrainment and auditory engineering to support nervous system regulation, has raised $1.9 million in […]

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Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents

The Brussels-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup counts Orange among its early enterprise customers, which deployed a customer onboarding agent in four weeks. General Catalyst led the round. Nexus, the Brussels-founded AI agent deployment platform backed by Y Combinator, has raised $4.3 million in a seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Transpose […]

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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 sum to take its organic rescue-box model across the border. The deal, announced on Monday, unites the two largest “ugly […]

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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 led the round. When a patient receives a specialist referral, a confusing test result, or a diagnosis that landed in their […]

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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 approvals. Standing Ovation, the Paris-based precision fermentation startup producing casein from dairy waste streams, has raised €30 million […]

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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 startup Enkei has closed a pre-seed round at a €3 million valuation to commercialise ReCeramix™, its […]

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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 terrestrial facilities. Starcloud has raised $170 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark and […]

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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. The problem miros is solving is visible in any busy train station, airport, or hospital: people who […]

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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 the pre-seed round. The person best placed to know why the European Space Agency decided not to press […]

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