Funded

Revenue Agents for GTM teams (YC Winter 2026; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Multi-chain deposit and payment infrastructure (YC Winter 2026; Fintech -> Payments; New York City, NY, USA).

AI agents that automate B2B software implementation (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Productivity; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI-native, hardware procurement marketplace (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Unified prediction markets trading platform (YC Winter 2026; Fintech -> Consumer Finance; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Insurance risk layer for physical AI (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

A premier AI-native law firm & legal operating system for Startups (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Legal; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI Recruiting Coordinator for Executive Search (YC Winter 2026; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

The OS for data quality across any stack (YC Winter 2026; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI Verification for Insurance (YC Winter 2026; Fintech -> Insurance; San Francisco, CA, USA).

A faster, lower cost path to custom silicon (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Autonomous Drones for Earth Observation (YC Winter 2026; Industrials -> Drones; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Energy independent data centers with solar and repurposed batteries. (YC Winter 2026; Industrials -> Energy; location unlisted).

Real-world place intelligence for AI apps and agents (YC Winter 2026; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI operator for medlegal cases (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Infrastructure; New York City, NY, USA).

AI coworker for video editors to ship more video faster (YC Winter 2026; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Turning all software into agent-first APIs (YC Winter 2026; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Drop-in Direct Billing SDK for In-App Purchases (YC Winter 2026; Fintech -> Payments; San Diego, CA, USA).

Automates admin for aircraft mechanics (YC Winter 2026; B2B; London, England, United Kingdom).

Lupin & Holmes raised a $5.9M pre-seed (Seedcamp + 20VC, March 2026) for Depi, which maps real attack paths across software dependencies to show how a supply-chain attack would actually happen, cutting alert fatigue. Founded by a 23-year-old star bug-bounty hunter.

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“The AI-native agency”

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Outpost Bio raised a $3.5M pre-seed (Merantix Capital + Seedcamp, March 2026) to build frontier foundation models for human microbiology/microbiome. Bio-AI foundation models are now a European pre-seed category.

UK's Alpa raised EUR 2.9M pre-seed for real-time P&L and cost tools for restaurants and hotels.

London's APEXX raised EUR 8.6M for its payment orchestration layer routing enterprise transactions across providers.

UK's AppFactor raised EUR 3.4M seed for tech that automatically modernizes legacy enterprise applications.

London's Artificial raised EUR 37.7M Series B for digital placement and underwriting workflow software for commercial insurers.

Lithuanian Axiology raised EUR 5M seed for DLT-based securities trading/settlement infrastructure under EU DLT pilot regime.

Barcelona's Biorce raised EUR 43.8M Series A for AI that speeds up clinical trial design and operations.

Stockholm's Bits raised EUR 12M Series A for a European compliance platform unifying AML, KYC and fraud tooling.

Stuttgart's Blockbrain raised EUR 17.5M Series A for AI agents that capture and operationalize internal company knowledge.

UK's Bound raised EUR 20.8M Series A for software that automates currency hedging for businesses.

German Circle Health raised EUR 9M seed for integrated preventive check-up care combining diagnostics and coaching.

Freiburg's constellr raised EUR 37M Series A for thermal satellite monitoring of crops, water and industrial sites.

Vilnius' Copla raised EUR 6M Series A for real-time compliance monitoring infrastructure for fintechs and banks.

Polish Demoboost raised EUR 2.8M seed for automating interactive product demos for B2B sales teams.

Amsterdam's Duna raised EUR 30M Series A for AI-driven business onboarding/KYB compliance automation.

UK's Dwelly raised EUR 36.5M Series A to roll up and automate lettings agencies with AI.

Zagreb's Farseer raised EUR 6.1M Series A for FP&A software replacing spreadsheet planning in mid-size firms.

Warsaw's FlyFocus raised EUR 4.8M seed for NATO-interoperable drones.

Estonian Frankenburg raised EUR 30M Series A for low-cost interceptor missiles for air defence.

UK's FYLD raised EUR 36.5M Series B for AI that turns field-crew video into risk assessments and productivity analytics for utility/infrastructure work.

German happyhotel raised EUR 6.5M Series A for AI dynamic pricing/revenue management aimed at small independent hotels.

Bucharest's Kinderpedia raised EUR 2.2M seed for its school/kindergarten management and parent communication platform with AI features.

Berlin's Kombo raised EUR 21.3M Series A for its unified API connecting HR, payroll and ATS systems.

French Lifeaz raised EUR 13M to distribute connected home/workplace defibrillators.

French MyC raised EUR 10M Series A for AI-powered occupational/employee health management.

French Naboo raised EUR 59.6M Series B for its marketplace/SaaS for planning and booking corporate offsites.

Czech Navigara raised EUR 2.1M seed for software measuring engineering productivity via code analysis.

German nuuEnergy raised EUR 4.3M seed for standardized residential heat-pump installation and operation services.

Vienna's nyra health raised EUR 20M Series A for digital neurorehab therapy software used by clinics.

Berlin's Oska raised EUR 11M seed for AI-supported chronic disease care with human coaches, sold to payers.

German Plato raised EUR 12.3M seed for AI automating quote/order workflows for B2B distributors.

French Rivage raised EUR 2.6M pre-seed for payroll infrastructure sold through accounting firms.

Prague's RobosizeME raised EUR 1.7M seed for RPA/AI workflow automation specifically for hotel back-office processes.

Berlin's Secfix raised EUR 10.2M Series A for AI-driven end-to-end security compliance automation for SMEs.

Milan's Sinergy Flow raised EUR 7M seed for sulfur-based flow batteries for long-duration energy storage.

UK's Tembo raised EUR 18.2M for its savings-to-mortgage platform helping first-time buyers afford homes.

Vilnius' Tingit raised EUR 1.5M seed for its mail-in repair platform for shoes, bags and clothing.

Budapest's Turbine raised EUR 21.4M Series B for AI-driven simulation predicting cancer drug response for pharma.

Spanish Valeria raised EUR 1.7M seed for AI-native payroll/workforce ops tooling.

Czech ValkaAI raised a EUR 12M pre-seed — one of CEE's largest — for real-time interactive AI avatar video technology.

Munich's VoiceLine raised EUR 10M Series A for voice AI that captures field-sales visits into CRM automatically.

Cologne-based Foodforecast forecasts demand for bread, pastries and other ultra-fresh items several times a day and automates in-store baking and ordering, reporting up to 30% less waste. It raised an €8M Series A in February 2026 and is used in several thousand European stores.

“Foodforecast was commercially launched in 2022 and is currently used in several thousand stores across Europe. Customers include food service, bakery and retail operators such as SSP Germany and Eat Happy.”

Futurail (Strasbourg + Munich) raised a €7.5M seed with EIT Urban Mobility participating to retrofit autonomous driving onto regional trains. Train-driver shortage and regional-line economics are the demand driver.

NOWOS (NL) took an EIT Urban Mobility follow-on in 2025 for its battery repair, second-life and recycling-preparation services for e-bike/LEV and mobility fleets. Repair-over-replace battery economics now has institutional backing.

OTIV (Ghent, BE) received EIT Urban Mobility follow-on backing in 2025 for AI-based driver assistance and remote/autonomous operation for trams and light rail. Urban-rail collision avoidance and driver scarcity drive procurement.

PANTOhealth (DE) received EIT Urban Mobility follow-on backing in 2025 for IoT/digital-twin monitoring of pantograph-catenary interaction, predicting overhead-line failures. Rail-infrastructure predictive maintenance is consolidating as a category.

Vienna-based Flinn sells AI software that automates the regulatory and quality work the EU Medical Device Regulation imposes on manufacturers (post-market surveillance, literature evaluation, regulatory monitoring, complaint handling), and raised a EUR 17M Series A in February 2026. Czech device makers carry the same MDR paperwork, today handled with generic eQMS tools and consultancies.

“Vienna-based scale-up Flinn has completed a Series A funding round of €17 million ($20 million USD).”

Adaptavate (UK) won an EIC grant for Breathaboard, a carbon-negative drop-in replacement for gypsum plasterboard. Bio-based building materials keep winning public capital as embodied-carbon rules tighten.

Assemblio GmbH (DE) won EIC blended finance for AI-driven, agent-based assembly planning and optimisation — automating the manual engineering work of planning how products get assembled. Evidence that assembly-planning labor is a funded pain across EU manufacturing.

Callyope (FR) won EIC blended finance for a speech foundation model for transdiagnostic mental-health assessment and relapse mitigation. Passive voice biomarkers address the psychiatry capacity shortage.

Co-reactive GmbH (DE) won EIC blended finance for converting CO2 into high-performance cementitious materials. Cement decarbonization is one of the largest funded gaps in construction supply chains.

Coramaze (DE) won EIC blended finance for Tripair, a simple, safe tricuspid valve repair implant designed to reach patients beyond existing therapies. Structural-heart intervention remains a heavily funded EU medtech theme.

Corbotics (NL) won EIC blended finance for the world's first autonomous cardiac ultrasound (bed-based echo). Directly attacks the sonographer shortage that bottlenecks cardiac diagnostics across Europe.

Cortirio (UK) won an EIC grant for Vascascope, portable real-time perfusion imaging for faster pre-hospital stroke diagnosis. Time-to-thrombolysis is the single biggest lever in stroke outcomes; imaging currently waits for the hospital CT.

CrannMed (IE) won EIC blended finance for SakuraBead, a pain-agnostic embolization treatment starting with knee osteoarthritis. Non-surgical OA pain treatment targets a massive aging-population burden.

Munich-based DeepDrive won EIC blended finance for the most compact, efficient and lowest-cost electric drive unit to accelerate EV adoption. Public capital doubling down on EU EV-component cost reduction.

DePoly (CH) won EIC blended finance for R-PURE, recycling and purification of ethylene/terephthalic derivatives — chemical recycling of PET waste streams that mechanical recycling cannot handle. Signals sustained public-capital push behind EU plastics circularity mandates.

Golana Computing (FR) won EIC blended finance for transforming predictive maintenance with bio-inspired magnetic neurons and GenAI. Continued heavy funding of the unplanned-downtime problem in EU industry.

Grapheal (FR) won EIC blended finance for PFAST — fast, field-deployable graphene sensors for ultra-trace real-time PFAS detection in water. Rides the EU drinking-water directive PFAS limits taking effect 2026.

HeyCharge (DE) won an EIC grant for SecureCharge FLEX — smart EV charging that works offline (no cellular/internet), unlocking basements and garages where connectivity blocks charger deployment. Attacks the residential-garage charging gap.

Inreda Diabetic (NL) won EIC blended finance for DIABEACON, a bi-hormonal (insulin+glucagon) closed-loop glucose pump providing fully automated diabetes management for high-risk patients. Full closed-loop autonomy is the funded frontier beyond current hybrid pumps.

Spanish IPREMOM won EIC blended finance for the MaiRa Preeclampsia Test — smart prevention/triage for maternal-fetal care. Second maternal-health diagnostic in the same cutoff (with Pregnolia), marking a funded cluster.

Mecaware (FR) won EIC blended finance for ORBIS, optimised recovery of battery materials through an innovative sulfate-free process. EU battery-materials circularity keeps stacking public capital ahead of the Battery Regulation recycled-content quotas.

Mitiga Solutions (ES) won EIC blended finance for SOLARA — climate intelligence to maximise renewable power potential and optimise grid load factors. Weather/climate risk analytics for energy is drawing repeated public capital.

Neurinnov (FR) won EIC blended finance for ARCHE, a neurostimulation device selectively stimulating motor nerves to restore hand grasp in tetraplegic patients. Assistive neurotech keeps attracting EU public risk capital.

Oxolife (ES) won EIC blended finance for OXO-ART, a first-in-class oral non-hormonal tablet to enhance live birth in assisted reproduction. Fertility-treatment efficacy is a growing, willingness-to-pay-heavy market.

Partisia Applications ApS (DK) won EIC blended finance for a next-generation confidential computing platform (multi-party computation) for data privacy and transparency. Evidence of funded demand for privacy-preserving data collaboration in regulated sectors.

Swiss Pregnolia AG won EIC blended finance for a precision device measuring cervical tissue stiffness to predict and prevent preterm birth. Preterm birth affects ~10% of pregnancies and current risk assessment is subjective.

RAYDIAX GmbH (DE) won EIC blended finance for RAYDIAX TACT, next-generation imaging purpose-built for interventional oncology procedures. Signals funded demand for interventional-suite imaging beyond general-purpose CT.

Sensmet Oy (FI) won EIC blended finance for a portable optical emission spectrometer enabling real-time multi-element analysis of liquids at the point of need (mining, battery, water treatment). Replaces days-long lab turnaround for industrial water chemistry.

Whispp (NL) won EIC blended finance for real-time on-device assistive AI that converts whispered or impaired speech into a natural voice. Assistive voice tech for people with voice disorders/stutter gets public-capital validation.

Brno-based Zaitra s.r.o. won EIC Accelerator blended finance (Oct 2025 cutoff, announced 17 Feb 2026) for SKAISEN — onboard-AI satellite data processing delivering actionable Earth-observation insights to end users in near real time. One of only two Czech EIC Accelerator wins in the 2025 cutoffs.

Automating dexterous tasks in warehouses with AI-powered robots

“Automating dexterous tasks in warehouses with AI-powered robots”

Luxembourg's R3 Robotics (formerly Circu Li-ion) secured €20M — €14M Series A plus €6M EU grants — to scale AI/vision-driven robotic disassembly of EV battery packs, e-motors and power electronics at its Karlsruhe and Luxembourg plants. Component-harvesting beats shredding on recovered value.

Bratislava deep-tech using plasma pulses to drill ultra-deep geothermal wells; legacy company (f. 2008) but freshly funded at scale.

Prague/SF startup making video an interactive medium via lifelike AI personas, starting with multilingual AI sports/esports commentators reacting live to gameplay. ~45 staff incl. Meta/DeepMind researchers.

Hungarian ABZ raised EUR 7M for heavy-lift autonomous drones for agricultural spraying and industrial use.

Belgian Aikido raised EUR 51M Series B for its all-in-one code and cloud security platform aimed at non-enterprise dev teams.