Funded

Syntetica (FR) won EIC blended finance for INFINYLON, closing the loop on nylon with low-emission chemical recycling. Textile/technical-polymer circularity is the next funded recycling frontier after PET.

Vivici BV (NL) won EIC blended finance to scale precision fermentation of dairy proteins (Vivitein). Animal-free dairy protein is moving from lab to industrial platform with public backing.

sunbay.io (Warsaw) raised €550k pre-seed (Kogito Ventures + s20, 11 Jun 2026) for AI receivables/dunning automation — plugs into the accounting system and chases overdue invoices via email/SMS/voice with escalation logic. Czech SMBs suffer long payment delays with only manual inkaso agencies and Fakturoid's basic reminders; Digitoo covers payables, nobody does AI receivables.

Prague tool auto-adjusting prices, campaigns and product visibility across marketplaces every 30-60 min for sellers like Philips and Lindt. Marketplace back-office automation for e-shops.

UK's Adfin raised ~EUR 16.6M Series A for its invoice payment/collection rail sold via accountants.

Munich's allO raised ~EUR 12.9M Series A for its all-in-one restaurant system with AI agents for ops.

Lithuanian Backoffice raised EUR 150k seed consolidating back-office functions for hospitality SMBs.

Latvian BirdyChat raised EUR 1.7M seed for a work messenger separating external business communication from personal apps.

German ClearOps raised EUR 8.6M Series A for its platform connecting OEMs, dealers and machines for service/parts after-sales.

German ComplyDo raised ~EUR 1.2M pre-seed for compliance-management software for regulated industries.

UK's Crimson raised ~EUR 2.3M seed for AI-powered litigation case analysis.

Slovenian DDD Invoices raised EUR 1.31M seed for a single API handling tax-compliant e-invoicing across jurisdictions.

Romanian DesignVerse raised ~EUR 5.1M seed for AI generating production-ready enterprise apps.

Spanish Didit raised ~EUR 6.4M seed for free-tier identity verification and fraud prevention APIs.

Czech FaceUp raised EUR 4.2M Series A for its whistleblowing and ethics-reporting platform with AI triage.

UK's Geordie raised ~EUR 27.6M Series A for a platform securing and governing enterprise AI agent deployments.

UK's Greenpixie raised ~EUR 5.5M seed for cloud-emissions measurement feeding CSRD/ESG reporting.

UK's Happl raised ~EUR 10.1M Series A for AI-native employee benefits administration.

Lithuanian-British Kopa raised EUR 2M seed for AI connecting stores, marketing tools and ops for e-commerce.

Munich's LawX raised EUR 7.5M seed for an AI OS for law firms and notaries.

French Nelson raised EUR 3M seed for software orchestrating corporate EV fleets and charging.

Copenhagen's Perplant raised EUR 1M for AI-guided precision farming reducing input use.

Swedish Pit raised ~EUR 14.7M seed for AI software automating internal company processes.

French Pivot raised ~EUR 36.8M Series B for its AI-native procurement/spend management OS.

Portuguese Pollen raised EUR 3.2M seed for a universal battery-swap network for two-wheelers.

Danish Reel raised EUR 15M Series A to make corporate renewable PPAs predictable and accessible.

Estonian Skeleton raised EUR 33M ahead of a planned 2027 listing for high-power supercapacitor storage.

London's Slamcore raised ~EUR 12.9M for visual AI location intelligence for industrial vehicles and robots.

UK's Tequipy raised EUR 3M seed for global device provisioning/retrieval automation for remote employers.

Polish-German Viktor raised ~EUR 69M Series A for an AI coworker operating across enterprise tools.

Prague's Zerops raised EUR 1.7M seed for its PaaS keeping development and production environments identical.

Czech deep-tech advancing a wristband that senses tendon movement for touchless input/diagnostics.

Brno/Prague SaaS generating personalized interactive videos for marketing and sales teams, heading to the US.

Danish company founded 1995 with around 500 specialists in 21 offices across Denmark, Norway and Sweden, running three businesses — consulting, turnkey plants and software — whose Proces+ service tunes aeration and process control at treatment plants from plant data, with Tønder Spildevand named as a customer. Ramboll completed its acquisition on 11 May 2026.

“Envidan brings around 500 specialists”

Polish-founded, London-based ElevenLabs closed a ~$550M Series D for its AI voice platform.

Agent harnesses for asset managers

“Agent harnesses for asset managers”

CaseLens (StartupYard Batch 15; founded by two ex-lawyers) analyzes huge multi-format evidence files in complex disputes — roughly 80% of litigation work is reconstructing chronology before strategy, which it automates. Sells per-case to arbitration and litigation teams.

Slovak AdSpawn raised EUR 500k pre-seed for software auto-generating game ads from gameplay footage.

Polish BliskoMed raised EUR 707k seed for professional home doctor appointments and on-demand care.

Czech Edmund raised EUR 2.5M seed for an AI platform diagnosing production-line failures from machine data.

Croatian Fasal Bio raised EUR 7M for renewable wood-based composite materials replacing conventional plastics.

Warsaw's GRAI raised ~EUR 8.3M seed for AI tools that remix and transform music in real time.

Ineffable Intelligence raised an unusually large ~EUR 1B seed, emblematic of capital concentrating early into AI-native bets.

UK's Mindgard raised ~EUR 27.6M Series A for automated red-teaming/security of AI models and agents.

Polish AI startup Pathway raised ~EUR 27.6M at a ~$500M valuation for its live data processing/AI framework.

Bulgarian Quillon raised ~EUR 1.38M pre-seed for AI drafting audit-grade technical accounting documentation.

Czech Tapaya raised EUR 1M pre-seed for a software layer enabling terminal-free in-person payments.

Helsinki's Verda (ex-DataCrunch) raised EUR 100M to scale European AI cloud capacity on renewable power.

Munich's XO Life raised EUR 4M (Fil Rouge Capital) to scale its AI-driven patient-pharma engagement platform.

German Dehaze raised EUR 3.2M seed for a foundational AI model improving early detection of chronic disease.

Italian A-Cube raised EUR 4M Series A for APIs handling e-invoicing/e-reporting compliance across countries.

UK's Asterix raised ~EUR 2.4M seed for staffing/recruitment tooling for NHS primary care.

Dutch Avendar raised EUR 2.2M positioning as a sovereign European alternative to Palantir for government analytics.

UK's Beauhurst raised ~EUR 8.1M to expand its private-company data platform into Europe.

UK's Corvera raised ~EUR 3.9M seed for AI supply-chain risk and inventory optimization.

French Davis raised ~EUR 5.1M for AI automating real-estate development design and feasibility work.

German ENVIOTECH raised EUR 1M pre-seed for smart municipal street-lighting retrofits.

Spanish Hirevoice raised EUR 900k for voice-AI screening of frontline/blue-collar candidates.

French LegalPlace raised EUR 70M (acquiring Legalstart) to consolidate SME legal/company-admin services.

Berlin's LiveEO raised EUR 28M for satellite-based vegetation/risk monitoring for rail and grid operators.

Belgian Maurice & Nora raised EUR 1M for its home-care services platform.

German Mobility Signage raised EUR 1.8M for software unifying passenger information IT for transit operators.

French Nabu raised EUR 3M Series A for APIs digitizing customs declarations.

Italian profitize raised EUR 1.4M for AI-driven P&L planning for restaurants/hotels.

Italian Smartness raised EUR 47M Series B for its hospitality revenue/booking suite for independent hotels.

Polish Biotts was selected for the first EIC Pre-Accelerator round (widening countries), with up to €500k grant for its transdermal drug-delivery carrier enabling needle-free delivery of large molecules. CEE pharma deep tech advancing on public capital.

Estonian Myceen was selected for the EIC Pre-Accelerator (up to €500k) to scale mycelium-grown building/interior materials as substitutes for plastics and foams. Bio-based construction materials from a CEE-adjacent market.

Bratislava platform combining AI lead generation with a marketplace of 1,200+ salespeople so firms scale sales without local hires. Founded by three women.

Czech platform digitizing transport procurement and logistics workflows between shippers and carriers. OCCUPIES A REGISTER NICHE: p-0010 trucking-back-office claims no CZ player — Ringil (plus seen signal Cargofy) is evidence to the contrary.

Copenhagen-based Spektr raised a $20M Series A (April 2026, Seedcamp follow-on) for automation-first client onboarding and continuous KYC/AML monitoring that replaces periodic reviews. Compliance ops keeps absorbing growth capital as AML rules tighten.

Prague platform to monitor and govern deployed AI agents and RPA bots — 'deploying AI is easy, governing it is hell'. AI-governance niche growing with enterprise adoption.

German &Charge raised EUR 5M for its EV-charging loyalty/access platform.

Swiss BLP Digital raised ~EUR 46M for AI that reads orders/invoices and automates ERP data entry for mid-size firms.

Italian Cato raised EUR 1.6M pre-seed for AI managing public-tender discovery and bid preparation.

Belfast's Cloudsmith raised ~EUR 66M Series C for its artifact management and software supply-chain security platform.

Swiss Daphne raised EUR 16.3M to commercialize methane abatement systems.

French Decade raised EUR 22M to electrify logistics depots at scale (charging infra + energy management).

Edinburgh's Exergy3 raised ~EUR 11.6M for modular thermal storage decarbonizing industrial heat.

Swiss KEMARO raised ~EUR 4.6M to expand its autonomous dry-cleaning robots for factories and warehouses.

Berlin's Nox raised EUR 2M pre-seed to build a private European night-train network with hotel-style cabins.

Dutch Smart Robotics raised EUR 10M Series A to expand AI-driven robotic picking cells.

Finnish TheStorage raised EUR 3.6M for industrial-scale thermal energy storage.

German VisioLab raised ~EUR 10.1M Series A for image-recognition self-checkout in cafeterias.

German VREY raised EUR 3.3M for shared rooftop solar in multi-tenant buildings.

Bratislava AI moderating hate speech on social profiles of brands, media and politicians in real time.

Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees

“Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees”

Galway-headquartered Octostar sells national security, law-enforcement and financial institutions an investigation platform combining link analysis, communications and document intelligence and GenAI agents, able to run entirely air-gapped with no cloud or external data exposure. Its seed extension in April 2026 brought total funding to EUR 6.1M, with Milan's The Techshop joining.

“In Q1 2026 alone, Octostar reported completing three new deployments within EU national law enforcement and judicial bodies, with over 15 expected by the end of the year.”

Autonomous research agents for R&D and education

“Autonomous research agents for R&D and education”

The coding agent that can access and reason across any machine.

“The coding agent that can access and reason across any machine.”

Berlin-based ecoworks renovates occupied apartment blocks serially: it scans and plans buildings digitally, then mounts factory-made timber-frame facade and roof modules with windows and insulation built in, cutting weeks of on-site work. It received €23M in March 2026 for Germany's largest cooperative serial renovation, after a €40M Series A in 2023.

“a company focusing on the cost-efficient decarbonisation of Europe’s residential building stock, has received €23 million to deliver Germany’s largest cooperative serial renovation to date.”

Munich's AIRMO raised EUR 5M seed for satellite-based methane/GHG emissions monitoring.

Swedish Candela raised EUR 30M to scale production of electric hydrofoil passenger vessels.

London's Captur raised EUR 5.1M seed for on-device AI verifying photos (deliveries, returns, damage) in real time.

Berlin's cargo.one raised EUR 17.2M to expand from air-cargo booking into an AI-native OS for freight forwarders.

Prague's Choice raised EUR 6M Series A for its restaurant platform integrating QR ordering, reservations and loyalty.

Spanish Delfos raised EUR 3M seed for AI predicting failures and optimizing renewable energy assets.

German eternal.ag raised EUR 8M seed for AI-powered greenhouse harvesting robots.

UK's Flexzo raised EUR 10.3M Series A for AI matching of healthcare staff to shifts.

UK's Foresight Works raised EUR 21.5M Series A for AI software de-risking delivery of energy/infrastructure projects.

Barcelona's Galtea raised EUR 2.7M seed for testing/evaluation of enterprise AI deployments.