Good news from around Europe
Sonair raises $6M to roll out safe 3D ultrasonic sensors for robots Oslo-based Sonair, a sensing technology company, has raised $6 million from a group of existing and new international investors, including Copenhagen-based Scale Capital and Norway’s state-backed Investinor, with continued support from RunwayFBU (part of the Aker group), SINTEF,
UK at risk of becoming AI “users, not makers”, says Hoberman, as Nvidia and Microsoft pledge billions One of the leading voices in the UK tech scene today hailed a flurry of US AI investment commitments to the UK, calling it a “much-needed step change” in UK and US relations but
Europe is leading the way in decentralised AI Decentralised AI is no longer just the preserve of Web3 dreamers. It has become one of Europe’s most significant bets in shaping a future that balances technological progress with privacy, sovereignty and democratic accountability. Rather than entrusting centralised servers owned by US
From sake to spaghetti bolognese: Nosh.bio debuts Koji-based hybrid mince in a Berlin cafeteria Berlin-based startup Nosh.bio is debuting its Koji-based hybrid mince in partnership with Speisemanufaktur Adlershof, marking the product’s first public showcase. This week, the hybrid mince is featured in the cafeteria’s menu in a variety of familiar
EvoluteIQ raises $53M led by Baird Capital to scale its agentic AI platform EvoluteIQ, a native AI platform, secured $53 million in minority growth capital from Baird Capital to accelerate global expansion and strengthen its leadership in enterprise-grade agentic AI automation. Baird Capital’s Daina Spedding and Mark Donnelly will join
The future of legal work isn’t legal work For decades, legal teams have been under-resourced and over-relied upon. Stuck reviewing the same clauses, answering the same questions, and redlining the same contracts again and again. It worked, until it didn’t. Businesses move too fast now. Risk environments shift too quickly.
Spain’s Kreios Space secures €8 million to bring satellites closer to Earth and strengthen European strategic autonomy Kreios Space, a Spanish SpaceTech startup headquartered in Vigo, has secured €8 million in what marks the largest European investment to date in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) satellite technology. The Seed round
Suma Capital’s €210 million ClimateTech fund turns up the heat on industrial decarbonisation and tackles the “scale-up gap” Barcelona-based investment firm Suma Capital has closed its ClimateTech-focused fund, SC Net Zero Ventures I, securing €210 million to back scale-ups advancing industrial decarbonisation across Europe. This final amount exceeds the fund’s
Swedish AI platform EvoluteIQ raises €44 million round for the global expansion of its Agentic AI EvoluteIQ, Stockholm’s native AI platform, today announced the completion of a €44 million minority growth capital round to accelerate its global expansion and cement its leadership in enterprise-grade Agentic AI led automation space. The
Workday acquires Swedish startup Sana in a €928 million AI deal Workday, Inc., the American enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stockholm’s Sana, an AI company building the next generation of enterprise knowledge tools, for approximately €928 million. According to