Good news from around Europe
StirlingX extends seed round to $11M UK-based StirlingX, a drone operations and data intelligence company, has closed its extended seed round at a total of $11 million. The SAFE investment, which follows the initial seed funding secured earlier in the year, was led by the RCM Private Markets Fund managed
Tyten raises £750K to bring AI-powered automation to the global facilities management industry Tyten (formerly Fixo), an AI company for the next generation of facilities management, has secured £750,000 in an investment round co-led by Fuel Ventures and Concrete Ventures, with follow-on participation from Antler and several angel investors. Using artificial intelligence, Tyten aims to
The biggest European spacetech deals in H1 2025 Europe’s new wave of spacetech companies is building a full-stack ecosystem in orbit and on the ground. Young ventures across Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Switzerland, the Baltics and beyond are developing everything from small and microlauncher rockets, reusable spaceplanes and re-entry
Ranketta receives €1M to improve e-commerce brand performance in AI search Czech-based Ranketta, an AI visibility platform that helps brands understand and improve their presence in AI search and AI shopping results, has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Lighthouse Ventures with participation from Gi21
Future Energy Ventures secures €205M to power the next wave of energy innovation Future Energy Ventures (FEV), a global active venture capital advisor for digital and asset-light energy technologies focused on accelerating the global energy transition, today announced the closing of Future Energy Ventures Fund II with a volume of
Spanish startup Uxia lands €1 million to develop synthetic-user technology for product teams Uxia, a Barcelona-based B2B SaaS startup automating user testing with AI-generated synthetic users, has secured nearly €1 million in its first investment round, laying the groundwork for a potential Seed round within the next 12-24 months. The
UK startup Tyten lands €856k investment to modernise facilities-management processes Tyten (formerly Fixo), a London-based AI company innovating the facilities management sector, has secured €856k (£750k) in investment in order to modernise the functioning of electrical, plumbing, structural and mechanical systems. The investment was co-led by Fuel Ventures and Concrete
Madrid’s Anyformat closes €3.3 million round to scale its agentic OCR and data-sovereignty-focused document tools Anyformat, a Spanish GenAI platform specialising in extracting and structuring complex data from any document, has closed a Seed round of €3.3 million to expand the engineering and product team, driving its roadmap in advanced extraction
Ranketta, built by a 21-year-old Czech AI researcher, lands €1 million to measure brand presence in LLMs Brno-based Ranketta, an AI visibility platform helping brands understand and improve their presence in AI search and AI Shopping results, has raised €1 million in pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Lighthouse
EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 146: Zuzanna Stamirowska Co-founder and CEO of Pathway This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO and Co-founder of Pathway, the company behind the world’s first post-transformer AI model. Pathway is developing an architecture designed to adapt and think more like