Good news from around Europe
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
Ukrainian startup M-Fly has raised $1.4M in investments for the development of defense technologies Ukrainian defense tech startup M-Fly, part of the Brave1 cluster, has received approximately $1.4 million in investments for further development of technologies for the front lines. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
$1.6 M to combat drones: Ukrainian-American startup Thermopylae attracts investment to develop interceptors Thermopylae, a startup founded by a 21-year-old Ukrainian engineer, announced that it had successfully raised $1.6 million in a pre-seed round. Launched in June, the company specializes in developing low-cost interceptor drones to counter mass air threats.