Good news from around Europe
xWatts closes £1.6M to expand AI-powered energy management solutions London-based xWatts, an intelligent energy management platform focused on decarbonising complex real estate assets, has closed a £1.6 million seed funding round. The investment was led by Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, with participation from Cambridge Angels, Parkwalk, and R42. xWatts develops AI-
Decoding ESOPs: A beginner’s guide to employee ownership Fast-growing companies are increasingly moving away from traditional compensation models. As the global competition for talent intensifies, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) have transitioned from a niche incentive to a foundational pillar of corporate strategy. By allocating a portion of the company
Belgium’s Move To Happiness secures €1 million to scale AI platform linking wellbeing and organisational performance Antwerp-based HRTech company Move To Happiness has completed a €1 million funding round to accelerate the development of its Human Performance platform – an AI-driven infrastructure that helps organisations structurally link human functioning, such
Paris’ DentalMonitoring raises €84 million to expand AI-powered orthodontic monitoring globally French HealthTech startup DentalMonitoring, an AI-powered software-as-a-medical-device for remote orthodontic monitoring, has secured a combined €84 million ($100 million) investment to fuel international expansion and product innovation. The round was sourced from new investors including Lazard Elaia Capital and
With OpenAI backing, Allonic raises €6 million for robotic body manufacturing platform Budapest-based robotics startup Allonic has raised €6 million ($7.2 million) in pre-Seed funding to industrialise a new way of producing complex, dexterous robotic bodies through its manufacturing platform. The round was led by Visionaries Club, with participation from
Irish BioTech startup Aerska raises €32 million to “enable our loved ones to live longer” Dublin’s Aerska, a BioTech company using brain shuttle technology to develop RNA medicines for CNS diseases, today announced the close of a €32 million ($39 million) Series A financing to improve delivery of RNAi interference
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OpenAI, Hugging Face angels back robotics startup Allonic in Hungary’s biggest ever pre-seed Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/openai-hugging-face-hungary-biggest-ever-pre-seed