Good news from around Europe
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.
Finnish healthtech Gosta Labs raises €7.5M to scale AI operating system for oncology and complex medical specialties Gosta Labs, a Helsinki-based healthtech company founded by the ex-Kaiku Health founders, has closed a €7.5 million seed round to scale its AI operating system for complex medical specialties. The round was led