Marco Bianchi 
Italian cybersecurity startup Beelzebub raised €3 million in a seed round led by United Ventures, bringing its total funding to €3.3 million. The AI‑native platform protects organisations against AI‑driven attacks and will be used to expand its research team, open offices in Rome and San Francisco, and accelerate European customer acquisition.
Spanish deep‑tech startup Onalabs raised over €9.3 million, led by the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), to accelerate the rollout of its non‑invasive, sweat‑based health monitoring platform across Europe.
Spanish AI scale‑up Multiverse Computing is seeking a €500 million Series C round that would bring its total funding above €700 million and value the company at €2 billion. The round is co‑led by Forgepoint Capital, Bullhound Capital and BNP Paribas’s Solar Impulse Venture Fund and includes a mix of European, North‑American and Middle‑Eastern investors. Funds will be used to boost model‑compression technology, R&D and global expansion.
Babylon Facilities, a spin‑off of Rome‑based Babylon Cloud, raised €12 million in a three‑tranche equity round and accompanying debt instruments to build a 3 MW+ data centre powered entirely by solar energy, aiming to generate more electricity than it consumes.
Portuguese startup Pollen raised €3.2 million in a seed round led by Pale Blue Dot and Mustard Seed Maze to expand its battery‑swapping network for electric motorcycles across Europe.
BeGreat used the Giffoni Film Festival as a stage to launch its “Growing Our Sports Talents” roadshow, gathering athletes, educators, media professionals and tech partners to discuss how an ecosystem of opportunities, mentorship and technology can nurture the next generation of sports champions in Italy.
CleanOs, Fraido and Prometheus Plasma Systems were chosen as the three finalists of the Lake Como Venture Lab, an Italian deep‑tech incubator. Each startup will receive a €150,000 grant and a year of support at the Politecnico di Milano’s Lecco campus, aiming to accelerate their mechatronics and medtech innovations.
Glampings.com, a European online platform for luxury camping experiences, announced the acquisition of Conservio.com, a South African‑based booking platform for nature lodges, safari camps and eco‑retreats. The deal allows Glampings.com to expand into a new segment and geographic region while keeping existing Conservio bookings unchanged.
Italian AI deployment startup Datapizza raised €10 million in a Series A round led by Nextalia Ventures to expand its team, accelerate product development and make its AI solutions accessible to larger and mid‑size companies in Italy.
Spanish energy startup Catalyxx announced that it will build a €120 million commercial‑scale bio‑based chemicals plant in Sines, Portugal. The project, part of a broader European push for circular bio‑based industries, is funded by private capital and public sources, including a €20 million grant from the Circular Bio‑based Europe Joint Undertaking. The plant will produce drop‑in, carbon‑negative chemicals such as butanol, hexanol and octanol, aiming to replace fossil‑derived counterparts and reduce CO₂ emissions by about 105,000 tonnes per year. Construction is slated to start in Q4 2026.