Spanish travel‑management startup BizAway secured €10 million from BBVA to fund the purchase of Dutch firm Uniglobe Alliance Travel and to boost its footprint in the Benelux market, marking a significant step in its European growth strategy.
Spanish biotech CONNECTA Therapeutics raised €3.1 million, led by Clave Capital, to fund the next phase of clinical trials for a novel treatment targeting Fragile X syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder with no approved therapies.
Spanish travel‑tech startup Perk raised a $300 million private credit facility in the first half of 2026, providing capital for product and AI development as well as international expansion, notably launching its expense‑management solution in the US.
Italian food‑safety startup Biorsaf secured €5.2 million in a funding round led by P101 SGR and bought Bologna‑based RegTech platform Cooki. The combined entity will offer the first end‑to‑end AI‑driven solution for food compliance, traceability, labeling and cost analysis across Italy’s food, workplace and water safety sectors, aiming to grow from 40 to 120 employees and expand its user base beyond 10,000 active users.
Belgian deep‑tech spin‑out IVEX, founded in 2018 from KU Leuven, secured a €5 million Series A to scale its AI‑driven platform that automates vehicle safety‑testing data analysis, aiming to become the operating system for automotive safety testing and to grow its market reach beyond Europe.
Emad Zand, former Northvolt executive, raised more than half a billion kronor for his new venture Tavion, funding the development of three battery storage parks in Poland.
Paris‑based AI startup Arlequin AI secured €28 million in Series A funding, co‑led by redalpine and OTB Ventures, to develop proprietary topological neural network models and scale its platform for security, fraud detection and other high‑impact use cases across Europe and beyond.
French medtech startup Implicity secured a €35 million financing round led by IRIS and Five Arrows to enhance its platform that aggregates cardiac device data and enables predictive cardiology, supporting its growth in the U.S. market.
Bynario, a European cybersecurity startup, announced a €2.1 million raise aimed at tackling the growing issue of AI sloppiness in security products. The funding will be used to enhance its AI‑driven security platform and accelerate product development.
Samsung backed French generative‑AI startup Mistral AI in a Series B round to secure access to cutting‑edge language‑model technology and strengthen its AI portfolio for consumer devices and enterprise solutions.