At Techsylvania 2026, Super Technologies founder Sacha Dragic recounted the bootstrapped origins of Superbet, its early €500k seed from personal networks, the path to profitability in 2012 and the landmark €1.3 billion refinancing by Blackstone and HPS Investment that pushed the company into unicorn status.
Polish mobile free‑to‑play game studio Funventure secured a $1 million bridge round to fund its own production platform and boost user‑acquisition efforts.
SAPIOM announced a $35 million funding round to build an infrastructure layer that will act as a cost controller for AI agents, helping companies understand and manage the expenses generated by autonomous AI operations.
Dutch startup Vangrid secured a $9 million seed round from investors including HashKey, Borderless, Crypto.com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs and Mapleblock. The funding will help the company scale its decentralised spatial intelligence network that turns smartphones into a distributed data‑capture grid for high‑fidelity mapping needed by Physical AI applications.
Inevitable AI Group, an AI‑native venture studio founded by Nimrod Lehavi and Ofer Bar‑Or, announced a €5.2 million pre‑seed round led by Aleph. The studio, which has already launched five AI‑driven software businesses since its January launch, will use the capital to build and scale dozens more AI‑native SaaS companies across proven software markets.
Funnel, a Swedish SaaS startup founded over a decade ago, announced that it has finally turned cash‑flow positive, marking a major milestone after years of operating at a loss of roughly SEK 1.7 billion.
In a EU‑Startups podcast, PrintyMed founder and CEO Jekaterina Romanova discussed the Latvian biotech startup’s biomimetic spider‑silk technology, its €2 million in EU grant funding, and plans to expand into Saudi Arabia while focusing on organ‑on‑a‑chip membranes for drug testing.
Gofrendly, a Swedish matchmaking service for women looking to make new friends, avoided insolvency after its founders intervened and have now obtained fresh capital to keep the app running.
The loan‑brokerage startup Sambla, owned by private‑equity firm Nordic Capital, posted a loss exceeding 500 million SEK according to its new annual report, with the CEO Hans Skruvfors indicating a specific factor behind the loss and preparing for the next phase of the business.
Spanish drone technology startup FuVeX secured €3 million in new funding, backed by investors such as SODENA, SEGO Venture and Izertis Ventures, to scale its dual‑use long‑range drones for civil and defence applications across Europe and beyond.