ElevenLabs, a Polish‑founded AI voice‑generation startup, secured a $500 million Series D financing led by Sequoia Capital, pushing its valuation to $11 billion. The funding round also saw Poland become an equity investor. The company’s growth is highlighted as a showcase of Central and Eastern Europe’s tech potential.
Polish startup TesterArmy secured 4.5 million PLN in a pre‑seed round led by Y Combinator and supported by several angels, including Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch, to build AI‑powered testing agents for software applications.
Lithuanian legaltech startup EnforceShield secured €1.7 million in seed funding led by Vendep Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK VC, to scale its AI‑powered SaaS platform that automates IP enforcement for online marketplaces and brands.
In a pilot project, Dawn Technology and Media Campus NL created the open‑source verification service Verifieermij.nl, which checks C2PA provenance data embedded in digital images. The VPRO is the first Dutch media outlet to integrate this digital signature into its workflow, and the tool’s code has been released on GitHub for other organisations to test and adapt.
Training tomorrow’s lawyers without AI would be nonsense, so the French National Bar Council has allied with the startup Jimini AI to bring AI tools into legal education.
Flexion Robotics, a Zurich‑based AI robotics startup founded by former Nvidia engineers, secured $57 million in funding and is expanding into the US market. The company’s name was changed from “Checkpoint” to “Flexion Robotics” after advice from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Swedish AI startup Freya, which develops an AI‑driven protection system for drones, announced a new funding round of 6 million euros.
Synclair Vision, after refusing to adapt to venture capital demands for civilian applications and focusing solely on defense, has raised 5 million euros in its first external funding round to expand into Ukraine.
Robutler, a Silicon Valley‑based startup founded by Ukrainian entrepreneur Volodymyr Seliuchenko, secured a $400K seed round from US venture firm ZAS Ventures to develop its AI‑driven, collaborative software platform described as the “YouTube of software.”
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.