A 13‑year‑old English teenager, Ryan, created the social enterprise We Can CIC to turn discarded aluminum cans into cash for charity, collecting roughly 20,000 cans weekly and donating about £5,000 annually to local food banks and other aid organisations.
Dutch AgTech startup Gravity Gardens raised €2.6 million in a Seed round led by VP Capital, with participation from Brightlands Venture Partners, Graduate Ventures and private investors, to commercialise its dry, chemical‑free seed activation process and build industrial‑scale equipment for broader crop applications.
Munich‑based startup Furo, formerly Lumera Energy, raised €3.44 million in a funding round led by US investor TQ Ventures to scale its AI‑driven battery storage optimisation platform across Europe and expand its team.
Spanish hydrogen infrastructure startup HVR Energy raised €20 million in a Series A round led by Sandton to speed up the build‑out of its nationwide hydrogen refueling stations.
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.
Swedish climate data startup Normative, which has raised over SEK 600 million, is being bought by French Greenly for SEK 700 million.
Swedish startup Rebaba raised $4.6 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Sistafund to scale its repurposed‑EV‑battery storage systems, expand its Stockholm production hub and roll out additional hubs across Europe.
The BioInnovation Institute (BII) announced an additional €7.8 million grant, split as €1.3 million per company, for six Danish spin‑outs working on antibody cancer therapies, AI‑powered ultrasound, inflammatory disease treatments, biological pest control, vaccine‑based immunotherapies, and waste‑to‑fuel technology. The funding builds on a prior €500 k grant each, bringing total support to €1.8 million per company and includes continued access to BII’s Copenhagen innovation platform.
The Polish Development Fund granted a 106.5 million PLN loan to renewable‑energy startup PST to fund a 70 MW solar farm in north‑west Poland, supporting the country’s clean‑energy transition.
American Steven Prast, who spent many years as a senior executive under Elon Musk at SpaceX and Tesla, has taken on the role of operational chief at Swedish battery startup Holyvolt.