Copenhagen‑based startup Palette raised €3 million in a pre‑seed round led by Ugly Duckling Ventures to build a model‑neutral operating system that lets AI‑native teams integrate and switch between different AI models while preserving company context.
Transfer Galaxy, a Swedish fintech startup, changed its strategy to a strict profitability focus, resulting in the distribution of nearly the entire profit from the previous year – roughly 25 million SEK – to shareholders, with rumours that the major owners may be planning an exit. Co‑founder and CEO Yosef Mohamed highlighted how special this achievement feels personally.
Ellos saw 64 million SEK of its shares traded after its recent IPO, including a 44 million SEK support purchase by Danske Bank, which can no longer buy additional shares.
Oslo‑based startup Visoid, founded in 2023, raised €2.1 million led by Skyfall Ventures to expand its AI‑driven visualisation platform for architects, aiming to grow its team and accelerate product development.
Finnish deep‑tech startup SeeTrue Technologies secured €2.2 million, led by ZEISS Ventures, to bring its ultra‑low‑power eye‑tracking technology to smart glasses, medical optics and industrial markets, and will use the capital to scale its team and international sales.
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.
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.
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.
Italian agritech startup Aflabox raised €1.35 million in a seed round led by Farming Future and supported by Eatable Adventures through the FoodSeed program. The funding will be used to finalize device certification, expand commercial operations in Kenya, Nigeria and Italy, set up a micro‑factory, and improve its AI‑driven field‑intelligence platform for rapid mycotoxin detection.
Paris‑based startup Shiplog secured roughly $1 million in a pre‑seed round from investors including Kima Ventures and Project Europe to build Ada, an AI agent that provides real‑time, hyper‑personalised customer intelligence for B2B SaaS firms.