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.
Italian insurtech Mama Insurance raised a new round of funding led by Fastweb+Vodafone, with support from Founders Factory and Vento, increasing its total capital to more than €2 million. The financing will be used to scale its AI‑native digital insurance platform beyond home insurance into other personal lines and SME products.
Swiss‑Italian startup Ferm Labs, founded in 2025 and based in Zug with production in Bolzano, raised €3 million led by CDP Venture Capital to scale its deep‑tech bioprocessing platform that creates clean‑label flavour ingredients. The capital will be used to boost manufacturing capacity, hire sales and R&D staff, and support European expansion.
Two years after its creation, French mobility startup Stairling bought the MySam platform (founded in 2016) and renamed it Staircab. The deal gives Stairling access to about 200,000 corporate clients and 18,000 drivers across 200‑350 cities, allowing the company to provide a white‑label VTC service to hotels, airports, tourism offices and other organisations. The acquisition complements Stairling’s cooperative model for drivers and supports its ambition to become a leading fintech player in the gig‑economy. A new funding round is being finalised to secure an ACPR licence for handling driver payments directly.
Snelix, an Italian biotech startup that turns snail mucus into bio‑active peptides for cosmeceutical and nutraceutical applications, raised more than €1 million through three public grant schemes, minimizing equity dilution while advancing its product pipeline.
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.
Swedish spatial‑biology startup Cubase Bio teamed up with Austrian organoid company HeartBeat.bio, receiving about €1 million in Eurostars funding to create the FACTS‑3D project, which combines Cubase Bio’s 3D spatial transcriptomics with HeartBeat.bio’s cardiac organoids for high‑throughput drug discovery targeting myocardial fibrosis.
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.
Corvenia was founded earlier this year to give corporate leadership an overview of large groups. The company has now secured new funding to accelerate its growth.
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.