London‑based HelmGuard, a startup that uses specialised AI agents to automate risk and compliance assessments for regulated industries, closed a $7.3 million seed round co‑led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline. The funding will support US expansion and product development.
Olenbee, a fintech founded by former Sodexo executives, raised €7 million to revamp employee benefits in France.
Portuguese digital‑health startup Hope Care raised €6 million in a Series A round led by Iberis Capital to expand its regulated remote patient monitoring platform across Europe, adding new offices in Germany and Romania and scaling programmes in Portugal, France and Switzerland.
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.
Mediobanca becomes a shareholder of Polish quantum‑fintech startup FinQbit, valuing the company at €20 million and launching a cross‑border collaboration with London’s Founders Factory, while adding former PKO Bank Polski CEO Zbigniew Jagiełło to its advisory board.
Munich‑based AI startup Atira announced it has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Accel, together with a previously undisclosed $2.5 million pre‑seed round, bringing total new funding to $17.5 million. The capital will be used to scale its AI orchestration platform that automates complex industrial sales engineering processes and to expand internationally.
UK‑based MedTech startup Strolll raised a total of €5 million from Innovate UK (loan and grant) and a new equity round led by IW Capital, aiming to expand its AR‑based neurorehabilitation platform and bring new bedside solutions to market.
Polish startup Creotech Instruments secured a near‑€14 million contract with ESA to deliver the SAWA satellite, which will monitor space weather. The agreement covers the full mission lifecycle, marking a major milestone for the company in the European space sector.
Swedish AI startup Unbounded, backed by Nordnet’s main shareholder and several tech billionaires, launched its product and was valued at nearly 250 million SEK (about $22.5 million) earlier this year.
Swedish investment fund Industrifonden, the biggest shareholder of digital reading platform Nextory, said it was very satisfied with the company’s sale, which is estimated to have been valued at around 150 million SEK.