At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock presented its latest flagship products, including experimental designs and a pool display, highlighting its push into more household tasks.
Swiss preventive health startup Aeon raised a seed extension, bringing its total seed funding to over €12 million, and used the round to acquire German blood‑diagnostics platform Aware Health, expanding its AI‑driven whole‑body imaging and biomarker offering across Europe.
Hyrox, founded in 2017 in Hamburg and now a global phenomenon with more than 1.4 million participants, is changing hands as the owners of luxury brand Louis Vuitton (LVMH) move to acquire the company.
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.
German LegalTech startup Grubel secured a €3 million financing round.
Paris‑based AI startup Arlequin AI secured €28 million in Series A funding, co‑led by redalpine and OTB Ventures, to develop proprietary topological neural network models and scale its platform for security, fraud detection and other high‑impact use cases across Europe and beyond.
German startup FRYTE Mobility raised €3.5 million in a Seed round co‑led by 4impact capital and Rethink Ventures to build a software coordination layer for electric truck charging, aiming to connect logistics platforms with charge point operators across Europe.
Pilzling, a European startup, has filed for insolvency, marking its exit from the market.
Berlin‑based startup Limetax secured €36 million (including a €6 million pre‑seed round led by Motive Partners) to expand its AI‑driven platform that integrates with DATEV and automates bookkeeping, payroll and financial statements for German tax and accounting firms. The funding will be used to consolidate the market, scale the platform across more partner firms and further develop its agentic AI technology.
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.