Eindhoven‑based OWOW Venture Studio raised €2.65 million to fund and accelerate B2B SaaS and AI startups in traditional sectors such as manufacturing and construction, planning to create at least three new ventures each year and offering extensive technical and market support.
German AI security startup Kontext secured $4 million, led by 42CAP with participation from a16z CSX and HTGF, to grow its runtime security solution that monitors and controls AI agents in real time.
Spanish startup Aloja secured €1.2 million from Archipelago Next, Lanai Ventures and Decelera Ventures to speed up the development and market rollout of its artificial‑intelligence‑driven revenue‑management and dynamic‑pricing platform for tourism businesses.
Italian startup Clastix secured €2.9 million in seed capital, led by CDP Venture Capital, to enhance its open‑source and commercial solutions for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale, targeting AI and enterprise workloads across Europe and North America.
Hungarian startup DiffuseDrive, which creates synthetic training data for physical AI systems, announced a $3.5 million seed round in 2025. The funding will help the company scale its generative AI technology for robotics and other physical AI applications across sectors such as defence, aerospace, mining and autonomous vehicles.
StandardX, a UK deep‑tech startup founded in 2025, secured £10 million in seed capital led by Vsquared Ventures to build a novel accelerator platform that can produce a range of rare isotopes for cancer diagnostics, targeted therapies and fusion energy, aiming to create a resilient European supply chain for these critical materials.
Berlin‑based AI startup mika secured €6 million in a seed round led by Smedvig Ventures to expand its AI‑native financial operating system that automates bookkeeping, VAT returns and tax filings for German SMEs.
Swedish AI startup Spiich announced the closing of a seed round, aiming to use the capital to scale its team and capture the European market by automating salespeople’s routine tasks.
Belgian startup CIOC Energy, founded in September 2023, provides a unified platform for monitoring, controlling and trading energy from solar panels and batteries. The company secured a €3 million minority‑investment from CleverNett to grow its team and expand market access across several European countries.
Italian startup Tiledesk, founded in 2022, raised €1.1 million in a seed round backed by Zest, Vertis and OpenT. The funding will be used to speed up the development of its open‑source platform that lets companies create AI agents and automate business processes through natural‑language descriptions, targeting sectors from telecom to public administration.