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.
Spanish hydrogen infrastructure startup HVR Energy raised €20 million in a Series A round led by Sandton to speed up the build‑out of its nationwide hydrogen refueling stations.
Italian food‑safety startup Biorsaf secured €5.2 million in a funding round led by P101 SGR and bought Bologna‑based RegTech platform Cooki. The combined entity will offer the first end‑to‑end AI‑driven solution for food compliance, traceability, labeling and cost analysis across Italy’s food, workplace and water safety sectors, aiming to grow from 40 to 120 employees and expand its user base beyond 10,000 active users.
Belgian deep‑tech spin‑out IVEX, founded in 2018 from KU Leuven, secured a €5 million Series A to scale its AI‑driven platform that automates vehicle safety‑testing data analysis, aiming to become the operating system for automotive safety testing and to grow its market reach beyond Europe.
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.
Olenbee, a fintech founded by former Sodexo executives, raised €7 million to revamp employee benefits in France.
Bright Pixel Capital, the technology investment arm of the Sonae group, announced its investment in Huskeys as part of a $27 million Series A round led by Blackstone. The funding will help the cybersecurity startup expand its solutions for protecting increasingly complex digital infrastructures.
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.
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.
Spanish biotech startup MOA Foodtech raised €3.3 million in a funding round led by Swanlaab Innvierte Agri Food Tech and the EIC Fund, with participation from CDTI-Innvierte. The capital will be used to move from product validation to commercial execution, supporting the launch of its MOA Q5 plant‑based meat substitute and broader market rollout.