UK‑based water‑tech startup Metal Morph secured £700k in pre‑seed funding, co‑led by Sustainable Ventures and Green Angel Ventures, to scale its infrastructure‑as‑a‑service solution that recovers aluminium and iron‑based chemicals from municipal and industrial wastewater, aiming to create a circular supply chain and reduce costs and emissions.
Amanda AI, backed by Spiltan, announced a new funding round of 10 million SEK, a change in leadership with Charlotte Berg becoming CEO, significant cost cuts, a move to cheaper offices, and its first steps into the UK market.
In 2017 a group of young visionaries in Berlin, led by Polish entrepreneur Konrad Maruszewski, launched Cringle with the idea that sending money should be as simple as sending a text message. The venture later failed to attract investment, unlike the successful BLIK service.
London‑based data centre builder Nscale will supply $1 million of compute resources to AI research groups at Oxford, UCL and Imperial, underscoring growing demand for sovereign compute capacity in European research institutions
Estel Technologies, a Bulgarian AI‑native sales platform for tech staffing firms, raised €270,000 in a pre‑seed round led by Vitosha Ventures, with participation from angel investor Kerem Basak, to enhance its demand verification and lead‑scoring technology and expand across Europe and into the US.
Mądra Babcia, a fast‑growing media startup targeting the 50+ audience, secured a million‑zloty injection from investor Szymon Negacz. Despite the funding, the company now struggles with mounting debts, unpaid invoices and internal tension, putting its future in doubt.
Spanish biotech startup Entomonorte, which develops R&D and consulting services for converting bio‑waste into high‑value raw materials, secured a €100,000 grant from the public agency SRP via the Asturias Startup Fund to expand its operations in the region.
Goparity, an impact‑investment platform, has completed the integration of Bolsa Social into its marketplace, concentrating all new activity on goparity.com. In the first three months after the integration the platform has mobilised over €300,000, bringing together more than 72,000 registered users and positioning itself as one of the most significant impact‑investment ecosystems in Southern Europe.
Polish defence‑tech startup PERUN has secured fourteen new grants from the National Centre for Research and Development as part of the state’s New Technologies programme, aimed at advancing security and defence solutions.
CleanOs, Fraido and Prometheus Plasma Systems were chosen as the three finalists of the Lake Como Venture Lab, an Italian deep‑tech incubator. Each startup will receive a €150,000 grant and a year of support at the Politecnico di Milano’s Lecco campus, aiming to accelerate their mechatronics and medtech innovations.