London‑based climate‑tech startup Isometric raised €43 million in a Series A round, bringing its total funding to €64 million. The round, led by Intercontinental Exchange and joined by several new investors, will fund the scaling of its AI‑powered platform that certifies industrial carbon‑related claims for major clients such as Microsoft and Boeing.
London‑based AI hiring startup Jack & Jill closed a €34.68 million Series A round led by Air Street Capital, bringing its total funding to €52.9 million. The round will fund U.S. expansion of its dual‑agent platform that matches job seekers and employers through conversational AI.
AcademyAI, a UK‑based startup that provides an AI‑skills assessment and training platform for employees, raised £1.65 million in an oversubscribed pre‑seed round led by Nexus Family Office, with participation from Panthera Family Office.
Maestro, a Romanian pizza chain founded by Denisa and Nick Tache, lost about £1.2 million in a failed London expansion and later realized that high foot traffic at Bucharest’s Unirii square did not guarantee commercial success. The experience taught them to adapt to local cultures and to recognize when to cut losses.
Open Cosmos, a European satellite company, raised €300 million to boost its satellite production and roll out its connectivity and Earth‑observation platforms, planning to hire more staff and broaden its operations across several EU countries.
A 13‑year‑old English teenager, Ryan, created the social enterprise We Can CIC to turn discarded aluminum cans into cash for charity, collecting roughly 20,000 cans weekly and donating about £5,000 annually to local food banks and other aid organisations.
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.
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.
London‑based CloudNC, a precision machining software startup, secured $20 million led by Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, LM Ventures and Lockheed Martin’s VC arm. The funding will accelerate the rollout of its AI‑powered CAM Assist platform, expand market reach, and fund new AI‑driven products and compliance efforts.
London‑based deeptech startup Anemo Labs secured £700k in a pre‑seed round led by Zinc and SFC Capital, with support from Innovate UK, to advance its AI‑driven electronic nose technology for non‑invasive disease screening via volatile organic compounds in urine.