Hamburg-based AquaNab raised funding to fight sea lice, a parasite that costs salmon farmers around $4bn a year, using alpaca-derived antibodies that fish eat through their feed. Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace also picked up €86.6m to push its four-passenger electric air taxi toward certification in 2029, building on demo flights that drew over 140,000 visitors at the Farnborough Airshow.
Let’s dive in.
💰 Funding rounds
Bristol-based Vertical Aerospace raised €86.6m in financing commitments to advance its electric air taxi aircraft toward certification and commercialisation. The aircraft will carry four passengers with zero operating emissions. Read more here.
Stockholm-based Quartr raised €15.6m to expand its AI data platform for public company research, providing institutional finance and AI systems with structured investor relations data from earnings calls, filings and presentations. Read more here.
Copenhagen-based Palette raised €3m pre-seed to build an operating system that lets teams use any AI model while maintaining control over their company context and data. Read more here.
Zug-based Zerolook raised €1.6m pre-seed to launch its flight search API that predicts itineraries and pricing instead of computing them, helping airlines and travel agencies manage high search volumes from AI agents without excessive costs. Read more here.
Hamburg-based AquaNab raised funding from to advance its nanoantibody platform for treating diseases in aquaculture, focusing on sea lice in salmon farming with feed-administered precision immunotherapies. Read more here.
London-based Model ML received equity investment to expand its AI automation platform for financial services, automating workflows across research, due diligence, financial analysis and document creation. Read more here.
🤝 M&A
Reval got acquired by Metaview to scale AI recruiting automation across sourcing screening and candidate booking. Read more here.
🎧 Podcasts
Scaling Europe Podcast featured Shahriar Tajbakhsh, CTO and co-founder of Metaview, on Metaview acquiring Reval to scale AI recruiting. Listen here.
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