A former Red Bull Formula One engineer’s startup, Munich-based Microagi, just landed Germany’s biggest seed round ever, $55m to teach factory robots using footage of people doing chores. Paris-based Mistral had an even bigger day, closing a €3bn round that puts it on track to become Europe’s most valuable AI company.
Let’s dive in.
💰 Funding rounds
Renens-based SWISSto12 raised $70m Series C for multi-orbit satellite communications. Read more here.
Munich-based Microagi raised $55m in Germany’s largest ever seed round to scale its physical AI platform capturing factory data to train humanoid robots for manufacturing tasks. Read more here.
Paris-based Syntetica raised €30m Series A to scale its novel nylon recycling process. Read more here.
London-based Applied Computing raised $20m Series A to expand its foundation AI models built specifically for energy operations, targeting refineries and energy infrastructure globally. Read more here.
London-based Meticulous raised $15m Series A to help developers ship AI-generated code faster by automatically generating and maintaining comprehensive end-to-end tests that evolve alongside products. Read more here.
Espoo-based Hyperion Robotics raised €7.4m growth funding to scale production of robotic microfactories building Europe’s bridges, substations and water systems with physical AI. Read more here.
Cambridge-based Silicon Microgravity raised €7.08m to scale its MEMS inertial and gravity sensors for GPS-free navigation and sensing technology. Read more here.
Oakland-based Juno Bio raised $3.8m to scale its precision vaginal microbiome platform and open its first CLIA-certified sequencing lab dedicated to women’s health. Read more here.
London-based Tyred raised £2.5m to build its AI-powered bike ownership platform that predicts maintenance before failures occur, combining IoT sensors embedded in bikes with proprietary AI models. Read more here.
Barcelona-based Arq raised $1.4m pre-Seed to develop quantum repeaters for quantum internet networking hardware enabling reliable long-distance quantum communication. Read more here.
🌱 Startup news
Paris-based Mistral is in talks to raise €3bn Series D at a €20bn valuation to scale its open AI models and infrastructure, more than doubling its valuation from €11.7bn in September 2025, with the company on track to surpass €1bn ARR this year. Read more here.
🤝 M&A
Berlin-based Omio agreed to acquire Rail Europe, a 90-year-old ticketing platform, consolidating ground-transport inventory and creating a platform selling 22M+ train tickets annually across 70+ countries and 28,000+ operators. Read more here.
🎧 Podcasts
EU Startups Podcast featured Tim Schumacher, General Partner at World Fund, on climate tech investing and scaling SaaS acquisitions across Europe. Listen here.
Scaling Europe Podcast featured Francesco Sciortino, Co-Founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion, on raising €411m at a €2.4bn valuation to build Europe’s commercial fusion energy reactor technology. Listen here.
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