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Scaling Europe Daily - 19.8.

Daily · Substack · 19 Aug 2026

Scaling Europe Daily - 19.8.

Stockholm-based Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, opened its first US clinic in New York with a 25,000-person waitlist for its $499 full-body scans, and plans to expand to Miami, San Francisco and Washington DC next. Revolut founder Nik Storonsky’s QuantumLight also closed a €432m fund that uses an in-house AI system to screen and pick investments with little human input.

Let’s dive in.


💰 Funding rounds

  • Munich-based Oceanloop secured €38.5m to scale its land-based aquaculture technology. Read more here.

  • Linköping-based SweGaN raised €12.1m Series B to scale gallium nitride on silicon carbide epitaxial wafer production. Read more here.

  • Vilnius-based LITILIT secured €8m to take femtosecond lasers into mass manufacturing. Read more here.

  • Computomics secured €6.3m Series B to scale climate-smart plant breeding. Read more here.

💡 Other news

  • Stockholm-based Neko Health opens first US clinic in New York with 25k waitlist, marking its major US expansion with plans for Miami, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. Read more here.

📣 Fund news

  • Revolut founder Nik Storonsky’s QuantumLight raises €432m for AI-driven venture strategy. Read more here.

🎧 Podcasts

  • Scaling Europe Podcast featured Thomas Bigagli, EMEA Partner at Plug and Play Ventures, on why Europe needs investors willing to move faster and write bigger checks to keep its best startups from leaving. Listen here.


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