Oura confidentially filed for an IPO after reaching an estimated $11bn valuation last year, giving Europe another major consumer tech company heading towards the public markets. In the rounds, REPS raised $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity, while Grundium acquired Danish Visiopharm to build an AI precision pathology platform.
Let’s dive in.
💰 Funding rounds
Austria-based REPS raised $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity through its road-based energy harvesting system. Read more here.
Polish-British Tequipy raised over €3m to automate global device logistics for IT teams. Read more here.
Danish Perplant raised €1m to equip tractors with AI-powered sensors that can reduce herbicide use by up to 90% and fertiliser use by 30%. Read more here.
Vilnius-based Backoffice raised €150k to build an operations platform for European hospitality businesses. Read more here.
💡 Other news
Finnish Oura has confidentially filed for an IPO after reaching an estimated $11bn valuation last year. Read more here.
🤝 M&A
Tampere-based Grundium acquired Danish Visiopharm to build an end-to-end AI precision pathology platform combining digital pathology imaging and AI-driven diagnostics. Read more here.
🎧 Podcasts
The EU-Startups Podcast featured Tyler Edwards, Founder & CEO at Overmind, on AI agents, AI security and building devtools that learn from production data. Listen here.
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