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Scaling Europe Daily - 26.5.

Daily · Substack · 26 May 2026

Scaling Europe Daily - 26.5.

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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