Anthropic is opening a Milan office as Europe becomes its fastest-growing region, with revenue up more than 9x year-on-year. At the same time, Gary Lineker launched a new fund to back creator-led media businesses, while D-CRBN and Lucis led the funding rounds in climate and preventive healthcare.
Let’s dive in.
💰 Funding rounds
Antwerp-based D-CRBN raised €17.5m Series A to recycle industrial CO₂ emissions into circular carbon molecules using electrified plasma technology. Read more here.
Paris-based Lucis raised €17.1m Series A led by Singular to scale its AI-powered preventive health platform across Europe. Read more here.
Tampere-based Quanscient raised €10m Series A led by 55 North and B&C Group to scale its cloud-based multiphysics simulation platform for the AI era. Read more here.
Helsinki-based Avrea emerged from stealth with €4m pre-Seed to build an AI-native CI/CD platform for software development teams. Read more here.
Paris-based Certo raised $4m Seed to scale its AI-powered compliance platform for beauty and consumer goods companies. Read more here.
Belgian-based ReVision Implant secured €4m to advance its brain-computer interface technology designed to help restore vision in people with severe blindness. Read more here.
French-founded Otomato raised $2m from Improbable to build a real-time intelligence layer for DeFi users across multiple crypto platforms. Read more here.
London-based Voxmind raised £546k to build voice authentication and deepfake detection technology that runs on-device without GPUs or cloud connectivity. Read more here.
Vilnius-based Backoffice raised €150k to build an operations platform for restaurants, cafes and hotels across Europe. Read more here.
Swedish Tonada emerged from stealth to build an AI-generated music platform for retail and hospitality brands. Read more here.
💡 Other news
Anthropic is opening a Milan office as EMEA becomes its fastest-growing region, with European revenue up more than 9x year-on-year. Read more here.
📣 Fund news
Gary Lineker’s London-based media and production company Goalhanger has launched Goalhanger Ventures to back creator-led media businesses across video, podcasts and social platforms. Read more here.
🤝 M&A
Berlin-based Bosque Foods got acquired by Hamburg-based InfiniteRoots as InfiniteRoots looks to scale industrial mycelium production. Read more here.
🎧 Podcasts
The Scaling Europe Podcast featured Ashley Paulus from Checkout. com on the company’s rapid growth across the UK and Europe. Listen here.
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