Growth
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Atira raises $15m to automate industrial bidding
Atira has raised $15m to automate complex manufacturing sales engineering workflows.
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Laser defence startup moves towards production
INLEAP Photonics has raised €20m to industrialise laser-based counter drone systems.
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3i deal deepens Nordic data centre capital rush
3i Infrastructure has completed a €263m investment in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter.
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Optical switching draws $125m AI infrastructure bet
Spanish photonics company iPronics has raised $125m for AI networking infrastructure.
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Pistachio turns failed startup IP into compliance play
Norwegian cybersecurity company Pistachio has bought Hugin.io’s technology from its bankruptcy estate, using the intellectual property to build compliance software for smaller businesses facing expanding European security obligations.
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Wonderful raises $550m for enterprise AI push
Amsterdam-based Wonderful has raised $550 million at a $5 billion valuation as it expands from individual AI agents into a broader enterprise platform spanning workflows, applications, integrations, and governance.
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UK scale-up fund draws M&G and Schroders
Britain’s scale-up fund is moving from policy into manager selection.
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SCP swaps entertainment for autonomous defence
SCP Standard Capital Partners is buying two young autonomous and counter-drone technology companies while selling its entertainment holdings in an abrupt listed-company pivot towards defence technology.
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Oceanloop takes aquaculture towards industrial scale
Oceanloop has secured up to €38.5m to expand software-controlled land-based aquaculture, beginning with a 250-tonne Giant Grouper farm near Kiel.
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Sabotage probe tests defence tech resilience
A suspected arson attack at a building used by Estonia’s Milrem Robotics has put physical resilience alongside production capacity in Europe’s expanding defence technology industry.
