Growth
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VoltR turns used lithium cells back into production
French battery company VoltR has secured €22 million to expand remanufacturing capacity sixfold, betting that usable lithium cells can return to production before eventually reaching material recycling.
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Sensible takes cell-made mRNA towards industrial production
Sensible Biotechnologies has secured a $47 million financing package to automate its cell-based mRNA platform and develop clinical-grade manufacturing capacity, combining venture investment with Slovak and EU public funding.
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Nettle uses AI to stretch a shrinking risk engineering workforce
Nettle has raised $4.8 million to expand an AI workspace for commercial insurance loss control as inspection backlogs grow and experienced risk engineers become harder to replace.
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Graduate Ventures turns Dutch universities into one deal network
Graduate Ventures has launched a €125 million second seed fund connecting eight Dutch universities and three university medical centres with capital and a network of experienced entrepreneurs supporting research based startups.
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Brussels builds bridges between Europe’s startup islands
The European Commission has opened a €40 million pilot for two cross-border networks of startup and scaleup hubs, connecting university ecosystems with laboratories, investors, corporates and expertise that founders cannot always access locally.
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WhiteLab tests AI drug designs where biology can reject them
WhiteLab Genomics has raised $26 million to expand experimental validation of AI designed genomic medicines, putting more capital into the laboratory and in vivo work required to prove delivery systems and genetic payloads outside computational models.
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Procuros tackles the messy data beneath autonomous trade
Procuros has raised €20 million to expand infrastructure that translates and validates transactions between retailers, suppliers and ERP systems, addressing the inconsistent trade data that limits reliable automation across company boundaries.
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Spiko wants treasury software to move the money itself
Spiko has raised $90 million to expand tokenised cash funds and programmable treasury infrastructure, building APIs and rules that can move excess corporate cash while keeping operating liquidity available.
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Hadrian puts more capital behind continuous offensive testing
Hadrian has raised $40 million to expand a security platform that continuously discovers internet facing assets and uses AI agents to test which weaknesses can actually be exploited before attackers find them.
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Vates funds an open source route out of lock-in
Vates has raised €30 million after a decade of profitable, self-funded growth, promising to keep XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra open source while investing in engineering, international expansion and the partner ecosystem around its virtualisation platform.
