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Intropy, the AI-native platform automating inventory, led by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh, has announced that it has raised $11 million in seed financing. The seed round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Capital and early investors General Catalyst and firstminute capital. Applying AI to Spare Parts Operations. Founded in 2024 by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh, Intropy is developing AI-powered tools to help spare parts distributors, manufacture

inforcer, a unified Microsoft security and AI management platform built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), led by Jamie Daum and the team, has announced a $50 million Series C funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners. Rising Demand Drives Rapid Growth. Inforcer has experienced rapid growth over the past two years as managed service providers (MSPs) increasingly seek scalable tools to manage Microsoft 365 security, compliance, and AI services. The comp

Ahead Health, the Zurich-based preventive healthcare company led by Nick Lenten, Sven Jaeschke, Dennis Hermann, Vinsensius Vega N., and the team, is launching in Germany and the Netherlands, its first markets beyond Switzerland, backed by a $10 million investment led by venture capital firms 3VC and RTP Global. Building a Preventive Healthcare Platform Across Europe. Ahead Health is developing a preventive healthcare platform designed to provide a more proactive approach to

Qureight, developing enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials, led by Dr Muhunthan Thillai and the team, has raised $20 million in a Series B financing, led by Molten Ventures. Existing investors Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, XTX Ventures, Guinness Ventures, Meltwind, and Ascension also participated in the round. The new funding will support the expansion of the company’s 3D deep learning imaging platform and accelerate commercial growth across new thera

Xeltis, addressing major life-threatening diseases, backed by Nobel-winning science, led by Eliane Schutte and the team, has raised an additional €20.5M of new funding from new and existing shareholders. Participating investors included the European Innovation Council, Invest-NL, VI Partners, EQT Life Sciences, DaVita and other current shareholders, alongside Horizon 3 Healthcare, a new investor who led the round. The additional financing, alongside the €50 million secured in

Spur Intelligence, transforming obfuscation into evidence so you can stop threats hiding behind VPNs, proxies, and other anonymization infrastructure, led by Kevin Hickey, Ethan Smith, Riley Kilmer, and the team, has raised a $200 million investment from Insight Partners. The investment highlights Insight’s confidence in the growing IP Intelligence market and Spur’s position as a leading platform in the space. The funding will support expansion across the business, helping ac

Aampere, a Munich-based e-mobility startup, led by Florian Reister, and the team, has raised €4.2 million to expand its fully digital resale platform for used electric cars across Europe. The round is led by Estonian VC Trind Ventures. Joining the round is Vend Marketplaces ASA, the Nordic family of marketplaces behind FINN.no, Blocket and Bilbasen, which joins as a minority investor. Also newly on board is G-FUND, an investor focused on major consumer trends. The existing in

TidalSense, the respiratory intelligence company, led by Dr Ameera Patel, Dr Julian Carter, and the team, has announced a $19 million funding round to accelerate commercialisation in the UK and support globalisation of the technology, including to the USA. The round includes investment from new investor Cross-Border Impact Ventures (a North American health tech impact fund), and returning investors BGF (the UK's most active growth capital investor), Airstream Capital, and For

Cascade, the AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms led by Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital, shuckerVC, G2C Ventures, and Snowball VC. In construction, some of the biggest opportunities are often identified long before a formal request for proposals (RFP) is issued. By the time projects become publicly available, key decisions m

Fora, the platform powering a new generation of travel entrepreneurs, led by Henley Vazquez, Evan Frank, and Jake Peters, has announced it has closed a $60 million Series D at a $1 billion post-money valuation. The round is led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, and Heartcore Capital. New investors PLUS Capital, alongside Amy Schumer and other members of its artist and athlete collective;

Callie Care, an AgeTech startup building a proactive phone-first voice AI that calls seniors daily, helping them fight isolation, manage everyday needs, and stay connected to their families and care teams, led by Yury Palevich, Igor Gurovich, and Michil Androsov, has received non-dilutive funding from InterSystems Ventures and closed a $500K pre-seed round backed by angel investors. Callie Care was built around a simple insight: aging adults need better support, but existing

Neko Health, building a completely new healthcare experience led by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, has announced the completion of its $700 million Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Atomico, General Catalyst and Lakestar, alongside new backers including Liberty City Ventures, Positive Sum, and BDT & MSD. As part of the round, David Ofer of O.G. Venture Partners will join t

Gridcog, accelerating the global deployment of flexible energy assets, led by Fabian Le Gay Brereton, Pete Tickler, Genna Boyle, and Matt Ryan, has raised a US$10m (£7m) Series A investment round led by ABB, with participation from Axpo, DNV Ventures and VERBUND X Ventures. AlbionVC and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, both existing shareholders, continue to back Gridcog through this round. As renewable energy becomes the dominant source of new power capacity worldwide,

Oxylabs, a high-quality proxy service to gather data at scale, led by Vytautas Savickas and Juras Juršėnas, has raised a $130 million investment from a leading private equity firm, Warburg Pincus. The investment brings the value of the Oxylabs group to $3.6 billion, making it the second unicorn to emerge from the Tesonet accelerator and one of the highest-valued companies in Lithuania's history. Oxylabs has reached $350 million in ARR as its web data platform supports more t

Alchemab Therapeutics, pioneering the next generation of antibody therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases, led by Jane Osbourn, OBE, FMedSci, PhD, and the team, has extended its Series A financing with a £25 million (USD $34m) investment from the British Business Bank – the Bank’s largest investment in a life sciences company to date. The funding will enable the company to build its clinical pipeline and grow its proprietary unique antibody dataset to more than a billion sequ

Axle Energy, connecting EVs, batteries, and heat pumps to energy markets through a single, unified API, led by Karl Bach and Archy de Berker, has raised a $25m Series A led by Energize Capital, with continued participation from existing investors Accel, Picus Capital, and Eka. Axle has spent the past three years building a platform that enables distributed energy assets such as batteries, EVs, and heat pumps to participate in electricity markets. The company has delivered hun

Polysense, enabling food lines to catch quality drift before it becomes waste, led by Jarne Bogaert, Yarne De Munck, and Lucas Van Dijck, has closed an oversubscribed seed round of $10.7 million led by Felix Capital, with participation from Fortino Ventures and angel investors including Syndicate One and 100IN. The Belgian technology company helps food manufacturers reduce waste by automating in-line quality control with real-time imaging and synthetic data models. Its platfo

Bohr Energie, a French scale-up specializing in the aggregation, optimization, and management of distributed renewable and storage assets, announced a €10 million Series A funding round led by Suma Capital through its SC Net Zero Ventures fund, dedicated to European scale-ups developing technologies for energy transition and decarbonization, with participation from Irdi Capital Investissement, GSO Capital, and Crédit Agricole. Existing investors Varsity, Founders Future, and

Alqem, a German-Portuguese deep-tech start-up revolutionizing the discovery of high-impact materials through advanced AI and intelligent synthesis, led by Hanh Nguyen, Tiago Cerqueira, and Milan Allan, has raised €8 million in pre-seed funding co-led by UVC Partners and Union Square Ventures. Founded by the team behind Alexandria, one of the world's leading open materials databases, alqem is building an AI-powered materials discovery platform on two proprietary assets: a vas

CurifyLabs, powering a new generation of personalized therapies, led by Charlotta Topelius, Niklas Sandler, and the team, has announced the closing of a $14 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Sandwater and HealthCap, with participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd.) and existing investors, including Lifeline Ventures. US customers and employees also participated in the round. The funding will support CurifyLabs' expansion in the U.S., streng