This week, more than 70 funding rounds took place in European entrepreneurship ecosystem. Here is the notable funding rounds between April 28 – May 2:
Investments:
3 Germany, 3 France, 1 Spain, 1 United Kingdom (UK)
Sectors Received Investments:
2 Financial Services
1 Biotechnology
1 Artificial Intelligence
1 Health Care
1 Autonomous Vehicles
1 Textiles & Recycling
1 Emergency Medicine
News of the Week
Navro, a payment curation platform that offers tools for businesses to gain real-time insights into payments and track money movements, has raised $41 million in Series B funding round from Jump Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Motive Partners and Unusual Ventures.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Jump Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Motive Partners, Unusual Ventures
Co-founders: Aran Brown
Headquarters: United Kingdom (UK)
🎯 Fintech startup Pliant raised $40 million.
Pliant, a fintech startup that provides modular, API-first B2B payment solutions to help businesses, has raised $40 million in Series B funding rounnd from Illuminate Financial, Speedinvest, PayPal Ventures and Motive Ventures.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Illuminate Financial, Speedinvest, PayPal Ventures, Motive Ventures
Co-founders: Malte Rau
Headquarters: Germany
🎯 Medical diagnostics startup deepull raised €50 million.
deepull, a medical diagnostics company developing culture-free diagnostic solutions for sepsis and acute infections, has raised €50 million in Series C funding round, led by Columbus Venture Partners, Panakès Partners, and Mérieux Equity Partners. Asabys Partners, Innvierte-CDTI, We Venture Capital, UI Investissement, Axis-ICO, Aliath Bioventures and Kurma Partners also participated in the investment round.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Columbus Venture Partners, Panakès Partners, and Mérieux Equity Partners, Asabys Partners, Innvierte-CDTI, We Venture Capital, UI Investissement, Axis-ICO, Aliath Bioventures, Kurma Partners
Co-founders: Jordi Carrera
Headquarters: Spain
🎯 AI inference chips provider VSORA raised $46 million.
VSORA, an IP provider for chipmakers designing the latest generations of digital communications systems, has raised $46 million from Otium Capital, Omnes Capital, European Innovation Council and Adélie Capital.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Otium Capital, Omnes Capital, European Innovation Council, Adélie Capital
Co-founders: Khaled Maalej
Headquarters: France
🎯 Cancer surgery startup SafeHeal raised €35 million.
SafeHeal, which develops Colovac, an innovative solution for the protection of digestive anastomosis, designed to reduce anastomotic complications, has raised €35 million in Series C equity funding round from Solar Eclipse, Gideon Strategic Partners, M&L Healthcare and Sofinnova Partners.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Solar Eclipse, Gideon Strategic Partners, M&L Healthcare, Sofinnova Partners
Co-founders: Chris Richardson
Headquarters: France
🎯 Defense startup ARX Robotics raised €31 million.
ARX Robotics, a defense startup that develops autonomous unmanned ground systems for military and civilian applications, has raised €31 million in Series A funding round, led by HV Capital. Omnes Capital, NATO Innovation Fund and Project A also participated in the investment round.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: HV Capital, Omnes Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, Project A
Co-founders: Marc Wietfeld, Maximilian Wied, Stefan Roebel
Headquarters: Germany
🎯 Textile recycling technology developer Eeden raised €18 million.
Eeden, which converts end-of-life textiles into resources for new textile production, has raised €18 million in Series A funding round from Forbion, Henkel Ventures, NRW.Venture, TechVision Fund (TVF), High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and D11Z. Ventures.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Forbion, Henkel Ventures, NRW.Venture, TechVision Fund (TVF), High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), D11Z. Ventures.
Co-founders: Steffen Gerlach
Headquarters: Germany
🎯 Deeptech startup Chipiron raised $17 million.
Chipiron, a company that designs, manufactures, and markets a new generation of portable, inexpensive and powerful MRI machines, has raised $17 million in Series A funding round from Blast, EIC Fund, iXcore, France 2030, the EIC Accelerator and Bpifrance.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investors: Blast, EIC Fund, iXcore, France 2030, the EIC Accelerator, Bpifrance
Co-founders: Evan Kervella
Headquarters: France
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