CircuitHub raises $28M to scale automated electronics manufacturing across the US and Europe

CircuitHub, a company focused on streamlining electronics production, has raised $28 million to accelerate hardware development and manufacturing workflows. The funding was led by Plural and will acce…

Meet the 3D printing startup that spent five years not selling anything
Meet the 3D printing startup that spent five years not selling anything

Most people think of additive manufacturing — better known as 3D printing — as small plastic prototypes or desktop machines producing objects you can hold in your hand. Since emerging in the 1980s, th…

Europe’s second chance: The rise of a new battery ecosystem
Europe’s second chance: The rise of a new battery ecosystem

Europe’s battery ambitions took a major hit with the collapse of Northvolt, once seen as the continent’s best chance to rival Chinese competitors and build a homegrown supply chain. But since then, w…

All3 raises $25M to boost construction productivity with robotics and AI

All3, acompany developing a robotic platform for construction, has raised $25 millionin a seed funding round led by RTP Global, with significant participation fromSuperSeed and additional backing from…

The quantum bottleneck isn’t chips — it’s lasers, and Vexlum wants to fix it

For Vexlum CEO and CTO Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, in Finland, there’s a simple way to tell if a company has moved from startup to scale-up: whether it has a sauna in the factory. “We do. So we consider ou…

Linexa closes €2M pre-seed to advance AI-driven manufacturing

Linexa, a Munich-based startup, has raised€2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Project A, with participation from angelinvestors including Thomas Böck, Bastian Nominacher, and Christian Schlögel.Fou…

Cooling becomes strategic: Calyos brings passive thermal tech to Europe’s defence stack

Europe’s push for technological sovereignty is reshaping even the most overlooked parts of the stack—including how systems are cooled. Data centres and compute platforms are essential infrastructure …

StirLight raises £1.25M to bring real-time quality assurance to friction stir welding at scale

UK startup StirLight has secured £1.25 million to commercialise its technology and accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing processes at scale by major industrial original equipment manufactu…

Edmund secures €2.5M to bring AI-driven troubleshooting to the factory floor

Edmund, a Czech startup developing an AI-powered debugging platform for industrial maintenance, has raised €2.5 million in funding led by FORWARD.one, with participation from University2Ventures and T…

New Belgian AI platform Backbone aims to cut costly quality failures in food production

Former managers at Belgian legaltech scale-up Henchman are launching Backbone, an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in the food industry, with Seed funding from 100IN. Backb…