Startup Dash0 hits unicorn status with $110M Series B
Startup Dash0 hits unicorn status with $110M Series B

The OpenTelemetry-native platform founded by the team behind Instana has grown to 600 customers in under two years. Its Series B, led by Balderton, with Accel, Cherry, and Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, will fund Agent0, an AI layer that doesn’t just su…

Foodtech Swish closes $38M Series B at $139M valuation
Foodtech Swish closes $38M Series B at $139M valuation

Bengaluru’s Swish has now raised $54M in 18 months, values itself at $139M, and is betting that owning the kitchen, the technology, and the last mile is the only way to make ultra-fast food delivery work at scale. The timing is pointed. In the months b…

Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M
Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M

The Munich startup is building what it calls a ‘context graph’, a continuously updated map of how operational decisions actually get made inside an enterprise, drawn from millions of real cases rather than documentation that may never have been written…

Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap
Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap

A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pressing military capability shortfall. The phrase ‘air defence gap’ has become one of the defin…

BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally
BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind BBLeap is disarmingly…

Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams
Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams

The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intelligence…

Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data
Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data

The TACEO Network, already live inside World ID’s biometric verification system for more than 18 million users, lets organisations share digital infrastructure without sharing sensitive data. When Sam Altman’s World needs to verify that a new user’s ir…

Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap
Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap

The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is b…

eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses
eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumulat…

Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe
Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has…