Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing. The conservative People’s party (PP) shared it on 21 October, five weeks before the 29 November general election. By Friday the video had nearly 2 […]

The Tech.eu Q3 2026 Report reveals that European tech companies raised €27.8 billion across 732 deals during the third quarter of 2026, up from €21 billion in Q3 2025 and €11 billion in Q3 2024.

The UK led European funding with €12 billion, accounting for around 43 per cent of the total, while AI attracted €6.7 billion, representing approximately 24 per cent of all capital raised.

Here is the list of the 10 largest seed rounds completed by European tech companies in Q3 2026.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $100M Callosum is a UK AI infrastructure company developing software that allows AI workloads to run across different models and types of computing hardware. Rather than relying on a single model and chip architecture, its platform is designed to combine different AI capabilities and hardware to handle complex workloads more efficiently. Callosum raised $100 million in seed funding in Q3 2026 to develop and scale its AI infrastructure platform.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $55M Munich-based microagi develops AI-powered software and data infrastructure for industrial robotics. Its Atlas platform collects and analyses data from robots operating on factory floors, helping adapt AI models to real production environments and improve how robots perform assigned tasks across manufacturing, automotive and logistics. In Q3 2026, microagi secured $55 million in seed funding to scale Atlas, further develop its AI infrastructure for industrial robots and expand its global operations.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $45M Aptadir Therapeutics is a Milan-based biotech developing RNA-based treatments for genetic conditions and underserved cancers. Its technology uses a new class of RNA inhibitors designed to silence defective genes, with its initial development programme targeting Fragile X Syndrome. Aptadir Therapeutics raised $45 million in seed funding in Q3 2026, with the capital earmarked for advancing its pipeline of therapeutic candidates.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $30M Agon is a UK defence technology company building virtual environments for developing and training AI-powered autonomous defence systems. Its synthetic battlefields generate training data and allow autonomous systems, including counter-drone technologies, to practise and refine their responses in simulated combat scenarios. Backed by $30 million round in Q3 2026, Agon plans to scale and further develop its platform for European defence users.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $30M Paris-based Gradium develops AI models and infrastructure for real-time voice applications. Spun out of AI research lab Kyutai, the company focuses on speech technology designed to support natural, low-latency voice interactions and provides its technology to developers building voice-enabled AI products. Gradium raised around $30 million in additional seed funding in Q3 2026, extending its overall seed round to more than $100 million to support the development and scaling of its voice AI technology.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $25.5M ZuriQ is an ETH Zürich spin-off developing trapped-ion quantum processors based on a two-dimensional architecture. Its approach allows ions to move across a chip rather than along conventional one-dimensional chains, with the aim of increasing connectivity and enabling quantum systems to scale to larger numbers of qubits. ZuriQ secured $25.5 million in seed funding in Q3 2026 to expand its team, accelerate R&D, scale chip fabrication and increase the number of qubits supported by its processor architecture.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: €20M INLEAP Photonics is a German deeptech company developing high-precision, ultra-fast laser beam steering systems for counter-drone applications. Its technology is designed to neutralise unmanned aerial vehicles and protect military sites and critical infrastructure, including airports, energy facilities and data centres. INLEAP Photonics raised €20 million in seed funding in Q3 2026 to expand production and testing, further develop its laser technology, strengthen sales and customer support, and grow its European operations.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $17.5M Munich-based Atira develops an AI orchestration platform for industrial sales engineering. Its software helps companies selling complex, built-to-order products process requests for quotation, analyse technical requirements and generate documentation, configurations and pricing proposals by connecting information across existing business systems. Atira announced $17.5 million in seed and previously undisclosed pre-seed funding in Q3 2026 to accelerate product development, expand its go-to-market team, support international growth and extend the platform into adjacent commercial workflows.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: $17M Stockholm-based eComID develops technology for personalised online shopping. Its Shopping Passport enables shoppers to carry information about their size, fit, taste and preferences across connected brands, while its AI tools use this context to support sizing, conversational search and personalised product discovery. eComID secured $17 million in seed funding in Q3 2026 to enter new markets, accelerate the rollout of its Shopping Passport, develop its sizing and discovery capabilities, and expand its team and infrastructure.

Amount raised in Q3 2026: €15M iPremom is a Valencia-based medtech developing molecular diagnostics for the early detection of pregnancy complications. Its MaiRa platform analyses cell-free RNA from maternal blood alongside predictive models to identify risks such as preeclampsia during the first trimester, before clinical symptoms emerge. With €15 million in seed funding raised in Q3 2026, iPremom plans to support clinical validation and the commercial rollout of MaiRa as it works towards further regulatory approvals in Europe and the US.

Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and accounts they use every day. The startup released version 1.0 of its AI browser today, taking it out of beta and pitching it at workers […]

Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin County District Court on 23 October. Cameron Thompson reported the filing for Courthouse […]

SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips used to run AI systems, Elon Musk said in a post on X on Sunday. Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have […]

Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Valida Pau, Jessica E. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on 23 October, citing people familiar with the matter. The grocery delivery company is working with an investment bank to weigh its options, the outlet said. […]

Medtech startup CHD (Connected Health Development) has received approximately €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to develop its digital solutions for remote maternal and fetal monitoring. The company's technology is designed to help healthcare professionals monitor high-risk pregnancies outside hospital settings.

More than 140 million babies are born worldwide each year, with approximately 15 per cent of pregnancies classified as high-risk and requiring regular medical monitoring. Frequent hospital visits can place a burden on expectant mothers and healthcare providers, while staff shortages and limited hospital capacity create additional challenges for healthcare systems.

CHD is developing connected health solutions that combine medical sensors, digital platforms and data analysis to support remote patient monitoring and clinical decision-making. Its technology aims to improve access to maternal healthcare, enable earlier detection of potential complications and reduce the need for hospital visits.

The company's MONI2 solution uses a washable smart textile belt to collect maternal and fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) data, uterine contractions, fetal movements and fetal position. Pregnant women can access basic health indicators through a smartphone application, while healthcare professionals receive raw data and predictive indicators through a secure web portal to support diagnosis and monitoring.

CHD plans to introduce consumer and medical versions of MONI2 using the same hardware, targeting sales of more than 30,000 kits and subscriptions within four years.

Commenting on the investment, Laurent Vandebrouck, CEO of CHD, said Venture Kick's support forms part of the company's initial seed fundraising effort. He added that other private investors and a foundation have already committed or are considering funding, with CHD aiming to complete the round by October.

The funding will support the development, testing and validation of MONI2's technology as CHD works towards the commercial launch of its remote maternal and fetal monitoring solutions.

Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect on 16 October. Shimul Sood first reported the change for Android Authority on 23 […]

SpaceX wants access to at least 80,000 US cell sites for its planned mobile network. Kelcee Griffis reported this for Bloomberg on 22 October. The company is in talks with at least one big tower owner, Crown Castle, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter. The deals would put SpaceX on a path to […]

Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant reported this for the Guardian from the site. The clearing covers 330 hectares, about 400 metres from the Oulujoki river. Google removed the topsoil too. Mari Annala is an ecologist with […]

Tata Communications plans to spend close to $450M on about 10,000km of new long-distance fibre across India. The network will connect the country’s AI data-centre hubs, Reuters reported on Monday. The Mumbai-based company, which sells data connections and cybersecurity services to businesses, set out the plan in a stock exchange filing. Indian financial sites that reported the […]

London-based Nous has raised $17m to take its household AI agent outside the UK and add new features. Heartcore Capital and existing seed backer Mosaic Ventures provided the money. Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back Ventures joined too. Angel investors in the round include Monzo and GoCardless co-founder Tom Blomfield, Founders Factory’s Brent Hoberman and […]

Last week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.5 billion and over 4 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

? According to our Q3 2026 Report, European tech companies raised €27.8 billion across 732 deals in the third quarter of 2026, marking a 32.4 per cent increase from the €21 billion recorded in Q3 2025. This figure was also more than two and a half times the €11 billion raised in the same period in 2024.

The UK led European funding with €12 billion, accounting for approximately 43 per cent of the total, while AI companies attracted €6.7 billion, representing around 24 per cent.

Access the full report for additional data and analysis on European tech funding and exit activity in Q3 2026.

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Funding deals by amount

• SWEDEN: Legora’s valuation leaps to $8.8B as it raises $550M
• FRANCE: Scaleup Europe Fund leads £250M funding round in Pigment
• UK: iwoca secured a credit line of €185M
• SWITZERLAND: Nouscom bags €120M to advance cancer immunotherapies
• ESTONIA: Blackwall hits $2.2B valuation with $100M Series C
• CROATIA: Daytona hits $1B valuation with $60M Series B for AI agent cloud
• UK: Cognitive Credit receives $40M investment from Summit Partners and ETF’s Capital
• FRANCE: Elax Energie raises €30M to make water heaters more flexible
• PORTUGAL: Drone maker Beyond Vision raises over €28M to scale production
• SWITZERLAND: Mistral boss and Yann LeCun back Swiss robotics startup Enact in $30M pre-seed round
• ITALY: Phononic Vibes secures €25M to expand noise control tech used by Deutsche Bahn and Mercedes-Benz
• UK: Programmable banking platform Hyperlayer raises £19.5M
• ICELAND: Arctic Therapeutics raises $21.5M in funding
• UK: Hephaestus raises $17.2M in funding
• FINLAND: Oxford University quantum spinout QuantrolOx raises €12M
• NETHERLANDS: Photonics startup Photon Bridge raises €10M to tackle AI’s looming laser shortage
• UK: Siloton wins €9.98M Innovate UK contract
• UK: Azoma raises $11.5M in Series A funding
• UK: Bellingham invests £7.5M in sporttech rezzil
• UK: Skyfly raises €8.91M to bring its two-seat Axe eVTOL to market and develop Longbow for defence
• CYPRUS: Mika Games gets $10M boost to support mobile game developers
• GERMANY: YGO secures €8M to scale its AI-powered travel infrastructure
• SPAIN: Linkener secures €7.5M to expand its energy management platform
• UK: XRlabs raises $8.4M in seed funding
• NETHERLANDS: Indurex raises €7M to strengthen cybersecurity across critical infrastructure
• UK: Opply raises $7.5M to expand its agentic AI platform for CPG brands
• SWITZERLAND: Sonexos raises €5.4M to reduce noise with plasmacoustic technology
• UK: Unravel Health raises €2.96M in funding
• SWEDEN: Vessla exits stealth with $3.3M to bring AI agents to property management
• DENAMRK: Plinto raises €2.9M to streamline financial controls
• FINLAND: Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to tackle quantum computer scaling challenges
• FRANCE: Reduck secures $3M to make web automation faster for AI agents
• GERMANY: Cygrid closed €2.66M pre-seed round led by Atlantic and D11Z.Ventures
• UK: CoComply raises £1.9M in funding
• SPAIN: Remolonas raises €2.1M with the support of Clave Capital, EONIQ and SEGO Venture
• GERMANY: RhymeQ emerges from stealth with $2.2M to simplify quantum programming
• ITALY: Rulen secures €1.8M to turn tax rules into action with AI
• UK: Marrow closed £1.49M pre-seed round
• UK: Emerald secures €1.66M to scale its preventive healthcare platform
• ITALY: Ganiga secures €2.5M to expand its AI-powered food waste technology
• GERMANY: Container for biological material helps Cellbox raise a €5M seed round
• PORTUGAL: Edtech Intuitivo raises €1.35M to ease teachers’ workload and expand into Brazil
• UK: Founder aged 19 raises £1M to create Chaos
• UK: Fruga raises £1M in funding
• NETHERLANDS: Huppa raises €1M to build an operating system for construction
• IRELAND: Former international boxer’s legaltech startup EstateMin raises €1M
• TÜRKİYE: Arke Telekom lands €1M from ACT Venture Partners to advance drone communications
• SPAIN: Swanlaab invests €1M in RawData to boost digitalization in agriculture
• SPAIN:FlamAid closes an investment round of €1M
• UK: Go Eve secures £750,000 to advance its DockChain EV charging technology
• Norway: Jenz lands €540,000 in pre-seed fundingand received €92,000 startup grant from Innovation Norway
• UK: Doris Labs raises $600,000 in pre-seed funding
• SPAIN: Hausum closes an investment round of over €500,000 to accelerate its growth and nationwide expansion
• GERMANY: Tenpal received an undisclosed sum investment
• GERMANY: Novus secures eight figure funding to take its electric lightbike from germany to california
• GERMANY: Körber takes stake in bootstrapped German robotics startup NAiSE
• DENMARK: Lumilab raises pre seed funding
• TÜRKİYE: Leasingim received investment from Insha GSYF
• GERMANY: Contigo Energie is investing in flexality
• GERMANY: Nvidia invests in four german startups as part of 10bn european investment pledge
• AUSTRIA: Wictory.ai received a six-figure sum investment
• GERMANY: Regulate closed an undisclosed sum investment
• SWITZERLAND: Former Swiss ski racer Lara Gut-Behrami is investing an undisclosed sum in Avea

Exits and M&A activity

• GERMANY: Workflex is acquiring rhome
• GERMANY: The Münster-based insurance group Provinzial is acquiring the Cologne-based company moneymeets
• UK: Standard Chartered to acquire Zodia Custody
• NETHERLANDS: Omnidocs acquires WoodWing and becomes one of Europe's largest players in document management

Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which happened during AISI’s cyber tests of the model in July. In the worst […]

Volare, a Finnish DeepTech company turning food-industry side streams into high-quality insect protein, has inaugurated its first industrial-scale facility called Volare 01 in Pori, Finland, and raised €7.1 million in fresh funding.

The funding came from Springvest, with backing from both new and existing investors, including venture capital firm Maki.vc.

“Volare 01 proves that our technology and production model work at industrial scale. We delivered the factory on schedule and on budget, demonstrating our ability to build production capacity cost-effectively and laying a strong foundation for further growth,” said Jarna Hyvönen, CEO and co-founder of Volare.

Founded in 2021 by Tuure Parviainen, Matti Tähtinen, and Hyvönen as a spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Volare began working on its technology way back in 2014. The company has successfully brought its technology from lab to industrial production, which relies on the Black soldier fly, described by the company as nature’s own bioreactor.

The insect is fed food-industry side streams, and within roughly a week of active growth, converts them into protein and oil. Volare has built a proprietary, highly automated production process that covers the full chain, from rearing larvae to finished ingredients. It says the result is a facility that generates no process wastewater, runs entirely on non-fossil fuel energy, and operates with just four people per shift.

Volare 01, its new 10,000-square-metre plant, targets annual production of up to 5,000 tonnes of insect protein and 2,000 tonnes of insect oil, converting food-industry side streams into high-value ingredients for aquafeed, pet food, and poultry feed markets. Instead of building the factory from scratch, the company built the facility inside a former newspaper printing hall, an approach that reduces construction requirements and costs.

The company says the facility was delivered on schedule and within its €15 million budget. Volare 01 represents a thousandfold expansion from the company’s demonstration plant, yet relies on the same production process that has been commercially validated over four years.

Compared with other insect-based producers, Volare claims its factory requires four to ten times less capital expenditure, around 50% fewer full-time employees, and 30% less energy for end-product processing. Its protein meal delivers over 90% digestibility.

A significant share of Volare 01’s production capacity has already been sold with offtake agreements in place with Skretting, one of the world’s largest aqua feed companies and a leading global chemical company.

Volare says its protein has been commercially used since 2022, featuring in insect-based dog treats developed with Alvar Pet, cat food under Dagsmark’s (Vafo Group brand), and rainbow trout feed through a collaboration with Alltech Fennoaqua.

The €7.1 million in fresh funding will be used to finance a second factory and a broader push across and beyond Europe. With Volare 01 now operational and financing secured for a second facility, the Finnish company is preparing itself for a roadmap that spans multiple plants across Europe, built in partnership with food industry players who generate the side streams it processes.

“Europe needs significantly more locally produced protein, and we have built a model that can deliver it efficiently and competitively. Our next step is to replicate our model from Finland and bring more local, efficient protein production capacity to Europe and beyond,” Hyvönen added.

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A Swedish startup backed by General Catalyst and Lovable and Hugging Face founders is today bringing its AI browser with baked in AI assistants out of beta as it positions itself as an enterprise alternative to ChatGPT and Claude.

The AI assistant landscape is a crowded one, as investors make bets on AI application layer startups, powered by the AI giants behind LLMs.

Stockholm-based Strawberry, with a team of 12, wants to bring AI beyond developers, a key use case, to non-technical teams in enterprises. The idea is that by automating everyday business tasks, it will free employees to carry out higher-value work.

Strawberry, founded in 2023, embeds AI directly into browsing so that workers without coding knowledge can build agents, or “companions” as Strawberry calls them, for specific business tasks such as sales, recruiting, customer support and marketing.

Strawberry, which is AI model agnostic, also provides enterprises with existing agents, which users can ask to do business tasks. These virtual agents learn how the rest of the business works, and the agent’s work is shared with the entire business, so as Strawberry puts it, they become like a colleague.

Strawberry said: “Strawberry is unique in that it is a browser where a team's context, workflows and logins already live. A companion remembers how your team works and gets better the more you work together, because it is connected to all of that context.”

The startup has three co-founders: Charles Maddock, CEO, who is in his mid-twenties and has one exit behind him after a climate tech startup he founded was sold, and Sebastian Thunman, COO, and Arian Hanifi, CTO.

Maddock explained the reason behind making Strawberry a browser. He said: "The reason we chose to make Strawberry a browser on your device is because if you think about the work you do on a daily basis, you are not in 10 different files on your computer, you are actually in ten different tabs inside your browser."

He added: “The technology is already here: agents can now work for weeks in a row.”

Asked if Strawberry was going up against other AI browsers, Maddock said: “I would say that we compete much more with the big agent platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot and Gemini.”

Enterprises who are using Strawberry, which was launched in beta around a year ago with select clients, include Swedish startup Lovable, which is using it to source engineers, and Tandem Health. Early users have also built assistants for sales prospecting, Strawberry said, which also says it's tapping into European sovereigny demands, as its agents run on a user's deivce, unlike server based AI platforms.

It has a free option along with subscription packages at $20 per month, $85 per month and $250 per month, depending on credit usage.

In October last year, Strawberry announced it had raised $6 million led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, with participation from founders of Lovable, Supabase, and Hugging Face.

Maddock said it would raise its Series A when it planned to scale the product across Europe and the US.

University of Leeds spinout adsilico has raised £10 million in a Series A funding round to expand its AI-powered simulation technology for assessing medical device performance across diverse virtual patient populations. The round was led by PXN Ventures, with participation from existing investors Northern Gritstone and Parkwalk.

Founded in 2024 by Sheena Macpherson, Dr Nishant Ravikumar and Dr Zeike Taylor, adsilico develops technology that helps medical device manufacturers assess implant performance before progressing to clinical trials.

Clinical trials for medical devices such as heart valves and stents typically involve a few hundred patients, making it difficult to represent the diversity of those who may eventually receive them. Recruiting participants from different demographic groups can also be costly and time-consuming.

To address this gap, adsilico has developed Virtual Chimera, a platform that uses generative AI to create virtual hearts and blood vessels from anonymised clinical scans. Combined with physics-based simulations, these models allow manufacturers to assess device performance across patient populations varying in age, sex, ethnicity, body size and medical conditions.

The platform helps manufacturers make development decisions, including determining appropriate device sizes, identifying higher-risk patients and refining clinical trial strategies. By providing additional evidence alongside existing testing methods, it aims to identify potential problems earlier, support more targeted studies and potentially reduce reliance on animal testing.

adsilico has already completed projects with heart valve and neurovascular device manufacturers, and its cardiac research is set to be presented at TCT, a meeting focused on innovations in structural heart therapies.

Sheena Macpherson, CEO and co-founder of adsilico, commented:

Patients miss out on the chance of a life-saving device, or face uncertainty about whether it will work for them, because people like them weren’t represented when it was designed and tested.
We give medical device manufacturers early insight into the impact of anatomical diversity when it can still shape the design and help avoid costly mistakes or harm to patients.

The new funding will support further development of adsilico's virtual heart models and expansion into neurovascular devices, including flow diverters used to treat brain aneurysms. The company also plans to increase its workforce as it extends its technology into additional therapeutic areas.

Sonexos, a Lausanne-based DeepTech company, has raised approximately €5.4 million (CHF 5 million/USD 6.1 million) in new equity financing to take its solid-state noise control from working prototypes to industrial production.

The round was led by Valquest Partners, with participation from Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Bosch Ventures) and industry angels and private investors. Fadi Noureddine, founder and Managing Partner of Valquest Partners, has joined the Sonexos Board of Directors.

“Engineers have always had to trade space and weight for silence. Plasmacoustics removes that compromise. This financing carries it from working prototypes into our customers’ products, at scale,” said Mark Donaldson, founder and CEO of Sonexos. 

Sonexos was founded in 2022 by Donaldson, who has built companies in active noise control, including SoundChip, which developed noise-cancelling smart audio codecs for headphones and earbuds from leading consumer electronics brands and was acquired by DSP Group, now part of Synaptics.

Sonexos develops solid-state acoustic technology that solves low-frequency noise where passive materials and speaker-based ANC (active noise cancellation) fall short.

It claims to be developing a new way to address low-frequency noise from fans, compressors and motors. According to the company, this persistent hum carries through walls and windows and is the hardest noise to eliminate. 

It argues that conventional acoustic treatments become increasingly bulky at lower frequencies and can restrict airflow. It further notes that while loudspeaker-based active noise control works well in the confined space of a headphone, it struggles with the complex, three-dimensional sound fields of real-world applications.

The company claims that its patented Plasmacoustic Metalayer uses a software-controlled plasma layer to absorb sound at a surface. The system is thin, lightweight and has no moving parts. 

The Plasmacoustic Metalayer platform enables electronically programmable sound control, allowing compact, lightweight, energy-efficient management of low-frequency noise in domestic appliances, HVAC, and industrial, infrastructure, automotive, and specialised acoustic applications.

The Swiss startup reported that prototype systems have achieved up to 20 dB of low-frequency noise reduction in ventilation systems and 16 dB in domestic appliances under application-specific test conditions.

The company’s Plasmapanel and Plasmadrive technologies are designed to overcome the practical limitations of conventional passive acoustic materials and traditional active noise control systems. 

Sonexos’s Plasmapanel packages the actively controlled plasma metalayer into a sealed, inert-gas-filled module driven by proprietary low-power, high-voltage electronics. The company explains that, depending on the installation, Plasmapanel-enabled systems absorb sound from 30 Hz to 1,500 Hz and, compared with passive silencers with similar low-frequency performance, require less than a fifth of the space and weight. It highlighted that for OEMs, this frees room for more compact products or for features that bulky acoustic treatment would otherwise displace.

Sonexos states that it is developing an industrial ecosystem rather than manufacturing every component in-house. STMicroelectronics is supporting development of low-power, low-cost electronics. A strategic collaboration with Vandewiele Group, through its subsidiary Roj, provides a route toward series manufacturing for European OEM programmes, including electronics production, box-build and cabling.

Sonexos plans to offer turnkey panels with integration support, as well as an enterprise model in which larger OEMs build the technology into their own products and production lines using Sonexos components, such as Plasmadrive, and software.

The company is also planning expansion into AI data-centre cooling, where reduced fan noise could ease community concerns and help sustain cooling capacity under night-time noise limits. It is developing the Plasmapanel Radial Active Silencer to mount around a fan discharge and attenuate low-frequency sound without obstructing the airflow path. 

In July 2026, the company announced a collaboration with Euronext Milan-listed SIT to integrate the technology with fan platforms for data centres, battery energy storage and industrial cooling. SIT is the first member of the Sonexos Certified Fan Partner Programme, and the companies plan to present a first working demonstrator at CES 2027.

“Sonexos is addressing a fundamental engineering constraint with a technology that opens a much larger design space for low-frequency noise control. The combination of differentiated science, a strong intellectual-property position and progress with leading OEMs gives the company a credible path toward industrial production,” said Noureddine.

The fresh capital will fund industrialisation of the core platform; customer integration, reliability testing, qualification, and regulatory compliance; expansion of engineering and applications teams in Switzerland and internationally; and broader international protection of its intellectual property. 

Sonexos holds an exclusive licence from EPFL to grant foundational plasmacoustic patents in its field of use and has filed four additional patent families of its own, with two UK patents granted and applications pending in other major markets.

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QuoIntelligence, the Frankfurt-based cybersecurity startup, has received a new investment from Christian Lindner, the former German Federal Finance Minister.

The investment came through his investment vehicle, Christian Lindner Beteiligungsgesellschaft, but the deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. The investment follows the company’s €7.3 million Series A funding round, closed in April 2026 and led by Elevator Ventures, the venture capital arm of Raiffeisen Bank International.

“Europe needs more technology companies that can compete internationally in strategically important markets. QuoIntelligence combines human expertise with AI-driven technology in an area where demand is growing rapidly. I am pleased to support the company as an investor in its next phase of European growth,” said Lindner.

Lindner served as Germany’s Federal Finance Minister from 2021 to 2024 and led the Free Democratic Party (FDP) as its federal Chairman from 2013 to 2025. Before entering politics, he co-founded a successful advertising agency, and through his investment vehicle, he backs early-stage companies as an angel investor.

Founded in 2020 by Marco Riccardi, a veteran Italian cybersecurity expert, QuoIntelligence delivers cyber threat and risk intelligence as a service. Named Europe’s most promising cybersecurity startup 2026 by the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), the company enables organisations to manage cyber risks without having to build a dedicated in-house security team.

The company’s Mercury platform consolidates digital risk protection, cyber threat intelligence, and risk intelligence, spanning geopolitical, physical and compliance exposure, into curated, analyst-reviewed outputs rather than raw data feeds. It also offers KARLA, a conversational AI analyst that makes intelligence accessible across all levels of an organisation.

The company has analysts operating out of Germany, Italy, and Spain, and all customer intelligence data is stored within the EU. QuoIntelligence is ISO27001 certified and serves organisations across finance, transportation, manufacturing, government, and retail, including EU institutions.

“What struck me when I first met Christian Lindner was his entrepreneurial mindset. He immediately focused on the questions that matter to any founder: the market, the business model and the team. That perspective makes him a valuable investor for us. Our ambition is to become the European leader in cyber threat intelligence: a company that European organisations can trust because it understands the risks they face and how they operate,” said Riccardi, founder and CEO, QuoIntelligence.

The Series A funding round and Lindner’s investment come amid a changing regulatory environment that has expanded the market for cybersecurity services. According to QuoIntelligence, NIS2 is expected to bring approximately 29,500 organisations into compliance scope in Germany alone, while the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has tightened technology risk management standards across the financial sector. Many of these organisations will be required to manage cyber risk without in-house security capabilities.

In 2025, ENISA, the European Union Agency of Cybersecurity, awarded QuoIntelligence a four-year, €1.4 million contract to provide cyber threat intelligence services in an open tender.

When announcing its Series A funding round, QuoIntelligence said it would use the funding for go-to-market expansion, product development, and team growth, with a channel-led strategy through system integrators, resellers, and managed service providers. It also reported zero client churn in 2025 and a sixfold increase in customer lifetime value since 2023.

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UK-based Nous, a company developing an AI agent to help households manage everyday administrative tasks and reduce spending, has raised $17 million in new funding to expand internationally and introduce additional features.

The investment was provided by Heartcore Capital and existing seed investor Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back Ventures. The company also received backing from several angel investors, including founders and entrepreneurs associated with Monzo, GoCardless, Founders Factory, Faculty.ai and Onfido.

Founded by Greg Marsh, the entrepreneur behind luxury accommodation marketplace onefinestay, Nous has developed an AI-powered platform designed to help households manage recurring expenses and everyday administrative responsibilities.

Its agent identifies cheaper deals, switches service providers, cancels subscriptions, completes forms and flags potentially unfavourable contract terms or costly renewals. It also helps organise household activities by managing family calendars, sending deadline reminders, finding local tradespeople and booking appointments.

Unlike tools that primarily provide recommendations or reminders, Nous is designed to make decisions and carry out tasks on behalf of users once authorised to do so. Its technology combines large language models with rules-based logic for specific and sensitive actions, particularly those involving financial decisions.

The company operates within regulatory requirements and is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), allowing it to support regulated activities such as purchasing insurance.

Commenting on the company's approach, Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of Nous, said:

We’ve spent the last 18 months building and honing an agent that not only feels magic, but is also one people can actually trust. If you are allowing an AI agent to make financial and purchasing decisions on your behalf, you need to know it’s up to the job. That’s why Nous is laser focused on its vertical of household spending and admin, and why we take safety and privacy so seriously.

As part of its approach to privacy and user trust, Nous states that it does not generate revenue through advertising or the sale of customer data, aiming to avoid potential conflicts of interest between users and service providers.

The new funding will support the expansion of Nous's services into additional household spending categories and regulated activities, including a broader range of insurance and financial services. The company also plans to introduce more capabilities for managing everyday tasks and expand internationally.