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This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most important/industry-related news items you need to know about. If email is more your thing, you can always subscribe to our newsletter and receive a more robust version of this round-up delivered to your inbox. Either way, let's get you up to speed.

? Notable and big funding rounds

?? French CRM outfit Brevo hits unicorn status following a €500M funding round

?? Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation

?? Shop Circle secures $100M credit facility as it positions itself as Europe’s alternative to VC funding

??‍?? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

?? Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal

?? Wayve acquires German startup Quality Match

?? Shiftmove acquires Ocean, expanding its European fleet technology footprint

?? FORMEL SKIN joins MANUAL to expand from skin health to whole-body care

?? KKR completes £4.7B acquisition of Spectris

? Interesting moves from investors

? Europe’s overlooked alpha: Growathon Ventures targets Venture’s biggest market failure

? SwissHealth Ventures doubles fund volume to CHF 100 million

?? Backing founders from “day zero”, Dutch VC Volve Capital closes Fund I at €9 million

?️ In other (important) news

?? Former Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström joins Nordic Air Defence

?? New programme fast-tracks European defence innovation with controlled testing in Ukraine

? UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection

? From heat waste to heat source: Power Mining launches shipping-container data centres for city heating

? Entrepreneurs launch European “venture studio”

? Recommended reads and listens

? The biggest European edtech deals in H1 2025

?? Mater-AI secures £1.5M to tackle one of energy’s oldest problems: wasted heat

?? “I definitely want a European listing”, says Nvidia-backed n8n CEO

? Biotech scaleup NADMED launches $30K global award to advance innovation in cellular health

? European tech startups to watch 

?? Complir raises €1.7M to help retailers manage global compliance with AI infrastructure

??  Sky Spy lands $1.6M to fix SIGINT failures in saturated signal environments

??  Liablix secures €1.2M to modernize automotive claims analysis

?? Fronted lands $1M to modernise global hiring using AI

?? Bestie Bite raises $700,000 to reinvent restaurant choices with AI gamification

?? Lovable-built Lumoo gets €550,000 funding from Lovable CEO

A Swedish startup built on vibe coding startup Lovable, which aims to reduce the age-old problem of customers returning ill-fitting clothes, has bagged funding from the Lovable CEO as part of a SEK 6million (around €550,000)  angel investment round.

Lumoo's AI platform, built on Lovable, helps brands and retailers with product visualisation, such as virtual try-ons and automated brand modelling, and content production. It says its AI-powered tech is a notch above current virtual try-ons.

It aims to reduce the problem of customers returning clothes, which costs the retail industry billions of pounds every year.

Lumoo has signed deals with brands including Gant, Brothers and AWNR Group. Lovable co-founder and CEO Anton Oskia is part of a "strategic group of prominent angel investors", who are mainly from the fashion and tech industry.

Lumoo will use the capital to target international expansion and cater for the demands of its clients. Oskia said that Lumoo was on track to hit €1M ARR within its first year.

Lumoo was founded by Peter Thörngren and Henrik Skagerlind Fasth, who between them have 25 years in the fashion and retail industry.

Thörngren, CEO, Lumoo, said: “This investment is a strong validation of the rapid growth we are experiencing and the trust we’ve built with some of the most influential brands in the Nordics.

"The capital enables key recruitment and faster development of our AI platform, with the goal of establishing Lumoo as the global industry standard."

Image: Lumoo

ReSoil, a Paris-based company supporting farmers in the agroecological transition of their operations, has raised €4 million in order to scale its regenerative agriculture projects and expand its digital carbon-management platform.

Participants include Banque des Territoires, InvESS Île-de-France Amorçage (initiated by the Île-de-France Region), and Generali Impact Investment – two funds managed by INCO Ventures.

“With ReSoil, we can finally offer farmers the financial visibility they need by guaranteeing upfront revenues – a critical lever for enabling change. We also provide agricultural sectors with robust tools to measure and track their decarbonization using transparent, internationally aligned methodologies. And we empower French companies to act locally by capturing carbon in French soils while demonstrating tangible climate impact to customers, employees and investors,” says Grégoire Alston, co-founder of ReSoil alongside Yohann Vrain and Luc Bailly.

European AgriTech funding activity in 2025 shows a steady flow of capital into solutions improving soil health, farm resilience and environmental performance.

Alongside ReSoil’s new round, the UK-based CroBio secured €850k to advance microbial soil amendments that enhance nutrient and water retention while supporting carbon sequestration, and Antler Bio raised €3.6 million to scale its gene-expression technology aimed at improving dairy-farm productivity and animal resilience.

Together, these 2025 rounds represent approximately €4.45 million invested in adjacent AgriTech areas, indicating sustained interest in technologies that improve environmental outcomes and operational efficiency across farming systems.

Founded in 2022, ReSoil empowers farmers by financing the evolution of their agricultural practices, reducing the environmental footprint of farms, and unlocking the value of environmental services generated at the farm level.

The company is now experiencing strong growth, supporting agroecological transition across more than 100,000 hectares monitored via ReSoil Carbon – 40,000 hectares of active projects, and an additional 60,000 hectares under development in partnership with agricultural cooperatives.

Across its existing portfolio, ReSoil’s projects are reportedly expected to reduce or store more than 300,000 tonnes of CO₂. Since opening its projects to corporate funding in 2024, ReSoil has already onboarded 80 corporate clients, enabling more than €3 million to be committed to financing the agricultural transition.

ReSoil plans to make significant investments to scale regenerative agriculture projects across France. Through its ReSoil Carbon platform, the company guarantees farmers additional revenue directly linked to improvements in their environmental performance, ensuring a predictable and attractive financial incentive for adopting agroecological practices.

The funding round will also accelerate the expansion of ReSoil’s digital platform, enabling more farmers to access support and equipping agricultural stakeholders with new features that simplify the management of carbon projects.

ReSoil’s remuneration framework for farmers is built on two complementary mechanisms:

• Within agricultural value chains: sector-based premiums tied to measurable decarbonisation outcomes, using ISO 14067–certified emission factors aligned with GHG Protocol and SBTi FLAG methodologies
• Beyond agricultural supply chains: sale of Label Bas-Carbone certified carbon credits on the voluntary market to companies committed to local climate action and biodiversity preservation.

ReSoil will also strengthen its teams of agronomists, who design and deploy projects on the ground, and its carbon contribution experts, who support corporate sustainability departments in their soil carbon sequestration strategies.

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London-based yuv, a beauty technology company developing the world’s first smart hair colour lab system for salons and freelancers, has closed a $12 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Nineyards Equity, with participation from Founder Francisco Gimenez, existing investor VNV Global, and a network of strategic angel investors.

yuv is modernising the professional hair colour market through patented hardware, AI-enabled software, and refillable packaging. Its flagship product, the yuv Lab, is a compact, app-connected dispensing system that replaces single-use tubes with refillable aluminium cartridges, delivering precise, customizable formulations at the touch of a button.

Designed for both salons and freelancers, the platform combines patented hardware, AI-powered software, and Swiss-developed formulas optimised for customisation, performance, and safety. By pairing refillable packaging with intelligent data systems, yuv helps beauty professionals reduce waste, cut costs, streamline operations, and expand creative possibilities.

Commenting on the round, Francisco Gimenez, Founder & CEO of yuv, said the new investment marks an important step in the company’s development:

With the backing of Nineyards Equity, VNV Global, and our wider investor community, we are strengthening our commitment to reshaping professional hair colour through sustainability, design, and technology.

The new funding will support yuv’s growth in the UK and its planned US launch in 2026, scaling its patented platform and subscription model to a wider network of salons and freelancers worldwide.

Sky Spy, a technology company developing compact signal intelligence (SIGINT) systems for contested and congested environments, has raised $1.6 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round to go-to-market, launch production and expand its team to deliver fully autonomous AI-driven systems.

Sky Spy was founded to address a critical gap in SIGINT in today’s saturated signal environments. 
Lessons from the war in Ukraine have highlighted that forces contend with thousands of civilian, commercial, and military transmitters. 

In practice, many units have been forced to lean on visual intelligence due to the failure of traditional ground and airborne SIGINT to deliver reliable, timely results in dense, contested environments – leading to 80 per cent of small, high-priority targets being missed.

The announcement follows the successful frontline validation of Sky Spy’s first product, Agent 001, conducted with active military units in Ukraine, where the system proved its ability to detect and geolocate hostile emitters – including UAS control stations and jammers – in one of the world’s most saturated and contested electromagnetic environments.

Soldiers described Agent 001 as the first solution of its kind that has proven its capability in live combat situations.

Sky Spy’s flagship payload, Agent 001, turns small drones into autonomous spectrum hunters by combining RF intelligence with visual confirmation. Weighing just over 500 grams, it detects, classifies, and localises radio emitters in real time – providing actionable intelligence in environments where legacy systems fail.

The system uses proprietary filtering algorithms, custom RF hardware, and unique combat data to deliver market-leading precision even under jamming and GPS-denied conditions.

Unlike existing systems designed for large aircraft or static networks, Agent 001 runs its full signal-processing pipeline onboard, allowing immediate response without external compute. It integrates seamlessly with any existing COP/C2 infrastructure at a fraction of the price of legacy SIGINT platforms.

Sky Spy has already attracted the attention of several world-leading UAS producers and is in the process of integrating its technology into next-generation tactical ISR platforms, introducing a new capability and data layer for intelligence operations. The company is carefully selecting its first partners to deploy the system at scale.

Founded by a Ukraine-origin team, and now operating across the US and EU countries, Sky Spy’s multinational team combines technical expertise with operational experience from active combat zones.

“Sky Spy was built by people who’ve seen how unreliable intelligence costs lives,” said Arsenii Hurtavtsov, CEO of Sky Spy.

“Our mission is simple: to give forces real-time awareness in the spectrum – because the side that dominates the spectrum dominates the war.”

The Pre-Seed round was co-led by Expeditions Fund and Superangel, joined by Freedom Fund, Sunfish Partners, Crosscourt Ventures, and Material Ventures.

Andrzej Rościszewski, Investment Associate at Expeditions Fund, said:

“We were looking for a while to find a product that could radically improve signal intelligence in contested environments. 

Sky Spy’s initial product, trained on battlefield electromagnetic data, offers an attritable, airborne radio-reconnaissance platform, which aims to solve one of the most pressing problems in today's battlefield.

The team is highly motivated, brings strong credentials from their prior work on C2 systems, and has already validated their solution with end users. We look forward to supporting their international expansion.”

Jaan Kokk, Senior Associate at Superangel, said:

“From the first meeting, Sky Spy impressed us with their deep technical talent and real operational insight.

Their work aligns with the growing need across Europe and NATO for practical, rapidly deployable sensing capabilities. We believe they have the rare ability to move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver capabilities that work where it matters.”

Lead image: Sky Spy.

Why do so many promising startups trip at the regulatory stage?

It’s not because they’re careless or underqualified. It’s because they treat regulation as a bureaucratic chore, not a strategic advantage. By the time someone notices how much those rules shape timelines, costs, and investor confidence, it’s already a scramble.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. The smartest founders in regulated sectors such as MedTech, FoodTech, DigitalHealth, and FinTech use compliance as a competitive filter. They understand that if you build for approval early, you move faster later.

Regulation isn’t the enemy; it’s your moat.

Most founders see regulation as red tape. Investors see it as proof of seriousness.

When a startup can show a clear path to market approval, even if it’s still early, it signals maturity. It shows that your team knows the rules of the game and can execute responsibly. That earns confidence, not caution.

In MedTech, an early classification assessment can prevent a year-long redesign later. In FoodTech, mapping whether your ingredient might trigger a novel food dossier lets you plan funding milestones around EFSA timelines instead of being surprised by them.

The moat isn’t the paperwork; it’s the predictability.

Early alignment beats late firefighting.

Every regulatory delay I’ve seen comes from the same pattern: teams try to “just get the product working” and plan to deal with compliance later.

Later never comes at the right time.

By then, the prototype doesn’t match what will be approved, or a key testing requirement was missed, or a claim in the pitch deck triggers a different regulatory category. The fix is simple but rarely done:

• Map your regulatory classification in month one.
• Include compliance milestones in your roadmap.
• Have your regulatory lead sit in on product and investor meetings.

Even if you don’t have a full-time expert, a few hours of targeted guidance early on can save months of lost runway.

Treat regulators as feedback partners, not obstacles.

Regulators and Notified Bodies often get framed as faceless barriers. In reality, they’re part of your learning loop.

The best founders reach out early, not to push for shortcuts but to clarify expectations. Pre-submission discussions, scientific advice, and informal consultations are all underused tools that can remove uncertainty and build trust.

Things move a lot faster when you’ve already built a reputation for transparency.

Make regulatory literacy part of your culture.

Compliance awareness shouldn’t live in a folder; it should live in your team’s decisions.

If engineers, designers, and business leads all understand why certain steps matter, regulatory alignment becomes a shared responsibility instead of a bottleneck.
Use simple onboarding sessions, internal cheat sheets, or even quick “regulatory moments” in weekly meetings.

I’ve run short workshops with entire teams, not just regulatory or quality, to get everyone aligned on how decisions in product, marketing, or design can affect approval timelines.

Those small habits prevent big mistakes.

Regulation doesn’t slow you down; confusion does.

In my work with early-stage MedTech and FoodTech teams, I’ve seen how early regulatory clarity changes everything. It shapes smarter roadmaps, reduces investor anxiety, and builds internal confidence. The companies that win aren’t the ones that avoid regulation. They’re the ones that understand it early, design around it, and turn it into an advantage.

Regulation isn’t the cliff at the end of your runway. It’s the structure that keeps your wings attached when you finally take off.

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Coremont, a London-based provider of real-time, multi-asset class portfolio management software and analytics, has received a €34 million ($40 million) strategic growth investment from funds managed by Blue Owl Capital.

The investment will drive Coremont’s growth by expanding its product coverage into new asset classes, using AI to broaden access to advanced analytics, and strengthening its real-time risk management capabilities.

“We are delighted to collaborate with Blue Owl,” said Jev Mehmet, CEO of Coremont. “This long-term investment accelerates our technology and product roadmap and underscores our commitment to empowering clients with market-leading analytics as they navigate both the opportunities and the risks of volatile markets.”

In 2025, EU-Startups reported several funding rounds in sectors adjacent to Coremont’s institutional portfolio-management and analytics offering – providing useful context to today’s investment news.

Swiss options-analytics FinTech Allasso secured €2.5 million to expand its AI-ready analytics for traders, while UK adviser-platform provider Fundment raised €53 million to develop its integrated investment and back-office tools. French wealth-management platform Finary closed a €25 million round to scale its AI-driven investment tools across Europe, and Swedish–UK workflow-automation startup Grasp raised €6 million to enhance AI-native productivity tools for financial analysts.

Collectively, these companies attracted roughly €86 million, indicating steady investor interest in finance-software and analytics platforms aimed at modernising legacy workflows.

Within this context, Coremont’s €34 million growth investment sits at the upper end of 2025’s funding activity in related segments, reflecting the capital requirements of institutional-grade, multi-asset portfolio and risk-management infrastructure.

“Coremont has established itself as a critical partner to leading investment managers, and we are excited to help accelerate its next phase of innovation,” said Mark Schachter, Managing Director at Blue Owl. “At Blue Owl, we back exceptional teams that build scalable, technology-driven businesses that solve real problems for sophisticated investors. Coremont exemplifies that approach.”

Founded in 2018, Coremont is a provider of cloud-enabled, multi-asset class portfolio management software and analytics for asset managers, hedge funds, and financial institutions. Their platform delivers real-time insights across fixed income, equities, currencies, and commodities, supported by analytics, modern technology infrastructure, and API integration – enabling investment professionals to make faster, more informed decisions across the full spectrum of investment strategies.

The investment will accelerate Coremont’s growth across three strategic priorities:

• Expanding product coverage: Broadening Coremont’s capabilities across emerging asset classes and alternative investment strategies
• Democratising access through AI: Delivering advanced analytics to entire investment teams through natural-language interfaces and automated insights
• Enhancing real-time risk management: Advancing live portfolio monitoring, stress testing, and scenario analysis to support investment decision-making

The company says they have experienced strong growth as investment firms increasingly seek cloud-native alternatives to legacy portfolio management systems – particularly as volatile markets demand more sophisticated real-time analytics.

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“This raise represents a pivotal moment for yuv,” said Francisco Gimenez, founder & CEO of yuv. “With the support of Nineyards Equity, VNV Global, and our investor network, we are doubling down on our mission to transform professional hair colour through sustainability, design, and technology. Our next chapter will bring yuv’s platform to more salons and freelancers across the UK, and soon to the U.S., where we see massive potential.”

In 2025, comparable investment activity in the European beauty and aesthetics sector included several mid-sized rounds, such as Innerskin in Paris, which raised €12.8 million to expand its network of aesthetics centres, and Ray Studios, also Paris-based, which secured €10 million to scale its tattoo-removal studios across Europe.

Although these companies operate primarily in skin-health and aesthetic-service delivery rather than salon hardware or professional hair-colour systems, they reflect a steady flow of capital – approximately €22.8 million – into beauty and wellness ventures across the continent.

Within this context, yuv’s €10 million Series A represents a distinct entry from the UK, focused on hardware-enabled, refillable, and software-driven salon technology, a niche for which EU-Startups has seen few directly comparable funding rounds in 2025.

Compact and app-connected, the system replaces single-use tubes with refillable aluminium cartridges, reportedly reducing waste while offering precise, customisable formulations at the touch of a button.

Designed for salons and freelancers, the platform combines hardware, AI-powered software, and Swiss-designed formulas, optimised for customisation, performance, and safety.

By pairing refillable packaging with intelligent data systems, yuv wants to help beauty professionals cut costs, streamline operations, and elevate creativity.

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Türkiye digital asset platform Paribu has acquired CoinMENA, the largest local crypto exchange in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in a transaction valuing the company at up to $240 million.

It also underscores the ongoing consolidation of the global digital asset industry, as established regional players seek greater scale, regulatory strength, and broader market reach. With this acquisition, Paribu will expand its operations from its home market in Türkiye into a region with high crypto adoption.

Through CoinMENA, the local entity licensed by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and the Central Bank of Bahrain, Paribu will access two active digital asset licenses. This expanded regulatory footprint positions Paribu as one of the region’s few regulated multi-jurisdiction operators and supports its strategy of compliance-driven growth into new markets.

Paribu is among Türkiye’s leading companies in the digital asset and fintech sectors, pursuing a growth roadmap focused on regulatory compliance, product innovation, and geographic expansion.

In 2024, Paribu introduced Paribu Custody, Türkiye’s first and only digital asset custody provider powered by its proprietary multi-layered security technology, ColdShield. In October 2025, the Capital Markets Board (CMB) authorised Paribu to establish a brokerage firm, marking its entry into the capital markets. The acquisition of CoinMENA further strengthens Paribu’s role as a regional fintech leader.

Founded in 2020 by Talal Tabbaa and Dina Sam’an, CoinMENA is a licensed crypto asset service provider operating under Bahrain and Dubai regulatory authorities. The platform now serves more than 1.5 million users across 45 countries, offering access to over 50 cryptocurrencies and supporting multiple local currencies across the MENA region.

According to Yasin Oral, Founder and CEO of Paribu, the transaction is a turning point not only for Paribu but also for the digital asset and broader finance ecosystem in Türkiye and the MENA region:

"With this acquisition, we have expanded our licensed operations to a wider geography, becoming a regulated player in one of the world’s most crypto-adoptive markets.

We are proud to be leading Türkiye’s largest fintech acquisition and its first international digital asset platform deal.”

He shared that the deal opens a new chapter in Paribu’s growth journey, “extending our presence into the MENA region and contributing to the ongoing consolidation of the global digital asset industry, building on the strong foundation we have established in Türkiye.”

Talal Tabbaa and Dina Sam’an, Co-Founders of CoinMENA, said in a joint statement:

“The MENA digital asset market continues to grow and mature, and joining forces with Paribu will help accelerate that momentum.

By combining CoinMENA’s regional expertise with Paribu’s technology, we are poised to develop a comprehensive suite of digital asset products for users across Türkiye and the MENA region.

This acquisition is the most transformative milestone in CoinMENA’s history. Paribu’s investment validates the strength of what we have built, and together we aim to set new standards for access and innovation in the region’s digital asset space.”

For me, agriculture has never just been about yields; it has been about resilience. In my family, this meant keeping a horticultural business alive in wartime, or building one of the first tissue culture labs in Europe. Today, for me, it means asking: How can we take the most fragile, manual steps of plant propagation and turn them into robust, scalable systems? Because if we cannot translate care into technology, and produce more plants, faster and cleaner, then we won’t feed the future.

The scale is staggering: the world already needs 18 trillion new plants every year just to keep agriculture running. As populations rise, that number must grow. Without automation, this gap is simply impossible to close.

From prototype hype to productivity

I remember when robots in agriculture were treated like showpieces at trade fairs, nice for headlines but irrelevant for farmers. That era is over. Today, autonomous weeders run through the night and cut weed biomass by up to 97% in trials, while protecting fragile soils. In high-value crops, harvesting robots are no longer experiments but seasonal workhorses.

This is progress, but we must be honest: these machines don’t replace people. They shift the balance. They take over repetitive, risky tasks so that human attention can move to what really matters: making yields stable, sustainable, and resilient.

Why edge intelligence is agriculture’s survival skill

What makes this shift possible is edge AI, which means processing data directly on the machine, at the so-called “edge” of the network, rather than sending it to a distant cloud server. In agriculture, that difference is vital because it allows robots and sensors to react instantly to changing light, soil, or crop conditions.

Running lightweight models directly on the machine is not a technical side note; it is the difference between acting in real time and being too late. Dust, glare, unpredictable weather: no central server can handle that with the speed required. When edge AI works together with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, blockchain-based traceability systems, and drones, it transforms agriculture from a patchwork of disconnected tools into one integrated system that turns raw data into timely action.

Building the invisible infrastructure

Every visible breakthrough in agtech rests on something invisible: the shared digital language that lets machines, sensors, and humans cooperate. For years, adoption was slow because every system spoke a different language. That is finally changing. Platforms like Agrirouter 2.0 act as neutral data hubs that connect machines, apps, and sensors across brands. They enable farmers to exchange operational data securely and ensure that sowing, spraying, and harvesting information flows smoothly across systems.

At the same time, updated ISO safety standards for agricultural robotics build trust in human-robot collaboration by defining how people and autonomous machines can safely share a workspace. This is not bureaucracy; it is the invisible infrastructure without which innovation dies on the vine.

Closing thoughts

The biggest bottleneck is not in the field, but rather in plant propagation. Tissue culture, the method of multiplying plant material in sterile lab conditions, remains slow, manual, and highly vulnerable to contamination. Without scaling elite varieties quickly and cleanly, new crops never reach the farm. It is agriculture’s “factory step zero.”

Agriculture is about nurturing life, and robotics and AI can amplify that care rather than replace it. But Europe must act fast. Either we invest now in interoperable, biology-aware automation, or we remain dependent on fragile imports and outdated methods. We don’t have time to wait. Plant more plants, or face less food.

If we get this right, we won’t just grow more food. We will grow more resilience, more biodiversity, and more futures worth harvesting.

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