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This week’s funding rounds bring together a mix of European startups, from AI and FinTech to BioTech and CleanTech, all pushing forward with fresh capital!

👉 Take a look at this week’s funding summary:

Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 27 -July 31) | EU-Startups This article is visible for CLUB members only. If you are already a member but don’t see the content of this article, please login here. If you’re not a

Apolownia, a Paris-based company developing high-integrity coastal ecosystem restoration projects, has announced the closing of its first Seed round, totalling €1 million. 🇫🇷 🌊 🌱 🪸

The round was completed with the support of Lita, Bpifrance and a group of business angels and individual investors.

“At a time when everyone is chasing efficiency and technology has never been more accessible, it is presence on the ground that makes the difference. By mastering the entire chain, we are our clients’ single point of contact, from the field to the measurement of impact,” said Theo Derache, CEO and co-founder of Apolownia.

Paris-based Apolownia raises €1 million to scale coastal restoration and blue carbon projects | EU-Startups Apolownia, a Paris-based company developing high-integrity coastal ecosystem restoration projects, has announced the closing of its first Seed round,

Europe has much to teach entrepreneurs, but it also has important lessons to learn from founders building businesses in emerging markets. 🌍 💪

In this article, Dr. Eng. Nabil Shalaby, examines how entrepreneurs operating amid volatility, limited finance, infrastructure gaps and policy uncertainty develop resilience by testing, adapting and growing while conditions are still changing.

Hardship should not be romanticised. However, the discipline, adaptability, resourcefulness and local insight developed under pressure are becoming increasingly valuable as European founders confront slower growth, cautious funding and technological disruption.

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Lessons in resilience: What Europe can learn from emerging markets | EU-Startups Europe offers many advantages entrepreneurs admire: strong institutions, advanced infrastructure, research excellence, deep talent, sophisticated

Keiron Printing Technologies, an Eindhoven-based DeepTech company specialising in Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LiFT) precision solder paste printing, has closed a €20.7 million Series A round. 🇳🇱 🖨️ 🏭

The round was co-led by Invest-NL, DeepTechXL and Waves Capital, alongside existing and new investors, Ramphastos Investments, ATUM Ventures, Cottonwood Technology Fund and TNO Ventures.

“Solder paste printing has been the industry’s most expensive open secret for decades – a failure driver on a market worth well over €600 billion a year that everyone lived with because no one could fix it. This round lets us do exactly what the market has been asking for: put the HF2 on more lines, faster, without giving up an ounce of the precision that sets LiFT precision printing apart. Keiron isn’t patching a problem the industry has lived with for decades. We’re removing it, for good,” said Paul Rooimans, CEO and founder of Keiron Printing Technologies.

Eindhoven's Keiron raises €20.7 million to tackle one of electronics manufacturing’s most expensive problems | EU-Startups Keiron Printing Technologies (Keiron), an Eindhoven-based DeepTech company specialising in Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LiFT) precision solder paste

Atomic One, a Málaga-based technology company behind an AI operating system for e-commerce brands, has completed a two-tranche financing round totalling €5.6 million. 🇪🇸 🤖 🛒

As part of this closing, Arcano Partners, through the Impacto Andalucía Innovación y Desarrollo SICC, S.A.U. fund, invested an additional €660k, bringing the fund’s total investment in the company to €2.5 million. The round also includes participation from a group of private and international investors.

Jose L. Bustamante, CEO of Atomic One, said, “Running an e-commerce brand requires analysing millions of data points and making hundreds of decisions every day. Optimising those decisions is increasingly beyond the capabilities of any human team. Our platform collects and analyses that information, makes decisions, and executes them autonomously. The result is greater profitability for our customers.”

Málaga-based Atomic One raises €5.6 million to automate e-commerce operations with AI agents | EU-Startups Atomic One, a Málaga-based technology company behind an AI operating system for e-commerce brands, has completed a two-tranche financing round totalling

GenePlanet, a Ljubljana-based genomics and laboratory platform, has secured a strategic investment from LAUXERA CAPITAL PARTNERS. 🇸🇮 🧬 🔬

With this investment, the company’s existing investor BlackPeak Capital has partially exited its investment. It, however, retains a meaningful shareholding in the Slovenian company.

Marko Bitenc, the founder of GenePlanet, said, “Now there is a real chance to become a unicorn.”

“Now there is a real chance to become a unicorn”: Slovenia’s GenePlanet secures strategic investment from Lauxera | EU-Startups GenePlanet, a Ljubljana-based genomics and laboratory platform delivering advanced genetic testing and next-generation sequencing (NGS) services

Fundraising should not feel like guesswork dressed up as strategy. Yet many founders still enter investor meetings without clear evidence of what will make their pitch succeed. 📊 🌍

In this article, Benjamin Le Pendeven, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Audencia Business School and Director of the Finance for Innovation Chair, explores what investors really look for in a pitch deck and how their expectations differ across international markets.

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Pitching investors? Know which side of the Atlantic you're on | EU-Startups Ask any founder who has been through a fundraising round and they'll tell you: preparing a pitch deck can feel like guesswork dressed up as strategy. You

Intropy, a London-based AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other critical decisions for spare parts businesses, has raised €9.5 million in Seed financing. 🇬🇧 ⚙️ 🤖

The round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Capital and early investors General Catalyst and firstminute capital.

Franziska Kirschner, co-founder and CEO, said, “The physical economy is sustained not only by what we build, but by our ability to keep it working. Spare parts make that possible, yet many of the industry’s most important decisions still rely on fragmented systems and manual work.

“We are not interested in adding another dashboard on top of that complexity. We are building an AI-native operating system that can make and execute decisions autonomously, at scale and speed. The future is here, and we are ready to serve an industry that technology has overlooked for far too long.”

London-based Intropy raises €9.5 million to build the AI-native operating system for the spare parts industry | EU-Startups Intropy, a London-based AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other critical decisions for spare parts businesses, has raised €9.5 million

AI Infrastructure Capital AG, a newly founded Swiss company that owns and rents out compute for artificial intelligence, is launching with a recently closed funding round of around €16 million. 🇨🇭 🤖 ♻️

Anlagestiftung VALYOU in Rapperswil is the round’s anchor investor, with its managing director Yonten Wagma joining the company’s board. The fourth member of the board is entrepreneur Fabian Villiger, also from Rapperswil.

“Artificial intelligence tends to get discussed as something abstract. Underneath it is a very concrete question: are there enough servers, and are they in the right place? We make sure there are more of them,” said Cédric Waldburger, founder of AI Infrastructure Capital AG.

Swiss startup AI Infrastructure Capital AG launches with €16 million to tackle AI compute bottleneck | EU-Startups AI Infrastructure Capital AG, a newly founded Swiss company that buys servers, runs them at sites with renewable power and rents the capacity out on

Legora, Stockholm's legal AI unicorn, has acquired London-based Wexler, a fact intelligence platform that extracts, verifies, and reasons over the factual record from large and unstructured document sets. 🇸🇪 ⚖️ 🤖 🤝

Wexler’s engineering team will make up the founding team of Legora’s London engineering hub. The company has been on an acquisition spree, with Wexler being Legora’s fifth acquisition in 2026.

“Every dispute and every investigation comes down to the facts, and finding them is often the most manual and expensive part of legal work. As agentic systems take on more of that work, fact queries won’t just grow, they’ll multiply by orders of magnitude. Wexler is the infrastructure built to handle that scale today,” said Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora.

Swedish legal AI unicorn Legora snaps up London-based Wexler in fifth acquisition of 2026 | EU-Startups Legora, the Stockholm-based legal AI unicorn, has announced the acquisition of London-based Wexler, a fact intelligence platform that extracts, verifies,