European tech weekly recap: €818M in deals and September's highlights
This weekly recap from a European tech outlet lists startup funding rounds announced across the continent, under the headline figure of €818M in deals. The piece itself is a list of headlines with country labels, and most rounds fall between roughly €1M and €6M.
The largest rounds listed are in the $4.8M to $6M range. Calliora in Germany raised $6M to fix hospital billing with AI, and Comparables.ai in Finland secured a $6M seed round for its AI platform for dealmakers. In the UK, MintNeuro raised $5M for chips built for neural devices, pubX raised $5M in Series A funding, PlannerPal raised £4.3M, and Nettle raised $4.8M to expand its AI workspace for insurers. Hexafarms in Germany raised €4.8M, and Besso in Switzerland raised €4.29M for its AI-powered trade regulation intelligence platform.
Several companies raised about €4M: Fleuret AI in France, for AI-powered offensive cybersecurity; Rodinia Generation in Denmark, a fashiontech startup that aims to save 100 billion litres of water annually; Golbriak Space in Estonia, for laser communications for satellite constellations; and TextYess in Italy, for automating CRM for e-commerce. Spain's Plesh closed a €3.75M round.
Smaller rounds include Denmark's TODAY, which landed €2.8M to scale its AI platform for financial advisors, and Germany's Finches, which raised €2M to help food producers spot supply risks earlier. Others are SensorX Solutions in Switzerland (€1.6M), SafeLoc in Spain (over €1.4M), SimpL in Italy (€1.2M, AI for B2B sales) and Romania's Declaro, a digital accounting startup that targets 1,000 clients after a €1M launch.
For readers following the Nordics, the list includes two Danish companies, Rodinia Generation and TODAY, and one Finnish company, Comparables.ai. Taken together, the round shows that AI-focused tools for specific industries such as insurance, healthcare billing, finance and sales make up much of the listed activity, alongside hardware, space and sustainability ventures.