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European funding rounds in hardware and deep tech, new funds and public programmes, open calls, and the EU rules that change how founders raise capital — each with a short note on why it matters and a link to the source.
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Paris-based Rivercell emerged from stealth with a €22m seed round led by HV, with HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture participating, to build AI-powered drug discovery infrastructure. It builds proprietary cell-response data and a predictive biological world model, relevant for deep-tech biotech founders seeking similar seed capital.
Paris-based WhiteLab Genomics raised a €23.2 million Series B led by AVP to accelerate its AI-driven genomic medicine design platform. As a biotech company building deep-tech drug-design tools, this is directly relevant to deep-tech founders raising capital in Europe.
London-based Metaview raised a €53.1 million Series C led by Insight Partners to scale its agentic recruiting software platform. The company builds a software application on top of existing AI models rather than hardware or deeptech, so it sits outside the physical-product focus despite being a sizable European funding round.
Dig Ventures has raised $120m to invest in Europe's AI infrastructure startups. This adds fresh capital to the European deep-tech investment ecosystem that hardware and AI founders can tap into.
Backed and SOSV have invested in Zenithon, a lab building AI world models. This is a deep-tech funding round involving foundation AI model development, though the round size was not disclosed.
UK life-sciences startup Basecamp Research raised $140m in a Series C round backed by Anthropic and Nvidia to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery. It highlights strong investor appetite for European biotech/AI hybrids, relevant for deep-tech founders seeking large growth rounds.
Dutch business-communications platform Bird raised $450m in debt financing while repositioning as an AI business and cutting headcount sharply. It shows debt financing remains available for scaling European tech firms even amid restructuring.
Portuguese defence-tech company TEKEVER, which builds AI-powered autonomous systems, announced the first close of a $580 million Series D round at a $6.4 billion valuation. This is a major growth-stage round for a European hardware/deep-tech defence startup, underscoring strong investor appetite for autonomous systems in Europe.
Germany's SPRIND and the Netherlands' NADI launched a joint €40 million AI-Native Chip Design Challenge to fund radical innovations in pan-European chip design, their first joint funding initiative. This gives European chip and hardware startups a new non-dilutive funding channel to accelerate development.
F13 emerged from stealth with $5 million in pre-seed funding to develop its own foundation models for generating vector graphics, led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital. Building proprietary foundation AI models qualifies it as deep tech, distinct from applications built on others' models.
Berlin‑founded legaltech Noxtua closed a Series C of more than €100 million, with C.H.BECK taking a majority stake. It's a large European funding event but the company builds legal AI software rather than hardware, so it's less directly relevant to physical‑product founders.
Cloud startup Verda raised $189m in a round led by Emergence Capital. It's a sizable software‑cloud funding event, not directly relevant to hardware or deep‑tech founders but useful market context.
A new solo-GP venture firm focused on early-stage AI and deep-tech startups has announced the first close of its debut fund. This adds fresh early-stage capital supply for European deep-tech founders seeking seed-stage backing.
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