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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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Edinburgh- and Boston-based Bioliberty raised a €2.95 million Series A extension for its AI-powered home rehabilitation technology, bringing total funding to €12.07 million. New institutional backers joined, showing continued investor interest in European medtech/rehab hardware startups.
Berlin-based solo VC Robin Capital closed its second fund at €15 million, bringing total commitments across two funds to €30 million, focused on AI, robotics and space startups. This adds early-stage capital capacity for European deep-tech founders in these sectors.
Paris-based Bleu Robotics raised a €5 million pre-seed round co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital to build AI models that let industrial humanoid robots learn tasks from fewer demonstrations. It's a fresh deep-tech robotics round for founders in the space to benchmark against.
London robotics startup Machenta raised a $40 million seed round to develop an AI model for teaching robots physical tasks quickly. It's a notable large seed round for a European robotics/physical-AI company.
A Zurich-based robotics startup raised a $30m pre-seed round backed by Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch. The large pre-seed size for a deep-tech robotics venture signals strong investor appetite for European hardware/AI robotics plays.
Czech robotics company FLÆ Robotics raised over €1 million in seed funding from Purple Ventures and Garage Angels to develop its AI-powered hotel-service robotics platform. This is a relevant European hardware/robotics raise for founders in the sector.
French startup HyLight raised €13 million from Rubio Impact Ventures, DRW, Teampact Ventures and existing backers to scale its autonomous hydrogen-powered airships for infrastructure inspection. It's a notable hardware round showing investor interest in physical robotics solutions for industrial inspection.
Danish-Lithuanian drone maker Monopulse raised over €2 million from Lithuanian and international investors to develop electronic warfare-resistant drones. The round highlights growing funding for European defence-tech hardware amid rising demand for resilient autonomous systems.
Munich-based industrial robotics startup RobCo doubled its valuation to over €892 million in nine months via a combination of new investment and an employee secondary sale, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed and others. It signals strong investor appetite for European industrial automation and robotics hardware.
Paris-based industrial robotics company Inbolt raised €11M to fund international growth and expansion into data centre and electronics manufacturing sectors. This is a hardware/deep-tech robotics round relevant to founders building physical automation products.
Espoo-based Hyperion Robotics, an EIC Accelerator awardee, raised €6.4 million to bring physical AI to European infrastructure and is progressing toward a major procurement deal. This shows deep-tech robotics startups continuing to scale with EIC backing.
Estonian-Ukrainian defencetech company DOD Solution closed a €1.8M pre-seed round to scale its AURA AI autonomy platform for unmanned systems, backed by several angel and defence-focused funds. This shows continued early-stage investor appetite for combat-proven hardware and autonomy tech coming out of the Ukraine conflict.
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.
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