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Startup coverage on Europa Now: rounds, pivots and the European companies growing up in public.
Startups
Italian AI startup Rulen lands €1.8M to automate tax workflows across Europe
Rulen, an agentic AI platform automating tax and accounting processes, has closed its first funding round led by VC Partners. The Italian startup plans to scale its platform beyond manual compliance work and junior talent shortages plaguing the sector.
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YGO lands €8M to bring AI infrastructure to Europe's fragmented travel sector
The Berlin-based startup has built a platform that lets travel companies plug AI agents directly into their existing systems, bypassing costly intermediaries and connecting suppliers with emerging AI assistants.
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Norwegian retail AI startup Jenz secures €540K to scale operations across Europe
Fresh from a hackathon victory, Jenz has landed pre-seed funding to expand its data-integration platform for retailers beyond Scandinavia into the UK market.
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Seoul's AI Data Centre Darling Elice Crashes 32% in Worst Korean IPO Debut
Despite massive retail demand, shares in the South Korean AI infrastructure firm plummeted on their first trading day, marking the worst debut for a Korean IPO of $100m or more.
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DeepMind's Graepel builds reasoning-first AI lab in London, rejecting the scaling paradigm
Thore Graepel, architect of AlphaGo, has founded Metis Reasoning to challenge the assumption that larger language models solve reasoning problems. The startup argues for AI systems that maintain transparent, auditable records of their logic instead.
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Copenhagen's Plinto Lands €2.9M to Automate Financial Verification with AI Agents
The Danish startup has secured pre-seed funding to deploy AI agents that catch invoice errors and duplicate payments before they drain company accounts.
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Finnish quantum startup Coherence Quantum lands €2.78M to solve the wiring problem in scaled systems
Coherence Quantum, spun out from Aalto University research, has closed a seed round to commercialise cryogenic control technology that could help quantum computers grow without drowning in complexity.
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Blackwall doubles down on traffic management with $100M Series C, hitting $2.2B valuation
The Estonian web security platform has raised fresh capital weeks after joining the country's unicorn club, as it expands its infrastructure for managing bots, DDoS attacks and AI-generated traffic.