Female-founded startups raised nearly €40M in Europe and the UK last week

US-based NiCE snaps up European conversational and agentic AI powerhouse Cognigy in €820M deal

Zurich’s Modulos secures €9.3M to scale its AI governance platform ahead of EU AI Act’s enforcement

Munich’s Project Q secures €7.5M to boost Europe’s sovereign defence and scale its Internet of Defence capabilities

1KOMMA5° expands €150M pre-IPO round; commits €100M+ to scale Heartbeat AI

Greece-based STIQ bags €20M from EIB to expand its AI cloud kitchen platform across Europe

Reka rockets to unicorn status with $110M round, leading the multimodal AI generation

Madrid-based Ucademy secures €3.5M to personalise test prep with AI and expand learning verticals

Swiss semiconductor company STMicroelectronics to acquire NXP Semiconductors’ MEMS sensor business

German warehouse software startup pyck picks up €2.6M in Seed funding