Traqcheck (UK AI hiring); Fluidstack $1B valuation; NATO backs Finnish
airships; Helical drug discovery
💰 21 new AI deals profiled below by category.
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🇬🇧 Traqcheck raises $8M to automate AI-powered hiring and background verification.
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💳 Agentic payments heating up: Nava $8.3M and Solvapay €2.4M both close rounds.
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🇬🇧 Helical raises $10M seed to build a virtual AI drug discovery lab.
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💾 Fluidstack in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation for AI data centers.
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🎈 Kelluu raises €15M — NATO's first Finnish investment — for hydrogen surveillance airships.
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🧠 Newfund closes Europe's first dedicated braintech fund at €60M.
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🤖 Synera raises €35M to deploy AI agents in engineering production workflows.
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⭐ Featured Deal
Traqcheck
🇬🇧
$8M
London-based HR
tech startup
Traqcheck has
raised $8 million
in a Series A
funding round led
by IvyCap
Ventures, with
participation from
IIFL. The company
automates hiring
workflows using AI
agents, improving
efficiency and
reducing errors in
background
verification.
Traqcheck's
platform is
already used by
nearly 300
enterprise
customers and is
expanding into
talent acquisition
with a new
conversational AI
agent. The funding
will support its
expansion in the
UK and scaling of
its AI-driven
infrastructure.
Investors: IvyCap
Ventures, IIFL
🔥 Major Deals
Fluidstack
🇺🇸
$1B
Fluidstack, a startup
specializing in AI data
centers, is in talks to
raise $1 billion at an $18
billion valuation,
potentially led by Jane
Street. This follows a
previous attempt to raise
$700 million at a $7.5
billion valuation,
backed...
Investors: Jane Street,
Collison brothers, Nat
Friedman
💪 Mid-Sized Deals
$95M
Collide Capital, a
black-led venture firm
based in New York, has
closed its second fund
with $95 million to invest
in over 30 early-stage
startups in fintech,
supply chain, and the
future of work. The fund
attracted backing from
notable...
Investors: Goldman
Sachs,JPMorgan
Newfund
🇫🇷
$64.8M
Newfund has closed the
heka fund at €60 million,
the first European fund
focused solely on
braintech. It aims to
address the challenge of
turning Europe's
neuroscience research into
successful businesses,
which often struggle
compared to the US market.
The...
Investors: 100 family
offices and entrepreneurs
Bluefish
🇺🇸
$43M
bluefish, an enterprise
marketing technology
company specializing in
AI-driven 'agentic
marketing,' has secured
$43 million in a Series B
financing round co-led by
Threshold Ventures and
NEA. This funding will
support the expansion of
their innovative marketing
platform.
Investors: Threshold
Ventures, NEA
Synera
🇩🇪
$37.8M
Synera, founded in 2018 in
Bremen, Germany, has
raised €35 million ($40
million) in a Series B
funding round led by
Revaia. The company
addresses the challenge of
getting AI prototypes into
production by using AI
agents to manage
engineering...
Investors: Revaia
Kelluu
🇫🇮
$16.2M
Kelluu, a Finnish deeptech
startup, has raised €15
million in a Series A
funding round led by the
NATO Innovation Fund,
marking its first
investment in Finland. The
company operates
autonomous
hydrogen-powered airships
for aerial surveillance,
providing persistent
monitoring capabilities...
Investors: NATO Innovation
Fund, Keen Venture
Partners, Gungnir Capital
Wamo
🇫🇮
$10.8M
Wamo, a financial
operating platform for
SMEs, has raised €10
million in a Series A
funding round led by TCEE
Fund IV, with
participation from Oleka
Capital and existing
investors. The funding
will accelerate its
expansion in Italy and
the...
Investors: TCEE Fund IV,
Oleka Capital
Helical
🇬🇧
$10M
Helical, a biotechnology
company, has raised $10
million in seed funding to
address bottlenecks in
drug discovery by building
a virtual AI lab. The
funding round was led by
Redalpine, with
participation from
Gradient, Boxgroup, and
FRST, along with angel...
Investors: Redalpine,
Gradient, Boxgroup, FRST,
Aidan Gomez, Mario Götze
🚀 Smaller Deals
Opengradient
🇺🇸
$9.5M
OpenGradient, a
decentralized AI
infrastructure company,
has raised $9.5 million to
enhance its platform for
verifiable AI model
execution. The funding
round was led by a16z
crypto, with participation
from Coinbase Ventures and
others. The company
addresses the transparency
issues...
Investors: a16z crypto,
Coinbase Ventures
Nava
🇺🇸
$8.3M
Nava, a startup focused on
building trust in
autonomous payments, has
raised $8.3 million in
seed funding co-led by
Polychain and Archetype.
The company aims to
address concerns about AI
agents mismanaging funds
by creating an escrow
service that verifies...
Investors: Polychain,
Archetype
Traqcheck
🇬🇧
$8M
London-based HR tech
startup Traqcheck has
raised $8 million in a
Series A funding round led
by IvyCap Ventures, with
participation from IIFL.
The company automates
hiring workflows using AI
agents, improving
efficiency and reducing
errors in background
verification.
Traqcheck's...
Investors: IvyCap
Ventures, IIFL
$7.5M
Prefix Maintenance Inc.
has raised $7.5 million in
funding to enhance its
AI-driven facility
management platform. The
investment aims to improve
sales and marketing
efforts and enable the
company to service over
10,000 locations across
the United States. Founded
in...
$5.625M
Clean Food Group (CFG), a
UK-based biotech
manufacturer, has secured
a £4.5 million investment
led by Clean Growth Fund
and New Agrarian, along
with a £700,000
non-dilutive grant from
Innovate UK. The funding
will enhance CFG's
fermentation facility in
Knowsley,...
Investors: Clean Growth
Fund, New Agrarian
Otel AI
🇮🇪
$3.024M
Otel AI, founded by Paul
Ryan and Nikhil Patil in
Dublin, has raised a total
of €2.8 million in
funding, including
€800,000 from Nebular,
Baseline, and Angel
Invest, followed by a €2
million round led by
Playfair. The platform
automates...
Investors:
Nebular,Baseline,Angel
Invest,Playfair
Modern Relay
🇪🇸
$3M
Modern Relay has secured a
$3 million funding round
led by Point Nine, Emerge,
Amino Collective, and
Common Magic, with notable
investors including
Charlie Songhurst and
Michael Boehler. The
company addresses the
challenge of fragmented
organizational context by
providing a...
Investors: Point Nine,
Emerge, Amino Collective,
Common Magic, Charlie
Songhurst, Michael Boehler
Solvapay
🇸🇪
$2.592M
Solvapay, a
Stockholm-based AI
payments platform, has
raised €2.4 million in
pre-seed funding to
develop payment
infrastructure for the
agentic economy. The
funding round was led by
Redstone and MS&AD
Ventures, with
participation from Antler
and Greens Ventures.
Solvapay aims...
Investors: Redstone,
MS&AD Ventures,
Antler, Greens Ventures
Peak Quantum
🇩🇪
$2.376M
Munich-based quantum
computing startup Peak
Quantum has secured €2.2
million in pre-seed
funding, led by Cloudberry
Ventures, to develop its
superconducting quantum
processor technology and
establish a pilot
manufacturing line in
Europe. With public
funding, the total capital
raised exceeds...
Investors: Cloudberry
Ventures
Graftcode
🇵🇱
$2.268M
Graftcode, a Warsaw-based
developer platform, has
raised €2.1 million in
funding led by Hard2Beat,
with participation from
DigitalOcean Ventures and
others. This investment
brings total funding to
€6.5 million and coincides
with the beta launch of
its platform, which
simplifies...
Investors: Hard2Beat,
DigitalOcean Ventures
Deepcyte
🇩🇰
$1.5M
Deepcyte, a techbio
company specializing in
AI-driven toxicology for
drug development, has
launched with $1.5 million
in seed funding. This
funding will help advance
its single-cell analysis
platform and predictive AI
tools, addressing
challenges in drug
development.
Obriy AI
🌍
$0.5M
Obriy AI, a Ukrainian
startup, has raised
$500,000 from N1
Investment Company to
develop its
enterprise-grade AI
platform, Sure, which
optimizes complex business
processes through workflow
automation. The platform
utilizes coordinated AI
agents to manage tasks
like customer support
and...
Investors: N1 Investment
Company
Fortreum
🇺🇸
Undisclosed
Fortreum, a cybersecurity
assessment and advisory
firm, has acquired
Kovr.ai, an AI-native
compliance platform aimed
at organizations in highly
regulated industries. The
acquisition enhances
Fortreum's capabilities in
AI-driven cybersecurity
compliance.
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