QuantumDiamonds, the quantum sensing company, has raised €7m in seed funding led by IQ Capital and Earlybird. 

BELGIUM: Aikido Security, a developer-first software security app for growing SaaS companies, has raised €5m in a Seed round co-led by Notion Capital and Connect Ventures, with further investment from Inovia Capital, as well as an impressive roster of angel investors including Christina Cacioppo, CEO of Vanta.

DN Capital, the leading European early-stage venture capital firm, and health-tech VC, YZR Capital has led a €5.1m Seed round for filu, a German startup that builds modern tech-enabled veterinary clinics. Lukas Keindl, co-founder of US-based Bond Vet, Rivus Ventures, Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund and angel investors also participated in the round.

Early-stage investor community South East Angels has invested in Uhubs, a SaaS platform helping revenue leaders build and improve their sales teams with data-led decisions.

Winefi has announced its upcoming platform launch, poised to revolutionise the landscape of fine wine investment, making it an accessible mainstream asset class. 

Oxford Innovation Finance’s Angel Network (OION) has invested in the latest funding round for Aura, the digital funeral planning and delivery tool tackling the fear, uncertainty and complexity surrounding death.

Portaire, a UK-based startup, has successfully raised £550,000 to build a workflow platform for interior designers.

Portaire is creating the future of work for the interior design industry by simplifying every stage of the design process from sourcing to procurement. From discovering beautiful products from top international brands to client presentations and scheduling, Portaire enables a more efficient and collaborative process.

Airponix, an agri-tech company providing systems that allow the growth of high-quality produce with no soil, 95% less water and lower energy consumption, has received investment from four Henley Business Angels members. Their investment contributes towards £255,000 that has already been raised by the Board and current shareholders. 

Shop Circle, a scale-up focused on the creation and acquisition of e-commerce applications and tools which was founded in 2021 in London by entrepreneurs Luca Cartechini and Gian Maria Gramondi, has raised funding from a number of VC and angel investors.

FINLAND: Finnish Earth observation company Kuva Space has successfully raised €16.6M in funding. The funding round was led by existing investors Voima Ventures and Nordic Foodtech VC, with Singapore-based Earth VC also participating. The round also includes Finnish private investors through a Finland-based growth funding initiative with Springvest and non-equity funding from Business Finland.

Geovation,  a community of innovators and collaborators which uses location data to create solutions addressing global challenges, has announced a new cohort of six GeoTech and PropTech start-ups has just been selected to start on its Accelerator Programme. 

PARIS: Zygon, the cybersecurity solution for protecting enterprises from the risks brought by the uncontrolled spread of Software-as-a-Service applications among their teams, today announced a $3M seed round and the public release of their solution. The fully subscribed round was led by Axeleo Capital, and includes Kima Ventures as well as multiple world-class cybersecurity angel investors.