There is more and more venture capital cash sloshing around tech.
Since early 2026, rounds have rebounded across Europe, the UK and the US, and new categories have attracted funding.
Tech Funding News reviewed the pitch decks of startups building everything from greenhouse robotics to AI tools designed to replace PowerPoint.
Here’s every pitch deck TFN has covered so far:
Herd Security raises $3M to replace annual security training with AI
Raised: $3M
Investors: Aspiron Ventures, Team Ignite, ForwardSlash VC, Forum Ventures, Rightside Capital, YPO
Industry: Cybersecurity, AI
Herd Security has raised $3 million to build continuous, AI-powered security awareness training for the modern threat landscape.
Founded in San Francisco in 2025 by Brandon Min and Grant Joy, the startup combines a company’s internal data, such as branding, behavioural analytics, and security policies, with live external threat feeds to generate tailored microlessons that can be deployed via Slack, Teams, or any LMS the same day a new threat emerges.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
eleQtron raises €57M to scale trapped-ion quantum processors
Raised: €57M
Investors: Schwarz Digits, EIC Fund, Earlybird, Ankaa Ventures, Precitec, NRW.BANK, IFB Hamburg
Industry: Deeptech, quantum computing
eleQtron has raised €57 million in Series A funding to scale its trapped-ion quantum processors, which use individual atoms held in electromagnetic fields as computing units.
Founded in 2020 as a University of Siegen spinout by Dr Christof Wunderlich, Dr Michael Johanning, and Jan Henrik Leisse, the German startup’s core MAGIC technology controls atoms using microwave signals already manufactured at scale for smartphones and satellites, making scaling primarily an engineering challenge rather than a physics problem.
The company has more than €60 million in signed contracts, including machines sold to the German Aerospace Centre and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Ekiden raises $2M to build institutional-grade infrastructure for on-chain trading
Raised: $2M
Investors: angels from LayerZero, Avail, Aptos Labs, Cube, Chorus One, Trading Strategy AI, and Node Guardians
Industry: Crypto, fintech
Ekiden has raised $2 million in seed funding to build faster, more reliable execution infrastructure for on-chain high-frequency and algorithmic trading.
Founded in Lisbon in 2025 by Vitali Dervoyed, who previously worked across capital markets and blockchain infrastructure at Neon EVM, RockawayX, and Mango Markets, the startup is targeting the gap between what professional trading desks require and what current on-chain infrastructure delivers.
ManaMind raises $1.5M to make autonomous game testing faster than human QA
Raised: $1.5M
Investors: Sure Valley Ventures, EWOR, Ascension, Syndicate Room, Heartfelt
Industry: Gaming, AI
ManaMind has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding for its autonomous game testing platform, which uses vision-language AI agents to find bugs through video and audio alone.
Founded in London in 2025 by Emil Kostadinov and Sabtain Ahmad, the startup built its own model trained for virtual environments after finding general-purpose systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic underperformed in internal tests. Full regression cycles that previously took several days now run in six hours, with 86% of critical bugs caught before release.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
Certifyde raises $2M to fix AI adoption where it breaks down
Raised: $2M
Investors: K5 Global, Flamingo Capital, angels including Honey co-founder George Ruan, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Nutrafol co-founder Roland Peralta, Taylor Fritz, Diplo, and Kygo
Industry: Enterprise tech, AI
Certifyde has raised $2 million in seed funding for its AI adoption platform, built around a browser extension that delivers role-specific guidance inside tools like Salesforce, Slack, and HubSpot at the moment employees need it, rather than through separate training courses.
Founded in 2022 in New York by Skylar Hauswirth and Mike Kelly, the platform tracks habit building and adoption across teams, giving leadership visibility into whether their AI investment is changing behaviour. Current clients include the NYC Department of Transportation and biomedical labs across the United States.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Patronus raises €11M to replace the emergency button for the elderly
Raised: €11M
Investors: 3TS Capital Partners, Grazia Equity, Singular, Burda Principal Investments, Adjacent, NAP, UVC Partners
Industry: Health tech, medtech
Patronus has raised €11 million to scale its digital safety and companion platform for older adults. Founded in Berlin in 2020 by Ben Staudt and Tim Wagner, the company makes a smartwatch with a built-in SIM card that connects seniors to an emergency call centre anywhere.
Where traditional emergency buttons have failed to gain adoption, Patronus claims that 85% of its 25,000 users wear the device daily and that it has handled more than 500,000 emergency calls to date. A companion app connects 50,000 family members to real-time updates on location and daily activity.
Noreja raises €1.1M to bring process mining to the mid-market
Raised: €1.1M
Investors: Markus Neumayr, Jan Sprengnetter, Prof. Martin Kaiser Industry
Industry: Enterprise tech, AI
Noreja has closed a €1.1 million bridge round to scale its process mining platform, which transforms operational data into a knowledge graph that AI can use to identify bottlenecks, compliance risks, and inefficiencies across business operations.
Founded in 2021 as a Vienna University of Economics and Business spinout by Dr Lukas Pfahlsberger, Dr Philipp Waibel, and Dr Jan Mendling, the Austrian startup connects directly to ERP, CRM, and SCM systems, cutting implementation costs by an estimated 60%.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
Eccasion raises €3.2M to fix the broken market for second-hand EVs
Raised: €3.2M
Investors: Playfair VC, Rethink Ventures
Industry: Climate tech, mobility
Eccasion has raised €3.2 million to scale its dealer-free platform for buying second-hand electric vehicles directly from lease returns.
Founded by Richard Burger and Martijn Obers — who previously built Swapfiets to 280,000 members and nearly €100M in ARR before its acquisition by Pon Holdings — the Netherlands-based startup uses AI to find, analyse, and match cars from closed trade auctions, pre-selling every vehicle before purchasing it, eliminating balance sheet risk entirely.
It charges a 10% transaction fee and offers buyers a 14-day trial and a 12-month warranty. Eccasion hit a €4.5 million revenue run rate in its first year.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Calibre raises $3.3M to build the AI membership that tells why your health is the way it is
Raised: $3.3M
Investors: Amino Collective, Daybreak Ventures, Cocoa Ventures, angels including Gousto CEO Timo Boldt and N26 co-founder Maximilian Tayenthal
Industry: Health tech
Calibre has raised $3.3 million in pre-seed funding to build a clinician-led AI membership that tells members not just what is happening with their health but also why and what to do about it.
Founded in 2025 by Alexander Weber, Ben Levy, and Dr Reinhold Innerhofer, the London-based startup combines diagnostics, causal AI, and clinical expertise into a three-layer platform that uses each member’s medical history, habits, and environment to identify root causes affecting energy, performance, and long-term risk.
inploi bags £3M from YFM Equity Partners to fix the candidate experience layer
Raised: £3M
Investors: YFM Equity Partners
Industry: Consumer, AI safety
inploi has secured £3 million from YFM Equity Partners to scale its AI hiring platform, built for mid-sized employers in high-volume sectors.
Founded in 2016 by Matthew de la Hey and Alex Hanson-Smith, the London-based company sits between legacy applicant tracking systems and the candidate experience layer — working with 30+ enterprise clients across 70,000+ job openings.
Its AI suite handles sourcing, screening, scheduling, and communications, while keeping humans in every hiring decision. The funding will support US expansion and the full launch of Talent Agents, its autonomous hiring agent product.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
Sage Haven raised $3M to build a kid-safe messaging app
Raised: $3M
Investors: Hustle Fund, How Women Invest, LaunchTN, NextBlue, Gaingels, ExitFund, Graham & Walker, Fuel Venture Capital; scout funds from a16z, Accel, and Kleiner Perkins; angel investors including Andrew Yang
Industry: Consumer, AI safety
Sage Haven, a sibling-founded startup, created an AI-moderated messaging and voice calling app that blocks harmful content before it reaches children. Instead of a closed network, each child gets a dedicated phone number, so friends and family can keep using iMessage, Google Messages, or any other standard app.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Proteins.1 wants to be the ‘PCR for proteins,’ and Lifeline Ventures bought the vision
Raised: €4.7M
Investors: Lifeline Ventures, Cloudberry Ventures, VTT, Business Finland
Industry: Deep tech, biotech
A Finnish deep-tech startup, Proteins.1, spun out of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, is developing an enzyme-free, ultra-sensitive platform similar to PCR for detecting proteins at the single-molecule level. The company wants to change early disease diagnostics by enabling the measurement of previously invisible biological signals using only small blood samples.
Ex-Google and Looker execs think agentic AI should replace your business intelligence tools
Raised: $7M
Investors: Next Frontier Capital, Foundry Group, K5 Global, Denver Ventures, angels from Klaviyo and G2
Industry: AI, SaaS
Gravity, started by former Google and Looker executives, created Orion, a multi-agent AI platform that aims to close the gap between data and action by providing proactive, scalable intelligence for business users. Orion works like a nonstop analyst, analysing business data, identifying new trends, and sharing recommendations without prompting.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
This brother-founded startup raised €2.1M to be the Docker of software integrations
Raised: €2.1M
Investors: Hard2beat, DigitalOcean Ventures, Heartfelt Capital, private investors
Industry: Deeptech, DevTools
The Warsaw-based developer platform Graftcode removes the integration layer between software systems with its runtime bridging technology. This lets applications in any programming language connect with a single command, without needing APIs, middleware, or client code.
The platform enables service interactions up to 70% faster than traditional web services and works seamlessly with AI-driven software workflows, the company claims.
Graftcode plans to reach 200,000 developers by the end of 2026, following Docker’s open-source infrastructure model.
You can view the pitch deck here.
UK fintech Ralio raised $2.5M to make AI agentic payments safer
Raised: $2.5M
Investors: Sure Valley Ventures, Seed X, Love Ventures, Plug and Play, fintech angels; continued support from Antler
Industry: Fintech, AI
A London-based fintech, Ralio, is creating a trust infrastructure that connects AI agents to payment systems, filling a market gap. Its platform adds guardrails, identity checks, and audit trails to transactions made by AI agents, whether through bank transfers, cards, or stablecoins.
You can check its pitch deck here.
ElevenLabs CEO backed Warsaw’s Replenit to become the reasoning layer of retail AI
Raised: $2.5M
Investors: Movens Capital, Vastpoint, Logo Ventures, DigitalOcean Ventures, Finberg, Caucasus Ventures; angel investor Mati Staniszewski, who is ElevenLabs’ CEO
Industry: AI, Retail
A Warsaw-based startup, Replenit, has developed an AI decision engine for retail that uses customer signals to make real-time, personalised decisions. The platform connects a retailer’s data warehouse with its marketing tools and works with existing systems such as Databricks, Salesforce, Braze, Bloomreach, and Klaviyo.
Refiant AI raised $5M to improve GPU efficiency, and pitched it as a climate play
Raised: $5M
Investors: VoLo Earth Ventures
Industry: AI infrastructure, climate
Refiant AI, a startup founded in South Africa, has developed compression algorithms inspired by nature that can reduce the energy consumption of most AI models by over 80%. The company has shown it can compress a 120-billion-parameter AI model so it runs on a regular laptop, maintaining almost the same quality while using much less energy.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
This YC alum is building a Bloomberg Terminal for clean energy developers
Raised: €3.3M
Investors: AENU, Y Combinator, Kima Ventures
Industry: Climate, SaaS
A Franco-American startup, Plume, has developed an AI geospatial platform for renewable energy projects. The platform brings together more than 150 regularly updated geographic and regulatory datasets, including zoning maps, grid capacity, protected areas, flood risk plans, and municipal decisions.
Estonian startup Handhold convinced Bolt’s CEO and Wise’s CTO to back its AI agent sales platform
Raised: €3M
Investors: Entourage Capital, Inovia Capital, e2vc; angels including Bolt’s Markus Villig and Wise CTO Harsh Sinha
Industry: Sales tech
An Estonian startup, Handhold, has developed an AI platform for B2B sales agents, helping automate outbound sales conversations and manage enterprise deal pipelines.
Its pitch demonstrated strong conversion rates and quick deployment for large companies, earning the company attention from Bolt CEO Markus Villig, Wise CTO Harsh Sinha, and Entourage Capital.
Check out its pitch deck here.
The founder who sold his last networking startup to Juniper just raised $125M
Raised: $125M
Investors: Sutter Hill Ventures, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Eclipse Ventures
Industry: Deep tech, networking
Mansour Karam, who previously built the intent-based networking company Apstra that Juniper Networks acquired in 2020, founded Aria Networks to develop next-generation enterprise networking infrastructure.
His pitch deck emphasised his strong track record as a serial founder and a clear vision for how large organisations will manage their networks in the future.
This startup is building AI ‘digital brains’ from the knowledge of human experts
Raised: $2.1M
Investors: Garri Zmudze, Raison.app, and other angels
Industry: AI, enterprise
Tallinn-based Pickmybrain develops AI agents that learn directly from human experts instead of relying on generic datasets. The company says this creates a new kind of enterprise intelligence that falls between traditional software and generative AI. Its system aims to capture and use the tacit knowledge of specialists throughout an organisation.
Sneak inside its the pitch deck here.
RTP Global backed Kestra’s $25M round on enterprise orchestration
Raised: $25M
Investors: RTP Global, Alven, ISAI, Axeleo
Industry: AI, SaaS
Kestra has created a workflow orchestration platform that stands out for its focus on the developer experience. It offers a clean interface, works with any programming language, and uses a simple, declarative way to build data pipelines.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Cherry Ventures backed Riplo’s £2.3M round to replace PowerPoint with an AI consulting OS
Raised: £2.3M
Investors: Cherry Ventures, Blue Lion Capital, and QuantumBlack’s founders
Industry: AI, productivity
London-based startup Riplo is creating an operating system for consultants, strategists, and knowledge workers. The goal is to replace slide decks with a structured, AI workspace for managing analysis, frameworks, and client deliverables.
This Prague startup is boosting restaurant direct delivery orders without replacing Wolt and Bolt
Raised: $7.1M
Investors: Alea Capital Partners, Reflex Capital, Smartlink, J&T Venture
Industry: Food tech, SaaS
The Prague-based food-tech platform Choice helps restaurants expand their direct-delivery options while still working with aggregators like Wolt and Bolt. Instead of replacing these channels, it connects with them and adds a direct ordering feature, it says.
Mountly raised €600K to bring Deliveroo-style delivery to the French Alps
Raised: €600K
Investors: Amitours
Industry: Logistics, consumer
Mountly offers Deliveroo-style food ordering and helps people discover local spots in mountain resort towns. The startup is launching in France’s Alpine regions, such as Chamonix Valley, Portes du Soleil, the Three Valleys, and Tignes–Val d’Isère.
It focuses on a specific group: resort visitors and locals, who are often missed by bigger delivery services.
Peek inside its pitch deck here.
Galtea raised $3.2M to fix the data quality problem, quietly killing enterprise AI
Raised: $3.2M
Investors: 42CAP, Mozilla Ventures, JME Ventures, Masia, Abac Nest Ventures
Industry: AI, data infrastructure
Galtea, a Barcelona-based startup, is working to address the data quality gap in enterprise AI. This gap occurs when AI models that perform well during development start to perform worse in real-world use because the data they encounter differs from their training data. The company’s platform finds and fixes these issues before they affect business results.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Ex-Nvidia founded Hosted.ai raised $19M from Creandum to make GPU computing cheaper
Raised: $19M
Investors: Creandum, Repeat VC, People Ventures, Z21 Ventures, Golden Sparrow, Hersir Ventures, Tekton
Industry: AI infrastructure, deep tech
Hosted.ai, started by former Nvidia engineers, is developing infrastructure to make GPU access for AI workloads much cheaper and faster. In their pitch, the team highlighted their deep knowledge of silicon economics and noted that current cloud GPU pricing is inefficient.
Eternal.ag raised €8M to bring autonomous greenhouse robots to Europe
Raised: €8M
Investors: Simon Capital, Oyster Bay Venture Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures, Backbone Ventures
Industry: Climate, agtech
The startup uses autonomous robotic systems in controlled-environment greenhouses to handle repetitive, labour-intensive tasks such as picking, sorting, and planting. The company aims to address the shortage of farmworkers across the greenhouse sector.
Pi Labs backed VerbaFlo’s $7M raise for real estate AI agents
Raised: $7M
Investors: Pi Labs, Haatch, Navigate Ventures, Old College Capital (University of Edinburgh), family offices
Industry: AI, real estate
VerbaFlo uses AI agents throughout real estate operations, from lease negotiations and document processing to tenant communications and maintenance coordination.
The pitch deck explained how each agent’s action leads to specific, measurable cost savings, making the ROI clear for property managers and landlords.
Peek inside the pitch deck here.
Antler backed First Concepts to rethink what AI creativity tooling should look like
Raised: $1M
Investors: Arāya Ventures, Antler; angels including the former managing partner of Havas, Jez Jowett; Nathan McDonald, the founder of We Are Social; Sean Williams and Sam Winward, who are partners at UNKNOWN; and Hugo Rodger Brown, the founder of YunoJuno.
Industry: AI, creativity
London-based startup First Concepts is creating an AI-powered operating system for early-stage creative projects. Its goal is to replace the mix of briefs, mood boards, and slide decks that agencies and creative teams usually rely on at the start of a project.
Fibionic raised €3M for bionic fibre placement tech
Raised: €3M
Investors: Redstone, Euregio Plus SGR, Caesar, LEAP4, and angels
Industry: Deeptech, advanced manufacturing
Austria’s Fibonicis is using biomechanics to automate the placement of composite fibres, a key manufacturing process in the aerospace, wind energy, and automotive industries that has been difficult to automate until now. Its technology enables machines to match the precision and flexibility of human fibre placement at scale.
Check out the pitch deck here.
Ark Climate raised €2.1M to reshape how governments plan for climate change
Raised: €2.1M
Investors: Satgana, another.VC, Voyagers Climate Fund, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, angel investors
Industry: Climate, govtech
Founded in 2024, Ark Climate aims to fill a gap in public sector procurement, where adaptation planning has often received less investment than emissions reduction. Its platform is already used by 43 German municipalities and runs on an ISO 27001-certified EU cloud.
