European female founders continued their strong fundraising run into December, securing significant capital across artificial intelligence, biotechnology, sustainable packaging, and climate solutions. Following a robust autumn, investors doubled down on thesis areas including precision medicine, on-device AI infrastructure, reproductive health innovation, and environmental impact measurement.
In collaboration with Female Foundry and the Female Innovation Index, TFN continues to celebrate women entrepreneurs shaping the future of tech across Europe.
Nu Quantum
Founder/s: Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Founded year: 2016
Total funding: $73.8M
Nu Quantum, a Cambridge-based quantum computing infrastructure company founded in 2018 by Dr Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, develops photonic quantum networking hardware designed to enable scalable, distributed quantum computing systems.
The startup builds the foundational networking infrastructure needed to interconnect quantum processors and enable more powerful, fault-tolerant quantum computers. The company’s core technology, the Entanglement Fabric, is a modular, interoperable quantum networking layer that creates high-fidelity entanglement links between qubits across multiple processors using photonic quantum networking.
In December 2025, Nu Quantum closed an oversubscribed $60 million Series A funding round led by National Grid Partners, with participation from Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures, plus support from existing investors including Amadeus Capital Partners, IQ Capital, and others.
Ankar
Founder/s: Wiem Gharbi and Tamar Gomez
Founded year: 2024
Total funding: $24M
Ankar, a London-based AI software company founded in 2024 by Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi, develops an intelligent patent platform that transforms how companies discover, draft, protect, and monetise their intellectual property.
The company builds the operating system for innovation, providing an AI-native end-to-end platform that spans the entire innovation lifecycle. The platform leverages advanced machine learning models trained on scientific and legal data to analyse over 150 million patent applications and 250 million scientific publications, enabling R&D and IP teams to work more efficiently and strategically.
The company’s AI agents automate critical tasks, including invention discovery, competitive mapping, white-space identification, patent drafting, filing, and enforcement, reducing the manual labour that historically characterised patent prosecution.
In December 2025, Ankar closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Atomico, with participation from Index Ventures, Norrsken VC, and Daphni. This brings the company’s total funding to $24 million.
Melt&Marble
Founder/s: Dr Anastasia Krivoruchko, Dr Florian David, and Prof Jens Nielsen
Founded year: 2014
Total funding: $17.4M
Melt&Marble, a Gothenburg-based biotechnology company founded in 2014 by Dr Anastasia Krivoruchko, Dr Florian David, and Prof Jens Nielsen, develops precision fermentation technology to produce designer fats and lipids as sustainable alternatives to conventional animal-derived and palm-based oils.
The company builds a synthetic biology platform that engineers proprietary yeast strains to produce customised fats with precise molecular structures through fermentation. Using metabolic engineering, the company reprograms yeast metabolism to convert sugars into fats rather than alcohols, enabling full control over chain length, saturation, and functional properties.
In December 2025, Melt&Marble completed a €7.3 million Series A funding round led by Industrifonden, with participation from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, strategic partners Beiersdorf and Valio, plus backing from Chalmers Ventures and Catalyse Capital.
Alinia
Founder/s: Ariadna (Ari) Font Llitjós, PhD and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis
Founded year: 2023
Total funding: $9.9M
Alinia, a Barcelona– and New York-based AI governance company founded in 2023 by Dr Ariadna (Ari) Font Llitjós and Dr Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, develops an enterprise-grade Guardrails API and AI Compliance Platform designed to enable organisations to deploy generative AI applications in high-stakes, regulated environments safely.
The company’s platform embeds real-time guardrails directly into AI systems, providing vendor-agnostic control across any AI deployment. Core capabilities include real-time policy enforcement, automated compliance monitoring, detection of hallucinations and regulatory violations, and enterprise-grade observability dashboards.
The platform features a hallucination detection system that delivers up to 40% better performance than industry alternatives such as GPT-4o-mini and AWS Bedrock across six languages, and specialised guardrails for the finance and healthcare domains.
In December 2025, Alinia closed a $7.5 million seed round led by Mouro Capital, with participation from Raise Ventures (formerly Raise Seed For Good), Speedinvest, and Precursor Ventures.
GlycanAge
Founder/s: Prof Gordan Lauc and Nikolina Lauc
Founded year: 2016
Total funding: $7M
GlycanAge, a London and Zagreb-based biotech company founded in 2016 by Prof Gordan Lauc and Nikolina Lauc, develops glycan-based biological age testing and diagnostics to measure ageing and predict health outcomes.
GlycanAge’s core technology analyses glycans attached to Immunoglobulin G (IgG), the most abundant antibody in human blood. The glycan structures attached to IgG fundamentally determine its function, shifting it from pro-inflammatory to anti-inflammatory, and thus serve as a precise indicator of systemic inflammation, immune status, and biological age.
The company’s blood test provides users with a quantified biological age score, along with actionable insights into lifestyle factors that affect ageing. Critically, the test demonstrates high sensitivity to changes within 6-12 months, enabling individuals to track the impact of therapeutic and lifestyle interventions, including diet, supplementation, physical activity, and stress management.
In December 2025, GlycanAge closed £6.5 million in growth funding led by Fifth Quarter Ventures, with participation from Guinness Ventures, BrightCap Ventures, South Central Ventures, Impetus Capital, Vesna Deep Tech VC, and Lightfield Equity, alongside backing from existing investors LaunchHub Ventures and Kadmos Capital.
IVFmicro
Founder/s: Dr Virginia Pensabene and Prof Helen Picton
Founded year: 2024
Total funding: $6.6M
IVFmicro, a Leeds-based fertility technology company founded in 2018 by Dr Virginia Pensabene and Prof Helen Picton, develops microfluidic devices to improve embryo quality and viability during in vitro fertilisation.
The company’s core technology is a precision-engineered microfluidic device that enables safe embryo culture using extremely small volumes of nutrient-rich fluid. The device reduces manual embryo handling by maintaining a more stable, controlled culture environment with consistent nutrient delivery and waste removal.
Preclinical data show a 10-15% improvement in embryo quality and quantity compared with conventional culture methods, translating into a meaningful increase in the likelihood of successful implantation and pregnancy. The microfluidic approach integrates seamlessly into existing IVF clinic workflows without requiring substantial changes to established protocols.
In December 2025, IVFmicro closed a £3.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Northern Gritstone, with support from the Innovate UK Investor Partnerships Programme.
Conveyd
Founder/s: Manasi Kulkarni and Stephen Cowley
Founded year: 2024
Total funding: $3.3M
Conveyd, a London-based proptech and legal technology company founded in 2024 by Manasi Kulkarni and Stephen Cowley, develops an AI conveyancing platform that dramatically accelerates and simplifies the UK home-buying process.
The platform automates approximately 50% of the conveyancing process, including identity verification, mortgage reporting, search requests, search report generation, document verification, and automated third-party follow-ups. The AI completes these administrative functions up to 15 times faster than conventional methods, freeing specialist lawyers to focus on higher-value work, including legal advice, title deed registration, and fund transfers.
Since launching in March 2025, Conveyd has processed over £20 million worth of property transactions. Average purchase transactions now complete in approximately six weeks (a 70% reduction from five months), while standard remortgage transactions are typically ready for completion in under a day.
In December 2025, Conveyd closed a £2.5 million seed funding round led by Eka Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures, Founders Factory, and angel investors including Passion Capital founder Eileen Burbidge, Sesame Bankhall Group CEO Richard Harrison, and fintech investor Mark Ransford.
NobodyWho
Founder/s: Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm and Asbjørn Olling
Founded year: 2025
Total funding: $2.2M
NobodyWho, a Copenhagen-based open-source AI infrastructure company founded in 2025 by Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm and Asbjørn Olling, develops an inference engine that enables Small Language Models (SLMs) to run directly on users’ devices, without requiring cloud connectivity or external data transfer.
The company’s open-source inference engine enables over 10,000 existing open-source language models to run efficiently across devices and operating systems. At its core, the platform is committed to dramatic simplification: developers can deploy local language models with just two lines of code, using standard development frameworks such as Python, without requiring machine learning expertise. The engine features deep integrations with major developer ecosystems, allowing teams to drop NobodyWho into existing projects without custom infrastructure work or ML specialization.
The platform has already achieved significant traction, with over 5,000 developers actively building on NobodyWho across GitHub and an engaged Discord community contributing feedback and use cases.
In December 2025, NobodyWho closed a €2 million pre-seed funding round led by PSV Tech, with participation from The Footprint Firm and Norrsken Evolve.
Root Sustainability
Founder/s: Gijs de Mol, Maud Schijen, and Sjoerd van Bekhoven
Founded year: 2022
Total funding: $1.1M
Root Sustainability, an Amsterdam-based climate technology company founded in 2022 by Gijs de Mol, Maud Schijen, and Sjoerd van Bekhoven, develops an automated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software platform that enables retail and consumer brands to measure, reduce, and manage their environmental footprint across entire product portfolios.
Root’s platform delivers 20x the efficiency of traditional LCA methods, reducing results from months of work to hours. Users upload operational data (materials, suppliers, manufacturing processes, transportation) and the platform automatically converts scattered, incomplete data into audit-ready sustainability insights.
The platform delivers comprehensive output across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, while also measuring environmental impacts, including human health, biodiversity, water use, and ecosystem damage across land, freshwater, and marine environments.
In December 2025, Root Sustainability closed a €1 million seed funding round led by Borski Fund, with participation from Rockstart, Spotlight, Empower Impact, and angel investors.
Ublo
Founder/s: Flavien Douetteau and Agathe Machavoine
Founded year: 2020
Total funding: $2.4M
Ublo, a Paris-based property management software company founded in 2020 by Flavien Douetteau and Agathe Machavoine, develops an integrated digital platform designed to transform rental property management by centralising property data, automating administrative workflows, and reconnecting landlords with tenants through modern, intuitive interfaces.
The system centralises all property data, automates repetitive administrative tasks including invoicing, payment processing, and lease management, and orchestrates seamless communication between property managers, tenants, service providers, and other stakeholders.
The platform features dual interfaces: a professional portal for landlords and property managers enabling portfolio oversight, tenant administration, incident management, and financial tracking; and a resident-facing mobile application empowering tenants to complete entry procedures (inventory of fixtures, key handover, lease signature), submit maintenance requests, pay rent, access documents, reserve services, and track energy consumption.
In December 2025, Ublo closed a €1.8 million funding round led by Banque des Territoires (the public development bank supporting France’s regional development), with participation from The Moon Venture, 50 Partners, and existing investor Kima Ventures. This brings total funding to approximately $2.4 million.
