Post by Judie Alvarez

From €0 → first €1M ARR → Funding for seed founders | Positioning · Distribution · Investor narrative | ex-Antler, ex-TechBBQ, ex-Barclays | Follow for posts on distribution & how founders get funded

Last week's European pre-seed deals 👇 8 deals, €6M to €500K. AI infrastructure is getting the bigger cheques. B2B SaaS and hardware stay in the traditional sub-€1M Here are the core data points you need to know: 🇫🇷 NPCo - €6M AI (physics & simulation) · Lead: Partech · Founders: Emmanuel Menier, Matthieu Nastorg 🇩🇪 INXM - €5.7M AI (process execution engine) · Lead: Cherry Ventures & Redstone · Founders: Alexander Oelling, Matthias Kainer, Jesper Bylund, Kamil Klueberüber 🇬🇧 AethexAI - €2.82M Voice AI infrastructure · Lead: 4DX Ventures · Founders: Mariama D. Diallo, Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa 🇫🇷 Upstream - €2.79M AI (collaborative inbox) · Lead: Y Combinator & Connect Ventures · Founders: Louis Lecat, Jonathan Tiret 🇳🇱 New Dawn Bio 🌳 Bio - €2.1M DeepTech (bioreactor stem cells) · Lead: CapitalT · Founders: Tom Clement, Kianti Figler 🇬🇧 Joyvié Health Ltd - €897K HealthTech · Lead: Innovate UK & HERMESA · Founders: Zoe Robson 🇮🇹 Vivilo - €628K AI (event content) · Lead: Syndicate of Italian Private Investors · Founders: Logan Para, Marco Ciabini, Gionata Manduchi 🇧🇪 Sensie - €500K AgTech (greenhouse intelligence) · Lead: Division Q · Founders: Olivier Begerem, Christophe Sysmans This is curated, not scraped. Eight I could verify, not ten I padded. If I am missing a deal, tell me. I track European funding rounds and fund closes weekly. Follow if that's useful to you. 👇