Post by Judie Alvarez
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While everyone else is arguing about whether Seed is dead, Climate and Energy founders are quietly pulling Series-A-sized checks. These are last week's European Seed rounds 👇 → 🇩🇪 fonio.ai - €16.03M ($17M) AI (omnichannel AI platform) · Lead: 20VC · Founders: Daniel Keinrath, Matthias Gruber → 🇩🇪 GALVANY - €10M ClimateTech (heat pump platform) · Lead: SET Ventures, AENU · Founders: Raik Belka, Tobias Meister → 🇧🇪 Companion.energy - €7.8M EnergyTech (enterprise real-time energy management) · Lead: Realyze Ventures · Founders: Thomas Vyncke, Jonas Verstraeten → 🇫🇷 Uncovr - €6M HealthTech (surgical video to clinical records AI) · Lead: Index Ventures · Founders: Ines Iraki, Johann Diep, Eric Vibert → 🇫🇮 Reduciner - €3.6M DeepTech (industrial decarbonization) · Lead: Voima Ventures · Founders: Eemeli Tsupari, Johanna Grönroos, Sampsa Vuori → 🇸🇰 Definic (Previously Nordics) - €2.5M B2B SaaS (vendor intelligence) · Lead: J&T Ventures · Founders: Lukas Rezanina, Robert Decman, Michael Musinka → 🇫🇷 BuilderAssist - €2.15M DeepTech (construction robotics) · Lead: Undisclosed · Founders: Alban Brisy, JEAN LOUIS RENOUX, Olivier Canavy → 🇵🇱 paymove - €2.12M FinTech (European payment scaling) · Lead: 4growth VC · Founder: Piotr Mazur, Kamil Kuper, Tomasz Gęsior → 🇳🇱 OurMind - €2.1M HealthTech (healthcare admin AI) · Lead: 4impact capital · Founders: Marco Ferraz, Paul Koning, Fredrik Gustafsson → 🇧🇪 TurnUp - €2M HealthTech (patient no-show reduction) · Lead: Newion · Founders: Nicolas De Bruyne, @Jona Decubber, Koen Lepez Other notable European Seed rounds this week include: 🇸🇪 HAGA.BIO (€1.98M), 🇸🇪 Celluminova (€1.9M), 🇬🇧 Enera (€1.86M), 🇨🇿 Merchantee (€1.8M), 🇪🇪 Nanordica Medical (€1.6M), 🇬🇧 Strand Intelligence (€1.19M), 🇬🇧 Cordon Technologies (€1.19M), 🇧🇪 Duely (€1.1M), 🇷🇴 Naratix (€1M), 🇪🇸 Toteemi (€1M), 🇮🇹 Sintropy.ai (€1M), 🇸🇪 Arkeon Technologies (€594k), and 🇵🇱 sunbay.io (€550k). What I notice tracking this week's data: → Energy & Climate are pulling massive checks: GALVANY and Companion.energy both pulled in Series-A-sized rounds at the Seed stage. → HealthTech AI is booming: Startups are aggressively targeting hospital admin tasks, from turning surgical video into records (Uncovr) to reducing no-shows (TurnUp). →Geographical distribution is healthy: It’s not just London and Paris. Massive rounds are closing across Belgium, Finland, Poland, and Slovakia. This is a curated list, not scraped, so if I missed a European Seed round, tell me in the comments. If you want to get the full list every week, without waiting for a post, join here: https://lnkd.in/eNmWhHhv