Post by Julia Dous

Europe’s standout June funding from Seed to Series A. 10 founders. 10 rounds. All women. Zero coincidence. My kind of 10x. I genuinely love funding announcements. I collect them. Every round represents years of conviction, difficult decisions, fundraising conversations, pivots, setbacks, and resilience that rarely make the headline. And truly, to me, it's always about the people behind it building, backing, and believing. June was a particularly good month across Europe. From robotics and legaltech to deeptech, healthtech, here are some of my favorite funding rounds (and a couple of standout earlier rounds) 👇 🚀 Carla Gómez Cano and team at THEKER Robotics closed €73M in Series A funding led by CRV pushing AI-native robots deeper into industrial production 🚀 Martina Domenicali and team at Italian legaltech Lexroom raised €42.9M, led by Left Lane Capital building category-defining AI companies from Europe 🚀 Estelle Giuly and French startup Pivot landed €34.4M, co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, to power enterprise procurement with agentic AI 🚀 Anshika Srivastava and UK deeptech AI startup Apoha raised €31.6M, led by Singular 🚀 Hanah-Marie Darley and the UK-based team at Geordie landed €26.3M, led by Balderton, for its AI security and governance platform 🚀 Buffy Price and the UK industrial AI team at Gigaton raised €22.8M in Series A funding, led by Plural 🚀 Rachel Finegold founded British AI healthtech startup Frontier Health, raising a €14M seed round led by Atomico 🚀 Dr. Sara Brinkmann co-founded German legaltech LawX, pocketing €7.5M led by Motive Partners to build an AI-powered operating system for notaries 🚀 Elisenda Bou-Balust co-founded Spanish startup Cala AI, raising a €7M pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners 🚀 Ines Iraki co-founded French surgical AI startup Uncovr, raising €6.1M in seed funding led by Index Ventures To Carla, Martina, Estelle, Anshika, Hanah-Marie, Buffy, Rachel, Sara, Elisenda, and Ines: huge congrats. ❤️ Noticed? Every founder here is a woman. Not a coincidence or luck but the whole reason I started collecting these. Funding rounds make headlines. The years of persistence rarely do. Thank you for continuing to build ambitious companies from Europe and for raising the bar for all of us. That is why we built the Evangelistas: to make sure more exceptional founders have angel investors in their corner who bring experience, open doors, and genuinely want them to succeed. Because for us, the real "kind of 10x" is return plus what happens when more women get backed in times like these. Here's to the next generation of European companies, and the incredible talent building them. Tag a woman founder in AI, deeptech, or high-growth firms who are building something worth watching. Drop her name in the comments. I read every single one, and it's exactly how this community grows. 🙌 #StartupEurope #WomenInTech #VentureCapital #AI #DeepTech #FemaleFounders