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The Watchtower | Early Stage Edition Every two weeks we track the most interesting early-stage funding rounds across Europe. 💡 Here are the hottest early stage rounds of the past two weeks: Frontier AI: Sales teams. On target. Every time. Founded by Howard Kingston and based in London, raised £12.4M in Seed led by Atomico. Other notable investors include Tenacity Capital and firstminute capital. Conduct: Unlock the systems that power your business. Founding team includes JP Haas, Philipp Hoefer, and Henry Thompson, based in London, raised $60M in Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ. Other notable investors include BOOOM💥 and Creandum. Causa Prima: The agent-to-agent network for finance teams. Founding team includes Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing, and Philip Stanislaus, based in Munich, raised $10M in Pre-Seed led by Creandum. Other notable investors include Kfund, helloworld, and Angel Invest. THEKER Robotics: A power beyond human. Founding team includes Carla Gómez Cano and Albert Badias Losa, based in Barcelona, raised €85M in Series A co-led by Samsung Electronics, LVMH (Luxury Ventures), and CRV. Other notable investors include Henkel Ventures, Kibo Ventures, and 20VC. Kyber: Time for real-time. Founded by Jean-Baptiste Kempf and based in Villejuif, raised €4.3M in Seed co-led by Kima Ventures and OVNI Capital. Other notable investors include Lightspeed. What stands out this week is the shift from AI interfaces to infrastructure that acts on the real world: autonomous finance workflows, enterprise system mapping, adaptable robotics, real-time machine connectivity, and data-driven sales operations. London leads with two of the five rounds, while Munich, Barcelona, and Villejuif underline how widely Europe’s next infrastructure companies are being built. 📩 Full breakdown in this week’s newsletter. https://lnkd.in/eiXGe74A #VentureCapital #Startups #EuropeanTech #VC #EarlyStage