Big Rounds: Growth and Late Stage
The headline raise of the day came from the property sector, where AI is increasingly reshaping how portfolios are assembled and managed.
- Dwelly, an AI-powered property rollup startup, raised $170M, backed by EQT and General Catalyst.
In fintech, a structured credit facility signals continued investor appetite for responsible consumer lending in the UK.
- Plend, a London-based responsible lending fintech tackling financial exclusion, secured a funding facility of up to $65M (approximately 58M euros), provided by Triple Point.
Series A and B: Scaling Proven Models
Several companies at the growth stage closed rounds to expand validated products into new markets.
- Greyparrot, a London-based AI waste intelligence company focused on the circular economy, raised $27M in a Series B led by investor Omar Mir, bringing total funding to $60M.
- Xeltis, a Dutch-US MedTech company developing artificial vessels and valves that the body gradually replaces with its own tissue, raised approximately $23M (20.5 million euros) in a round led by Horizon 3 Healthcare.
- Throne Science, co-founded by former Whoop CTO John Capodilupo, raised $10M in a Series A led by Will Ventures to scale its AI-powered toilet camera for gut health and hydration tracking. Emerson Collective, Accomplice, and Moxxie Ventures participated.
Seed and Pre-Seed: Early Bets Across Deep Tech and AI
Early-stage capital continued to flow into quantum computing, logistics AI, femtech, and cloud infrastructure.
- ZuriQ, a Zurich-based quantum computing startup building 2D trapped-ion processors, raised $26M in seed funding led by Quantonation.
- DITTO, a scientist-founded menstrual health company, raised approximately $6M (5.2 million euros) in a seed round led by FoodLabs, with participation from EKA Ventures.
- Tiger Technology, a Sofia-based hybrid cloud data infrastructure company, raised approximately $10M (8.7 million euros) in a Series A led by TCEE Fund IV, advised by 3TS Capital Partners.
- 5U AI, a Munich-based logistics AI startup building a digital workforce platform for freight forwarding teams, raised $3M in pre-seed funding led by Emerge Capital.
- Fincart, an Egyptian startup that has pivoted into an AI-powered operating system for e-commerce merchants, raised $3M in seed funding.
Cleantech and Industrial AI
Two raises reflected sustained investor interest in climate-adjacent hardware and software.
- Perceptual Robotics, a UK wind technology company using AI-powered drones for turbine inspections, secured over $5M in combined investment from new and existing shareholders including Investing for Purpose.
Broader Market Context
Across the day's announcements, a few clear patterns emerge. Quantum computing is moving from laboratory curiosity to fundable product, with ZuriQ pulling a $26M seed round on the back of a novel 2D architecture. AI continues to be the default modifier attached to almost every vertical, from freight logistics and waste management to gut health diagnostics and property acquisition. The Crunchbase data point noting $855M raised across more than 150 AI-cybersecurity seed rounds so far in 2026 underscores how broadly the market is betting that security will be one of the defining enterprise AI use cases this cycle. Meanwhile, the geographic spread of today's rounds, covering the UK, Egypt, Switzerland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and Germany, suggests that early-stage capital deployment outside the US remains robust, even as later-stage dollars still tend to cluster around US and UK lead investors.