Gravis Robotics leads disclosed funding
Its $200M round represents 39% of the $512.5M disclosed across this edition. Swiss-based earthmoving autonomy platform.
Aug 17 – 23, 2026 Startup Funding Weekly
18 European funding rounds and $512.5M disclosed. Gravis Robotics leads the edition; explore the companies, investors and stage breakdown.
Aug 17–Aug 23, 2026 · 18 announced rounds
18Funding rounds
$512.5MDisclosed capital · 18 rounds
$7.6MMedian disclosed round
01 / The takeaways
The funding announcements
Software: 4 rounds
Artwod, Prevalent AI, Redfaire are among the companies in the most active sector by number of rounds in this edition.
12 early-stage rounds
Pre-seed, seed and Series A account for 12 of the 18 announcements. These rounds total $338.5M in disclosed funding.
02 / The full selection
All funding rounds
18 rounds · $512.5M disclosed · $7.6M median
| Company | Amount | Stage / sector | Lead investor | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redfaire Redfaire supports customers as they modernise their ERP estates and adopt cloud and hybrid solutions. | €13M | Growth Software | — | |
| Artwod Artwod is a guided learning and community platform for visual artists. | €1.1M | Seed Software | — | |
| Callosum A UK AI infrastructure startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists offering a counter view to the “monoculture” that believes superintelligence. | $100M | Seed AI | — | |
| Guideless Guideless is developing a platform that uses AI to automate the creation and maintenance of software training and workflow documentation. | €1M | Pre-seed AI | — | |
| Paralo Paralo is developing software to replace the fragmented systems currently used to run golf clubs, spanning membership, tee sheets, competitions, payments, EPOS, food and beverage, marketing, reporting and agronomy. | £270K | Pre-seed Sports | — | |
| Pixelgen Technologies Sweden-based provider of a platform for new applications in cell-to-cell interactions and tissue. | $15.5M | Series B Healthtech | — | |
| Rillet next generation of accounting platform. | $100M | Series C+ Fintech | — | |
| Solinide Photonics Solinide develops photonic chips and microcomb technology for optical interconnects, addressing the growing amount of data that needs to move between chips in AI data centres without a corresponding increase in power consumption. | €4M | Seed Deeptech | — | |
| Velatir Velatir is developing an infrastructure layer designed to help companies manage the growing use of AI across their organisations. | €5M | Seed Software | — | |
| Aisel Health Aisel Health is the Danish HealthTech company building an Operating System (OS) purpose-built for psychiatry and mental health. | €1.7M | Pre-seed Healthtech | — | |
| Medly AI UK-based EdTech startup. | $8M | Seed Edtech | — | |
| Prevalent AI Prevalent AI develops an AI-powered data platform designed to connect and contextualise data across enterprise systems. | $22M | Growth Software | — | |
| SnerpaPower SnerpaPower is a Reykjavik-based deeptech company developing energy management software for power-intensive industries. | €3.4M | Seed Deeptech | — | |
| Computomics Uses bioinformatics to analyse crop performance. | €6.3M | Series B Agritech | — | |
| Noggin HQ British fintech Noggin HQ was founded to solve the problem and help the 14 million people in the UK who are facing exclusion due to their credit score. | £2.3M | Seed Fintech | — | |
| SweGaN HEMT supplier. | $14M | Series B Semiconductors | — | |
| amber amber is developing an AI platform that connects, structures and contextualises company knowledge across emails, documents, cloud applications and internal systems. | €7M | Series A AI | — | |
| Gravis Robotics Swiss-based earthmoving autonomy platform. | $200M | Series A Robotics | — |
Redfaire€13M
Redfaire supports customers as they modernise their ERP estates and adopt cloud and hybrid solutions.
Artwod€1.1M
Artwod is a guided learning and community platform for visual artists.
Callosum$100M
A UK AI infrastructure startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists offering a counter view to the “monoculture” that believes superintelligence.
Guideless€1M
Guideless is developing a platform that uses AI to automate the creation and maintenance of software training and workflow documentation.
Paralo£270K
Paralo is developing software to replace the fragmented systems currently used to run golf clubs, spanning membership, tee sheets, competitions, payments, EPOS, food and beverage, marketing, reporting and agronomy.
Pixelgen Technologies$15.5M
Sweden-based provider of a platform for new applications in cell-to-cell interactions and tissue.
Rillet$100M
next generation of accounting platform.
Solinide develops photonic chips and microcomb technology for optical interconnects, addressing the growing amount of data that needs to move between chips in AI data centres without a corresponding increase in power consumption.
Velatir€5M
Velatir is developing an infrastructure layer designed to help companies manage the growing use of AI across their organisations.
Aisel Health€1.7M
Aisel Health is the Danish HealthTech company building an Operating System (OS) purpose-built for psychiatry and mental health.
Medly AI$8M
UK-based EdTech startup.
Prevalent AI$22M
Prevalent AI develops an AI-powered data platform designed to connect and contextualise data across enterprise systems.
SnerpaPower€3.4M
SnerpaPower is a Reykjavik-based deeptech company developing energy management software for power-intensive industries.
Computomics€6.3M
Uses bioinformatics to analyse crop performance.
Noggin HQ£2.3M
British fintech Noggin HQ was founded to solve the problem and help the 14 million people in the UK who are facing exclusion due to their credit score.
SweGaN$14M
HEMT supplier.
amber€7M
amber is developing an AI platform that connects, structures and contextualises company knowledge across emails, documents, cloud applications and internal systems.
Gravis Robotics$200M
Swiss-based earthmoving autonomy platform.
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