TEKEVER leads disclosed funding
Its $580M round represents 47% of the $1.2B disclosed across this edition. Drone-based services designed to thwart maritime-based threats.
Sep 21 – 27, 2026 Startup Funding Weekly
23 funding rounds and $1.2B disclosed. TEKEVER leads the edition; explore the companies, investors and stage breakdown.
Sep 21–Sep 27, 2026 · 23 announced rounds
23Funding rounds
$1.2BDisclosed capital · 23 rounds
$6.8MMedian disclosed round
01 / The takeaways
The funding announcements
Deeptech: 5 rounds
Lightspring, Morphotonics, Qambria are among the companies in the most active sector by number of rounds in this edition.
15 early-stage rounds
Pre-seed, seed and Series A account for 15 of the 23 announcements. These rounds total $109.9M in disclosed funding.
02 / The full selection
All funding rounds
23 rounds · $1.2B disclosed · $6.8M median
| Company | Amount | Stage / sector | Lead investor | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qambria Qambria builds the classical engine designed to address the bottlenecks between quantum and classical compute. | CHF 2M | Pre-seed Deeptech | — | |
| Clastix Clastix develops infrastructure technology for organisations running Kubernetes across multiple teams, environments and workloads. | €2.9M | Seed Software | — | |
| Duqu Duqu is an fintech providing short-term working capital advances against outstanding B2B invoices, allowing businesses to access money before their customers pay. | €1.5M | Pre-seed Fintech | — | |
| Reply Next Reply Next is developing an AI platform that allows brands with hundreds of locations to manage their digital presence and customer interactions from a single place. | €400K | Pre-seed AI | — | |
| Wealthcome Wealthcome develops a comprehensive SaaS solution for digitizing and automating wealth management. | €15M | Series B Software | — | |
| Basecamp Research Basecamp Research combines DNA analysis and environmental monitoring in its BaseDiscovery platform. | $140M | Series C+ Healthtech | — | |
| F13 F13 is developing AI models for precise vector graphics, targeting professional use cases where accuracy, editability and adherence to design specifications matter. | $5M | Pre-seed AI | — | |
| MAGIC AI provider of an AI powered fitness mirror. | £8M | Series B Sports | — | |
| mika automate accounting and tax filings for SMEs. | €6M | Seed Fintech | — | |
| Palma.ai Palma.ai provides enterprises with a central governance layer for AI agents, helping teams control permissions, enforce policies and audit how agents interact with company systems. | $1.8M | Pre-seed AI | — | |
| Spiich Labs A Swedish startup leveraging AI to improve sales productivity. | €3M | Seed AI | — | |
| StandardX StandardX is developing an isotope refinery designed to increase the supply of rare isotopes used in medicine and fusion energy. | £10M | Seed Deeptech | — | |
| TEKEVER Drone-based services designed to thwart maritime-based threats. | $580M | Series C+ Robotics | — | |
| Xayn (Noxtua) Berlin-based legal-tech startup (previously Xayn). | €100M | Series C+ Legaltech | — | |
| Benford Benford is a registered audit firm in Norway with its proprietary engine, AuditOS, live and running client audits today. | €5M | Pre-seed Fintech | — | |
| Biolevate Biolevate helps medical writers go faster with a platform that uses NLP and visual document reading to assisting in writing. | €30M | Series A Healthtech | — | |
| Gamindo Gamindo is a gaming platform where people can convert time spent by playing video games in donations to no-profit organizations. | €1.4M | Seed Gaming | — | |
| Lightspring The French deeptech startup uses 3D lithography to manufacture optical interfaces directly on photonic chips, targeting a packaging process that accounts for around half of a photonic chip’s cost. | €3.1M | Seed Deeptech | — | |
| Morphotonics nanoimprint technology. | €40M | Series B Deeptech | — | |
| Spott Spott, an AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform for recruitment agencies. | $21M | Series A HRtech | — | |
| Verda (formerly DataCrunch) the European provider of AI computing infrastructure. | $189M | Series B Deeptech | — | |
| W4 Games W4 Games is a provider of enterprise technology and support for the open-source Godot Engine. | $18M | Series B Gaming | — | |
| Thri5 AI software that connects retail planning with daily store execution. | $5.4M | Seed Retail software | Whitecap Venture Partners, Mistral Venture Partners |
QambriaCHF 2M
Qambria builds the classical engine designed to address the bottlenecks between quantum and classical compute.
Clastix€2.9M
Clastix develops infrastructure technology for organisations running Kubernetes across multiple teams, environments and workloads.
Duqu€1.5M
Duqu is an fintech providing short-term working capital advances against outstanding B2B invoices, allowing businesses to access money before their customers pay.
Reply Next€400K
Reply Next is developing an AI platform that allows brands with hundreds of locations to manage their digital presence and customer interactions from a single place.
Wealthcome€15M
Wealthcome develops a comprehensive SaaS solution for digitizing and automating wealth management.
Basecamp Research$140M
Basecamp Research combines DNA analysis and environmental monitoring in its BaseDiscovery platform.
F13$5M
F13 is developing AI models for precise vector graphics, targeting professional use cases where accuracy, editability and adherence to design specifications matter.
MAGIC AI£8M
provider of an AI powered fitness mirror.
mika€6M
automate accounting and tax filings for SMEs.
Palma.ai$1.8M
Palma.ai provides enterprises with a central governance layer for AI agents, helping teams control permissions, enforce policies and audit how agents interact with company systems.
Spiich Labs€3M
A Swedish startup leveraging AI to improve sales productivity.
StandardX£10M
StandardX is developing an isotope refinery designed to increase the supply of rare isotopes used in medicine and fusion energy.
TEKEVER$580M
Drone-based services designed to thwart maritime-based threats.
Xayn (Noxtua)€100M
Berlin-based legal-tech startup (previously Xayn).
Benford€5M
Benford is a registered audit firm in Norway with its proprietary engine, AuditOS, live and running client audits today.
Biolevate€30M
Biolevate helps medical writers go faster with a platform that uses NLP and visual document reading to assisting in writing.
Gamindo€1.4M
Gamindo is a gaming platform where people can convert time spent by playing video games in donations to no-profit organizations.
Lightspring€3.1M
The French deeptech startup uses 3D lithography to manufacture optical interfaces directly on photonic chips, targeting a packaging process that accounts for around half of a photonic chip’s cost.
Morphotonics€40M
nanoimprint technology.
Spott$21M
Spott, an AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform for recruitment agencies.
the European provider of AI computing infrastructure.
W4 Games$18M
W4 Games is a provider of enterprise technology and support for the open-source Godot Engine.
Thri5$5.4M
AI software that connects retail planning with daily store execution.
Whitecap Venture Partners, Mistral Venture Partners
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