Weekly funding picks, 19–25 October: banking AI, machine monitoring and code validation

Indian jewellery brand designing pieces with lab-grown diamonds for online and physical retail.

C1 Green Chemicals develops catalysts and reactors for producing green methanol from non-fossil feedstocks.

Flying Whales develops heavy-lift cargo airships for moving large loads to sites with limited transport infrastructure.

Town is a personal AI assistant that works across email, calendars, documents and messaging to handle tasks in a user’s connected tools.

Remolonas sells food that has lost its usual commercial outlet through personalised subscriptions and online orders.

Clinical-stage biotech developing neoantigen-based cancer immunotherapies.

Spanish energy technology company helping businesses measure consumption, validate bills and put energy-saving projects into operation.

Orbital Systems develops circular-water products that reduce water and energy use in buildings.

A social buying platform connecting Ethiopian households and business buyers with farmers and suppliers.

WHILL develops personal mobility devices and autonomous mobility services for short-distance travel.

Alice provides employer-sponsored health insurance and coordinated primary care in Brazil.

Impossible Cloud provides cloud storage and AI infrastructure from European data centres, giving businesses access to S3-compatible storage, GPU computing and managed inference.

NOVUS designs and manufactures lightweight electric motorcycles with carbon-fibre frames for urban travel.

Indian menswear brand selling trousers and adjacent clothing through online channels and physical stores.

Sirona Technologies Norway AS coordinates Project Furu, a modular direct-air-capture and carbon-storage project in Øygarden.

Cemvision develops low-carbon cement using industrial by-products and electrified production.

Payment infrastructure that helps businesses accept local payment methods and manage money across the Americas.

Nabta Health combines digital, at-home and clinical care with preventive screening and AI-supported care navigation.

Go Eve develops DockChain, a system that lets multiple parked electric vehicles share one DC fast charger.

Enzo Ventures Fund II backs pre-seed startups founded by entrepreneurs from Southern Europe and its diaspora.

GreenIron recovers metals from oxidised industrial residues using hydrogen-based reduction.

Voice AI for recruiting and managing frontline employees.

CoComply helps organisations identify, classify and govern external workers across contractors, agencies and supplier agreements.

Refinis UAB develops catalyst-recycling and precious-metal recovery operations in Lithuania.

Marble Cognition builds AI coworkers by first mapping how teams perform their work.

Indian menswear brand selling trousers and adjacent clothing through online channels and physical stores.

XFuel develops processes that convert waste liquids and biomass into low-carbon transport fuels and related products.

An accounting service that combines specialist staff and software to run small businesses' bookkeeping and back-office work.

Rezzil turns sports movement data into training tools, broadcast visuals, fan experiences and games.

ICODOS develops integrated carbon-capture and e-methanol production technology for transport fuels and chemical feedstocks.