Foodics, a leading operations and financial management platform in the Middle East and North Africa, acquires Norma AI, Greece-based AI company focused on the hospitality and restaurant industry.

Almetra, the Berlin-based startup founded by Romanian Silviu Homoceanu and Maximilian Fischer in 2022, secured €16.3 million ($19 million) in Series A funding. With this round, the company's total funding has grown to around €20.8 million, supporting its plans to expand into the US market. The Series A was led by blisce/, joined by NAP, Merantix Capital, Robin Capital, Underline Ventures, Critical Ventures, and a group of business angels. 

Greek robotics startup Acumino has raised $11.7 million (10.28 million) in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI platform for industrial automation. The company is the sole Greek participant in Google DeepMind's first European robotics accelerator cohort — a 15-startup, equity-free program offering access to Gemini robotics models, up to $350,000 in cloud credits, and mentorship from DeepMind engineers, wrapping up with a Demo Day in London in September 2026.

Czech startup Grid.online has closed a €4 million round to grow its neutral courier infrastructure, off the back of 10× delivery growth and over 1 million parcels delivered in year one. The round was funded by DFF Ventures, Movens Capital, angel investors from the early team of Finnish delivery unicorn Wolt, Reflex Capital, J&T Ventures

Swiss deep tech investor Constructor Capital has co-led a €3.5 million seed round in Ora Computing, a Vienna-based startup that compresses large AI models to make them cheaper and faster to run. The funds will be used for three things: growing the team, expanding compression capabilities to larger frontier models, and launching a commercial product for cloud inference providers and companies that deploy AI at the edge.

AI startup SuperPlane, based in Serbia, secured €2.28 million in pre-seed funding to build an open-source control plane that lets AI agents and engineers safely collaborate on production infrastructure. The round was funded by Credo Ventures (lead), First Momentum Ventures; angel investors: Stanislas Polu (CEO of Dust), Mirko Novakovic (CEO of Dash0), Tomas Kratky (Founder of Manta), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital).

Kraków-based agritech firm OneSoil has raised €1 million from Yury Melnichek to enhance its AI-powered platform. The company uses satellite imagery and machine learning to provide farmers with real-time field monitoring, crop analytics, and automated agronomic recommendations globally.

Superpal, a Vilnius-based AI startup, has raised €500,000 in a funding round led by FIRSTPICK, with participation from Outlast Fund, to expand its AI platform that acts as a fully autonomous coworker inside Slack. The platform connects with over 1,000 business tools to execute end-to-end workflows, such as generating reports and presentations, by processing plain language requests directly within team workspaces.

New CEE fund

Romanian Fortech Ventures has launched a €34 million investment fund and unveiled its new identity as Nucleo Ventures. Developed in partnership with the North-West Regional Development Agency (ADR Nord-Vest), the fund will back startups and innovative companies across Romania and Central and Eastern Europe, with the aim of supporting internationally scalable businesses while strengthening Romania's North-West Region as a hub for entrepreneurship, investment, and technology talent.

The fund was officially launched on June 23 in Cluj-Napoca, at an event attended by more than 80 representatives from the local startup and business ecosystem, the fund's partners, and ADR Nord-Vest.

Across the Atlantic

After nearly two decades of backing European startups, Seedcamp has raised a record $320 million for its latest fund, marking a significant step in expanding its presence in the US.

The new capital is split across two vehicles: $220 million will be deployed through Fund VII for early-stage investments, while $100 million will support follow-on funding for high-performing portfolio companies via a newly launched growth-stage fund, Select.

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