Samaipata, an early-stage pan-European venture capital firm, today announced that it has launched its third fund, Samaipata III, targeting €110 million, to back early-stage tech startups building on the AI wave. The fundraising process has already made significant progress, reaching €70 million. Institutional anchor investors include Spain’s SETT (Spanish Society for Technological Transformation) and Germany’s The post Samaipata launches €110M Fund III to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe appeared first on EU-Startups.

Emerald Technology Ventures, a Zurich-based VC firm with two decades of water-sector leadership, announced reaching the €100 million milestone for its Global Water Fund II in order to invest in startups innovating in the WaterTech scene. Today’s milestone was reached with the help of Temasek, Grundfos Foundation, Veralto Corporation, Ecolab, SKion Water and Oxy Technology The post Targeting water innovation, Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100 million for Global Water Fund II appeared first on EU-Startups.

London-based Outpost, an AI-powered platform that enables merchants to sell worldwide with “zero liability“, today announced it has raised €15 million ($17.5 million) in Series A funding to accelerate product development, expand jurisdictional coverage, and increase headcount to meet the global demand for liability-free commerce infrastructure. The round was led by Ribbit and supported by The post British startup Outpost raises €15 million to build liability-free cross-border commerce platform appeared first on EU-Startups.

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI),  a new Paris-based startup founded by the former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Yann LeCun, has raised nearly €890 million ($1.03 billion) at a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) pre-money valuation.  AMI is developing a new kind of AI systems that comprehend the The post Beyond LLMs: AI pioneer Yann LeCun’s new venture AMI raises €890 million to build “world model” AI systems appeared first on EU-Startups.

Despite talk of an ‘AI bubble’ happening on the sidelines, enterprises are heading into 2026 with more investment earmarked for AI. According to Boston Consulting Group’s annual AI Radar, corporations expect to double their AI spending this year, from 0.8% to about 1.7% of revenues. Who stands to benefit? It wouldn’t be wise to write The post From AI features to AI workers: The 2026 enterprise shift appeared first on EU-Startups.

Seprify, a Fribourg-based biomaterials company developing high-performance cellulose-based ingredients for industrial applications, today announced that it has raised €13.4 million (CHF 12.25 million) in Series A funding.  Supported by this funding, the company has also announced the transition of its cellulose platform from pilot validation into procurement-ready industrial supply. This enables manufacturers to move from The post Inspired by the Cyphochilus beetle, Seprify raises €13.4 million to develop cellulose-based industrial ingredients appeared first on EU-Startups.