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Elevatry | EUR 3M Pre-Seed | Bayern Kapital, H&Z, business angels | Munich area AI platform for strategic procurement: it proposes sourcing and negotiation actions, buyers keep the decisions. [Elevatry, October 15, 2026]

Rabot Energy | EUR 50M Series B | Endeit, DeepTech & Climate Fonds (leads), HV Capital, HTGF, Bosch Ventures | Hamburg Dynamic-tariff supplier targets one million customers, pooling home batteries, wallboxes and heat pumps as a virtual power plant. [VC Magazin, October 15, 2026]

Skeleton Technologies | nine-digit round, valuation above $1B | Siemens (lead) | Estonia, factory in Leipzig Proceeds fund US manufacturing and R&D. [Tech.eu, October 14, 2026]

reebuild | EUR 3M Seed | Fortino Ventures (lead), Rise PropTech, Curiosity VC | Vienna, Austria AI back-office software for construction and real estate: turns invoices and delivery notes into structured data. [Tech.eu, October 13, 2026]

Ubitium | 14M USD seed | Ibex Investors, OpenOcean, Runa Capital, KBC Focus Fund | Düsseldorf Reconfigurable processor for robots, drones and vehicles. 18M USD seed in total; first commercial chip planned. [Tech.eu, October 13, 2026]

Causa Prima | 20M USD seed | Base10 Partners, QED Investors, FJ Labs, Creandum, Kfund | Munich, Madrid AI agents handle B2B invoice disputes and payment terms. Total funding 30M USD; US expansion next. [Tech.eu, October 13, 2026]

Trench Group | USD 9.0bn | Acquirer GE Vernova, seller Triton Fund V | Berlin High-voltage grid equipment maker; revenue about EUR 1bn, 3,000+ staff. Closing expected late 2027, subject to approvals. [GE Vernova / Triton Partners, October 28, 2026]

Grubel | €3M | Point Nine; angels incl. Jeff Dean, Chris Ré | Munich/Tübingen, Germany Builds case-specific AI assistants for legal work, sold first as an API to legal-tech providers. [deutsche-startups, October 12, 2026]

1Komma5° | €70M | Marunouchi Innovation Partners, existing investors | Hamburg, Germany Valuation $1.35B; money goes into Heartbeat AI energy software, about €30M annualised revenue. [Trending Topics, October 12, 2026]

Besso | EUR 4.29M (CHF 4M) | one anonymous European family office | Bern. AI platform tracks 1,250+ trade rules and tariff schedules to flag overpaid duties. Customers include Danone, Unilever and BASF. [Startup Researcher, October 9, 2026]

Klarent | EUR 7.13M seed | Mosaic Ventures (lead), Moonfire Ventures, AngelInvest | Zurich. AI agents write the test code, which then runs deterministically. Customers include Sixt, NZZ and JD Sports; US expansion next. [Dealroom, October 9, 2026]

UniSieve | USD 9M Series A | Orano Venture Fund (lead), Amadeus APEX, Founderful, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Guenat Holding | Zurich Membrane maker for gas separation and carbon capture; USD 25M raised to date. [Startupticker, October 8, 2026]

Turn2x | EUR 20M Series A | Antwerpen Ventures (lead), LEA Partners, First Momentum Ventures, Verve Ventures | Munich E-methane developer funds new commercial plants after its Spain plant started operating in 2025. [Munich Startup, October 6, 2026]

TODAY | EUR 2.8M seed | High-Tech Gründerfonds, Insurtech Gateway (co-leads), Seed X, Lucid Capital | Copenhagen/Berlin Compliant AI agents for insurance and finance advisors; 3,500+ advisors in DACH. [High-Tech Gründerfonds, October 8, 2026]

Finches | EUR 2M pre-seed | High-Tech Gründerfonds (lead), Vanagon Ventures (co-lead), Bayern Kapital, UnternehmerTUM | Munich area AI early warnings for agricultural procurement risk; founded 2025. [High-Tech Gründerfonds, October 8, 2026]

Procuros | EUR 20M Series A | XAnge (lead), W23, Point Nine, Creandum, b2venture | Hamburg B2B supply chain data layer for automated orders and invoices; EUR 29.3M raised to date. [EU-Startups, October 6, 2026]

Namespace | USD 42M Series B | Scale Venture Partners (lead), 20VC, NEA, Essence, Burst Capital | Zurich Build and test infrastructure for AI coding agents; round closes seven months after the Series A. [Tech EU, October 5, 2026]

Procuros | €20M Series A | XAnge (lead), W23; Point Nine, Creandum, b2venture | Hamburg, DE B2B data-exchange layer for suppliers and retailers: 300+ customers across DACH and UK, about €3B in annualised order volume. [EU-Startups, October 6, 2026]

Ahron | EUR 2.2M | Cusp Capital (lead) | Munich AI-agent layer that automates HR processes on top of existing enterprise systems; reports more than EUR 1M ARR since early 2026. [Tech.eu, September 30, 2026]

myflexbox | Undisclosed | Deutsche Post (acquirer) | Salzburg, Austria Parcel-locker operator with about 2,000 stations in Germany and 1,000 in Austria; deal reported as completed. [Salzburg24, October 1, 2026]