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The UAE’s leading small business payments platform
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The UAE’s leading small business payments platform
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Verso, an AI-poweredconsumer intelligence platform, has raised $6 million in seed funding. Theround was led by Angular Ventures, with participation from 100in, KimaVentures, Olympe Capital, Sharpstone...
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$6M · Seed · Oct 2026

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Comparables.ai,an AI platform for private and public market intelligence, has raised $6million in seed funding to support its expansion across multiple markets andfurther develop its core AI engine. T...
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$6M · Seed · Oct 2026

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UK-basedpreventative health startup Stride has raised £4.6 million in seed funding tofurther develop its diagnostics-driven health platform and supportinternational expansion. The round includes inves...
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£4.6M · Seed · Oct 2026

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Ambio, a Helsinki-based startup building an AI-native end-to-end procurement solution for recycled plastics, has raised a €5.1 million Seed round to make recycled plastics procurement faster and more reliable. The…
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€5.1M · Seed · Oct 2026
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Plenty of mortgage software startups have struggled, and some investors still remember the losses. Elio Mortgage skipped that playbook and became a licensed mortgage company, with engineers working beside loan…
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$5.1M · Debt · Oct 2026
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In this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building earlier startups, and how a group of investors, led by…
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$5M · Seed · Oct 2026

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MintNeuro, an Imperial College London spinout developing specialised chips for neural devices from implants to wearables, has raised $5 million to drive its commercial scale-up. The company is develop...
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$5M · Oct 2026

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Polish company KP Labs, which develops solutions for processing satellite data directly in Earth orbit, has received €4.42 million (PLN 19.4 million) from Momentum Capital Partners. As the space indu...
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€4.42M · Oct 2026

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Nettle, an AI platform for commercialinsurance loss control, has raised $4.8 million in an oversubscribed seedround. The round was led by MTech, with Project A Ventures following on with asuper pro ra...
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$4.8M · Oct 2026

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Besso, a Bern-based startup that helps companies manage the complexity of international trade regulations, has secured €4.29 million (CHF 4 million) in funding. The funding came from a single large European family…
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€4.29M · Oct 2026
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Most compliance software tells a fintech what needs to get done, then leaves the work to a person. A former Davis Polk attorney who spent years inside DailyPay and Kafene says that gap explains why companies treat…
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$4.6M · Oct 2026

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Walapay Inc., a global payments infrastructure firm using stablecoins for account issuance and payouts, today announced it has raised $4.6 million in a seed round led by Generative Ventures to bring global payments…
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$4.6M · Seed · Sep 2026

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Estonia’s Golbriak Space has secured €4 million in fresh financing to accelerate the industrialisation of its technology and expand production capacity as customers move towards embedding optical term...
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€4M · Oct 2026

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Fleuret AI, a Paris-based cybersecurity startup automating penetration testing with agentic AI, has closed a €4 million pre-Seed round to hire AI, software engineering, and offensive security talent and accelerate…
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€4M · Pre-seed · Oct 2026

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Ghent-based construction tech company Spotablehas raised €4 million in seed funding to further develop its platform andaccelerate its expansion across Europe and the United States. The round wasarrang...
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€4M · Seed · Sep 2026
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The latest in our series of articles on venture funding to non-tech founders features a former magician's assistant and ballet dancer who's building cybersecurity software with $4.2 million in seed funding.
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$4.2M · Seed · Oct 2026

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Cori Clinical, a London-based startup that acts as the intelligence layer to accelerate clinical trials, has closed a €3.8 million Seed round led by Breega, with participation from Enzo, Heartfelt, Together Ventures,…
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€3.8M · Seed · Oct 2026
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A commercial property underwriter can wait a month for an inspection report, only to learn it missed the wiring, the plumbing and the fire protection. Satellites cannot see inside a building, and that is where the…
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$4.1M · Sep 2026

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$4M · Oct 2026

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Rocket Mortgage for LatAm.
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Blue Health Intelligence, an Amsterdam-based preventive health care startup, has secured €3.4 million in funding for international expansion and further product development. The round was led by Knop Investments,…
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€3.4M · Sep 2026
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A Cambridge-founded startup that leverages AI to help cities manage roads and public transport more efficiently has raised £2.7m in seed funding, it said today.Alchera Technologies has raised the fund...
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£2.7M · Seed · Oct 2026
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Agentic e-commerce startup Loops Smart AI wants to help online retailers create more seamless buying journeys and streamline the shopping experience after raising $3.5 million in seed funding today. Andreessen…
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$3.5M · Seed · Oct 2026

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Simplified digital health insurance for Filipino SMBs
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$3.48M · Equity · May 2026

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IMMIX, a London-based AI-native trading firm that helps payment companies exchange stablecoins between currencies, has raised €3.12 million ($3.5 million) in funding. The round was backed by Crane Venture Partners,…
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€3.12M · Seed · Oct 2026

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Omnio, a Umeå-based BioTech startup, has raised an oversubscribed €2.9 million round from existing investors and shareholders to advance its plasminogen-based therapy for hard-to-heal chronic wounds toward clinical…
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€2.9M · Oct 2026

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Portuguese insurtech FRANK hasraised €2.9 million in a funding round led by Armilar and Start Ventures to further develop its AI-powered platform for insurance brokers and prepare for international ex...
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€2.9M · Oct 2026

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Workforce Management for Large Farms
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Payment Platform for LatAm Micro and Small Businesses
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India's first vegetable delivery service to restaurants with a hack
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Affordable care via ICHRA and primary care with visits, meds, labs…
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Collaborative platform for optimizing regulated utilities such as…
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Underwriting automation for small business finance
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Building a better way to meet online.
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Software orchestrated mass production of plastics
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