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🌍 Part of @startuprad_io DACH startup & scaleup dealflow. Funding, M&A & market signals — structured, not noise.

Frankfurt on the Main, Germany
Joined September 2017
EIB x Deutsche Bank | €560M | Space TechEU partnership | EU, about half for Germany Financing for space component makers, launch technology and satellite service providers. Instruments not specified in the release. [Deutsche Bank, October 30, 2026]
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NAiSE | Undisclosed stake | Koerber | Germany Vendor-agnostic fleet management for AGVs, autonomous mobile robots and manual industrial vehicles. Stake size not disclosed. [DC Velocity, October 28, 2026]
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Smycles | €1.5M | IBG funds Saxony-Anhalt (bmp Ventures), US investor, German entrepreneur | Magdeburg Software that composes teams of employees and AI agents from HR, project and process data. HQ moves to Magdeburg. [Startbase, October 20, 2026]
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Cellbox Solutions | €5M Series A final close | Baltic Business Angels members, Canadian family office, NRW.BANK, Fraunhofer Venture | Cologne Warm-chain logistics for living cells and tissue; €3.5M came in March. [Cellbox Solutions via EQS News, October 20, 2026]
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Sonexos | CHF 5M Pre-Series A | Valquest Partners, Bosch Ventures | Lausanne Plasma-based active noise control moving into industrial production. [audioXpress, October 21, 2026]
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Distalmotion | up to $70M term loan | Perceptive Advisors | Lausanne Debt to expand its Dexter surgical robot in US ambulatory surgery centres. [GlobeNewswire, October 21, 2026]
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MuRay | €7.1M (€3.5M private, €3.6M public grants) | First Momentum Ventures, Caelora | Hamburg Muon imaging to inspect rocket engines and gas turbines; first DLR test planned for 2027. [Tech.eu, October 29, 2026]
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Tendos | €12M Seed | Insight Partners, Personio, Forto, Flix and SumUp founders | Munich AI agents for tenders, quotes and orders at building-materials manufacturers. [Trending Topics, October 27, 2026]
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Atlas Bio | USD 10m seed | Creandum (lead) | Basel AI-simulated Phase II drug trials that predict patient response from human RNA data; USD 12.5m raised in total. [Tech Funding News, October 27, 2026]
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Tendos | EUR 12m seed | Insight Partners (lead), founders of Personio, Forto, Flix, SumUp | Munich AI agents that draft quotes and process orders for building-materials makers; customers include Wilo, Grundfos, Hansgrohe. [Trending Topics, October 27, 2026]
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Qwello | up to EUR 55m | ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund (up to EUR 25m), Tiger Infrastructure Partners, existing shareholders | Munich EV charging operator with 19,500+ public charge points in eight countries. [Munich Startup, October 28, 2026]
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Beyond Civic | Majority stake, terms undisclosed | ELCA | Lucerne, Switzerland Swiss IT provider buys control of the 2022-founded trusted data exchange specialist; Beyond Civic stays independent inside the group. [Startupticker, October 26, 2026]
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Atlas Bio | USD 12.5M (USD 10M Seed, USD 2.5M Pre-Seed) | Creandum; First Momentum Ventures, LEA Partners | Basel, Switzerland AI model that simulates drug effects in virtual patient cohorts, aimed at replacing Phase II trials. [Startupticker, October 27, 2026]
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Tendos | EUR 12M Seed | Insight Partners; founders of Personio, Forto, Flix and SumUp | Munich, Germany AI agents for sales back-office work at building-materials makers; customers include Wilo, Grundfos and Hansgrohe. [Trending Topics, October 27, 2026]
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roadsurfer | Majority stake, terms undisclosed | Kennedy Lewis Investment Management | Munich, Germany US investor takes majority ownership of the camper rental platform founded in Munich in 2016. [Business Wire, October 26, 2026]
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Distalmotion | Up to USD 70M term loan | Perceptive Advisors | Lausanne, Switzerland Debt facility funds US ambulatory surgery centre expansion of its DEXTER surgical robot. [Startupticker, October 23, 2026]
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Windward Bio | Nasdaq IPO filed (WWB), size undisclosed | OrbiMed, Novo Holdings, RTW | Basel, Switzerland Clinical-stage respiratory and skin antibody developer; up to USD 365M raised pre-IPO. [RTTNews, October 24, 2026]
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Roadsurfer | Majority stake, price undisclosed | Kennedy Lewis Investment Management | Munich, Germany US credit investor holds 66.69% per commercial register; founders down to 16.61%. [Gründerszene, October 27, 2026]
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Tendos | EUR 12M Seed | Insight Partners, founders of Personio, Forto, Flix, SumUp | Munich, Germany AI platform for quotes and order handling at building-materials makers; Wilo, Grundfos, Hansgrohe among customers. [Trending Topics, October 27, 2026]
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YellowFox acquires Peregrine | Terms undisclosed | Berlin Telematics provider adds the real-time computer-vision startup, founded 2019. Brand and Berlin office continue. [Peregrine, October 22, 2026]
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