Apex Ventures || European Early‑Stage Deep‑Tech VC Tracker

Early-Stage Biotech Funding

• 🔥 Imperagen £5M Seed: UK enzyme engineering startup Imperagen closed a £5M seed round led by PXN Ventures with IQ...

Moore4Power unites Infineon with 62 partners across 15 EU countries in a €91M, three-year R&D project.

• Backed by Horizon Europe Chips Joint...

Imperagen, a University of Manchester spin-out, closed a £5M seed round led by PXN Ventures with IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone participating. Its...

Groove Quantum, a TU Delft spin-out, has achieved a key technological milestone alongside a major funding round. This signals growing momentum in Europe's quantum ecosystem for deal sourcing.

Early-Stage Medical Tech Funding

• 🔥 Neurosoft Seed Round: Swiss neurotech startup Neurosoft raised an oversubscribed $7.5 million seed round to...

Breakthrough methods now enable quantum optical circuits using photons for secure communication and scalable systems.

• Key challenges include...

Oxford University Innovation supports founders from early idea through to incorporation by focusing on business planning, team formation and...

Commercial AI tools for lung cancer detection on chest radiographs show striking variability, with sensitivity ranging from 20.8% to 77.8% and...

Swiss neurotech startup Neurosoft closed an oversubscribed $7.5M seed round to develop AI-powered stretchable brain-computer interfaces that sit on the brain surface. Early DACH neurotech hardware deal worth tracking for pre-seed/seed flow.

Early-Stage Deal Flow

• 🔥 CRACI pre-seed: Helsinki-based CRACI raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding for software supply chain security and...

• CEE posted €821 million across 138 rounds in Q1 2026, essentially flat versus Q4 2025 yet with fewer deals closed.
• Nearly half the capital went to...

imec has presented a quantum dot qubit device fabricated using High NA EUV lithography. The most advanced lithography system—already critical for future memory and compute chips—will now play a key role in scaling up quantum technology.

Horizon Europe runs 2021-2027 as the EU's main research and innovation programme.

• Budgets differ across sources: €95.5 billion, more than €93.5...

Mistral AI's purchase of Linz-based Emmi AI marks a targeted move to bolster its industrial simulation capabilities through DACH-region deep tech.

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Adoption, not innovation, is the core barrier to AI progress in healthcare and manufacturing. Non-technical hurdles like data access, governance,...

Researchers unveiled a reconfigurable, low-power optical chip on May 19, 2026, designed for scalable mass production in photonic integrated circuits....

Europe's tech-transfer ecosystem is tightening the loop from lab to seed round. Updated TTO licensing terms are explicitly designed to accelerate...

Two European labs are advancing photonic quantum tech in complementary ways that could feed into early-stage deep-tech pipelines.

• University of...

China converts coal plant pollution into fertilizer via AI chemistry, yielding 30,000 tons from 10,000 tons of CO₂ with 6% crop gains. Parallel...

Two recent deals highlight active early-stage and M&A flow in European deep tech:

• Mistral's acquisition of Austrian startup Emmi targets...