The funding includes strategic investment and government grants, and marks the startup’s transition to a post-revenue, client-focused phase.

“We have proven that fashion resale isn’t only the right thing to do for the planet, but it’s the right thing for your wallet too. Our focus now shifts to scaling,” said Guus Balkema, CFO of VNYX.

Founded in 2025, VNYX automates the complex resale process for returns, overstock and second-hand garments, enabling the fashion industry to scale resale operations and comply with European laws (EPR and the ban on destruction of goods) that prohibit dumping and burning, at a profit.

By combining software and AI with proprietary and soon-to-be-patented hardware, VNYX claims that it has already slashed processing times from 19 minutes to just 3 minutes per item. This makes resale “radically better, faster and cheaper,” says the company. 

Currently, the VNYX10 system processes 10,000 items annually for partners like online platform BOAS and outdoor brand Bever, generating immediate commercial revenue. The company states that it remains on track to meet its “1-minute promise”, the radical goal it gave itself for profitable resale, by the end of the year.

“Any brand who wants to go below one minute with us can join right now. We dump and burn one garbage truck of textile every three seconds, so every second counts. The right time to act is now,” said Romy Goedhart, co-founder of VNYX.

VNYX highlighted its supportive partners, including Baltic Business Angels and the Squads Fund, which provide vital technical and commercial mentorship for managing complex hardware and software integration. Stichting DOEN and Earthstar have assisted in aligning the company’s growth with scalable environmental impacts. Additionally, the RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) has offered essential non-dilutive funding to support R&D and technological advances. Spark Design & Innovation is a key partner and investor in the physical development of the VNYX hardware suite. 

The company reports that its next-generation VNYX100 (with a capacity of 100,000 items annually) is set to be delivered to BOAS in June 2026. Additionally, it has welcomed investors and fashion brands in Amsterdam for its next growth stage, the VNYX1000, which, it claims, is the world’s first resale robotics and AI system capable of processing over 1 million items annually.

“Our focus now shifts to scaling. We are curating a shortlist of strategic VCs and fashion brands for the deployment of our VNYX1000 technology to international fulfilment centres and global fashion brands,” added Balkema.  

The startup is inviting VCs with a focus on circular economy, DeepTech, ClimateTech and/or fashion/ reversed logistics automation, and forward-thinking brands, logistics centres and fashion resellers to join them in making fashion resale profitable and scalable. 

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The round was raised from Delphinus Venture Capital and Rockstart, alongside strategic co-investor Aller Aqua. The amount has not been disclosed. 

“The waste of crabs is a global issue, and that is exactly what makes it a real business opportunity. If we can prove the model here in Denmark, we can roll it out to every part of the world,” said Leander Hessner, CEO and co-founder.

Founded in 2022 by Happylan Natkunarajah and Leander Hessner, Decameal creates sustainable products from crabs, for food, feed, and more. During Decameal’s first funding round, Mikkel Kongsfelt joined the team as a co-founder. 

Natkunarajah leads production development, overseeing new methods and testing. Hessner manages administration, communications, and outreach, handling interactions with partners, projects, and customers. Kongsfelt is responsible for IP, funding, legal matters, and investor relations. In November 2022, Decameal received an “Innofounder” grant from Innovationsfonden that enabled both original founders to work full-time.

According to the company, the European shore crab has expanded significantly along Nordic coastlines over the past three decades, destroying mussels, fish eggs and marine plant life. At the same time, the feed industry faces mounting pressure to find sustainable alternatives to soy and fishmeal.

Decameal claims to address this by sourcing crabs from small-scale coastal fisheries and processing them through a patent-pending extraction process. The company produces protein flour and protein concentrate for poultry, aquaculture and pet food, with chitin and chitosan extraction from the shells in development for higher-value markets.

“There is something genuinely elegant about what Decameal is doing – taking a species that has been a coastal headache for decades and turning it into something valuable. That kind of thinking is exactly what we look for,” said Max Grünwald, Investment Associate at Delphinus Venture Capital.

Last year, the EIT Food Accelerator Network startup Decameal raised a €700K pre-Seed round from private and corporate investors, alongside a €1.4 million Green Demonstration and Development grant from Innovation Fund Denmark, in collaboration with the DTU – Technical University of Denmark and Aller Aqua.

Decameal now operates a pilot production in Grindsted, where protein extraction and production take place, alongside offices and laboratories at Agro Food Park in Aarhus.

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This beta debut took place in November 2025 in Tirana, and the official launch of the first full product will take place in summer 2026.

“While most startups would capitalise on the initial hype, we chose an alternative path that better fits our company DNA. We wanted to demonstrate actual numbers, traction, and credibility from relevant users. For us, it was important to state that we are here to stay, having built an AI-focused product to disrupt and democratise an entire industry—a platform that most people in the architectural and real estate worlds will use on a daily basis,” said CEO Brendon Ahmeti. 

Founded by Brendon Ahmeti, Agron Bajraktari, and Kevin Cobaj, Synaps is the AI canvas for architectural design. It allows users to design, visualise, collaborate and present in one platform.

Ahmet describes Synaps as a child of Figma and the Swedish AI-coding startup Lovable, which grew up to become an architect. The company’s tagline, “turning words into buildings,” highlights its innovative approach to building design. This shift is driven by “vibe designing” and the use of Synaps’ generative vector-based AI floorplan tool, Vecy AI.

However, Synaps claims to be much more than just vibe designing via a prompt bar. Its aim is to disrupt the entire architectural drawing and rendering industry with AI. By analysing architects’ behavioural patterns, Synaps claims it has cut the number of commands by 80%, which has significantly sped up the architectural drawing process in the Synaps editor by a factor of 50 compared to existing solutions.

The company reports that rendering of 2D, 3D, and video is claimed to be 100 to 1,000 times faster than with current market solutions, depending on the project’s complexity, and can be achieved with just a few words and the push of a button.

“The positive consequence of this massive simplification for the estimated 200 million draftspeople worldwide, who design 95% of the world’s buildings and spend almost half their time on drawing and rendering: Synaps ends the theft of time, talent, and money spent on these mostly outdated processes, offering a solution for a fraction of the cost,” mentioned the company. 

Aside from this investment, the company has achieved several notable milestones after its beta launch, such as reaching 60,000 total users, 1,500 daily active users, and hundreds of paying customers. It also states that major global VCs are eager to invest, with three of the world’s ten largest VC firms currently seeking to invest in Synaps.

It also claims that 6 out of the 10 most globally relevant architectural offices have already trialled or implemented Synaps, some on a daily basis. The platform has received incredible feedback from industry leaders. 

Synaps has reached over 10 million users via social media, including YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn, through viral influencer campaigns with minimal investment. Before the beta launch, it secured 10k pre-registrations.

The company has also set up a US office in San Francisco. Since the beta launch, the team has grown from 4 to 17 employees, mainly filling important strategic roles.

Going forward, Synaps aims to increase its user base fivefold from 60k to 300k by the end of 2026. It is on track to reach 150k users by September. The company plans to launch Version 1 in summer 2026, introducing over 20 new AI tools for drafting and post-production. Additionally, a double-digit million Seed round is expected to close by the end of 2026. Within the next six months, its San Francisco office will become fully operational.

“What excites us most about Synaps is the tangible productivity impact it delivers for architecture bureaus. Rendering alone can consume an enormous share of a studio’s time – time that could otherwise go toward taking on more projects and winning more pitches. Synaps compresses that process dramatically. Equally important is the platform’s approach to collaboration: in an industry defined by fragmented tooling, an AI-native environment where the entire team works together in one place is a genuine step change,” said Christopher Polligkeit, Senior Investment Associate at Plug and Play Austria.  

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Schlieren-based ALP Bio AG today announced it has raised €1.9 million in pre-Seed financing to accelerate their platform which combines human immune organoid biology with generative AI to help antibody developers identify, understand, and reduce immunogenicity risk earlier in drug development.

The round was led by Munich-based VC 42CAP, with participation from Venture Kick and a group of strategic angel investors.

“Immunogenicity is one of the largest hidden costs in biologics, and the industry has accepted late-stage surprises as the norm for too long. We believe this risk should be measured and reduced years earlier than it is today. This financing lets us scale the experimental and computational foundation of our platform and partner with teams who want to make antibody development more predictable from the start,” says Dr Christian Vahlensieck, CEO of ALP Bio AG.

“Our scientific conviction is that immunogenicity cannot be solved by computation alone. By combining human immune organoid readouts with AI, we can generate the type of biological feedback needed to make antibody design more informed, iterative, and ultimately more useful for discovery and optimisation teams,” adds Dr Lucas Schaus, CSO of ALP Bio AG.

Founded in 2025, ALP Bio is developing an immune organoid and AI platform for immunogenicity intelligence in biologics development. The company combines human immune organoid readouts with generative AI to help drug developers predict and reduce anti-drug antibody risk earlier in antibody discovery and development.

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The round was led by SVV (Sure Valley Ventures), with participation from EWOR, Ascension, Syndicate Room, and Heartfelt.

Emil Kostadinov, CEO and Co-Founder of ManaMind, says: “The future of game development should be about human creativity, not repetitive testing. We’re automating the manual, time-consuming parts so studios can focus on building amazing worlds.”

2026 has seen several funding rounds in sectors adjacent to ManaMind’s AI-enabled game QA and autonomous testing focus that help contextualise today’s announcement.

Spain’s Galtea raised €2.7 million to build an AI evaluation platform for testing AI agents, while Finland’s Test of Things secured €1.2 million to automate cybersecurity and compliance testing for connected products.

In the UK, Ralio raised €2.1 million to make payments safer and easier for AI agents, Overmind raised €2.3 million for security and supervision tools for autonomous agents, and Toyo secured €3.6 million to develop secure AI agents for non-technical founders. These UK-based companies are particularly relevant to ManaMind, as they point to domestic investor and founder activity around agentic AI infrastructure.

In gaming-adjacent markets, Germany’s Minit Games raised €1.7 million to advance an AI-driven short-form gaming feed, while UK-based BetHog closed an €8.5 million Series A to scale its AI live-dealer gaming platform. Belgium’s Nexus also raised €3.7 million to bring autonomous agents into core business operations.

Together, these rounds represent over €25 million of capital flowing through adjacent sectors to Manamind.

“We’ve developed our own proprietary visual model specifically for virtual environments because gaming demands that level of precision. Gaming is our launchpad, but our vision is to build the autonomous testing layer for all software and, ultimately, robotics,” adds Emil.

Founded in 2025, ManaMind’s AI agents perceive their environment through audio and video, just like humans do, allowing them to autonomously play and test video games. The company was founded by Emil Kostadinov, an Oxford MBA and EWOR Fellow who experienced the pain of manual QA firsthand as a game tester, and Sabtain Ahmad, who holds a PhD in Machine Learning.

By starting with gaming QA, ManaMind is optimising its proprietary model, HiveMind, and building the foundation for a future where intelligent agents can act autonomously across both digital and physical worlds.

While gaming is ManaMind’s entry market, the founding team’s long-term vision is to become an autonomous testing layer for longer-term applications beyond gaming.

According to the company, QA remains one of the most expensive and time-consuming aspects of modern game development, typically accounting for 10-15% of a game’s total budget.

Brian Kinane, Founding Partner at SVV, adds: “ManaMind is solving a critical pain point in game development at the intersection of AI-in-gaming and Intelligent Automation – two rapidly growing sectors. Emil and Sabtain combine deep technical expertise with firsthand understanding of the QA challenge. Their autonomous agents complete in six hours what takes manual QA teams days – and they catch bugs that human testers miss. That’s the kind of measurable improvement we back.“

As games become larger and more complex, the cost of ensuring a polished player experience is growing exponentially, making the traditional model unsustainable for game studios.

Modern AAA titles now ship with 1000+ hours of content across multiple platforms, yet release windows continue to compress. Live-service games demand weekly updates that must be regression-tested continuously. Meanwhile, social media has amplified the cost of buggy launches for studios – Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled release initially wiped $1 billion from CD Projekt’s market cap in days. 

ManaMind’s autonomous AI agents play through games and identify bugs that human testers could miss. The system generates actionable reports, freeing teams to focus on fixing rather than documenting issues. The platform runs continuous testing 24/7 alongside development – not after it.

According to early deployments, full regression cycles are completed in 6 hours rather than days, with 86% of critical bugs caught before shipping.

ManaMind has secured design partnerships with Included Games, a mobile games studio; and Crazy Labs, a hypercasual developer – with plans to expand its technical team, accelerate proprietary model development, and scale across key geographies.

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The growth debt investment will support Kigen’s next phase of growth across the UK, EU, and US. 

“This investment allows us to accelerate our next phase of growth with confidence. Our customers are looking for practical ways to strengthen cyber resilience, simplify regulatory readiness, and manage secure connectivity over the long term. This funding helps us move faster to support them with trusted, future-ready solutions,” said Vincent Korstanje, CEO of Kigen. 

Originally a spin-out from Arm, Kigen has operated independently since 2020 with offices in Cambridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noida, India. The company enables businesses to expand their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments by integrating trust and security through SIM, eSIM, and iSIM technologies. It claims that its technology allows the option to choose from 200+ terrestrial and satellite networks, with proven interoperability on leading chipsets and modules.

According to Kigen, its capabilities are relevant for organisations that need to demonstrate secure connectivity architecture and long-term maintainability. The company works with manufacturers worldwide to provide secure, GSMA-certified eSIMs and management solutions across consumer, M2M, and IoT environments, with direct access to more than 200 terrestrial and satellite networks. 

Kigen states that it has also positioned its latest eSIM offerings around security patching and updates at scale. It claims that this makes secure updates, auditability, and long-term support more straightforward and predictable for manufacturers managing products over many years. 

Its platform is increasingly delivered via a SaaS model, providing customers with flexible, usage-based access to OS licensing, management tools, and professional services. Kigen is backed by Arm, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and SBI Group.

Usman Ali, Partner, Venture Debt Fund at Salica Investments, said, “The team has built a highly differentiated platform at the intersection of connectivity and cybersecurity, with strong relevance for manufacturers and enterprises navigating a more demanding regulatory and operational environment. We are delighted to support Kigen as it scales across critical sectors and international markets.”

Salica was originally founded as an investment firm focusing on promising businesses. It has evolved into a set of private market funds investing in equity and debt across multiple sectors and stages, predominantly across the UK.

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“The quantum industry remains in its early innings, focusing on short term monetisation opportunities for very specific use-cases. Groove has the potential to leapfrog the competition, scaling quantum computing to the level where it unlocks meaningful real-world applications across health, energy, security and beyond,” adds Vincent Kamphorst, Investment Director at Innovation Industries.

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The company has also announced a €11.1 million ($13 million) Series A extension led by Capricorn Partners, with participation from Scania Invest, Forward.One, SEB Greentech Venture Capital and Graduate Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding raised to date to €47.9 million ($56 million). 

Crijn Bouman, CEO and Co-Founder of Rocsys, said, “Autonomous vehicles are growing rapidly, and infrastructure must keep pace. Without hands-free operations, autonomy stops at the depot. Based on a platform designed to extend beyond charging to automated interior cleaning and inspection, the Rocsys M1 introduces smart charging infrastructure for continuous, real-world use at scale, validated by signing a major robotaxi deal. It enables operators to run mixed fleets autonomously, reliably and without interruption. This is the missing link for robotaxi operators to move from pilots to global deployment.”

Founded in 2019 by Crijn Bouman, Joost van der Weijde, and Kanter van Deurzen, Rocsys offers hands-free charging and fleet service solutions for electric and autonomous vehicles. 

According to the company, the growing global robotaxi market is driving rapid fleet expansion and increasing the intensity of depot operations. It states that as utilisation rises, existing infrastructure is pushed to its limits, with manual charging emerging as a critical barrier to operational continuity. Charging processes, repeated thousands of times daily, incur costs, create operational friction, and pose safety risks, thereby acting as a structural constraint on fleet growth and profitability.

Rocsys claims to address this gap by enabling fleet readiness, transforming charging into an automated process that maximises uptime and boosts productivity. The Rocsys platform transforms manual charging into a hands-free task. Its system orchestrates every cycle, from plug-in to plug-out, reducing downtime, safely, and without interruption.

The company states that the M1’s modular, multi-bay architecture allows a single system to serve multiple vehicles across up to 10 bays, increasing throughput while reducing operational costs. 

It offers flexible overhead mounting options, including ground- and roof-mounted configurations that can integrate with any depot layout. This helps in preserving full depot space and allows parallel activities such as cleaning and inspection during charging. 

Rocsys reports that in a depot with 50 parking bays, the Rocsys M1 can increase operational efficiency by up to 75%, utilising the same staff and potentially saving as much as €1.4 million ($1.7 million) annually. 

It is built on a platform proven in active port operations and other high-duty environments and trained on more than six years of real-world data and edge cases. The company claims that Rocsys M1 adapts to variations in lighting, weather and vehicle positioning, achieving consistent, predictable performance and delivering 99.9%+ plug-in success rate in live environments. 

The Rocsys M1 uses AI-powered computer vision for precise, improving plug-in performance and motion intelligence for safe, context-aware operation. It is supported by Rocsys’ technology, with over 130 patents and pending applications.

Rocsys M1 is fully interoperable across EVs, chargers and connector types. An overhead rail-mounted design with a flexible, long-reach robotic arm enables reliable connection and disconnection across mixed fleets, regardless of the charging inlets’ position, allowing immediate deployment without costly retrofitting or lock-in.

The M1 is part of the Rocsys Platform and integrates hardware, software and services to support autonomous fleet operations. It operates within a connected service ecosystem that combines the Rocsys Portal for operational visibility, APIs for integration with customer IT systems and remote monitoring with field support. 

The M1 is part of a comprehensive depot service platform that facilitates complete depot autonomy. It is now in pilot deployment, with a large-scale rollout set to begin in 2027. Rocsys aims to support thousands of charging bays across North America and Europe over the next five years.

Steven Lambert from Capricorn Partners said, “Robotaxis are entering an acceleration phase, where operational scaling becomes the defining challenge. Infrastructure will determine how quickly and efficiently this transition happens. Rocsys is building the system layer required to support that shift, with proven, purpose-built technology already operating in demanding environments. At Capricorn Partners, we are keen to enable Rocsys’ growth to bring the foundation for the future of autonomous mobility.”

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The extension adds Atlassian and NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) as corporate investors, alongside new financial investors, including Airtree, Barclays, Geodesic, Insight, Liberty Global and Nikesh Arora.

“Enterprise AI is now entering a new phase,” says Max Junestrand, CEO and Co-founder of Legora. “Foundation models are improving rapidly, but the real breakthrough is in how they’re applied, where AI doesn’t just assist, but executes autonomously with the right level of human oversight. With the support of our investors and customers, we’re building a full agentic operating system for legal work”.

“As a leader in Legal AI, Legora is showing how deeply integrated, context-aware AI can transform complex workflows. We see strong alignment with Atlassian’s vision for AI-powered team collaboration and look forward to supporting their continued expansion“, adds Sarah Hughes, Atlassian Head of Corporate Development and Product Partnerships.

Founded in 2023 by CEO Max Junestrand and CTO Sigge Labor, Legora claims to be the world’s first truly collaborative AI for lawyers –  serving over 1,000 organisations across 50+ markets.

Today’s extended funding round follows a period of rapid growth.

• A 2025 €70 million Series B, as reported by EU-Startups.
• Legora hired international movie star Jude Law for its new global brand campaign.
• Legora recently surpassed €85 million ($100 million) in ARR – reportedly placing it among the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in history.
• Legora acquired Qura to build the world’s leading AI-native legal research platform.

It now serves tens of thousands of legal professionals at major corporate legal departments, such as Barclays, as well as leading global firms, such as White & Case, HSFK, and Linklaters.

Corporate legal departments now represent one of Legora’s fastest-growing segments, with adoption accelerating over the past year as in-house teams look to bring the same AI capabilities their outside counsel are already using.

Among law firms surveyed, an average of 4.3 non-billable hours saved per lawyer per week and 42% reporting new work won as a direct result of using Legora.

As AI agents move from passive assistants to systems that can act on behalf of users, using tools and completing workflows, the software model is beginning to shift from SaaS toward AaaS (Agent as a Service).

For legal teams, the company says this means moving beyond isolated use cases to integrated systems that combine firm data, jurisdictional knowledge, and intelligent agents.

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