
Meet startups and scaleups from Europe that closed funding rounds in October 2026.

October brought several major investments to CEE, led by Skeleton Technologies’ more than $100 million investment from Siemens and BlackWall’s $100 million round.

Meet ELECTE, Studentspeak, Initiatives, kodlo, Propily, Koll, Dynamicmockups, Enso Money in the latest series of Startups of the month.

Not only specialist funds: here are deeptech and generalist VCs backing European defence and dual-use startups.

As a new Elizabeth Holmes film hits cinemas, we went looking for Europe's own startup fraud stories. Wirecard, OneCoin, and Builder.ai: what happened, who blew the whistle, and where the founders are now.

Chatbots grab the headlines, but CEE's mental health startups are betting on clinicians, employers and insurers.

Meet startups and scaleups from Europe that closed funding rounds in September 2026.

September brought one of the CEE's largest funding rounds of 2026, as EnduroSat raised $205 million. Check out the top CEE funding rounds announced during the month.

From pre-seed checks to €30 million growth investments, these are the investors building Europe’s defence capital stack.