Every month, Vestbee evaluates the European startup landscape to highlight noteworthy startups. In this edition, we feature ten startups selected by leading venture capitalists and business angels, including Earlybird, Bek Ventures, OTB, SMOK VC, Molten Ventures, Truffle Capital, Keen Venture Partners, Eleven Ventures, 500 Global, Flyer One Ventures, and OpenOcean.
Apheros, Aproco, Fortyx Security, Northscope, Boldr, Floatech, ResQuant PQC, Ruby Care, Evermuse, and Eterny were selected from over 1,000 applicants to join the Vestbee Winter Pitch, an online program powered by HubSpot for Startups that connects leading startups with global investors.
Here is the list of companies that gained attention from global investors:
Apheros
Swiss metal-manufacturing firm Apheros develops high-surface-area metal foams that optimize liquid and two-phase cooling. It improves heat transfer and fluid flow, providing energy- and cost-efficient thermal management for high-performance computing, AI, and data centers.
Aproco
Polish firm Aproco provides AI-powered automation for tasks like document processing, invoice management, data anonymization, transcription, and computer vision. It analyzes company workflows and implements customized solutions that integrate with existing systems to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
Fortyx Security
London-based cybersecurity firm Fortyx Security develops AI-powered tools to prevent email data loss and detect insider threats. Its platform monitors communication patterns, builds behavioral baselines, and uses context-aware AI to stop sensitive information from being sent to the wrong recipients.
Northscope
Vienna-based fintech firm Northscope builds an AI-driven finance platform that automates month-end close, forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis using data from ERP and data warehouse systems. It operates by leveraging agentic AI to analyze financial data and deliver insights without manual effort.
Boldr
London-based smart climate company Boldr develops connected home energy solutions, including smart heaters, thermostats, and an energy management app. Its platform integrates HVAC systems, batteries, EVs, and solar systems to automate energy use, optimize efficiency, and enable homes to supply peak capacity to the grid.
Floatech
Spanish startup Floatech develops high-performance silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries, replacing graphite to significantly increase energy capacity. Its patented process ensures stable silicon expansion and enables efficient, durable battery performance.
ResQuant
Polish company ResQuant creates hardware solutions for post-quantum cryptography, including IP cores, FPGA accelerators, and system-on-chip designs. Their technology applies quantum-resistant encryption to protect data in IoT, automotive, military, and ICT systems from future quantum computing attacks.
Ruby Care
Berlin-based startup Ruby Care develops an AI-powered platform for oncology support, providing personalized complementary care for cancer patients. The system connects patients with vetted specialists and uses AI to generate individualized care plans covering nutrition, mental health, physical rehabilitation, and treatment navigation.
Evermuse
New York-based firm Evermuse is an AI platform that transforms customer conversations into actionable product insights. It ingests calls and messages, analyzes sentiment and key needs, and generates evidence-based roadmap recommendations to guide product strategy.
Eterny
Eterny is a Prague-based firm that develops a digital vault for managing personal and family wealth. Its platform securely organizes financial documents, contracts, insurance policies, and investment accounts in one place, with smart tools to track updates, optimize terms, and grant controlled access to trusted individuals.
