Bench IQ, a Toronto-based legaltech startup, has raised $7.3 million CAD ($5.3M USD) in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform that analyzes judicial rulings for litigation teams.
Bench IQ, a Toronto-based legaltech startup, has raised $7.3 million CAD ($5.3M USD) in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform that analyzes judicial rulings for litigation teams.
Amsterdam-based crypto-asset provider Amdax has raised €20 million in its initial financing round for the Amsterdam Bitcoin Treasury Strategy (AMBTS), a new vehicle designed to give institutional investors regulated exposure to Bitcoin.
Astrus, a Montréal-based semiconductor startup, has raised $11 million CAD in seed funding to accelerate development of its AI platform for chip design.
Framer, the Amsterdam-based no-code website design platform, has raised $100 million (€85.6M) in a Series D round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico, with participation from WiL (World Innovation Lab) and HV Capital.
Bristol-based biotech startup EnsiliTech has raised £4.5 million in seed funding to scale its patented Ensilication® technology, which stabilises vaccines and biologics without refrigeration, even at temperatures up to 50°C.
Mumbai-based TransBnk, a fintech startup digitizing corporate banking in India, has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Fundamentum, Arkam Ventures, 8i Ventures, Accion, and GMO Venture Partners.
Maisa AI, a Valencia- and San Francisco-based startup building accountable AI agents for enterprises, has raised $25 million in seed funding led by Creandum, with participation from Forgepoint Capital International (via Banco Santander JV), NFX, and Village Global.
Despite tighter markets in other sectors, AI startups in the US have continued attracting mega-rounds in 2025. By late August, 33 companies had raised $100 million or more, spanning healthcare, infrastructure, legal tech, media, and autonomous systems.
Detechgene, a Cologne-based biotech startup spun out of the University Hospital Cologne’s Nephrolab, has raised €3.2 million in seed funding to advance its portable molecular diagnostics platform.
Farang, a newly launched AI research lab in Stockholm, has raised €1.5 million in seed funding to develop what it says is a new foundational AI architecture designed to outperform existing transformer-based models while using dramatically fewer computational resources.
