Parloa, StackOne, eyeo, and Cavell

🚀 Welcome to the 12th edition of the Who Got Funded newsletter in 2025.

I'm Onofre, an entrepreneur based in Aarhus (Denmark), and as you know, I dedicate 3–4 hours each week to reading European startup funding stories and summarizing the most exciting ones for you — so you can save some of your valuable time.

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SERIES B AND LATER
Berlin-based Parloa raises €105 million to reinvent customer experience with agentic AI

🇩🇪 Berlin-based Parloa, which provides AI agents to automate and personalise customer service, has raised €105 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to €881 million. 🚀 

Founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald, Parloa’s AI Agent Management Platform allows enterprises to easily build, test and deploy AI agents that engage in natural, personalised conversations with customers.

According to Gartner, “By 2029, agentic AI will autonomously resolve 80% of common customer service issues without human intervention.” That seems very, very plausible from my perspective.

Using AI to enhance customer experience makes sense both from a business standpoint—mainly due to cost reductions—and from the customer standpoint, as it delivers a tailored experience.

The global AI agents market was valued at approximately $5.4 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $50.3 billion by 2030, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45.8% from 2025 to 2030.

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More Series B (and later) funding stories:

🇬🇧 London-based Wagestream, a company that offers app-based financial wellbeing solutions for employees through employers, has secured €352 million in debt.

🇩🇪 Gilching-based Quantum Systems, a company that builds AI-powered autonomous drone systems for defense, emergency services, and industry, has raised €160 million.

🇳🇱 Amsterdam-based FINOM, a digital financial platform for small and medium-sized businesses that simplifies accounts, payments, invoicing, and expense tracking under a pan-European EMI license, has raised €92.3 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Orca AI, a company that uses AI to power autonomous ship navigation—reducing collisions, fuel use, and crew workload—has raised €64.5 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Juice, a company that provides flexible, data-driven loans and insights to digital SME founders, has raised €29.4 million.

🇩🇪 Berlin-based 7Learnings, a company that uses AI to help retailers set optimal prices, marketing and inventory levels, has raised over €10 million.

SERIES A
London-based StackOne raises €17.6 million to enable companies to ship hundreds of integrations in days by leveraging AI

🇬🇧 London-based StackOne, a startup that makes it easy for enterprises to quickly and securely integrate with a vast range of APIs, has successfully raised €17.6 million in a Series A funding round.

This startup was founded on the belief that AI agents are the missing piece product teams need to build faster, more secure API integrations at scale. Their solution combines a proprietary AI agent and real-time engine to give teams the speed, coverage and reliability to connect SaaS and AI agents to the enterprise tech stack.

“StackOne solves all of this in a single layer—one that marks the birth of a new generation of integration platforms for an AI-first world,” says Guillaume Lebedel, co-founder and CTO.

From my perspective, there’s no doubt that AI agents and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) open the door to new ways of integrating with a huge variety of apps and services. We’ll be following this startup closely! 💪 

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More Series A funding stories:

🇩🇪 Berlin-based Circula, a company that uses AI to automate business expense management and finance tasks, has raised €15 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Doubleword, a platform that makes it easy for businesses to deploy and manage AI models on their own systems, has raised €10.6 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Ravio, a compensation data platform that plugs into HR systems to provide real-time salary, equity, and benefits benchmarks, has raised €10.6 million.

SEED
Eindhoven-based eyeo raises €15 million to boost light sensitivity, color accuracy, and resolution

🇳🇱 Eindhoven-based eyeo, a company that builds nanophotonic image sensors to dramatically boost resolution and low-light performance without increasing camera size, has successfully raised €15 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

This startup—building on technology originally developed at imec (the world-renowned nanoelectronics R&D centre)—aims to achieve a photonics breakthrough by replacing traditional colour filters with a colour-splitting architecture based on vertical waveguides.

It turns out that most image sensors use a Bayer filter (check out this great video for more context)—a red–green–blue mosaic—that absorbs a large portion of incoming light, reducing sensitivity and limiting how small pixels can get. Eyeo replaces that filter with vertical waveguides that separate light by colour and guide each wavelength straight to its own pixel. The result is true full-colour data capture with higher sensitivity and finer detail.

The global image sensor market size is estimated to be in the range of $26.75 billion to $33.3 billion for 2025. It’s a big market.

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More Seed funding stories:

🇳🇱 Amsterdam-based Duna, a company that simplifies business identity verification by combining compliance automation with a seamless user experience, has raised €10.7 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Solena Materials, a company developing sustainable, high-performance textiles using AI-designed protein fibres, has raised €5.9 million.

🇨🇭 Zurich-based Scalera, a company that uses AI to automate and speed up construction procurement, has raised €5.7 million.

🇮🇹 Milan-based Hotiday, a company that creates branded room collections inside partner hotels for a decentralised global hotel experience, has raised €5.5 million.

🇮🇹 Milan-based Skillvue, a company that uses AI to help businesses identify, measure, and develop workforce skills, has raised €5.5 million.

🇸🇪 Stockholm-based IPercept, a company offering a predictive AI platform that helps manufacturers monitor and maintain machines without complex integrations, has raised €5 million.

🇩🇰 Copenhagen-based Alice, a company that uses AI to create personalized, interactive study guides and quizzes, has raised €4.2 million.

🇳🇴 Norway-based Lightsonic, a company that turns telecom fiber networks into real-time sensors for detecting gas leaks, underwater intrusions, and other infrastructure risks, has raised €3.3 million.

🇵🇹 Lisbon-based Goparity, a sustainable finance platform that lets companies and individuals invest in projects with social and environmental impact, has raised €2.9 million.

🇪🇸 Barcelona-based The Channel Store, a startup that offers a tech platform to help content owners get the most from their audiences using connected TV and ads, has raised €2 million.

🇩🇪 Hamburg-based 3D Spark, a company that uses AI to help businesses select the best manufacturing and procurement options, has raised €2 million.

🇳🇱 Dutch biotech CryoCloud, a company that streamlines cryo-electron microscopy by offering a cloud SaaS platform for automated protein structure analysis, has raised €2 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Loxa, a company that lets retailers add repair insurance for products like furniture, eyewear, and power tools through simple APIs and plugins, has raised €1.9 million.

🇨🇿 Prague-based DecisionRules, a company that provides a cloud-based platform letting non-technical teams set up and adjust automated business rules without needing IT, has raised €1.6 million.

PRE-SEED
Ghent-based Cavell raises €1.5 million to automatically create structured patient reports

🇧🇪 Ghent-based Cavell, a digital HealthTech startup that listens to medical consultations and automatically creates structured patient reports, has successfully raised €1.5 million.

Cavell was founded about a year ago by Anthony Rathé, Pieter Olivier, and Louis Verdonckt to tackle one of the biggest pain points in healthcare: administrative overload and poor medical data quality.

The solution provided by this startup listens during consultations, surgeries, or nurse rounds and automatically generates a medical report that goes straight into the patient's file.

It's an incredibly simple idea that I believe targets a very real problem.

👉️ Read more.

More Pre-Seed funding stories:

🇧🇬 Bulgaria-based Thinkpilot, a SaaS AI workspace that helps product managers ideate, research, validate, and spec features in one integrated flow—connecting to tools like Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, and Linear—has raised €600K.