Taktile, Lovable, Dealcar, and LangWatch

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

I'm Onofre—a product manager by day, entrepreneur by night, based in Aarhus (Denmark).

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SERIES B AND LATER
Berlin-based Taktile raises €51.5 million to transform how financial service providers automate decision-making

🇩🇪 Berlin-based Taktile, an AI-powered decision automation platform for financial services, has succesfully raised €51.5 million.

Founded in 2020 by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, Taktile empowers risk experts to build, monitor, and optimise automated risk decisions across the entire customer lifecycle—from onboarding and credit underwriting to fraud and compliance transaction monitoring. It sounds like a compelling, complete service.

This startup is not only helping financial services make better decisions, but also improving speed and efficiency. According to the press release, it is enabling risk teams to handle 3-5x more applications and scale rapidly.

In 2024, Taktile quadrupled its customer base and grew more than 3.5x in ARR. Their customer base now spans 24 markets, serving some of the largest financial institutions, such as Allianz and Rakuten Bank. That’s impressive!

👉️ Read more about this deal here.

+ Series B (and later) funding stories:

🇵🇱 Warsaw-based Nomagic, a leading provider of AI powered robotics for warehouses and the fulfillment sector, raises €41.5 million.

🇨🇭 Geneva-based Sparta, a provider of real-time intelligence for commodity traders, raises €40 million.

🇬🇧 London-based The ClearScore Group, a global FinTech and data-driven financial marketplace, secures €36.1 million in debt.

🇵🇹 Peniche-based SEAentia, an aquaculture company specializing in Corvina (meagre) farming using Recirculation Aquaculture Systems (RAS), raises €16 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Napo, a InsurTech startup delivering pet insurance solutions, raises €14.4 million.

🇪🇸 Barcelona-based Flanks, a FinTech platform focused on wealth management and informing investment and risk management decisions, raises €14 million.

SERIES A
Stockholm-based Lovable raises €14.3 million to disrupt the software development market with its AI-powered engine

🇸🇪 Stockholm-based Lovable, the AI startup behind the “world’s first” AI full-stack engineer and one of the fastest-growing startups globally, has closed a €14.3 million funding round. Great stuff! 🚀 

I think I can confidently speak on behalf of many solo-preneurs and say that this may be the AI use case that brings us the most joy.

Founded in 2023, this startup enables anyone to build what it calls production-ready software without coding knowledge. At this point, it should be clear that AI is set to transform software development, making it accessible to everyone—not just developers.

Now, you and I will be able to create apps and websites using natural language.

Just a few months after launching, Lovable has reached €16.2 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), 30,000 paying customers, and 25,000 new apps being built on the platform daily.

👉️ Read more about this deal here.

+ Series A funding stories:

🇬🇧 London-based Relay, a tech company transforming the backbone of e-commerce delivery for top e-commerce retailers, raises €33.4 million.

🇨🇭 Zurich-based Unique, a vertical AI player creating a specialised agentic AI platform for financial firms, raises €28.6 million.

🇪🇸 Barcelona-based Cafler, a leading platform transforming automotive aftercare services, raises €10.6 million.

🇬🇧 Bournemouth-based Just Move In, a Home Setup services provider, raises €7.6 million.

🇮🇪 Dublin-based VRAI, a startup specializing in VR, Mixed Reality, and simulations for military and defense, raises €5 million.

🇫🇮 Turku-based Videobot, an omnichannel interactive short-form video platform, raises €2.8 million.

SEED
Barcelona-based Dealcar raises €3 million to optimize operations for used car dealerships across Europe

🇪🇸 Barcelona-based Dealcar, a SaaS platform that optimizes the buying and selling of used cars for dealerships of any size, has successfully raised €3 million.

The vision of this startup is quite straightforward: they would like to become the operating system on which every used car transaction takes place.

Founded in 2023, Dealcar integrates management, payment, and financing solutions in one place to optimise stock rotation and digitise the entire sales process. One of the goals is to reduce stock turnover time from 90 days to 45 days, providing liquidity and confidence to the used car market.

The global used car market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.90% from 2022 to 2030. Nice to read! Let’s go Dealcar. 🚗 

👉️ Read more about this deal here.

+ Seed funding stories:

🇬🇧 Oxfordshire-based Magdrive, a startup creating the next-generation of spacecraft propulsion, raises €9.9 million.

🇮🇹 Milan-based Arsenale Bioyards, a neo-industrial company focused on innovating scalable biomanufacturing, raises €9.5 million.

🇬🇧 London-based Ignota Labs, an AI-driven drug turnaround company, raises €6.6 million.

🇳🇱 Groningen-based QT Sense, a startup advancing disease diagnostics through breakthroughs in quantum sensing at a single-cell level, raises €6 million.

🇩🇪 Berlin-based Deutsche Sanierungsberatung (dsb), a energy consulting startup and marketplace for renovation projects, raises €3.6 million.

🇩🇪 Stuttgart-based Qrago, a provider of software solutions in the field of healthcare logistics and patient transport, raises €2.7 million.

🇧🇪 Ghent-based Karomia, a startup developing an AI-powered Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) reporting platform with a focus on producing a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)-compliant reports, raises €2 million.

🇸🇪 Stockholm-based SponsWatch, a provider of AI-powered sponsorship analytics, raises €1 million.

PRE-SEED
Amsterdam-based LangWatch raises €1 million to continuously monitor, evaluate and optimise LLM-powered apps

🇳🇱 Amsterdam-based LangWatch, a startup building the '“world’s first” LLMops (Large Language Model Operations) platform to monitor, evaluate and optimise LLM-powered applications, has successfully raised €1 million.

Well, I think it’s very easy to undertand the problem that this startup is trying to solve.

As AI-powered apps conquer the world, enterprises (and their employees) will need an efficient way to ensure that these apps and services consistently deliver accurate results, in an efficient way.

The AI quality inspection market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.53%, reaching a market size of over $70 billion in 2029 (up from $27 billion in 2024). Nice! 🤲 

👉️ Read more about this deal here.

+ Pre-Seed funding stories:

🇩🇰 Copenhagen-based Fuse Vectors, a BioTech startup innovating in gene therapy development with its cell-free viral vector technology, raises €4.9 million.

🇬🇧 London-based WilsonAI, an AI-powered legal assistant innovating in-house legal operations, raises €1.6 million.

🇪🇪 Tartu-based GaltTec OÜ, a startup developing micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells (mSOFCs) for portable and off-grid energy solutions, raises €1 million.