Someone didn't get the memo about taking August off. So, here's a summer catch-up edition on funding deals over the past three weeks.
💸 Weekly* Funding Recap: August 14
📇 Company: Chargepoly
🏷️ Sectors: CleanTech, Mobility
🔍 Description: Chargepoly designs, deploys, and operates high-capacity DC charging infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleets. Its integrated offering combines modular charging hardware, project delivery, Charging Point Operator capabilities, and its Lucie software suite to optimize power allocation, infrastructure utilization, and total cost of ownership.
💻 Website: https://www.chargepoly.com/en/
📍 HQ City: Aix-en-Provence
🧗 Round: Growth Equity
💰 Amount Raised: €23 million
🏦 Investors: Meridiam Green Impact Growth Fund (lead), Fideve Groupe
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Hadi Moussavi
🗞️ News: Chargepoly has secured a €23 million investment to accelerate international expansion and scale its integrated charging platform for heavy-duty and commercial vehicle fleets. The company operates hundreds of DC fast-charging points across France, the UK and Canada and says its infrastructure is already helping decarbonize more than one million kilometers of freight transport every month. Chargepoly has deployed solutions for customers including Groupe Rave, Nationex and CMA-CGM and works with OEMs such as Renault Trucks, Volvo Trucks and Daimler Truck. Its modular architecture and Lucie software dynamically allocate power across multiple charging points to reduce deployment costs and improve infrastructure efficiency. The new capital will support geographic expansion and further development of its technology as demand for electric truck and bus charging grows. | EU-Startups
📇 Company: Eurodia
🏷️ Sectors: DeepTech, CleanTech
🔍 Description: Designs and installs eco-efficient industrial systems for extracting, purifying, and recovering components from complex liquids. Its technologies include electrodialysis, membrane filtration, chromatography, adsorption, and ion-exchange resins, with applications spanning lithium extraction and refining, critical-metals recycling, process decarbonization, and food production.
💻 Website: https://eurodia.com
📍 HQ City: Pertuis
🧗 Round: Growth Equity
💰 Amount Raised: €18 million
🏦 Investors: Starquest Capital, Yotta Capital Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Bernard Gillery
🗞️ News: Starquest Capital and Yotta Capital Partners have acquired minority stakes in Eurodia to support its international expansion and larger industrial projects. Founded in 1988, the company has deployed more than 450 installations across 50 countries and generates over 80% of its business internationally. Revenue increased from €34 million in 2023 to €80 million in 2025. | ESG Today
📇 Company: Neverhack
🏷️ Sectors: Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: Provides cybersecurity services covering consulting, managed security, training, incident response, and sovereign AI infrastructure. The group employs more than 1,200 people across 12 countries and reports €220 million in annual revenue.
💻 Website: https://neverhack.com
📍 HQ City: Guyancourt
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €11 million
🏦 Investors: Carlyle, IK Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arthur Bataille
🗞️ News: Existing shareholders Carlyle and IK Partners completed the investment on June 10, 2026. NEVERHACK will use the capital to develop its sovereign cybersecurity AI offering, deploy trusted infrastructure and GPU capacity in France, Italy, and Estonia, and strengthen its technical and commercial teams. The company also appointed founder Arthur Bataille as Executive Chairman and Frédéric Sarrailh as CEO. | Alliancy
📇 Company: SkinBit
🏷️ Sectors: HealthTech, MedTech, BioTech, Artificial Intelligence, DeepTech
🔍 Description: SkinBit is building a longitudinal skin-health platform centered on 20-minute full-body scans delivered through clinics, med spas, longevity centers, and its own branded locations. Board-certified dermatologists review each scan and store it as a patient-owned baseline to track skin changes over time and improve early detection of skin cancer.
💻 Website: https://skinbit.co/
📍 HQ City: Paris, Los Angeles
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: $6 million
🏦 Investors: Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures, Profluent Capital, Logan Green, Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Ilya Novoselskiy, Jonathan Benassaya
🗞️ News: SkinBit has raised $6 million to expand its full-body skin scanning platform for earlier detection of skin cancer. The company provides 20-minute scans reviewed by board-certified dermatologists and stores them as longitudinal records patients can carry over time. When a potential concern is identified, patients are referred to dermatologists who receive a richer, data-backed history of the patient’s skin. SkinBit plans to open its first clinics in selected locations in 2026 and says more than 5,000 people are already on its waitlist. The company aims to make continuous skin monitoring and early cancer detection more accessible through locations people already visit, including med spas and longevity centers. | LinkedIn
📇 Company: AMDB Security Pro
🏷️ Sectors: DeepTech
🔍 Description: AMDB Security Pro develops patented mechanical anti-theft systems for excavators, mini-excavators, and other construction equipment. Its tamper-resistant solution physically blocks unauthorized ignition without relying on electronics or connectivity, while adding deterrence features such as an alarm and GPS tracking.
💻 Website: https://www.amdbsecuritypro.com
📍 HQ City: Saint-Georges-d’Espéranche
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.68 million ($3.1 million)
🏦 Investors: Two U.S.-based private investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pascal Bonnevay-Oltra, Kévin Kaarouche
🗞️ News: AMDB Security Pro has raised €2.68 million in Seed funding to accelerate its expansion into the United States and broaden its product portfolio. The company plans to establish a U.S. subsidiary, recruit local teams and build partnerships with rental companies, insurers and construction-equipment manufacturers ahead of a larger-scale rollout targeted for 2027. Founded in 2023, AMDB develops made-in-France mechanical anti-theft systems compatible with more than 100 brands of mini-excavators and other construction equipment. The new capital will also support R&D into additional equipment categories as the company targets the large U.S. construction and rental markets. The financing follows growing recognition for AMDB’s technology, including a gold medal at the 2025 Concours Lépine. | Global Startups Insights, EU- Startups
📇 Company: STRACKER
🏷️ Sectors: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
🔍 Description: STRACKER develops a technology-enabled freight forwarding platform for time-critical and sensitive shipments across sectors including aerospace, luxury, medtech, and deeptech. Its proprietary Stracker360 platform automates carrier selection, shipment coordination, tracking, and customs documentation, and uses AI to anticipate disruptions and optimize critical logistics flows.
💻 Website: http://stracker.tech/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.5 million
🏦 Investors: Blast Club, Bpifrance, Side Capital, Holnest
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Axel Bandiaky, Augustin de Boisse
🗞️ News: STRACKER has raised €2.5 million in seed funding from Blast Club and Bpifrance to accelerate the development of its AI-powered critical freight platform. Founded in 2017, the company coordinates urgent and sensitive shipments for customers in the aerospace, luxury, and medtech sectors, including fashion houses such as Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, and Jean Paul Gaultier. The funding will support further development of Stracker360 and its AI capabilities, team expansion, and a build-up strategy to create a global network of specialist critical-freight operators across Europe and the United States. STRACKER currently employs around 25 people and is recruiting across Paris, Roissy, Bordeaux and Ho Chi Minh City. The company aims to build a European leader in time-critical freight through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. | La Tribune
📇 Company: Hekat Fluidics
🏷️ Sectors: MedTech, DeepTech
🔍 Description: Hekat Fluidics develops medical instruments capable of detecting and sorting nanoscale biological objects. Its first product, NanoSorter, isolates exosomes and other extracellular vesicles from blood samples, with potential applications in early cancer detection, treatment monitoring, virology, and bioproduction quality control.
💻 Website: http://hekat.com/
📍 HQ City: Pessac
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €2.4 million
🏦 Investors: Hervé Ariditty (Ixcore), Nicolas Kompalitch (Kalinka Invest), Stéphane Guinet (Kamet), Stéphane Ifker (Batigram Invest), Eric Mestre, Myriam Mestre
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Sophie Bourzeix
🗞️ News: Hekat Fluidics has raised €2.4 million from business angels and is beginning commercialization of NanoSorter, its first pre-industrial machine for sorting nanoscale biological objects. The company initially targets research laboratories working on exosomes, with around 10 sales expected in France and Europe by the end of 2027, before expanding to the US and Japan from 2028. Hekat plans to use the funding to industrialize and automate its technology, then enter the biopharmaceutical market from 2028 and the diagnostics market from 2030. Its longer-term ambition is to secure CE marking for medical devices and FDA approval while industrializing its proprietary microfluidic chip. The company currently employs around 10 people and is targeting €125 million in revenue and roughly 50 employees by 2035. | Journal des entreprises
📇 Company: Apolownia
🏷️ Sectors: ClimateTech, Artificial Intelligence
🔍 Description: Apolownia develops high-integrity coastal ecosystem restoration projects designed to restore natural carbon sinks and regenerate biodiversity. Its model combines field operations with technologies including satellite remote sensing, geospatial analysis, drones, 3D modeling, advanced MRV, and AI to manage projects from site identification through long-term monitoring and impact measurement.
💻 Website: https://www.apolownia.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1 million
🏦 Investors: LITA, Bpifrance, business angels, individual investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Théo Derache and co-founders
🗞️ News: Apolownia has raised €1 million in its first Seed round to scale its coastal ecosystem restoration model and strengthen its scientific, technological, and deployment capabilities. The company focuses on high-integrity blue carbon projects, centralizing the entire development chain from feasibility and land tenure work to biodiversity monitoring, governance, and long-term impact measurement. Its flagship BlueRizon project in Indonesia aims to restore more than 4,000 hectares of mangroves and is scheduled to officially launch in Q3 2026. More than 3,000 people are already involved in the project, which could ultimately benefit over 100,000 people through climate resilience, erosion control, biodiversity restoration and local economic development. Apolownia aims to expand its model across mangroves, seagrass meadows, coastal peatlands and coral reefs. | EU-Startups
📇 Company: Shiplog
🏷️ Sectors: Artificial Intelligence, MarTech
🔍 Description: Shiplog develops an agentic customer intelligence platform designed to enable real-time, individualized personalization at scale. Its AI agent, Ada, continuously analyzes customer behavior, builds live profiles, and autonomously determines the next best action across marketing, product, onboarding, support, and customer success workflows.
💻 Website: https://useshiplog.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris, San Francisco
🧗 Round: Pre-Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €807.6k+ ($930k)
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures, Project Europe, Purple, No Label Ventures, 100IN, Station F Fund, angel investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Khushi Mehta, Mehdi Gribaa
🗞️ News: Founded in 2026, Shiplog has raised more than €807.6k in pre-Seed funding to develop Ada, an AI agent that evaluates customers individually and autonomously determines and executes the next best action across their lifecycle. Rather than relying on static customer segments or predefined workflows, Ada continuously updates individual customer profiles as behavior changes, creating what Shiplog calls a live “segment of one.” The platform integrates with systems including Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, Shopify and Stripe and is initially targeting FinTech, cybersecurity, software and consumer companies. Based at Station F, Shiplog is rolling out its first partner pilots, expanding integrations and growing its Paris engineering team. | EU-Startups
📇 Company: Krème
🏷️ Sectors: HealthTech
🔍 Description: Krème is a French dermocosmetics brand developing science-backed skincare focused on preserving and strengthening the skin microbiome. Its Ecocert-certified organic formulations combine probiotic ferments and biotech active ingredients and are distributed through pharmacies, department stores, and direct-to-consumer channels.
💻 Website: https://kreme-paris.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Growth Equity
💰 Amount Raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: Iris Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Juliette Lailler, Marie Belile
🗞️ News: Krème has secured its first external equity investment, with Iris Ventures acquiring a minority stake in the French dermocosmetics brand. Founded in 2020, Krème has doubled its revenue every year and is now distributed through more than 3,000 pharmacies in France, as well as at Galeries Lafayette, Samaritaine, Printemps Haussmann, and on its DTC platform. The investment will support European expansion, with Spain and the UK identified as priority markets following its launch in Belgium, as well as product development and team growth. Krème also plans to enter the US over the longer term. The transaction represents the fifth investment from Iris Ventures' second €200 million fund. | WWD
📇 Company: Reboat
🏷️ Sectors: Blue Economy, Circular Economy, DeepTech
🔍 Description: Reboat industrially refurbishes and redesigns pre-owned sailboats and catamarans, covering structural, functional, and aesthetic upgrades and offering bespoke layouts tailored to customers’ sailing needs. Its refurbished vessels are positioned as a lower-cost, lower-carbon alternative to new boats, priced 30–50% below new models, with an estimated carbon footprint reduction of up to 64%.
💻 Website: https://reboat.com/
📍 HQ City: Lorient
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: Seventure Partners, Business Angels, Charlotte Souleau
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Dimitri Caudrelier, Vincent Taupin
🗞️ News: Reboat has closed a new funding round led by Seventure Partners to scale its industrial approach to sailboat refurbishment. Founded in 2024, the company fully refurbishes and personalizes used vessels, providing a two-year warranty and aiming to deliver reliability and comfort comparable to new boats while extending vessel lifespans. The financing will support the expansion and optimization of its 1,000-square-meter Lorient workshop, the opening of a new Mediterranean site, recruitment across technical, quality, and sales functions, and further process standardization. Reboat aims to deliver 30 boats in 2027 and scale to around 100 annually by 2031 through direct operations and local partnerships. As part of the transaction, Seventure Partners and Charlotte Souleau will join Reboat’s leadership team. | Marine Business
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