| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.08.2026 | Boldr raises $5M to turn home energy systems into grid capacity | UK energy management startup Boldr has raised $5 million in a pre-Series A round to expand its technology for connecting residential energy equipment and turning it into flexible capacity for the power grid. The round was led by Unconventio... |
| 24.08.2026 | Boldr Raises $5M in Funding | Boldr, a London, UK-based smart climate technology and automated energy hardware startup, raised $5m in funding.
The round was led by Unconventional Ventures, with participation from Ada Ventures, Tetrad Ventures, Davidovs Venture Collectiv... |
| 13.07.2026 | Visibuilt Raises €3.34 Million To Advance Mycelium-Based Construction Binders | Visibuilt, a Danish biotechnology company developing biobased alternatives to conventional construction binders, has raised €3.34 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by EIFO and Unconventional Ventures, with participation from Pro... |
| 08.07.2026 | Digiclean Raises €2.5 Million Seed Round To Improve Industrial Fluid Monitoring | Digiclean Solutions announced that it has closed a €2.5 million seed funding round. The company said the milestone will support the next phase of its growth as it helps manufacturers gain better visibility into industrial process fluids.
Th... |
| 30.06.2026 | Digiclean raises €2.5M to optimise industrial cleaning with AI | Swedish deeptech company Digiclean has raised €2.5 million in a seed funding round to advance its platform for industrial cleaning and maintenance optimisation. The round was co-led by Unconventional Ventures and Almi Invest GreenTech, with... |
| 23.04.2026 | Tilia Impact Ventures Backs Flox Intelligence Turning AI Into a Language for Nature | Tilia Impact Ventures led Flox Intelligence’s USD 3M Seed+ round The startup’s AI-powered bioacoustic system reduces human-wildlife conflicts across critical infrastructure The Flox Edge solution integrates sensing, analysis, and response d... |
| 13.04.2026 | Airmo Raises €5M Seed Funding | Airmo, a Munich, Germany- and Luxembourg-based climate-tech and space tech startup, raised €5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Ananda Impact Ventures, alongside Unconventional Ventures, kopa ventures, Desai Ventures, Hypernova / New V... |
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| 13.03.2026 | SpaceTech Firm AIRMO Secures €5M to Combat Methane Leaks from Orbit | SpaceTech pioneer AIRMO secured €5 million in seed funding. This capital fuels its 2027 satellite launch. The mission targets precise methane leak detection from orbit. Methane accounts for 30% of global warming. AIRMO's proprietary SWIR-Li... |
| 13.03.2026 | AIRMO: €5 Million Raised For Space-Based Methane Monitoring System | AIRMO, a Berlin, Munich, and Luxembourg-based space technology startup developing a greenhouse gas monitoring system, announced that it has raised €5 million in seed funding. The company plans to use the capital to launch its first satellit... |
| 12.03.2026 | Germany’s AIRMO raises €5 million to detect methane leaks from space with satellite launch planned for 2027 | AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based SpaceTech startup developing the world’s most advanced greenhouse gas monitoring system, has today announced a €5 million Seed funding round to fuel the launch of its first satellite mission in 2027 and ... |
| 25.01.2026 | Octarine Bio Secures €12.8M Series A for Sustainable Pigment Revolution | Octarine Bio, a Danish biotech innovator, secured an additional €5 million, pushing its total Series A funding to €12.8 million. This significant investment fuels the industrial scaling and commercial rollout of its PurePalette platform. Pu... |
| 23.01.2026 | Octarine Bio: €5 Million Raised To Scale Precision-Fermented Natural Pigments | Octarine Bio has secured €5 million in new funding, bringing its total Series A financing to €12.8 million, including earlier pre-Series A capital, as the Danish biotech pushes to scale a new platform for sustainable, bio-based pigments.
Ba... |
| 22.01.2026 | Copenhagen’s Octarine Bio adds €5 million to Series A to advance sustainable colour platform | Octarine Bio, a Danish BioTech company developing a new generation of sustainable pigments through precision fermentation, has successfully secured €5 million to accelerate the industrial-scale validation and commercial rollout of PurePalet... |
| 30.09.2025 | Boldr raises $3.2M to turn homes into residential power plants | London-based energy tech company Boldr has raised an oversubscribed $3.2 million seed round to advance its mission of turning homes into active grid participants, helping homeowners reduce costs while supporting grid operators amid rising d... |
| 09.08.2025 | Flox Secures $1M for AI Wildlife Tech, Eyes Major US Expansion | Flox, a deeptech wildlife intelligence company, has secured nearly $1M in Seed funding. Their AI-powered Edge device revolutionizes human-wildlife coexistence. It autonomously uses bioacoustics to prevent conflicts, protecting critical infr... |
| 08.08.2025 | Flox Robotics Secures $1M Seed Round: Pioneering AI for Human-Wildlife Coexistence | Flox Robotics, a Swedish AI innovator, has successfully closed a $1 million Seed funding round. This significant investment fuels the company’s ambitious mission. Flox aims to revolutionize human-wildlife interaction. Its cutting-edge AI te... |
| 08.08.2025 | Flox: $1 Million Seed Funding Raised For Scaling AI That Speaks To Animals | Flox, the wildlife intelligence company on a mission to transform how humans and wildlife coexist by communicating with wild animals using AI, has closed an oversubscribed Seed round of nearly $1 million. The round was led by Unconventional... |
| 08.08.2025 | Flox Closes $1M Seed Funding Round | Flox Robotics, a Stockholm, Sweden-based wildlife intelligence company, raised $1M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Unconventional Ventures, with participation from Norrsken Accelerate, Almi Invest, E14 Invest, Argand Partners, and a g... |
| 07.08.2025 | Flox raises nearly $1M to redefine human-wildlife coexistence | Deeptech wildlife intelligence company Flox has closed an oversubscribed Seed round of nearly $1 million.
Spun out of AI research at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm, the company aims to make human-wildlife interaction safer... |
| 07.08.2025 | Swedish AI startup Flox secures nearly €1 million to keep wildlife safe and help coexist without conflict | Stockholm-based Flox, a wildlife intelligence company on a mission to transform how humans and wildlife coexist by speaking to wild animals with their AI, has closed an oversubscribed Seed round of nearly €1 million.
The round was led by Un... |
| 01.08.2025 | Investment Climate Podcast: Eleonora Cavani of Alba Health, How to Get Funded in 2025 | In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.
Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strate... |
| 10.07.2025 | The Blue Box raises €3M to advance AI-powered, urine-based breast cancer test | The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions, a medtech startup developing a sector-transforming urine-based breast cancer screening test powered by AI, has secured €3 million in funding to fuel its clinical trial phase and achieve CE marking by the e... |
| 21.05.2024 | Danish industrial biotechnology startup Cellugy raises €4,9M to replace petrochemicals in personal care products | Danish industrial biotechnology startup Cellugy raises €4,9M to replace petrochemicals in personal care products
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Cellugy’s first-of-its-kind fermentation platform produces high-performing dry ... |
| 24.04.2024 | Saveggy Raises €1.76M for Plastic-Free Edible Cucumber Packaging | 4 Mins Read Swedish packaging solutions startup Saveggy has raised SEK 20M (€1.76M) to scale up its plastic-free, plant-based coating for fruits and vegetables, starting with cucumbers.
Lund-based Saveggy’s latest funding round of €1.76M wa... |
| 19.04.2024 | Saveggy Raises €1.76M for Edible Fruit & Veg Coating as Solution to Plastic Packaging | Swedish startup Saveggy has raised €1.76 million (SEK 20M) for its plant-based alternative to plastic packaging designed to preserve the shelf life of vegetables and fruits and prevent food waste.
The startup’s plant-based coating is said t... |
| 18.04.2024 | Saveggy Revolutionizes Food Packaging | Lund-based foodtech Saveggy has secured €1.76 million in funding to revolutionize the way fresh fruits and vegetables are packaged. With a plant-based solution that aims to replace plastic, Saveggy is on a mission to reduce global food wast... |
| 15.04.2024 | Saveggy raises €1.76M for plastic-free packaging | Lund-based foodtech Saveggy has raised €1.76M for its plant-based vegetable packaging that the company hopes will replace plastic.
45% of vegetables of wasted globally. Saveggy’s packaging, which it hopes will prolong their shelf life witho... |
| 05.09.2023 | Unconventional Ventures nears €30M fund close for diverse European startups | Unconventional Ventures, a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm focusing on investing in early-stage startups led by underrepresented founders in Europe, has announced the second close of a targeted €30 million fund.
The firm focuses on th... |
| 05.09.2023 | Impact VC firm Unconventional Ventures hits second close of its €30M fund; here’s the fund’s investment strategy | Read this article in:
Copenhagen-based Unconventional Ventures (UV), impact-focused venture capital, on Tuesday, announced the second close of its €30M fund.
Limited Partners (LPs) that have invested in the fund include:
European venture ca... |
| 04.09.2023 | Nordic-based Unconventional Ventures nears €30M fund close to back diverse European teams | As has been pointed out many, many times, lack of diversity is an ongoing problem in the tech startup and VC landscape. It’s a fact that’s long been recognised in the U.S., and it’s of equal concern in Europe. Zoom in on the Nordics region,... |
| 08.06.2023 | Lithuania leads the future of women in tech | When researching the startup ecosystem in Lithuania, one thing stuck out — the number of female-led startups.
Don't get too excited.
Let's be clear, women are predictably significantly underrepresented when we talk tech, especially when we ... |
| 19.10.2022 | Investing in women - but only with 1% | The Unconventional Ventures report is out and yet again we are being forced to report on such dismal figures like ‘1% of funding allocated to women in ‘21’ and the tight purse strings of female General Partners (GP). ‘VC funds with all-men ... |
| 22.09.2022 | 8 investors discuss what’s ahead for reproductive health startups in a post-Roe world | One of the most pressing issues the U.S. has to prepare for, perhaps, is the future it faces after the toppling of Roe v. Wade.
Come the midterm elections, voters will weigh in on candidates and, consequently, measures that will dictate abo... |
| 06.07.2022 | Unconventional Ventures launches €30 million fund to invest in diverse and impact driven teams | A pioneering European fund has been launched today, helping diversify the face of Europe’s VC scene. Danish firm Unconventional Ventures has launched a €30 million fund – targeting diverse founding teams that are building impactful tech com... |
| 06.07.2022 | Unconventional Ventures launches €30m fund to invest in underrepresented founders | Unconventional Ventures (UV), a Copenhagen-based investor, has raised a new fund of €30m to invest in underrepresented founders in Europe.
Its mission? Get more money into the pockets of “unconventional founders”, who remain sorely underinv... |
| 24.03.2021 | CEE report: women-founded companies significantly outperform men-founded companies | A new report commissioned and created by European Women in VC, Experior VC, and Unconventional Ventures found that in terms of capital productivity, women outperform men by as much as 96% in the CEE region.
The “Funding in the CEE region – ... |
| 13.01.2021 | “Unconventional Accelerator”: The first digital accelerator targeting underrepresented Nordic founders | Since launching its report on who funds whom in the Nordics, together with partners like Startup Sweden and NVCA, the team at Unconventional Ventures have been busy. They recently launched the UV Syndicate, giving everyone the opportunity t... |
| 16.10.2020 | Nordic startup funding – a deep dive into who funds whom | All male founding teams still get 92.9% of external capital in the Nordics, to build and expand their startups. However, a new report from Unconventional Ventures shows us how a shift towards a more equal distribution of capital can be acce... |
| 09.08.2020 | Top Voice AI Stories in the First Half of 2020 with Lau, Prescott and König – Voicebot Podcast Ep 162 | Top Voice AI Stories in the First Half of 2020 with Lau, Prescott and König – Voicebot Podcast Ep 162
Bret Kinsella on August 9, 2020 at 4:25 pm
This week’s roundtable discussion focuses on the top voice AI news from the first half of 2020... |
| 20.11.2019 | Nordic early-stage VC firm Unconventional Ventures announces its first micro fund to invest in startups led by founders from underrepresented groups | Unconventional Ventures, a Copenhagen-based investment firm set up to invest in Nordic early-stage startups led by founders from underrepresented groups, today announced it has raised €125,000 for its very first fund, Unconventional Venture... |
| 20.11.2019 | New European microfund launches; 85% of its investors are women | Most startups find it hard to fill their cap tables with an equal split of female and male investors. Most investors, too, find it difficult to maintain a good gender balance in the individuals they raise money from.
But Thea Messel, founde... |