Editing Newsletter EU Funding 2026-04-15 (section)

== 💰 Funding & Investments ==

* French biotech '''Helical''' raised $10M in seed funding from redalpine, Gradient, BoxGroup, Frst and angels including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, to build a virtual AI lab that converts biological foundation models into reproducible in-silico pharma discovery workflows.
Source: [https://tech.eu/2026/04/14/helical-secures-10m-to-advance-virtual-ai-lab-for-pharma-research/ Tech.eu] (Apr 14, 2026)

* French startup '''Generare''' secured €20M Series A to scale its molecular discovery platform generating molecular data for drug discovery with pharmaceutical companies.
Source: [https://tech.eu/2026/04/02/generare-secures-eur20m-to-scale-molecular-discovery-platform/ Tech.eu] (Apr 2, 2026)

* Swiss clinical trial data infrastructure startup '''Rivia''' raised $15M Seed to consolidate fragmented trial data into a unified clinical trial intelligence platform.
Source: [https://tech.eu/2026/03/18/rivia-raises-15m-to-fix-the-broken-data-infrastructure-behind-clinical-trials/ Tech.eu] (Mar 18, 2026)

* '''EQT''' and '''Atomico''' are competing to manage a €5B EU fund for European scaleups, with a decision expected shortly according to sources familiar with the matter.
Source: [https://sifted.eu/articles/eqt-atomico-finalists-scaleup-europe-fund/ Sifted]