Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Founded in 2020 by former creative director and concept artist Antonio Stappaerts, Artwod provides guided learning 'Learning Roads', community feedback and personalised recommendations to help visual artists improve. The platform blends short, structured exercises and peer critique, drawing inspiration from products like Duolingo and Chess.com to encourage regular practice and community interaction. Artwod has partnered with Wacom to give digital artists access to personalised feedback and guided practice. The company has scaled to serve more than 100,000 artists worldwide, with reported daily traffic up over 500% and daily engaged usage up more than 400% in the past 18 months. Its next product phase is a creators' marketplace enabling top feedback-givers to offer paid critiques and guidance. The recent €1.1 million Seed raise will support those expansion plans.

Led · Equity · Feb 2026

Founded in 2022 in Amsterdam, Celebratix offers a blockchain-based ticketing system for clubs, festivals, and other live events. The platform lets organisers handle primary and secondary ticket sales, guest lists, loyalty programmes, and real-time analytics from one interface. By anchoring tickets on blockchain infrastructure, it aims to curb fraud, simplify access control, and provide transparent resale. Celebratix’s business model also includes acquiring small, regionally strong ticketing providers and migrating their customers onto its platform to create a unified European network. The company completed one Dutch acquisition in the past year and plans to acquire nine more across Europe over the next year. Management believes around 300 fragmented ticketing firms across the region present ripe targets, enabling Celebratix to scale quickly and compete with larger incumbents. The newly secured funding is intended to finance these acquisitions and position the firm for a larger Series A in 2027.

Led · Seed · Jan 2026

Sipfront is a Vienna-based software startup focused on automated testing and monitoring of telecommunications infrastructure and voice-AI services. Its cloud platform can simulate millions of voice calls and conversational interactions, enabling operators and enterprises to validate voice quality, connection security, and the correctness of AI-driven communication flows before they reach end users. Current customers include telecom operators and voice-AI providers such as Parloa, NFON, and Cloudtalk. The company plans to channel new capital into bolstering its enterprise-grade voice-AI features and expanding its automated quality-assurance technologies. Sipfront positions itself as a critical quality-assurance layer as carriers and software vendors migrate to AI-enhanced voice services. Financially, the business has just secured a €1.8 million seed round, giving it fresh resources for product development and go-to-market execution. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Led · Series A · Oct 2025

Founded in 2018, London-based CybaVerse develops CybaOps, a unified cybersecurity SaaS platform that combines detection, compliance, security operations, and testing into a single offering. The solution is engineered for rapid deployment, cost-effectiveness, and white-label resale, enabling partners to deliver 24/7 protection with clear, actionable insights. Automation within CybaOps streamlines complex security tasks, helping small and mid-sized enterprises strengthen their defences against advanced threats. CybaVerse positions itself as a partner-friendly vendor, serving managed service providers that need scalable, easy-to-manage security solutions. The company plans to transition from founder-led sales to a broader SaaS growth model, supported by expanded sales and marketing efforts and ongoing product development. Previous funding of £1.1 million in 2024 and the acquisition of SecureAck have laid the groundwork for its current expansion. The new capital injection will fuel team growth and accelerate innovation as the company scales its operations.

Led · Series A · Jan 2025

Passbolt provides an API-centric platform that collaboratively manages and protects accounts, credentials, and secrets used by people and machines across devices. It supports passwords and a wide range of organizational credentials, including root accounts, SSH keys, API keys, non-human credentials, key-value secrets, web logins, and TOTPs for MFA. The product is open source with self-hosting capabilities and flexible customization to meet company policies and regulatory needs. Passbolt offers a free community edition (Passbolt CE), a commercial enterprise edition (Passbolt Pro) with support, and a SaaS offering (Passbolt Cloud). Led by CEO Kevin Muller and based in Luxembourg, the company targets organizations of all sizes. Passbolt provides an open-source, privacy-focused password manager aimed at teams, offering a free community edition (Passbolt CE) and two commercial products: Passbolt Pro (self-hosted) and Passbolt Cloud (hosted for smaller teams). The product targets collaborative access management for developers and marketers who share credentials and require differentiated access levels. The company says it has close to 100,000 users and doubled headcount from 6 to 12 in 2020. Passbolt emphasizes transparency and open-source security versus competitors that use “security by obscurity.” With the new funding, the startup plans to expand technical teams and hire multi-skilled developers familiar with open-source. The team expects community-driven demand to accelerate roadmap development in the short term. Passbolt is an open-source password manager built on PGP/GnuPG that validates users and verifies secrets server-side to enable secure data sharing among team members. The platform is customizable via its API and was incubated at Technoport. Founded in 2017 by Cedric Alfonsi, Kevin Muller and Remy Bertot, Passbolt serves about 30,000 users. The company plans to upgrade its software, expand its team and launch Passbolt Cloud, a SaaS offering for users with limited infrastructure. Management has set a user-growth target of at least 100,000 users in 2019. Recent fundraising will support these product and growth plans.