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Five pre-seeds, EUR 850K to USD 30M

Five pre-seeds.

€850K to $30M.

Five rounds that the sources call pre-seed, reported between 15 and 29 October 2026. Amounts are as reported, in euros and dollars.

  • Enact: $30M, reported by tech.eu on 22 October. The article names no lead. Investors include redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital, with angels Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun and Thomas Wolf. The Swiss company builds force and touch sensing for general-purpose robots. The money goes into the team and into hardware and R&D. tech.eu calls the $30M "high for a pre-seed funding round".
  • Bleu Robotics, Paris: €5M co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital, with Kvanted, WEPA Ventures, Motier Ventures and Charlie Songhurst, reported by EU-Startups on 29 October. Its AI models for humanoid robots learn new tasks from as few as ten operator demonstrations, according to the article. Use of funds is not specified.
  • Matters, based in Stockholm according to its own site: $5M led by the Swedish angel Jakob Johansson, with Knut Frängsmyr, Douglas Stark and others, reported by tech.eu on 15 October. Matters plans an AI-native consumer bank with a flat monthly fee and does not yet hold a licence. The money goes into licence applications, EU expansion, the team and user acquisition.
  • Reduck: $3M led by daphni, with Drysdale Ventures and Galion.exe, reported by tech.eu on 22 October. The article calls it a French-American company and names no city. Reduck lets AI agents find, run and create browser automation scripts, with a library of more than 1,200 scripts for over 250 websites. The money goes into the team, the technology, the script library and a developer offering.
  • KineDB: €850,000 led by Superhero Capital, with NGL Ventures and angels, reported by tech.eu on 29 October. The article does not state a location. KineDB builds one database engine that runs inside an application and across backend infrastructure, first for industries with unreliable connectivity such as mining. The money goes into development and hiring database engineers.

Enact is the only round with no named lead; the other four name one, and the lead at Matters is an individual angel. Enact's $30M is larger than the other four rounds combined: about 13.85M, adding the euro and dollar figures at face value (our arithmetic).

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