Index Ventures writes its biggest cheque yet into industrial AI. A TU Munich trio convince a French debt fund that solar panels above farmland are infrastructure-grade assets. And a Ghent University spin-out picks up its first outside capital to take on synthetic pesticides with bacteria.
Here is everything that happened in impact funding this week.
Scope raises $20M Series A for AI industrial inspection platform
Index Ventures led the round, with Susa Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, and Syndicate 1 also participating. The capital will be used to grow Scope's London team and accelerate adoption among global inspection companies.
The company was founded in 2024 by Jonathan Low and Jakob Cassiman – Low previously worked at AI lab Conjecture, Cassiman as a machine learning engineer at enterprise AI company ML6 – after the pair met through the Entrepreneur First programme.
Scope targets the testing, inspection, and certification industry, a $300bn market where a four-hour site inspection can still generate ten days of administrative work. The company says it has signed six of the world's ten largest inspection companies and converted every pilot into a paying customer.
Greenpixie raises £4.7M pre-Series A for enterprise cloud decarbonisation
VERBUND X Ventures, the corporate venture arm of one of Europe's largest renewable electricity producers, led the round, with Octopus Ventures, Armajaro Holdings, and Green Angel Ventures also participating.
John Ridd and William Tinney co-founded Greenpixie in London in 2021 following Ridd's participation in Carbon13's venture builder programme.
The company integrates with major cloud providers to help enterprises including Mastercard identify idle resources and route workloads to lower-carbon regions, targeting the roughly 29% of enterprise cloud spend that, according to the company, is wasted each year.
Losanje raises €6.7M Series B for industrial textile upcycling
Returning investors UI Investissement and Crédit Agricole were joined by new backers Evolem, Lita, and Albo, with institutional support from ADEME, Bpifrance, and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region.
Simon Peyronnaud and Mathieu Khouri co-founded the Nevers-based company in 2020 and have built what they describe as Europe's first industrial-scale upcycling system, processing over 340 tonnes of textiles for clients including SNCF, La Poste, and the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee.
The funds will finance a move to a new 2,500 sq m facility and new production equipment.
QuberTech raises £3.4M seed for dandelion-based natural rubber
Future Planet Capital's UKI2S fund led the round, which combines grant funding and equity to support R&D and small-scale pilot production.
Dr Ofir Meir and Dr Neil Clelland co-founded QuberTech at Norwich Research Park, where Meir previously served as CTO at gene-editing company Tropic.
The company uses gene editing to raise latex yields in dandelions, offering a locally produced alternative to tropical rubber imports – a supply chain concentrated in a narrow growing belt increasingly exposed to climate stress and disease.
Feldwerke secures €12M debt facility for 100MW agri-PV portfolio
An unnamed French renewable energy debt fund provided the revolving credit facility, which will fund construction across Feldwerke's pipeline of around 50 projects over the next 18 months.
Nicolai Reiners, Nils Kuchenbuch, and Marco Mielenz – all TU Munich graduates – co-founded the company in 2023.
Feldwerke already operates more than 20MW of agri-PV capacity, including what it says is the largest installation in southern Germany, and has a longer-term target of 1GW by 2030.
AVIAN raises €2.2M pre-seed for AI thermal monitoring in industrial sites
Founderful led the round in the Zurich-based company, which was bootstrapped and profitable for two years before raising external capital.
Drew Hanover and Thomas Laengle co-founded AVIAN in 2023 after a Swiss sawmill reached out to Hanover following press coverage of his robotics research.
The platform uses infrared cameras and anomaly detection to flag overheating equipment before it ignites. The company says it is on track to surpass $1M in annual recurring revenue in 2026.
Iride Acque raises €3M to consolidate industrial water treatment
Credem Euromobiliare Private Asset invested via its Eltifplus fund, with the capital deployed alongside an acquisition of Bieffe Costruzioni, a specialist in water infrastructure for utilities.
Monica Casadei founded the Parma-based company, which holds patented wastewater treatment technology developed using nanotechnology originally derived from waste battery materials.
The Iride Group is targeting revenues above €13M in 2026, with further acquisitions planned.
Triple Bio raises €1.5M pre-seed for cattle methane reduction
Nucleus Capital, Positron Ventures, and Climate Club backed the round in the Netherlands-based company, which was founded in 2025 through Paris climate tech studio Marble.
Peter Rowe, Tracy Nevitt, and Bart Tas lead the team. Rowe previously founded gas fermentation startup Deep Branch, while Nevitt and Tas both worked at livestock methane startup Mootral.
The company uses a lipid-based feed additive platform designed to redirect hydrogen in the rumen, a process it says can reduce methane emissions while also lifting milk yields, though field validation is ongoing.
Invertix raises €1.7M pre-seed for AI agents in renewable energy
Vireo Ventures led the round, with Italian Founders Fund and a syndicate of energy and AI angels also participating.
Joseph Perrotta and Kaan Durmaz founded Invertix in 2026 following research involving more than 5,000 interviews with European energy operators, which identified a widening gap between the pace of solar and wind deployment and the availability of skilled staff to manage assets.
The Munich-based company says its autonomous agents currently manage more than 1.8GW of solar capacity.
Qurie raises €2.2M seed for refrigerant-free cooling systems
High-Tech Gründerfonds, Technology Transfer Fund TT49, and Aepikur GmbH backed the round in the Freiburg-based company, which was founded in 2026 as a spin-off from Fraunhofer IPM.
Dr Christian Vogel and Dr Kilian Bartholomé co-founded Qurie; Bartholomé had spent more than a decade at Fraunhofer developing the patented electrocaloric heat pipe technology at the core of the platform.
The system replaces compressors and conventional refrigerants with electrocaloric materials that change temperature when an electric field is applied or removed.
B-COS raises €1M pre-seed for precision-fermented biopesticides
VP Capital and Agri Investment Fund backed the round, with incubation provided by Biotope by VIB. VP Capital is the long-term investment vehicle of the Van Puijenbroek family in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Chiara Guidi and Wouter Demeester co-founded B-COS in 2025 as a spin-out from Ghent University's synthetic biology lab, where the pair had collaborated for several years on the underlying chitooligosaccharide chemistry.
The company uses bacteria to produce precise crop protection compounds designed to replace natural extracts that are effective but variable in performance – a problem that carries direct financial risk for farmers.
Airex Technologies raises £2.1M for smart air brick retrofit technology
Nesta Impact Investments, Sustainable Ventures, One Planet Capital, Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund, and Vectr7 Investment Partners backed the round.
Agnes Czako co-founded Airex in 2016 with Sustainable Ventures, drawing on her background leading fuel poverty assessments across London.
The company makes an IoT-enabled air brick that manages airflow and reduces heat loss through suspended timber floors – an area it says is consistently overlooked in retrofit programmes despite being a significant source of heat loss in older homes.