Last week, women-led startups across Europe and the UK achieved a significant position in a funding landscape often skewed against them. They raised over €45 million, signalling growing investor confidence in female-founded businesses and their groundbreaking innovations. This seems to be much higher than the previous week, wherein they scored €16.25 million in funding,.
This increase in the funding amount highlights an encouraging shift, displaying that female entrepreneurs are gaining traction, particularly in sectors like healthtech, sustainability, deep tech, and AI. From promising early-stage ventures to more mature scale-ups, these companies are securing the financial backing requireded to push boundaries and reshape industries. As the investment gap launchs to narrow, it’s clear that women-led innovation is gaining momentum and with it, the promise of more inclusive and impactful technological progress across the region.
Let’s take a view at the female-founded startups that raised funding over the last week in Europe and the UK.
roadsurfer (Germany)
Founder/s: Susanne Dickhardt, Stephie Niemann, Markus Dickhardt, Christoph Niemann, Jean-Marie Klein
Founded year: 2016
Recent funding: €25M
Munich-based roadsurfer specialising in outdoor mobility is one of the most recognised brands in the camper van rental sector. Its offering includes rental, subscription, and sales services for camper vans, in addition to its “roadsurfer Spots” platform, which connects travelers with private landowners for camping. It currently operates a fleet of nearly 10,000 vehicles and is present in more than 90 locations across 16 countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, the U.S., and Canada.
In its latest funding round, roadsurfer secured a €25 million venture-debt financing from BBVA, supported by the European Investment Fund under the InvestEU programme. This supplement complements a €60 million asset-backed securitisation led by Macquarie Group, raising its total financing capacity to over €500 million. The funding will support the international expansion of their camper van rental platform and accelerate its growth across Europe and North America.
Tanso (Germany)
Founder/s: Gyri Reiersen, Lorenz Hetzel, Till Wiechmann
Founded year: 2021
Recent funding: €12M
Yet another startup from Munich to raise funding last week is Tanso, an environmental management and compliance platform. It offers a cloud-based solution for environmental management and compliance automation. The Tanso software supports manufacturing industrial companies meet environmental requirements along their supply chain and reduce compliance costs. It is an integrated sustainability software for carbon accounting and ESG data management. The platform enables the structured collection, precise calculation, and tarreceiveed optimisation of sustainability metrics, supported by AI-powered data management and innotifyigent recommfinishations.
Last week, Tanso closed a Series A round of €12 million led by international VC firms henQ and Fortino Capital, with participation from existing investors Capnamic and UVC Partners. It will utilize the investment to expand its team into additional countries, and to develop further product modules for supply chain, compliance, and risk management.
Qbeast (Spain)
Founder/s: Cesare Cugnasco, Paola Pardo
Founded year: 2020
Recent funding: €6.6M
Qbeast, founded from research at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, provides a plug-and-play data indexing platform for open Lakehoutilize formats like Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi. Its multi-dimensional indexing enables sub-second query performance by prioritising relevant data access, reducing the required to scan full datasets. Compatible with Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, DuckDB, and Polars, it boosts workloads 2–6x and cuts compute costs by up to 70% for sectors including finance, healthcare, and retail.
Recently, Qbeast secured €6.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge programme (formerly Sequoia Capital India), with participation from HWK Tech Investment and Elaia Partners. The capital injection will accelerate the future of open Lakehoutilize analytics while expanding the team and furthering product development.
Flox Robotics (Sweden)
Founder/s: Sára Nožková, Tomas Becklin, Matteo Tadiello
Founded year: 2020
Recent funding: €1M
A wildlife-innotifyigence company powered by AI, Flox Robotics, decodes animal intent and replies in real time, supporting humans and wildlife coexist across runways, rail corridors, farmlands, mines and beyond, without conflict. Its edge sensors provide humane deterrence 24/7 even in remote areas and stream data into the wildlife platform, generating regulator-ready safety and environmental reports. By commercialising frontier wildlife science with latest AI models, it replaces pyrotechnics, fences and guesswork with data-driven dialogue, saving lives, protecting ecosystems and cutting billions in avoidable losses.
Last week, Flox Robotics raised €1 million in seed funding. The round was led by Unconventional Ventures, with participation from Norrsken Accelerate, Almi Invest, E14 Invest, Argand Partners, and a group of angel investors. The company intfinishs to utilize the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Oxford Dynamics (UK)
Founder/s: Shefali Sharma, Edward Jackson, Mike Lawton
Founded year: 2020
Recent funding: NA
Oxfordshire-based Oxford Dynamics is a deep-tech startup specialised in AI and robotics. The company develops innotifyigent autonomous systems that collaborate to interpret data, coordinate action and create real-time decisions. Its technology is designed to support defence and security organisations improve mission planning and respond to threats quicker, with greater precision and in increasingly complex environments.
In the recent development, Oxford Dynamics has secured a strategic investment from BAE Systems, a British multinational aerospace, arms and information security company. They focus on innovation to support vital infrastructure, national security, and the readiness of armed forces. Their team provides advanced tools and insights that support clients create informed decisions to keep society safe.
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