The wire — July 10, 2026

Today across French & European venture

Five rounds from 9 July not in Thursday's brief: Alchemab Therapeutics' £25M Series A extension with the British Business Bank, Marker's $13M anti-AI-generation writing tool, Aria's €7M fintech extension plus €240M facility, Pixel-Flo's microLED Seed, and Sherpa's Pre-Seed.

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Enterprise AI · July 9, 2026

Sherpa raises €2M Pre-Seed to manage external workers and AI agents through one platform

Munich-based Sherpa has raised $2.2M in a Pre-Seed round co-led by Seedcamp, DN Capital, Activant Capital, and Brighteye to build an AI operating system for enterprise external workforce management — covering contractors, consultants, and AI agents in a single platform.

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Quantum sensing / Semiconductors · July 9, 2026

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AI · June 17, 2026

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Sherpa raises €2M Pre-Seed to manage external workers and AI agents through one platform

QuantumDiamonds raises €91M — €15M equity, €76M non-dilutive — to bring quantum sensing into semiconductor fabs

Pixel-Flo raises €6.1M Seed to make microLED displays manufacturable at mass-market cost

Marker raises €11.3M Seed to build the word processor that bets on human writers

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