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The wire — 1 November 2026
Sunday, 1 November — All Saints' Day. No qualifying rounds reached the desk today.
Toussaint is a national public holiday in France and across much of Catholic Europe — Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and Poland all observe it. Company communication teams and investor PR functions are offline; no announcement in today's date window met the two-source threshold for publication. Nothing was skipped for editorial reasons.
The desk covered four rounds across the week of 26 October–1 November: Volare (Finland, €7.1M, insect protein), Sonexos (Switzerland, €5.4M, plasma acoustics), Ravical (Belgium, €15.6M, accounting AI), and Bleu Robotics (France, €5M, industrial humanoids). The week's thread, published alongside this brief, pulls the four rounds into a single account of what approximately €33 million in early-stage European capital looked like across a four-day announcement window.
Next edition: Monday 2 November 2026, which will pick up any rounds that surface over the Toussaint weekend.
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