The wire — 7 November 2026

Saturday, 7 November — no qualifying rounds reached the desk within today's window. Three rounds announced on Wednesday 5 November (VÆRIDION, Granit) and Thursday 6 November (Green Voltis) arrived after the previous edition closed, and are published today as standalone deal stories, each dated to its real announcement date. No shared theme connects them; this is a timing story, not a thematic one.

VÆRIDION raises €30M Series A2 and €94.5M EU grant — Munich, Germany. Co-led by SHIFT Invest and Invest-NL, with World Fund, Project A, Vsquared Ventures, and Alexander Rittweger. The company builds a clean-sheet nine-passenger all-electric regional aircraft — the Microliner — targeting routes up to 400 km at operating costs below €0.40 per seat-kilometre. A parallel €94.5M EU Innovation Fund grant, awarded to VÆRIDION's CAROLUS project from 358 applicants, will finance a final assembly facility at Oberpfaffenhofen. This is the only aviation award in the EU Innovation Fund's latest cohort.

Green Voltis raises €13.5M Series A — Stockholm, Sweden. Led solely by Lochpine Capital. Founded in 2024, the company provides AI-powered route-to-market optimisation for battery storage and renewable energy assets — combining the Aether AI trading agent with the Chronos energy management system across 10 European power markets. More than 1.2 GWh is under contract or in operation; the company says managed assets have consistently beaten the Clean Horizon battery-revenue benchmark. The round also finances a Power-to-Compute business targeting AI data centre energy infrastructure in the Nordic region.

Granit raises €5M pre-seed — Paris, France. €3.5M in equity led by Seedcamp, plus €1.5M in non-dilutive co-financing including Bpifrance; Drysdale Ventures, Re:rail, Purple, Cleo, and Kima also participated. Founded in March 2026 by Jenny Mansour and Corneille Maréchal, the company builds AI agents that operate inside existing healthcare software and external platforms to automate billing, claim follow-ups, rejection correction, and coverage verification. Already deployed at more than 250 facilities in France, eight months after founding.