European AI Startups Raise Fresh Funding Across Waste, Finance and Surgery

Plinto automates financial checks

Copenhagen-based Plinto raised €2.9 million from People Ventures and Emblem to develop its AI-powered financial transaction monitoring platform, grow its enterprise customer base and begin expanding internationally, Tech.eu reported. Founded in early 2025 by Jakob Nielsen, Nermina Suljevic and Sebastian Rehnby, Plinto builds AI agents that detect and resolve errors in financial transactions, automating checks finance teams usually do by hand.

The platform integrates with existing systems, including ERP software, banking systems and communication tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Its agents verify transactions against agreed terms, investigate discrepancies, follow up with suppliers on incorrect invoices, request credit notes and prepare corrections for approval.

XRlabs brings AI into the operating room

London-based XRlabs, which describes itself as a surgical intelligence company, raised €7.48 million ($8.4 million) in seed funding, according to EU-Startups. The round was led by Palo Alto-based Playground Global, with participation from London HealthTech investor Eka Ventures. The company also announced that Omar Ishrak, who led Medtronic as chairman and CEO from 2011 to 2020 and previously chaired Intel's board, has joined as chair of its board of directors.

Founded by practising neurosurgeon Dr. Ali Haddad in 2024, XRlabs is headquartered at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, with a second office in Palo Alto. Its modular, device-agnostic software acts as an external AI layer across surgical systems hospitals already own, using computer vision and deep learning to turn live scope video, navigation telemetry and pre-operative CT and MRI imaging into a single real-time, anatomy-aware view. XRlabs says its platform has been used across more than 100 surgical cases on three continents, and it offers two core products, XRlabs SIM and SurgicalOS.