Five debt deals, no equity round
Five debt deals.
No equity round.
Five financings reported between 13 and 30 October 2026. In each, the source describes the money as a loan, venture debt, or a credit or lending facility.
- Lovey: up to £250M (about €298M) as a senior secured credit facility from Pollen Street Capital, reported on 27 October by EU-Startups. Only £50M (€59M) is committed; the other £200M is an accordion, an expansion option. Lovey is a UK lender to small businesses, and the facility goes into own-book lending and larger loans. The city is not stated.
- Impress, Barcelona: €40M venture debt loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), reported on 27 October by EU-Startups. Impress runs invisible orthodontics through a network of more than 110 clinics, combining in-person care with remote monitoring. The money goes into its AI platform across the clinics and into expansion, with a planned push into Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
- Coding Giants: up to €6M in venture debt from Orbit Capital, reported on 14 October by Tech.eu. Coding Giants teaches coding, AI and maths to children and teenagers in 13 markets. The money is for expansion abroad, mainly the US and Mexico, with Spain and other markets to follow through organic growth and acquisitions. Tech.eu calls it a Polish platform and gives no headquarters city.
- PaperFoam, Barneveld: €2M loan from Invest International, reported on 30 October by EU-Startups. The article's own wording is loan; a quote from Invest International calls it "this new investment". PaperFoam makes starch-based packaging. The money is for expanding its production facility in the Czech Republic and for working capital at its Malaysian and US plants.
- Snappy Shopper, founded in Dundee: a seven-figure lending facility, exact sum undisclosed, from Virgin Money's venture debt team, reported on 13 October by BusinessCloud. The £150M in the headline is annualised grocery sales on the platform, not the size of the deal. The money is for product investment, rising enterprise demand and faster rollout to UK retailers.
Only two of the five amounts are stated as fixed sums: €40M for Impress and €2M for PaperFoam. The Lovey and Coding Giants figures are "up to" amounts, and the Snappy Shopper sum is not disclosed beyond seven figures.