https://thebatchroom.comOne email every Thursday, under 5 minutes to read, on the startups coming out of accelerators and incubators. You see them while they are still in the program, before the round gets announced.enhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/unglamorous-problems-funded-this-weekhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/unglamorous-problems-funded-this-weekSat, 07 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMTUnglamorous problems. Funded this week. Five European rounds from the first week of November, all aimed at problems most people never think about. ▪ Vensum Power, Espoo: €9M…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/disney-accelerator-3-of-5-unicorns-cheque-secrethttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/disney-accelerator-3-of-5-unicorns-cheque-secretSat, 07 Nov 2026 13:00:00 GMTFive startups got into the 2026 Disney Accelerator. Three of them are valued at $2 billion or more. Disney still has not said what it paid. The program held its Demo Day on 3…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/graphenergytech-no-silver-needed-aramco-back-inhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/graphenergytech-no-silver-needed-aramco-back-inSat, 07 Nov 2026 10:00:00 GMTUp to £3 million is what one company is raising to take gold and silver out of electrodes. The replacement is a black paste made of graphene. The company is GraphEnergyTech, a…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/bankrupt-in-march-funded-in-novemberhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/bankrupt-in-march-funded-in-novemberFri, 06 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMTOne of this week's rounds went to a company declared bankrupt in March. Another is a seed round that buys other companies. ▪ Hardt Hyperloop, Rotterdam: a multi-million-euro…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/masschallenge-switzerland-1961-applied-no-equityhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/masschallenge-switzerland-1961-applied-no-equityFri, 06 Nov 2026 11:30:00 GMT1,961 startups applied. 189 got in. The accelerator took equity from none of them. MassChallenge Switzerland handed out its 2026 awards last week at Beaulieu in Lausanne, in front…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/jawbuddy-jaw-pain-app-goes-on-trialhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/jawbuddy-jaw-pain-app-goes-on-trialFri, 06 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMT130 patients start a randomised trial in December. What they are testing is a phone app for jaw pain. The app is JawBuddy, from a team based at SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator in…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-rounds-this-week-surgeons-paid-for-onehttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-rounds-this-week-surgeons-paid-for-oneThu, 05 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMTSix European startups announced rounds this week. One of them was funded by more than 15 surgeons. ▪ Gallium Defense, Paris: a €7.1M seed led by Keen Venture Partners and 360…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/station-f-future-40-picked-by-peoplehttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/station-f-future-40-picked-by-peopleThu, 05 Nov 2026 11:30:00 GMTThirty of the 40 startups on this list have a founder who has done it before. Fifteen have a founder who already sold a company. The list is Future 40, published every November…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/amrax-hospital-scanned-by-phonehttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/amrax-hospital-scanned-by-phoneThu, 05 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMTA 60,000 square metre hospital in southern Germany has been mapped with smartphones, while it kept running. That job comes from Metaroom by Amrax, a company from Puch bei Hallein…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-startups-five-cheques-not-from-a-vchttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-startups-five-cheques-not-from-a-vcWed, 04 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMTSix European startups got backing in the past two weeks. Five of them have money from someone other than a VC. ▪ Quint Computing, Erlangen: €9.1M led by Vsquared Ventures, which…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/gostudent-builders-75-percent-no-salaryhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/gostudent-builders-75-percent-no-salaryWed, 04 Nov 2026 11:30:00 GMTA Vienna unicorn is offering founders 75% of a company. There is no salary, and from year three it can buy the majority. GoStudent, the tutoring company led by Felix Ohswald and…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/tumbleweed-vienna-startup-selling-zero-gravityhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/tumbleweed-vienna-startup-selling-zero-gravityWed, 04 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMTMore than a third of this startup's 25 employees just put their own money into its seed round. Tumbleweed, a Vienna space company, announced €6.9M on 3 November. Pact led, joined…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-programs-closing-in-novemberhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-programs-closing-in-novemberTue, 03 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMTSix application deadlines close in November. The biggest pays up to €9.6M per team. Another costs nothing and takes no equity. ▪ 9 Nov, 12:00 CET: SPRIND - Bundesagentur für…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/entrepreneurs-first-investing-before-there-is-a-companyhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/entrepreneurs-first-investing-before-there-is-a-companyTue, 03 Nov 2026 11:30:07 GMTMost investors wait for a company. Entrepreneurs First signs people before they have a cofounder or even an idea. Entrepreneurs First was founded in London in 2011 by Matt…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/dilt-analytics-tu-graz-spin-off-diagnoses-building-systemshttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/dilt-analytics-tu-graz-spin-off-diagnoses-building-systemsTue, 03 Nov 2026 07:00:09 GMTLarge buildings can run their heating and cooling wrong for years without tripping a single alarm. A TU Graz spin-off just closed a seven-figure round to find those faults. DiLT…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-swiss-startups-three-programs-one-weekhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/six-swiss-startups-three-programs-one-weekMon, 02 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMTSix Swiss startups got backing from three programs in the last week of October. ▪ CHD, Epalinges: CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick for MONI2 by CHD, remote monitoring of high-risk…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/exist-germany-pays-founders-to-leave-the-labhttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/exist-germany-pays-founders-to-leave-the-labMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:30:00 GMTGermany will pay a researcher up to €3,000 a month to turn their work into a company. exist - from science to business is the start-up program of the Federal Ministry for Economic…https://thebatchroom.com/posts/lupa-ex-prismus-reads-science-for-companieshttps://thebatchroom.com/posts/lupa-ex-prismus-reads-science-for-companiesMon, 02 Nov 2026 07:00:10 GMTThirty Swiss deep-tech companies already pay for a tool that reads science for them. That is the claim behind Lupa (ex-Prismus), and Venture Kick just put CHF 150,000 behind it.…