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title: "Pitchdrive's €60M: Early Capital for Europe's AI-Native Founders"
description: "Pitchdrive raised €60M in June 2026 to back Europe's AI-native founders at the earliest stages, joining a wave of new European deeptech funds."
date: 2026-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["2026-vc-news", "fund-news", "venture-capital", "europe-vc", "lp-relations"]
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-pitchdrive-60m-ai-native-founders
---

# Pitchdrive's €60M: Early Capital for Europe's AI-Native Founders

> Pitchdrive raised €60M in June 2026 to back Europe's AI-native founders at the earliest stages, joining a wave of new European deeptech funds.

Pitchdrive's **€60M raise** in June 2026 adds to Europe's growing arsenal of early-stage AI capital, focused squarely on **AI-native founders** building from the ground up.

### The fund's thesis
Pitchdrive backs European founders building AI-first companies at pre-seed and seed — where conviction and speed matter most and where Europe is racing to keep pace with the U.S. and China.

### Why the timing fits
1. **Europe is funding the early stage.** Pitchdrive joins Merantix (€103M) and Creator Fund ($56M) in deepening the continent's seed-stage AI base.
2. **AI-native is the differentiator.** As AI becomes default, the edge goes to companies architected around it — exactly Pitchdrive's target.
3. **Capital-formation momentum.** A German VC coalition is pushing institutional capital toward next-gen startups; new funds like Pitchdrive are the vehicles.

### Practical takeaway (operator + investor)
AI-native European founders should **tap the new specialist seed funds** for early conviction capital. For LPs, the proliferation of European AI seed funds is a structural bet that the continent's early-stage ecosystem is maturing.

### Sources
1. Tech.eu (Pitchdrive €60M, investor moves recap): https://tech.eu/2026/06/12/neura-robotics-secures-up-to-1-4b-bending-spoons-files-for-us-ipo-and-uk-pm-unveils-400m-chip-plan/