This week, our research team tracked more than 110 tech funding deals worth over €1.8 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

As always, we are putting all of them together for you in a list sent in our round-up newsletter next Monday (note: the full list is for paying customers only, and also comes in the form of a handy downloadable spreadsheet).

Below, please find an overview of the biggest European tech news items for the past couple of days (subscribe to our free newsletter to get this round-up in your inbox every Monday morning).

What happened this week in European Tech?

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>> Notable and big funding rounds

Rimac Group has raised another 500 million euros to help it build future Porsches, Bugattis, and Koenigseggs. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Goldman Sachs led the latest round of funding, which also included Rimac shareholders Investindustrial and Porsche.

Berlin’s Trade Republic has raised €250 million in a Series C extension led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’), adding to the 2021 $900 million Series C led by Sequoia. It values the company at €5 billion.

UK fibre network Freedom Fibre has secured £100 million of scale-up funding as it looks to roll-out high-speed broadband to over two million premises in the North West.

Diabeloop, a French company specialised in therapeutic AI applied to insulin delivery, announced a €70 million financing round to accelerate its international expansion.

Odilo, a Madrid-based startup that has built a white-label platform used by businesses or organizations to build their own customized e-learning offerings in a B2B2C model, has picked up €60 million.

Denmark-based greentech company ZeroNorth has raised over $50 million in investment. The Series B round saw the participation of PSG Equity, existing investors A.P. Moller Holding and Cargill.

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>> Noteworthy acquisitions, mergers, IPOs and SPAC deals

Helsinki-based Supercell, a game development company for tablets and smartphones, announced that it has acquired a majority stake in London-based online games developer Trailmix.

Parisian per-to-peer lender October has bought its competitor Credit.fr. Through this acquisition, October will be able to complete its know-how and enrich its processes to meet the financing needs of SMEs.

Astrocast, a global nanosatellite IoT network operator, is to acquire Hiber, a Netherlands-based, IoT-as-a-Service provider.

Swedish fintech Trustly has acquired UK-based competitor Ecospend, as part of a plan to strengthen the company’s position in the British market.

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>> Interesting moves from investors

Back for round six, Paris-based early-stage backer Alven has announced an oversubscribed €350 million fund.

Bosch’s venture arm just announced its fifth fund, saying it’s on the lookout for startups with the “potential to improve quality of life and conserve natural resources.”The new €250 million investment vehicle ups the stakes from Bosch VC‘s prior fund by about $53 million.

Luxembourg and London-based Web3 venture capital firm Fabric Ventures has wrapped up a $140 million venture fund, which is twice the original target and more than $30 million above the original hard cap.

Multinational bank HSBC is investing £500 million in the UK tech sector through its 2022 £15 billion lending fund for small and medium-sized businesses.

Bilbao-based VC firm All Iron Ventures (AIV) has rolled out a €30 million fund to invest in other VCs. The new fund of funds, is backed by 80 investors, including both existing All Iron Ventures’ LPs and new investors.

Having helped lead Revolut through an intense period of stratospheric growth to today’s $33 billion valuation as VP Global Business, as well as driving Uber’s commercial efforts in over 45 countries as Director of Business at Uber, Atomico has added a rather hefty feather to its already impressive cap with the appointment of Don Hoang as its newest Partner.

London-based social enterprise builder and early-stage investor Zinc has announced the first close of its of £33 million fund at £28 million.

Polish early-stage VC company AIP Seed has unveiled a €25 million fund to back promising startups from Central and Eastern Europe.

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>> In other (important) news

Germany is set to launch a sovereign tech fund to support the open source software that underpins the internet amid fears the US could withdraw support for this neglected but crucial building block of digital infrastructure.

SumUp is close to securing a €400 million round.

The CEO of Russian tech giant Yandex has left the building.

EU countries and EU lawmakers are set to agree on a common charging port for mobile phones, tablets and headphones on June 7 when they meet to discuss a proposal that has been fiercely criticised by Apple.

The UK is working on a “bigger, better” rival to the European Research Council (ERC) as part of an alternative to the Horizon Europe, in response to growing fears that the country will not associate to the framework programme.

Dutch payments service provider Mollie has appointed Klarna CTO Koen Köppen as its new chief technology officer.

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