This week our research tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion, and around 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most important/industry-related news items you need to know about.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇪🇸 Nebeus secures €250M for its crypto loan offering
🇮🇹 Bending Spoons secured $200M on the way for new acquisitions
🇸🇪 Heart Aerospace secures $107M Series B for ES-30 hybrid-electric plane
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇵🇹 Traveltech Amadeus set to acquire biometrics company Vision-Box for €320M
🇬🇧 ORCA Computing acquires GXC's integrated photonics division
🇬🇧 Zeelo acquires UK-based school transport specialist Kura
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
🇦🇹 With more than €1B in AUM, Speedinvest announces final close of latest fund at €350M
🇬🇧 Giant Ventures raises £197m across two ‘purpose-driven’ funds
🇱🇹 Practica Capital closes largest seed fund in Baltics at €80M
🇧🇪 VIVES IUF raises €70M to fund 10 science-based ventures
🇵🇱 SMOK Ventures announces $25M fund for CEE region startups
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇩🇪 Delivery Hero exits stake in Deliveroo in deal valued at up to £82Mrs
🇳🇱 MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio
🇸🇪 Volvo Cars to stop funding Polestar, may hand stake to Geely
🇬🇧 Raspberry Pi enlists support for a potential 2024 IPO
🇳🇱 Challenger bank bunq reports first full-year profit, plans UK relaunch
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇪🇺 January 2024 report: With €16.7B raised, year-over-year investment volume increases 255 per cent
🇪🇺 Europe's startups pave the way for a low-carbon, low-waste future for concrete
🇪🇺 New report: Female founders and female emerging fund managers prove resilient in challenging times
🇪🇺 The state of Insurtech Europe 2023 FY
🇪🇺 Europe’s quantum tech sees rosy outlook for 2024, report says
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇵🇱 ZeroQs raises €457,000 to expand smart shopping cart technology
🇬🇧 HireAra raises €527,000 seed funding for AI-powered recruitment platform
🇬🇧 MGISS raises £600,000 for geospatial data mapping critical infrastructure
🇬🇧 Sentify raises $1.1M in pre-seed funding to unlock LLM insights
🇩🇪 WAY secures €1.2M in pre-seed funding for IT-as-a-Service platform
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