This week our research tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €487 million, and around 20 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
🇫🇷 Planity raises $50M in Series C funding for beauty industry booking platform expansion
🇬🇧 UK Infrastructure Bank backs GeoPura in €65.6M funding round to accelerate UK’s green hydrogen expansion
🇬🇧 Regtech software firm Napier AI gets £45M debt funding
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇬🇧 Conscia acquires ITGL, spearheading entry into the UK and Ireland
🇩🇪 The Cologne greetech Planted is taking over its Berlin competitor Clime
🇪🇸 Madrid-based proptech Tiko acquires local competitor Housell to consolidate presence in Spain
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
🇬🇧 Molten Ventures acquires 19% of SeedCamp's third fund for €8.5M
🇬🇧 Lifted Ventures launches Northern angel network for female founders
🇵🇱 PFR Ventures invests close to €35M in 4 Polish VC funds
🇷🇴 GapMinder Ventures launches €80M fund, largest in Romania, to drive tech innovation across SEE
🇩🇪 D2SCALE is launching to support deeptech and digital innovation in Europe
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇸🇪 Former Sinch CEO Oscar Werner takes the helm at growth financing platform Gilion
🇪🇺 Apple set to face near €500M EU fine in Spotify row
🇪🇸 Microsoft to expand its AI infrastructure in Spain with $2.1B investment
🇨🇿 Avast to pay $16.5M to settle US charges linked to user data sale
🇬🇧 eBay reportedly laid off staff at NFT marketplace KnownOrigin it acquired in 2022
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇫🇮 MariaDB's financial rollercoaster: The plot thickens
🇬🇧 Revolut executive says the fintech is a "training ground" for future founders
🇵🇹 How a Lisbon startup's AI forecasting tech outperforms Google, Amazon, and Meta
🇬🇧 AI-powered debt management startup “breaking through challenges”
🇪🇺 25 per cent of fintechs pitching top VC are AI-first startups
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇺🇦 Climatetech startup Carbominer secures €1.5M EIC Accelerator Fund grant
🇬🇧 Juniper raises £1.5M for 'dental insurance, but for your genitals'
🇱🇹 Evergrowth raises €2M in pre-seed funding, one of the region's largest to date
🇩🇪 Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures backs Berlin-based fintech Monite
🇬🇧 Climate Policy Radar raises $6.8M to leverage AI in climate policy tracking
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