This week our research tracked more than 90 tech funding deals worth over €1.85 billion, and around 15 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
🇩🇪 Sunfire raises over €500M to boost European's green hydrogen economy
🇬🇧 Monzo raises £340M for expansion
🇳🇱 Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇬🇧 Nationwide to buy Virgin Money for £2.9B
🦄 Fintech unicorn Qonto to acquire Regate
☸️ Civo Expands cloud-native offering with Kubefirst acquisition
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
📈 Grwth Club launches consumer venture fund Grwth Ventures, with £5M cornerstone investment
🍒 Cherry Ventures introduces executive coaching for newly-backed founders
🔬 Nordic Science Investments launches a new era for academic deeptech spinouts
🩺 Fluidra launches a €20M fund specialised in health and wellness startups
Invivo partners launches the €100M Invivo Ventures III fund to invest in life sciences
🗞️ In other (important) news
🍎 Apple fined €1.84B in EU over anti-steering on iOS music streaming market
♀️ New PitchBook report — All In: Female Founders in the European VC Ecosystem
🇪🇺 EU looking into Apple’s decision to kill Epic Games’ developer account
🧑🤝🧑 New report confirms Europe’s tech investment doldrums, but there are signs of life
🇪🇺 Now the EU is asking questions about Meta’s ‘pay or be tracked’ consent model
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇪🇪 Estonia offers a lifeline to UK startups stifled by regulatory hurdles
🦄 10 female-founded unicorns to watch
🌀 We need to rethink IP to stop another UK semiconductor exodus
🚀 UK sets out plan to propel private investment into space tech
♀️ VC funds must be proactive to boost capital for underserved female founders
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇬🇧 Cogna's AI-powered SaaS raises £3.76M to improve industry problem-solving
🇩🇰 Climatetech NitroVolt secures €750,000 for green ammonia production
🇬🇧 un:hurd levels up artist marketing with strategic funding and AI-powered tools
🇷🇴 Medtech Rayscape raises $500,000 in fresh investment
🏴 Wobble Genomics' novel approach to RNA sequencing attracts £8.5M investment
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