FINN secures €1B ABS financing, NXP Semiconductors acquires Kinara, and Bitpanda launches in the UK

This week we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.9 billion, and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
FINN secures €1B ABS financing, NXP Semiconductors acquires Kinara, and  Bitpanda launches in the UK

This week we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.9 billion, and over 5 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

🇩🇪 FINN secures €1B ABS financing for fleet expansion

🇫🇷 Tikehau Capital increases investment in Eclairion's modular HPC infrastructure to €160M

🇮🇪 Tines secured €120.7M for its AI-powered workflow platform

🇬🇧 Revving secures £107M to combat UK adtech's cash flow crisis


🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🇳🇱 NXP Semiconductors acquires NPU startup Kinara

🇩🇰Ageras acquires Danish payment reconciliation outfit Storebuddy

🇩🇪 The Munich-based Paragon Partners is taking over the Stuttgart-based company Dymatrix

🇩🇪 The Danish e-book company WeDoBooks is taking over the Thuringian e-book provider Zeilenwert


🚀 Interesting moves from investors

💸 Junction Growth Investors closes first Fund at €115M

🍎Nina Capital launches €50M fund for early-stage healthtech

🏳️‍🌈 Sam Eshrati joins identity.vc as Venture Partner, Europe’s first LGBTQ+ Venture Fund

🇬🇧 Fuel Ventures deploys £5M in SEIS Funding amidst Labour's 'bad budget'


🗞️ In other (important) news

🐼 Bitpanda launches in the UK with FCA approval, offering 500+ cryptocurrencies to British investors

👂  InfectoPharm partners with AudioCure to advance hearing loss therapy

🤖 Startups on alert as UK government opens AI growth zones bidding

🚘  Belgium’s 1st remote-driven car service debuts, pioneering Europe’s first revenue-generating driverless operations

🤖  New ROOST initiative launches at Paris AI Summit and aims to secure AI with open source safety tools


📡 Recommended reads and listens

🇬🇧 UK game studio TonTon sees gaming on Telegram as "a billion-user opportunity waiting to be tapped"

💰 January 2025's top 10 European tech deals you need to know about

🛜 Startup teks aims to service the 3.45B people lacking mobile internet access globally


🔭 European tech startups to watch 

🇨🇭 Tea brewing maker BRU raised €2.1M

🇸🇪  Constructiontech startup AI-BOB secures €2M for international expansion

🇬🇧  Noxus raises $1.5M to build AI workforces for enterprises

🇸🇪 Biotech VERIGRAFT secures €1.2M from Eurostars to advance 3D-printed arterial grafts

🇳🇱 Proba secures €1M to decarbonise agritech through insetting

🇪🇸 Devera raised €650,000

🇨🇿 Backed by €500,000, Edmund brings AI to the factory floor to solve industry’s biggest data challenges

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