This week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €2 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
🇬🇧 365 Finance secures £150M debt facility
🇬🇧 Fintech Flow48 secures $69M Series A to expand into Saudi Arabia
🇬🇧 Shop Circle closed $60M round
🇩🇪 Taktile raises $54M
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇳🇱 Prosus moves to acquire Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway in €4.1B deal
🇩🇪 Edyoucated acquires AI-powered HRtech Peers Solutions
🇪🇸 Embat acquires Necto to boost bank API connectivity and instant payments
🇫🇷 Technis acquires the French company Videtics
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
🇬🇧 Cambridge Innovation Capital launches £100M Fund for deeptech and life sciences
🇪🇸 Spanish Investment Firm IDC Ventures announces €150 Million Fund of Funds I
👭 Athena VC Elevate launched to support female founders
🇬🇧 CIC tackles UK late-stage funding gap with £100m deep tech fund
🇪🇺 Thoma Bravo invests 1.8 billion euros in European tech
🗞️ In other (important) news
⚛️ Welinq and QphoX partner to tackle quantum computing's scaling problem
🇬🇧 UK fintech The Payment Firm hit with onboarding restrictions
🇪🇪 Estonian startups hit €3.9B revenue mark as DeepTech takes centre stage
🛰️ CTO unveils first 5G mmWave satellite payload, pioneering space-based internet connectivity
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🇺🇦 Ukraine’s startup ecosystem continues to shine
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🇫🇮 Solid IO secures €800,000 to transform cancer treatment with tumour-on-chip technology
🇬🇧 Monument Therapeutics secures £850,000 to advance schizophrenia treatment with MT1988
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇧🇪 Jurimesh raises €1.6M to streamline contract analysis with AI-powered due diligence
🇳🇱 EvidenceHunt raises €1.2M for medical data analysis platform
🇸🇪 SponsWatch raises €1M seed for sports sponsorship analytics
🇩🇪 Climatetech ctrl+s raises €1M to approximate supply chain emissions
🇧🇬 Proptech AIoTCloud closes a €750,000 investment round
🇨🇭Verretex raises €159,000 to transform damaged glass fibres into high-performance textiles
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