This week we tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €2.1 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. If email is more your thing, you can always subscribe to our newsletter and receive a more robust version of this round-up delivered to your inbox.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇳🇱 Full-stack AI company Nebius secures $1B for AI cloud platform development
🇬🇧 Believ, an ev charge point operator, has secured a £300M investment facility to install at least 30,000 charge points
🇩🇪 Scalable Capital raises a maxi round of €155M
🇬🇧 Mubi raises $100M led by Sequoia Capital
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇦🇹 Newsrooms.ai acquires Austrian tech media platform Trending Topics
🇬🇧 SeedLegals acquires The Pitch to boost UK startup fundraising ecosystem
🇩🇪 The defense tech unicorn Helsing is acquiring the aircraft manufacturer Grob Aircraft
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
🍅 Nordic Foodtech VC secures €40M for fund to back foodtech and agritech
🎯 Mega-sized investment in AI – Canadian Brookfield invests 95 billion in Strängnäs
💰 “One startup per week” – Inside Angel Invest’s mission to back startups with additional €160 million
🗞️ In other (important) news
🪫 Bono and TPG’s Jim Coulter bring impact to SuperReturn: “It’s not just investing in good—it’s good investing”
🔋 Europe launches €55M GENESIS project to address semiconductors' environmental impact
🦆 Europe geopolitical “sitting duck” unless embraces defence tech, says Alpine Eagle founder
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇬🇧 Valla raises £2M to increase access to employment law for millions
🤖 Humanoid robots in Europe: From factory floors to living rooms
🇬🇧 London-based TG0 partners with NHS to distribute smart prosthetic liner
🇬🇧 The UK’s (secret) startup problem
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇫🇮 AIATELLA raises €2M for AI-powered cardiovascular imaging and screening
🇪🇸 Voltrac raises €2M to reinvent the tractor for civilian and military use
🇦🇹 MUSE Electronics secures 7-figure investment to safeguard Europe’s frontlines
🇮🇹 Autonomous electric airship startup FloFleet takes off with €800,000 round
🇵🇱 Tequipy raises €700,000 to scale global IT equipment management platform
🇬🇧 Melius Cyber raises additional £250,000 in funding
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