This week we tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €3.1 billion, and over 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.
We also released our monthly report for June, which covers key investment trends, notable company activities, and emerging industry sectors.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇬🇧 Propel Finance secures £1.5B in funding
🇬🇧 Ferovinum drinks in £400M for worldwide expansion
🇨🇭 Climeworks raises $162M
🇩🇪 Talon.One raises €114.7M to scale its platform for promotions, loyalty and gamification
🇫🇷 Genesis AI, which develops AI basic model for robotics, raises $105M seed funding
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇪🇸 Legaltech Clio acquires vLex in a $1B deal
🇵🇹Open Cosmos acquires Connected in landmark European spacetech exit
🇵🇹 Defencetech unicorn TEKEVER acquires Cocoon Experience to drive human-centric innovation
🇮🇪 Core Optimisation acquires ClearStory to supercharge global expansion
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 GCP's Fund VI closes at £411M, a 58 per cent increase from Fund V
🪖 Omnes Capital secures €112M first close for Omnes Real Tech 2, backed by EU defence mandate
🌳 Nordic AI startups gain momentum with Alliance VC's €40M Fund
💸 EIFO invests $5M in Ukrainian defencetech Fund D3
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇪🇺 Investor optimism ignites €6.5B funding rally for European tech in June
🇬🇧 UK raises more H1 VC funding than Germany and France combined, new data reveals
🇬🇧 Synthesia unveils new London global HQ, as CEO says it snagged $1.1M revenue in single day
🤖 Alibaba.com launches $1 million competition open to European SMEs
♀️ “Stop censoring our bodies”: 190+ women's healthtech leaders demand action from big tech
🤖 Oxx’s 2025 report reveals the next open source leaders in AI and developer tools
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇮🇪 Belfast femtech startup Joii brings medical-grade period tracking to the masses
🏭 How Geomiq is rewiring custom manufacturing for speed and scale
🇵🇹 Portugal in the spotlight: Europe’s rising tech star
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇩🇪 Venta AI raises $2M to build Germany’s first AI sales employees
🇨🇭 Beech Biotech awarded $1.9M Gates Foundation grant
🇳🇱 Balthazar raises €1.8M to build OS for deeptech R&D labs
🇬🇧 Arthos raises €625,000 and launches Mozart AI
🇧🇾 Skarbe raises $600,000 to reinvent sales for founders who hate CRMs
🇬🇧 Fuel Ventures backs Eventwise with £525,000 to modernise event budgeting
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