This week we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €3.6 billion, and over 10 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
🇬🇧 CityFibre secures €2.6B to accelerate UK full fibre rollout and M&A expansion
🇸🇪 Lovable becomes Europe’s latest unicorn, following $200M funding round
🇬🇧 GRIDSERVE secures €115M to accelerate high-power EV charging across UK’s busiest roads
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇳🇱 European prepaid payments fintech Recharge snapped up by Coda
🇬🇧 Wagestream acquires pension technology provider Zippen
🇩🇪 Altura acquires Tendara to accelerate European expansion in bid management
🇳🇴 Rydoo acquires Semine to power next-gen finance automation across Europe
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Prefequity's growth boosted by £15M investment from British Business Bank
💸 TechVision Fund closes Fund II at €50M to support startups in the Rhineland and Euregio Meuse-Rhine regions
⚠️ The Invisible Tsunami: Deep Science Ventures and Grantham Foundation sound alarm on toxicity crisis
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇬🇧 UK Tech Minister “too cosy” with Google and Amazon, after increase in meetings
🇪🇺 Antler “doubling down” on Europe as targets “outlier” founders with €500,000 initiative
⚛️ Hamburg Innovation and Devt Bank invests in Universal Quantum–TUHH alliance to advance next-gen quantum systems
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇪🇺 Time to act: tell Brussels why the 28th regime matters
🤖 Geneva sets standards for trust in the age of AI
☀️ From startup to clinical partner: Aisel’s approach to ethical AI in mental health
🇫🇮 Finland's tech ecosystem: Growth, green tech, and global reach
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇳🇱 Whisper raises €1.6M for the next-gen cybersecurity platform
🇺🇦 Teletactica secures $1.5M to scale battlefield-proven, jamming-resistant communications
🇺🇿 TASS Vision raises €1.3M to bring privacy-first analytics to physical retail
🇬🇧 TRIFFT Loyalty raises $550,000 pre-seed to scale its AI-driven emotional loyalty platform
🇬🇧 Inntelo AI secures over £500,000 to boost hospitality tech growth
🇨🇭 AzureCell Therapies secures €154,000 to advance regenerative cell therapy for Parkinson’s patients
🇺🇦 The Fourth Law secures funding for autonomous defencetech robotics
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