This week we tracked more than 40 tech funding deals worth over €848 million, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
This week we also released our monthly report for July, which covers key investment trends, notable company activities, and emerging industry sectors. 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. Either way, let's get you up to speed.
💸 Notable and big funding rounds 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇷
🇨🇭SoftBank-backed Energy Vault secures €258M to launch Asset Vault, a subsidiary to build and operate energy storage assets
🇬🇧 Pulse Clean Energy bags €252.5M in green financing
🇬🇧 CuspAI targets $100M to unlock AI’s potential in climate materials
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇩🇪 Berlin-based lemon.markets joins forces with dwpbank to expand digital brokerage services
🇨🇭 UAV Destinus acquires Daedalean in $225M deal to boost AI capabilities
🇬🇧 Largo.ai acquires QuMind to expand AI-driven market insights
🇬🇧 Wireless Logic acquires Zipit Wireless
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Smart Infrastructure Ventures launches €30M SIVentures II Fund
💸 Dutch-based BOM launches new venture-building programme for drug development startups
🇮🇹 Italian Founders Fund raises €35 million from CDP Venture Capital's Digital Transition Fund
🤖 Beyond the AI buzz: Nina Capital’s critical view on healthtech hype
🗞️ In other (important) news
💸 Telecom tops charts as European tech investments jump 18% in July to €9.3B
🇺🇦 Ukraine launches AI Factory and national LLM to secure digital sovereignty
🇪🇺 EWOR names Adjust veteran Simon Dussart as COO to scale its €60M founder fellowship
US expense management fintech Brex is coming to the EU
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇨🇭 Switzerland's Genolier Innovation Hub aims to solve the 17‑year lab‑to‑bedside healthtech lag
🇬🇷 Greece: From resilience to resurgence in tech and innovation
🤖 How IntuiCell turned decades of controversial neuroscience into breakthrough AI technology
🩺 How a founder's battle with eczema led to a data-driven healthtech startup
🚗 Luvly is cracking the toughest challenge in getting Europeans out of SUVs — scaling
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇧🇬 WiseBee raises $2.5M to deliver autonomous cyber defense to mid-market
🇸🇪 Flox raises $1M to redefine human-wildlife coexistence
🇪🇸 Evolbe raises €500,000 with support from Eoniq.fund
🇬🇧 Sendr eyeing growth after £250,000 investment
🇬🇧 Resilience Media secured seed funding to build the voice of NATO’s defence tech sector
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