This week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €2.2 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. 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
🇬🇧 Nscale raises $1.1BN in Series B
🇬🇧 Signal AI receives $165M investment
🇨🇭 Auterion, which produces autonomous defense systems, received an investment of $130M
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇩🇪 Arsipa acquires Bloom to deliver an end-to-end digital platform for occupational safety
🇸🇪 UK’s Connect Earth acquires Swedish ESG reporting platform Datia
🇫🇷 Ettlingen-based SoftProject is acquiring the French company Blueway
🇳🇱 Sweden’s Netigate buys Dutch feedback software firm Mopinion
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💸 Ventech closes €175M Fund VI — largest in firm’s history
💵 C4 Ventures launches €100M Fund III to back Europe’s next wave of AI and deep tech startups
🦌 Inside Antler’s "Day Zero" strategy: backing founders before the first round
🍎 Columbus Venture Partners launches its fifth fund and seeks to raise up to $200 million to invest in biotechnology and healthcare
🗞️ In other (important) news
🚛 Einride breaks barriers with world’s first cabless autonomous border crossing
🇬🇧 Nvidia to make “strategic” investment in ElevenLabs
🤖 PostScriptum launches NestAI to build Europe’s next tech frontier
💰 Checkout.com launches employee share buyback at $12bn valuation
📡 Recommended reads and listens
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📊 How Oxylabs is powering the ethical data economy
🇩🇪 Holy Technologies raises €4.3M to build autonomous factory for composites
🇬🇧 Wexler.ai secures $5.3M to bring real-time fact-checking to litigation
🇩🇪 The next autonomy revolution: Futurail secures €7.5M to tackle rail inefficiences
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇫🇷 Oriane locks in $1.5M to build an AI search engine for the video-first internet
🇩🇪 Optimeleon secures €1.5M pre-seed
🇬🇧 Veridox secures £1M to launch AI forensic fraud detection for insurers
🇧🇪 Monsana raises €500,000 to speed up patient access to clinical trials
🇪🇪 Defencetech C2GRID raises €300,000 to transform battlefield intelligence
🇨🇭 ETH Spinoff Soverli awarded €150,000 to reshape smartphone security
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