This week, we tracked more than 85 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.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇫🇮 Oura raises over $900M, valuing it at "approximately $11B”
🇩🇪 Biotech Tubulis secures record-breaking €308M Series C
🇳🇱 Energy innovator Return raises €300M in growth capital to scale battery storage capacity
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇨🇭 The Indian company KPIT Technologies (KPIT) is acquiring the Swiss in-car gaming startup AirConsole
🇩🇪 The Archer Aviation is acquiring the remnants of the insolvent Munich-based air taxi startup Lilium
🇪🇸 Cooltra has acquired the business operations of urban cycling startup Kleta Mobility
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💲Invalda INVL Private Equity Fund II raises €410M to invest in high-growth companies across the Baltics, Poland, and EU
💰Maia Ventures launches €55M Fund to back early-stage agrifood tech entrepreneurs
💵 Odyssey Ventures comes out of stealth to close the transatlantic valuation gap
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇪🇺 Europe’s biggest seed rounds of Q3 2025: Top tech startups to watch
🗞️ Startups embracing "AI roll-up" strategies
🚘 Waymo to launch in London
🎮 The biggest European gaming deals in H1 2025
🧱 Sort A Brick launches world’s first AI-powered LEGO sorting system
📡 Recommended reads and listens
Profile: The Serbian maths whizz aiming to crack voice AI
🇮🇹 Autumn and Arduino Bring Out the Best of Italy
🇺🇦 Breaking the cybersecurity poverty line: How Stackbob is transforming enterprise IAM
🇺🇦 Dwarf Engineering is building the universal infrastructure layer for Ukraine’s defence sector
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇬🇧 Fuel Ventures leads $1.3M pre-seed for Theodosian to reinvent cybersecurity
🇮🇹 Finanz secures €700,000 to expand financial education across Europe
🇳🇱 Northsea raises €660,000 pre-seed to reinvent customer research with AI
🇱🇹 Supernaut AI bags €530,000 to help developers resolve stalled tickets and reduce technical debt
🇬🇧 Orbiri secures £320,000 for community-powered solution to end screen-time nightmare
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