Capital flows to scale as 2025 closed, Swap raises $100M, and CES 2026 showcases Europe’s hardware renaissance

This week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €407 million and 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories
Capital flows to scale as 2025 closed, Swap raises $100M, and CES 2026 showcases Europe’s hardware renaissance

This week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €407 million and 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories

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

🇬🇧 E-commerce operating startup Swap raises $100M

🇫🇷 FineHeart raises €35M in Series C first closing and receives €48M in grants

🇩🇰 With €30M+ Series B, Bactolife prepares shift from R&D to commercial scale


🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🇬🇧  UK AI firm Faculty to be acquired by consulting giant Accenture

🇩🇪  Diginex buys Plan A for €55M: What it means for Europe’s carbon accounting scene?

🇩🇪 BENTELER acquires ioki to expand autonomous mobility in Europe 

🇨🇭 Taskbase acquires Micromate redefine corporate learning



🚀 Interesting moves from investors

💰 CaixaBank reaches 30 million euros with the first operations of its venture debt fund

💸 Poland gets new fund: EIF and BGK launch €350M Future Tech Poland fund to boost tech innovation

🦌 Antler bags $510M in new funds, half for the US founders, as Airalo and Lovable soar to unicorn


🗞️ In other (important) news

🇪🇺 Capital flows to scale as 2025 closed

🇪🇺 European Tech.eu Pulse: key trends and investment in December

🇪🇺 December 2025's top 10 European tech deals you need to know about

🇬🇧 UK bets £210M on cybersecurity to unlock digital government — and £45B in productivity savings

🇬🇧 Bunq reapplies for US banking licence



📡 Recommended reads and listens

🇪🇺 CES 2026 showcases Europe’s hardware renaissance

🤖 Europe’s startups go the last mile at CES

👀 Cyberette is building forensic-grade AI for a post-truth internet



🔭 European tech startups to watch 

🇮🇹 AI deeptech startup Principled Intelligence closes €1.85M pre-seed round

🇧🇪 Legaltech Alice raises €1M to bring trustworthy AI workflows to legal casework


🇬🇧 WholeSum raises £730,000 to advance a qualitative data analysis platform


🇬🇧 Social and community networking app Cliq raises seven-figure investment


🇹🇷 Webrazzi GSYF invested $300,000 in Cypien AI

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