European tech weekly recap: €878M in weekly deals and key trends from H1 2026

Last week, we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over €878 million and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

📊 In H1 2026, European tech companies raised €44.1 billion across 1,740 funding deals, driven by a mix of early- and late-stage rounds. The UK led the region with €18.7 billion in investment, while AI startups secured €5.92 billion, underscoring the sector's continued momentum. More than 6,410 investors participated in funding rounds, and 252 exits were recorded across Europe. 

The full report provides a comprehensive overview of Europe's startup ecosystem in the first half of 2026, combining funding data, market analysis, and insights from founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders to examine the trends shaping the months ahead.

❗ Be sure to check out the Tech.eu Funding Explorer, free and open to everyone, for deeper insights into funding data, investor activity, company profiles, and market trends. Now, let's get you up to speed on everything that happened last week.

Have a great week!

Funding deals by amount

• UK: SME lender iwoca secures £250M debt facility
• UK: Dwelly raises $170M in Series B funding
• ITALY: Drivalia secures €48M EIB financing to boost electric mobility in Italy and Finland
• UK: inforcer raises $50M Series C to scale AI security platform for MSPs
• ROMANIA: Autonom Services raises €30M through Bucharest stock exchange bond listing
• UK: Defence startup Agon creating virtual battlefields to combat drone attacks launches, raising $30M
• UK: Greyparrot secures $27M Series B to scale AI waste intelligence for the circular economy
• SWITZERLAND: ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its breakthrough 2D quantum architecture
• NETHERLANDS: Medtech startup Xeltis secures €20.5M to advance vascular implant technology
• SPAIN: The children's animated audiovisual project Milo receives €18.8M
• UK: Private market fund accounting platform LemonEdge raises $21M
• UK: Qureight secures $20M Series B to expand AI-powered imaging platform for clinical trials
• UK: BAE Systems' energy spinout Nuclear Turbines emerges from stealth with £15M raise
• SWITZERLAND: AI Infrastructure Capital AG launches with €16M to tackle AI compute bottleneck
• UK: Vivid Dx raises $15M in seed funding
• ITALY: Babylon Facilities secures €12M to build solar-powered data centre in Rome
• GERMANY: PadelCity receives €12M investment
• GERMANY: metr secured €10.5M Series B investment
• UK: AI for spare parts startup Intropy raises $11M
• SPAIN: Healthtech startup Onalabs secures €9.3M Series A to expand sweat-based monitoring platform
• BULGARIA: Tiger Technology raises €8.7M to advance always-on hybrid cloud data infrastructure
• SWITZERLAND: Ahead Health raises $10M and opens first markets outside Switzerland
• UK: Perceptron raises $6.5M to build decentralised AI data network
• SPAIN: Atomic One closes a funding round and reaches €5.6M
• UK: DITTO raises €5.2M to tackle menstrual health gaps with research and targeted supplements
• UK: Mirae raises $5.4M in funding
• UK: Perceptual Robotics secures £4M+ to scale AI-powered wind inspections
• SWEDEN: Sunglasses brand Chimi raises €4.1M to tackle mounting debt
• ITALY: Beelzebub raises €3M to strengthen enterprise cyber defence with AI
• SPAIN: Kumori closes a €3M investment round
• GERMANY: 5U AI lands $3.2M pre-seed for AI freight workforce platform
• GERMANY: Medtech EVERSION raises €2.3M to tackle the pain hiding in your shoes
• SPAIN: Reental closes a €1.48M funding round
• UK: European Technology Network (etn) secured a $1.6 million seed round
• GERMANY: Caesar Ventures, CDTM.vc, and business angels are investing €1.2M in Celsio
• LITHUANIA: Sigvi raises €1.2M to expand automated car rental operations
• SPAIN: NANOSTINE raises €1M+ to take its nanotechnology coatings from the laboratory to industry
• UK: TaskHer secures £650,000 to connect customers with tradeswomen
• UK: Kinematic Trees raises £585,000 to scale nature-inspired robotics software
• SPAIN: ELEVA AI closes a €500,000 pre-seed round led by Encomenda
• SPAIN: Ratio launches the first Claude connector for real estate developers thanks to an investment of €400,000
• SPAIN: Tripjoin closes a €300,000 funding round led by Encomenda
• SPAIN: Feending closes a €200,000 investment round
• UK: Technology firm secures £100,000 growth support
• SPAIN: Entomonorte, a pioneer in waste bioconversion, receives €100,000
• ITALY: Solomei AI receives investment from Salesforce
• DENMARK: Digital bike ID startup Bikekey secures TÖNNJES investment
• HUNGARY: Insurtech Ominimo hits unicorn status two years after launch
• GERMANY: TA Ventures, True Growth Capital, TXL Capital, and business angels are investing an undisclosed sum in Willidrop
• AUSTRIA: iDWELL secures seven-figure growth financing from US investors
• SPAIN: Multiverse Computing targeting up to $570 million in latest round

Exits and M&A activity

• UK: Legora acquires legal AI startup Wexler in fifth acquisition of 2026
• SWEDEN: Lovable snaps up team behind Swedish AI agent startup Nalvin
• FRANCE: Clean Cells acquires Anaquant to expand biopharma quality control with mass spectrometry expertise
• TURKEY: Learning technology company Enocta has been acquired by Aquila
• UK: Tracsis to buy FirstGroup arm Mistral Data
• UK: Wild Bio acquires F1 Seed to create Britain’s first independent precision-breeding wheat business
• TURKEY: Kalder, founded by Gökçe Güven, has been acquired by Luumis
• SPAIN: InfoJobs strengthens recruitment services through Viterbit acquisition
• GERMANY: Cover Genius is acquiring the Berlin-based InsurTech company Friendsurance
• UK: Deepki has acquired Camion
• TURKEY: Ergün Holding has acquired Otosende
• UK: Bank of America acquires UK cyber specialist MDSec