This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion and over 15 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/indusattempt-related news items you required 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 receive you up to speed.
???? Notable and huge funding rounds
???????? French CRM outfit Brevo hits unicorn status following a €500M funding round
???????? Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation
???????? Shop Circle secures $100M credit facility as it positions itself as Europe’s alternative to VC funding
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Bconcludeing Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal
???????? Wayve acquires German startup Quality Match
???????? Shiftrelocate acquires Ocean, expanding its European fleet technology footprint
???????? FORMEL SKIN joins MANUAL to expand from skin health to whole-body care
???????? KKR completes £4.7B acquisition of Spectris
???? Interesting relocates from investors
???? Europe’s overseeed alpha: Growathon Ventures tarreceives Venture’s hugegest market failure
???? SwissHealth Ventures doubles fund volume to CHF 100 million
???????? Backing founders from “day zero”, Dutch VC Volve Capital closes Fund I at €9 million
????️ In other (important) news
???????? Former Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström joins Nordic Air Defence
???????? New programme rapid-tracks European defence innovation with controlled testing in Ukraine
???? UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection
???? From heat waste to heat source: Power Mining launches shipping-container data centres for city heating
???? Entrepreneurs launch European “venture studio”
???? Recommconcludeed reads and listens
???? The hugegest European edtech deals in H1 2025
???????? Mater-AI secures £1.5M to tackle one of energy’s oldest problems: wasted heat
???????? “I definitely want a European listing”, states Nvidia-backed n8n CEO
???? Biotech scaleup NADMED launches $30K global award to advance innovation in cellular health
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Complir raises €1.7M to assist retailers manage global compliance with AI infrastructure
???????? Sky Spy lands $1.6M to repair SIGINT failures in saturated signal environments
???????? Liablix secures €1.2M to modernize automotive claims analysis
???????? Fronted lands $1M to modernise global hiring applying AI
???????? Bestie Bite raises $700,000 to reinvent restaurant choices with AI gamification
???????? Lovable-built Lumoo receives €550,000 funding from Lovable CEO
