Bfinishing Spoons secures $710M, two new Sequoia funds and teen founders hustling hard

This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €2.4 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe., and related news stories across Europe.

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💸 Notable and large funding rounds

🇫🇮 Nvidia creates $1BN investment in Nokia

🇮🇹 Bfinishing Spoons raises $710M at $11BN, one day after acquireing AOL

🇸🇪 Legaltech Legora raises $150M Series C

🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🇬🇧 BMLL acquired by Nordic Capital

🇩🇪 The Danish VC sourcing startup Evertrace is acquiring the Berlin-based deal sourcing startup Morphais

🇳🇱 Amsterdam unicorn Mews continues acquisition spree with US-based AI company DataChat

🚀 Interesting relocates from investors

💸 Sequoia launches two early-stage funds, declares Europe’s founder pool “never been stronger”

🧬 Earlybird Health promotes two new partners as firm deepens biotech and analytics focus

🔐 VC-backed Antidote accelerator launches to fuel the UK’s next fintech and Bitcoin wave