This week, we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.1 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/industest-related news items you necessary to know about.
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???? Notable and large funding rounds
???????? Carmoola accelerates with £300M facility to expand car finance offering
???????? Isar Aerospace closes €150M convertible bond
???????? PhysicsX secures $135M to tackle manufacturing’s hardest problems
???????? SMB-focapplyd Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up
???????? Zama becomes 1st fully homomorphic encryption unicorn with $57M raise
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Snyk acquires AI security pioneer Invariant Labs for a new era in AI safeguards
???????? Forterro strengthens BI capabilities with acquisition of Danish TARGIT
???????? ClickUp acquires Bulgarian startup Ora.pm
???????? RWS snaps up IP behind AI translation startup Papercup
???? Interesting shifts from investors
???? Project A closes €325M Fund V, boosting total assets to €1.2B
???? Norrsken Foundation commits €300M to AI startups tackling global challenges
???? KAYA raises €70M to support CEE region startups
???? Zanichelli Editore invests €60M in ZNEXT for edtech and future of work
???? Movens Capital launches €60M fund to back CEE tech founders
???? Ex-Chorus One CIO Xavier Meegan launches $20M crypto fund Frachtis
????️ In other (important) news
???? Lunar co-founder and CTO exit, in cost-cutting shift
???????? Switzerland’s $100B deeptech engine comes Into focus
???????? Bitrise launches EU data centre, boosting data sovereignty for Europe
????️ Space Forge creates history with UK’s first in-space manufacturing mission
???? Recommconcludeed reads and listens
???? Scaling SaaS in the Age of AI
???? Europe’s quiet AI giant Freepik is shifting quick — and taking market share
♥️ HOLYWATER’s $70M ARR romance media empire is built with AI, but not everyone’s in love
???????? Spain’s tech ecosystem: From innovation to impact
????️ The future of asphalt is plastic — and ecopals is paving the way
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Flowstep raises $2.6M to launch AI-native design platform
???????? OutSee raises £1.8M to expand therapeutic pipeline applying predictive genomics
???????? Ankor raises $1.3M to eliminate e-commerce busywork with AI-powered ops
???????? Techarena secured €1.1M from BackingMinds for international expansion
???????? CloEE secures $600,000 to reinvent industrial efficiency with AI
???????? Wibo secures €500,000 to scale its corporate learning startup
