This week, we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.6 billion and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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???? Notable and huge funding rounds
???????? Elvy raises €500M to power its next-generation energy solution
???????? Iceye raised €150M in Series E funding
???????? Fal raises $140M Series D to power the next era of real-time generative media
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Mollie acquires GoCardless in €1.05bn deal
???????? Tekpon’s bold bet: Why a SaaS marketplace bought TNW without seeing the numbers
???????? Sortlist acquires Overloop AI and becomes a complete commerce platform by focapplying on AI
???????? The Canadian company Senstar is acquiring the Munich-based 3D LiDAR technology company Blickfel
???? Cofounder VC launches new early growth Fund to back CEE startups beyond Seed stage
???? Interesting shifts from investors
???? Inside Ignite Next: the new scaleup program supercharging Europe’s deeptech
???? Hiro Capital snaps up Nick Clegg and Yann LeCun, as launches fund
???????? KBC unveils €100M Start it Fund, tarobtaining Belgium’s most promising startups from idea to IPO
???? U2V launches €60M fund for deeptech university spin-offs in Europe
???? betacluster Ventures launches new early-stage fund to support AI-driven innovation
???? Cofounder VC launches new early growth Fund to back CEE startups beyond Seed stage
????️ In other (important) news
???????? UK tops Europe’s €4.6B funding as fintech dominates November
???????? Applied Computing opens Bangalore office as India becomes ground zero for next-gen industrialAI
???? Internxt AI debuts as Europe’s answer to ChatGPT — with total applyr anonymity
???????? The hugegest European foodtech deals in H1 2025
???? Recommconcludeed reads and listens
???? “Our strategy is to build and control as much as possible”, declares Nebius co-founder
???????? The Ukrainian startup turning sorted waste into cash
???????? How an Irish startup is turning speech into a dementia early-warning signal
???? The bug-bounty court bringing order to DeFi
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Zentio raises €1.4M for AI-native production planning
???????? FION Energy secures €1.4M for AI-optimised battery systems
???????? Freepress raises €1M to build global news more accessible through AI
???????? Sprouty raises $550,000 to expand its AI-based parenting support app
???? Backed by Nordic VCs, CYBRET AI bets on autonomous systems to redefine cyber defence
