This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €1.2 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
Alongside the week’s top funding rounds, we’ve highlighted key indusattempt developments, as well as notable trconcludes in European venture activity, investor relocates and emerging sectors shaping the current funding landscape.
This week we shared the announcement of 🎤 new speakers for the 🇬🇧 Tech.eu Summit London 2026, taking place on 21–22 April at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, featuring senior leaders, founders, and investors from leading organisations shaping technology across Europe and beyond.
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💸 Notable and huge funding rounds
🇫🇷 Mistral secures first debt raise of $830M to power its first data centre
🇬🇧 9fin raises $170M, reaching a $1.3B valuation
🇫🇮 IQM secures €50M to accelerate global growth
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇮🇹 Online publishing company ZNEXT acquires a majority stake in Factanza Media, worth €5.1M
🇩🇪 Afreshed acquires etepetete as food waste startups consolidate in DACH
🇸🇪 Cafeyn acquires Readly’s non-Nordic operations to scale European press platform
🇩🇪 Uber has acquired chauffeur-driven ride-hailing company Blacklane
🚀 Interesting relocates from investors
💰 Empirical Ventures secures £10M to back UK “venture scientists” building deeptech
💸 Ysios Capital launches InceptionBio, a €100M fund to boost the creation of biotechnology companies
🤖 UK government-backed fund aimed at backing female founders reaches £130M first close
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇪🇪 Estonia launches €10M push to cut business paperwork
🌍 Building Europe’s deeptech backbone: Inside European Deeptech Week 2026
💻 Nebius announces construction of one of Europe’s largest data centres
📡 Recommconcludeed reads and listens
💡 The missing layer in Europe’s AI strategy: data ownership
🇮🇹 From fragmented funding to growing maturity: the Italian tech ecosystem
📌 STV Group and Post-Quantum unveil quantum-safe drones ready for battlefield deployment
🎓 Is university losing its edge? ELVTR bets on live, indusattempt-led learning
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇪🇪 “Digital Brains” for experts as Pickmybrain raises $2.1M
🇸🇪 Endform secures €1.5M for high-performance web testing tools
🇫🇮 Test of Things raises €1.2M to automate cybersecurity testing for connected devices
🇲🇩 Paparuda Studio lands €210,000 to launch Moldova’s next generation of game development talent
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