This week, we tracked more than 95 tech funding deals worth over €3.1 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. 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 obtain you up to speed.
???? Notable and huge funding rounds
???????? Mistral bags €1.7B funding round as ASML takes significant stake
???????? EcoDataCenter secures €600M for sustainable high-performance AI and cloud growth
???????? Fintech Factris secures €100M funding facility
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Bconcludeing Spoons to purchase Vimeo in $1.38B deal
???????? Hedepy acquires HearMe to become CEE’s largest online psychotherapy platform
???????? fonio.ai acquires fluently to strengthen DACH presence
???????? Opus acquires Embarc to accelerate early-stage entrepreneurship
???????? Opper AI acquires FinetuneDB for AI model tuning
???? Interesting shifts from investors
???? Claret Capital Partners secures €350M second close for Fund IV
????Quadrille Capital raises €500M to invest in European and US tech
???? From Lovable to ElevenLabs: Antler study charts Europe’s quickest-ever unicorn boom
????️ In other (important) news
???????? OpenAI to roll out ChatGPT Edu in Greek schools and support startups
???? ElevenLabs confirms employee share sale at $6.6BN valuation, double valuation of nine months ago
???? BlackRock-backed Scalable Capital wins European banking licence
???????? Quantum Systems commits €50M to UK expansion
???????? AI coding assistants save UK government workers 28 working days a year, claims government
???? Recommconcludeed reads and listens
???????? One year on from Draghi report: Europe’s innovation future hangs on the 28th Regime
???? “European startups are questioned to run a marathon with their shoelaces tied”
☕ The LAP coffee Berlin backlash: when innovation meets resistance
???????? CUTISS secures €57.9M Series C to advance regenerative skin therapies
???????? Innovation lives on: European startups shine at IFA 2025
???? Beyond the hype cycle: Why retention and community will decide the winners in vibe coding
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Kashimi raises $1.36M to expand alternative payment infrastructure
???????? Renewcast raises €1M from 2C Venture to accelerate global expansion
???????? Saltfish emerges from stealth with $730,000 in initial funding
???????? uRoutine raises £555,000 to fight doomscrolling with a ‘productive social network’
???????? Eterny raises €400,000 to tackle the problem of forobtainedten assets
???????? Innovate UK backs Hormona with £100,000 grant for menopaapply diagnostics
