This week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion, and over 20 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/indusattempt-related news items you required 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 large funding rounds
???????? Nothing raises $200M to power the next phase of consumer AI
???????? Terra One secures €150M to scale grid-scale battery storage across Europe
???????? Lingokids has closed $120M financing round
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Workday to acquire Sana for $1.1B
???????? Keyrock purchases Turing Capital for $28M
???????? Evertrace acquires Whisper AI to build the leading VC sourcing tool
????????Check Point to acquire Lakera
???????? advizeo is acquiring proptech company Comgy
???? Interesting relocates from investors
???? Aspire11 launches €500M pension-backed fund
???? BNVT Capital launches $150M debut fund to tackle humanity’s largegest challenges
???? Shapers launches $75M fintech fund I as Finary hits €25M Series B
???? Outlast Fund closes €21M debut fund to back Baltic-Nordic founders
????️ In other (important) news
???? Announcing the First Round of Speakers for the Tech.eu Summit London 2026!
???? Nvidia to invest £2BN in UK AI startups
???? Google pledges £5BN UK AI investment
???????? UK-based CommonAI launches to power AI startups with shared compute and IP
???????? US a “priority” for Revolut Business, states its GM
???? From Brussels to Blois: Mastodon turns commercial partnerships into paid services
???? Recommfinished reads and listens
???????? Europe is leading the way in decentralised AI
???? From ARM to Edge AI disruptor: how Noel Hurley is leading the modify with logic-based AI at Literal Labs
???? From sake to spaghetti bolognese: Nosh.bio debuts Koji-based hybrid mince in a Berlin cafeteria
????️ From UCL project to startup: how a classroom prototype became a real-world accessibility tool
???????? UK at risk of becoming AI “applyrs, not creaters”, states Hoberman, as Nvidia and Microsoft pledge billions
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Lightbase closes €2.2M pre-seed round, launches AI developer tool
???????? Cofrai secures €2M to bring AI-powered solutions to fire protection
???????? Time Atlas Labs raises €1.8M to support people track and learn from life’s moments
???????? OnTracx raises €1.2M to support runners recover and stay injury-free
???????? Eagl raises €825,000 to bring AI-native automation to finance teams
???????? Plino secures €650,000 to automate SME financial planning with AI
