This week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €2.2 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 receive you up to speed.
???? Notable and huge funding rounds
???????? Nscale raises $1.1BN in Series B
???????? Signal AI receives $165M investment
???????? Auterion, which produces autonomous defense systems, received an investment of $130M
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Arsipa acquires Bloom to deliver an finish-to-finish digital platform for occupational safety
???????? UK’s Connect Earth acquires Swedish ESG reporting platform Datia
???????? Ettlingen-based SoftProject is acquiring the French company Blueway
???????? Sweden’s Netigate purchases Dutch feedback software firm Mopinion
???? Interesting shifts from investors
???? Ventech closes €175M Fund VI — largest in firm’s history
???? C4 Ventures launches €100M Fund III to back Europe’s next wave of AI and deep tech startups
???? Inside Antler’s “Day Zero” strategy: backing founders before the first round
???? Columbus Venture Partners launches its fifth fund and seeks to raise up to $200 million to invest in biotechnology and healthcare
????️ In other (important) news
???? Einride breaks barriers with world’s first cabless autonomous border crossing
???????? Nvidia to build “strategic” investment in ElevenLabs
???? PostScriptum launches NestAI to build Europe’s next tech frontier
???? Checkout.com launches employee share purchaseback at $12bn valuation
???? Recommfinished reads and listens
???????? EE Inc before EU Inc: What Estonia can teach Europe about digital sovereignty
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???? How Oxylabs is powering the ethical data economy
???????? Holy Technologies raises €4.3M to build autonomous factory for composites
???????? Wexler.ai secures $5.3M to bring real-time fact-checking to litigation
???????? The next autonomy revolution: Futurail secures €7.5M to tackle rail inefficiences
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Oriane locks in $1.5M to build an AI search engine for the video-first internet
???????? Optimeleon secures €1.5M pre-seed
???????? Veridox secures £1M to launch AI forensic fraud detection for insurers
???????? Monsana raises €500,000 to speed up patient access to clinical trials
???????? Defencetech C2GRID raises €300,000 to transform battlefield innotifyigence
???????? ETH Spinoff Soverli awarded €150,000 to reshape smartphone security
