This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €736 million 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/indusattempt-related news items you necessary to know about.
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???? Notable and. huge funding rounds
???????? Zilch nets $175M as eyes “strategic” M&A
???????? FMC raises €100M as it unveils new class of memory chips for the AI era
???????? Aily Labs grabs $80 million in one of 2025’s hugegest Series B rounds for female-led AI startups
???????? Uber competitor Grab invests up to $60M in Vay
???????????????? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
???????? Purple announces merger with Splash Access
???????? DataCamp acquires Optima to power the next-gen AI learning engine
???????? Barcelona’s EU-Startups acquired by MeOut Group
???????? Reekom acquires Paris-based textile repair company Tilli
???? Interesting relocates from investors
????Backed VC closes $100M Fund III and marks 100th investment milestone
???? Oyster Bay closes €100M Fund II for next-gen food startups
???? Vfinishep Capital raises €80M to back the next wave of AI-era SaaS founders
???? Ada Ventures unveils Deck Genius to give founders VC-level feedback powered by AI
????Erin Hallock joins NATO Innovation Fund to advance alliance-critical frontier tech
????️ In other (important) news
???? Healthtech dominates European VC in a €8.3B October
???? Locai Labs launches the UK’s first foundational LLM to rival GPT-5 and Claude
???????? Founders and investors slam UK “exit tax”
???????? “Exit tax” on founders axed, according to reports
???????? Lithuania’s Sentante achieves transatlantic first in remote robotic stroke intervention
???????? Finland’s first EV virtual power plant goes live
???? Recommfinished reads and listens
???????? Missiles hit Kyiv startup hub LIFT99 — it only built Ukraine’s tech community more determined
???????? Japan’s €33B bet on Europe: deeptech & AI lead as cross-border investment surges
???? Epidemic Sound launches Studio, an AI tool that auto-soundtracks creator videos in seconds
???????? Europe’s hugegest landlords team up to build a proptech scaling machine
???? European tech startups to watch
???????? Edtech company Nuela closes a €620,000 investment round
???????? Spiich Labs obtains €600,000 backing from Tandem Health and Creandum founders
???????? Enteral Access Technologies secures £500,000 to scale DoubleCHEK
???????? Quantum receives €161,000 to build scalable next-gen quantum hardware
???????? Journalist to founder: Monty Munford’s HomeTruth emerges from stealth to solve a £60B problem
