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This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.1 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.1 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇪🇸 EOS-X Space raises $140M
🇩🇪 Verdane is reportedly investing more than $100M in Eterno
🇬🇧 Primer raises £75M to accelerate US expansion
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🤖 Mistral acquires Austria’s Emmi AI
🇮🇹 Cosmico completed the acquisition of Flatmates
🇩🇪 The Dutch bike rental company Swapfiets is acquiring the e-bike growth company Dance
🇪🇸 Factorial acquires YepCode to drive a new generation of AI-powered HR integrations
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💵 Mouro Capital secures $400M first close for latest fund
💸 Skybound launches with $38M to back early deeptech founders
💸. Ispania Growth Fund is launched, a €300M fund to support the green and digital transition in Spain
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇩🇪 Dunia Innovations unveils €280M Berlin GigaLab to industrialise AI-driven materials discovery
🚗 Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia
💵 Monzo reports revenue and profits leap
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🍔 After the hype, Europe’s foodtech sector is rebuilding around fundamentals
🤖 AI model “capability overhang” biggest challenge facing European businesses, says OpenAI revenue chief
🤖 AI: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🍷 Alcolase raises €1.5M to tackle alcohol intolerance with enzyme technology
🇬🇧 NEX Health Intelligence secures €1M to tackle hospital infection spread
🇪🇸 Overwatch AI secures $1.5M to streamline airline operations
🇮🇪 Irish Better Futures raises €600K for AI-driven engineering documentation automation
🇫🇮 Retailgrid targets retail spreadsheets with €358,000 pre-seed round