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This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €2.2 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 €2.2 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. 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.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇬🇧 Ineffable Intelligence launches with record-breaking $1.1B seed round
🇬🇧 Ebury financing of over £550M
🇩🇪 Robotics startup Sereact raises $110M
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🤖 Nebius buys US AI inference startup Eigen AI in $643M deal
🇫🇷 Rivage raises €50M and acquires Infoclip to build a major managed services and cybersecurity group
🇩🇪 ECD International is acquiring a majority stake in Munich-based influencer marketing agency SC Media House
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💸 KOMPAS VC closes €160M Fund II for industrial tech startups
💰 EQT secures €3.1bn for European logistics fund
💵 Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, doubling down on deeptech and long-term ownership
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇩🇪 SPRIND launches €125M Next Frontier AI challenge to back new AI paradigms in Europe
🔧 UK to develop AI hardware plan
🤖 Europe’s AI-native founders are building faster — and younger — than ever
🇪🇺 Europe urged to become first “electro-continent” with 50% electrification target by 2040
🤖 Freepik rebrands as Magnific, unifying its AI creative stack as enterprise and “no-collar” growth accelerates
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇬🇧 UK startups enter UK parliament with hope for change
🇩🇪 Berlin tech’s new reality: AI-driven output, stagnant wages, and a workforce on the move
💻 Software: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025
🇪🇺 Invest Europe: PE- and VC-backed firms grow jobs 4%, 4x faster than Europe in 2024
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇬🇧 ManaMind secures $1.5M to develop autonomous testing for gaming
🇮🇹 Always Friday raises €1.05M to automate corporate event planning with AI agents
🇨🇿 Tapaya raises €1M pre-seed to power payments on any device
🇨🇭 Qendra gets €162,000 to scale quantum computing systems
🇩🇰 Atech raises pre-seed to unlock a new era of Physical AI builders with the “Lovable for hardware”