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This week, we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €2.1 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
This week, we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €2.1 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇩🇪 Stark bags €500M in new funding
🇫🇷 Health insurance outfit Alan agrees €480M funding round
🇳🇱 Chip gear maker Nearfield Instruments raises $380M
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇵🇱 LiveKid acquires Aldea to expand in Latin America
🇩🇪 House of Gaia Group is acquiring Codio Impact
🇫🇷 Withings acquires the Rennes-based medtech company Biosency
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Revolut and Synthesia early backer Seedcamp raises $320M, invests in US
💸 Main Capital doubles down on enterprise software with €5.25 billion fund close
💵 New €34M Nucleo Ventures fund targets startups and SMEs across Central and Eastern Europe
💰 Blue Lake VC closes in on first fund with British Business Bank backing for immigrant-led startups
🗞️ In other (important) news
🔥 Introducing the Tech.eu Funding Explorer, free and open to everyone
🇬🇧 UK government backs university AI labs with £60M to make AI cheaper
🪖 ARX Robotics and Roboneers form ARX Industries to scale unmanned ground vehicle production
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇱🇺 Small country, big ambitions: What Nexus Luxembourg 2026 revealed about Europe’s tech future
🤖 Companies bought the AI. Now they need people to use it
🔭 Seraphim Space CEO: “Europe is catching up”
🇩🇰 Acodyne secures €2.5M to develop next-generation autonomous logistics aircraft
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇷🇸 SuperPlane secures $2.6M to turn production operations into an AI-native workflow layer
🇩🇪 Wakeline lands €2.1M to bring continuous learning to AI
🇩🇰 Serpier raises €1.4M to help online retailers improve digital visibility
🇱🇹 Superpal raises €500,000 for AI coworker platform built inside Slack
🇬🇧 LabCycle secures £430,000 to commercialise lab plastic recycling system and cut incineration waste