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This week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €707 million and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
TThis week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €707 million and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
Alongside the week’s top funding rounds, we’ve highlighted key industry developments, as well as notable trends in European venture activity, investor moves and emerging sectors shaping the current funding landscape.
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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇮🇪 Wayflyer raises $250M in credit facility
🇬🇧 Bootstrapped and profitable AI insuretech company mea platform raises €42.2M
🇳🇱 Onodrim Industries raises €40M in seed funding
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇬🇧 eBay agrees £890 million deal to buy Depop
🇹🇷 Scopely takes majority stake in Pixel Flow! at $1B valuation
🇫🇷 Firecell and Accelleran unite in €7.9 million-backed merger to simplify private 5G networks
🇬🇧 Mondra and inoqo merge to build a product intelligence platform for the food sector
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Quantonation Ventures closes €220M quantum fund backed by Toshiba
🇬🇧 British Business Bank invests up to £45M in VC fund targeting consumer brand startups
💸 212 NexT invests in advanced chemistry startup Aepnus
🇩🇪. Berlin-based “AI roll-ups” investment firm Tenet launches
🗞️ In other (important) news
🤖 Legora and Tandem Health CEOs reject Anthropic and OpenAI threat
🇦🇹 Austrian creator of viral OpenClaw joins OpenAI
🚲 Getir’s co-founders have filed a $700 million lawsuit against Mubadala
⚖️ Noxtua launches Europe’s first cross-border legal AI license
📡 Recommended reads and listens
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🤖 From AI strength to diversified growth: The French tech ecosystem
🇬🇧. Profile: Justin Basini, CEO of London fintech making IPO plans
👚. Can Everdye clean up one of fashion’s dirtiest processes?
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇩🇪 HeyCharge awarded €2.5M EIC grant to expand EV charging solutions for apartment buildings
🇱🇹 Tingit raises €1.5M to scale AI-powered repair platform across Europe
🇮🇹 Intuos receives €720,000 for non-commercial aviation operations and safety
🇺🇦 MaXon Systems secures funding to build autonomous air defence against mass drone attacks
🇬🇧 TrueLayer lands eBay “strategic investment”