This week we tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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🇩🇪 Grocery delivery app Flink raises $150M
🇫🇷 Akur8 secures $120M Series C round for actuarial platform
🇨🇭 Neo Medical secures $68M to accelerate global growth in spine surgery
🇪🇸 Seaya Andromeda acquires majority stake in Zyclora, Spain’s top refurbished bicycle retailer
🇬🇧 Novakid acquires Lingumi to expand into AI tutoring
🇩🇪 One Click LCA acquires ENVI-met
🇸🇪 Stockholm’s Flower acquires Arise’s battery project
🇪🇸 Privado ID and Disco.xyz merge for a new era in multichain digital identity
💰Headline raises €776.5M: looks to back growth-stage companies across Europe and North America
💸 Costanoa Ventures closes $394M in two new funds, focuses on AI investments
🤖 Capmont raises €100M for early-stage B2B startups
🇪🇪 Estonia unveils €160M incentive for large-scale investments
🌳 Climate investor Blume Equity secures BPC capital for debut fund
🎒 The state of equity investment into UK university spinouts
💸 World Bank’s IFC and Agreena join forces to close ‘finance gap‘ for sustainable farming
💰 Revolut hits 10m UK retail customer milestone, matching Monzo
🐻 Berlin still “major destination” for attracting VC capital, says payments boss
🇹🇷 Türkiye’s tech boom: A golden opportunity for startup founders and skilled professionals
🤝 Gathr emerges out of stealth with a new platform supporting founders and investors
🇺🇦 Resilience in adversity: Ukraine‘s tech ecosystem
🤖 Wikimedia, DataStax, and Jina AI launch semantic search for non-profit AI developers
🇬🇧 Tuggs bags £1.1M for insect-based dog food
🇨🇭Abrinca Genomics secures €159,700 for advancing microbial genomics
🇹🇷 QUBITRIUM secures $1.5M in seed funding
🇵🇱 Stimy AI raises $425K for personalised math learning app
🇫🇷 Jinko raises €2M for post-cancer care
🇩🇪 Symphera raises €2.4M for surgical tool-switching
The European Union looks to have clinched political agreement on the team of 26 commissioners who will be implementing President Ursula von der Leyen’s polic
The European Union's ambitious Digital Decade 2030 plan sets forth bold targets for digital infrastructure, skills and business transformation. However, recent
EU antitrust regulators on Friday (22 November) closed a four-year-long investigation into Apple's rules for competing e-book and audiobook
This week we tracked more than 95 tech funding deals worth over €2.5 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours,