This week our research tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €1.7 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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🇩🇪 Greentech unicorn Enpal secures over €1B in refinancing for residential solar systems
🇩🇪 Banking-as-a-Service pioneer Solaris announces €96M Series F funding
🇫🇷 Fidelity leads $52M funding for Greenly’s carbon accounting tech
🇪🇸 Oakley Capital acquires majority stake in progressive lens maker Horizons Optical
🇳🇱 Germany’s Rheinmetall acquires Dutch startup REEQ, maker of light hybrid tactical vehicles
🛰️ Amsterdam’s spacetech startup Hiber expands IoT offerings by acquiring Paris-based Srett Industries
🌍 World Fund unveils €300M fund for climate founders
☁️ Climate Hardware Playbook launched by Speedinvest, Planet A and Norrsken VC
🐄 Ukraine’s Roosh X and Tiny Studio want to create cash cows, not unicorns
🇪🇺 EIC recommits to cargo airline Dronamics with €10M investment
🇬🇧 ‘Huge day’ as Northern founders handed £660m funding boost
🖥️ Inflection AI co-founder Mustafa Suleyman hired by Microsoft
🍖 Meatable can now transform cultivated cells into sausages in a record four days
🔌 Last-mile mixed electric fleets could save €500M annually and cut emissions by 80%
☘️ 35% Northern Ireland’s funding deals went to women-led startups last year
😺 Meatly unveils the world’s first cultivated chicken pet food
🇵🇱 10 Poland startups that closed the biggest rounds in 2023
🎶 AI voice clone startup faces legal action from music industry
🚁 UK’s eVTOL taxi plan: taking flight or just hot air?
🌍 Twig founder launches “circular economy” startup — months after previous “circular economy” startup shuts
🌲 Dryad Networks “Internet of the Forest” secures €5.6M for its advanced wildfire detection
🇨🇭Salesforce founder invests in Weev
🥤Coca-Cola backs Airhive’s direct air capture tech in 1000-tonne pilot
🛟 Binamod, which determines the earthquake risk of buildings, received investment from Founder One
This week we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over €266 million, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories a
August was the slowest month YTD, with over €1.9 billion raised in some 203 deals. This figure represents a decrease of around 60 per cent compared to the pr
German fitness startup 7NXT, owner and operator of Gymondo and 7Mind, is acquiring Buddyfit. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Genoa, Buddyfit offers online
Reonic, a climate tech SaaS startup focused on enabling the deployment of sustainable energy solutions across Europe, today announces that it has raised a €1