This week we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.1 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week’s top financials, we’ve also indexed the most important/industry-related news items you need to know about.
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🇳🇱 Lion Storage secures €350M financing for ‘Mufasa’, one of Europe’s largest battery storage projects
🇬🇧 Legaltech Luminance secures $75M Series C
🇨🇭 RoomPriceGenie raises $75M from Five Elms Capital
🇨🇭 Shift4 to acquire Global Blue for $2.5B
🇬🇧 Meal prep platform Remy acquires food waste app Kitche
🇬🇧 MNC and Grwth merge to create a one-stop shop for UK challenger brands
🇫🇷 FuturMaster acquires PlaniSense to strengthen end-to-end supply chain planning solutions
🍎 naturalX announces €100M fund for consumer health startups
🇪🇸 4Founders Capital launches new €44M fund for Spanish-linked startups
🤖 Microsoft will invest up to €670M in Poland to expand AI, cloud, and cybersecurity
🇳🇱 Amsterdam-based NLC Health Ventures expands to 76 active ventures, secures record €43.6M funding and more
🚁 While Lilium and Volocopter fight for survival, can the remaining players fill the void?
🇬🇧 UK capital of European fintech, despite four-year investment low
🚲 Belgian ebike company Cowboy shifts assembly operations to France
⚡ Northvolt wants more time for reconstruction
🇪🇺 Europe needs to make it easier for its startups to do business
🇸🇪 How a Swedish startup is transforming respiratory disease treatment
🏆 From hype to reality: Graphmatech’s breakthrough in making graphene work for industry
🍞 Can OlsAro’s genetic breakthrough solve the global soil salinity crisis?
🇬🇧 Legaltech Atria AI secures £720,000 to power workflows with AI
🇬🇧 FLIT secures £1.2M for lightweight folding e-bikes
🇫🇷 FullEnrich raises $2M seed for customer data aggregation
🇩🇪 Scale Energy secures €2M for decentralised battery storage
🇸🇪 Serverpod raises €2.7M for its developer app
🇩🇪 Noah Labs secures €3M to advance telemonitoring and voice diagnostics for heart disease
🇪🇸 RepScan secures €3M Series A for negative online content removal
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