This week our research tracked more than,65 tech funding deals worth over €2.9 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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🇬🇧 Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Softbank invest $1.05B in autonomous driving company Wayve
🇬🇧 UK fintech Abound secures up to £800M to expand access to fair credit
#🇬🇧 iwoca secures £270M in debt funding to support SME lending
🇫🇷 Samsung Medison to acquire French AI ultrasound startup Sonio for $92.7 million
🇪🇸 Freepik acquires Spanish AI image upscaler Magnific
🇬🇧 Regtech CUBE acquires peer Reg-Room#
🇬🇧 Coreweave invests £1B in UK data centres
🛟 Investcorp closes $570M fund for cybersecurity and fintech
🔫 EIB steps up defence support with SME-friendly policies
🇪🇺 Arjun closes Infrastructure Alliance Europe 2 fund at €1.1bn
💲Innova Capital closes latest fund at €407m
🇬🇧 Scale AI chooses UK for European HQ
💲 Monument Bank latest challenger bank to sell “in a box” tech, as snaps up first client
🇹🇷 Highlights of corporate venture capital in Turkey
🇮🇪 10 Irish startups to watch in 2024
🥛 Using milk peptides to treat depression
🛵 PURE EV and PDSL collaborate to develop an electric 2-wheeler with a solid-state battery tech
🥩 Meatly protein-free medium enables affordable, scalable cell-cultivated meat
🤖 Deep tech has dodged the worst of the funding downturn – here’s why
🇧🇪 Oisoi Studio secures €450,000 funding for VR art tools
🇬🇧 Hexis, which uses advanced analytics to optimise athletes’ nutrition plans, has raised a £1.6M pre-seed round
🇨🇭Mimic raises $2.5M to challenge US robotics dominance with AI-driven humanoid hands
🇩🇰 Electricity Maps raises €5M for time-optimised energy usage
🇪🇸 BeAble Capital invests €174,000 in Ecogranular’s wastewater treatment tech
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This week we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €685 million, and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories acros
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