This week our research tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion. We saw over 10 exits and M&A transactions on the other end of the spectrum.
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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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇨🇭ABB gets $547M loan From the European Investment Bank
🇬🇧 Statera Energy secures £300M in debt financing for green projects
🇸🇪 Matsmart-Motatos tackling food waste with €40M investment led by Circularity Capital
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇬🇧 Partners Group sells UK software maker Civica to Blackstone
🇬🇧 Aonic acquires VR game developer nDreams in $110M deal
🇵🇹 Esseco Group acquires majority shares in winetech company WATGRID
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
🇺🇸 Tiger Global’s private equity boss to step down
🇩🇰 Denmark’s European Energy announces €150M funding facility for renewable energy projects
🇪🇸 Tritemius launches a €50M fund to invest in Web 3.0 startups
🇪🇸 Bcombinator will launch a fund of €40M to invest in startups
🇳🇱 Dutch VC firm TIIN Capital launches new cyber tech fund with a target size of €100M
🗞️ In other (important) news
🇬🇧 Autumn Statement broadly welcomed by UK tech
🇬🇧 UK law change allows patenting of key AI technology
🇺🇦 Ukraine fires top cybersecurity officials
🇬🇧 Deliveroo riders are not employees, Supreme Court rules
🇪🇺 Hiring across European tech startups is down nearly 40 percent
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🇬🇧 Tech giants join Cambridge University’s Founders initiative for startup acceleration
🇩🇪 How AI helped Earlybird find Aleph Alpha
🇸🇪 ArK Kapital gears up for US expansion, welcomes former Blackstone executive John McCormick as investor
🇱🇻 PrintyMed spins a web of innovation with bio-friendly spider silk
🇧🇪 Former Tesla engineer leads Belgium’s first DAC technology climatetech startup Sirona Technologies
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇫🇷 Investors back Callyope’s AI tool for treating mental health conditions with €2.2M equity funding
🇬🇧 Northern Gritstone invests £2M in Floreon’s sustainable bioplastics
🇬🇧 Phare Health raises £2.5М сeed for AI-driven hospital fintech
🇳🇱 RespiQ awarded €4M EIC Pathfinder grant for COPD monitoring device
🇹🇷 Salus secures $4.7M for its personalised mental health platform
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