Either way, let's get you up to speed.

💸 Notable and big funding rounds

🇬🇧 Ineffable Intelligence launches with record-breaking $1.1B seed round

🇬🇧 Ebury financing of over £550M

🇩🇪 Robotics startup Sereact raises $110M

🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🤖 Nebius buys US AI inference startup Eigen AI in $643M deal

🇫🇷 Rivage raises €50M and acquires Infoclip to build a major managed services and cybersecurity group

🇩🇪 ECD International is acquiring a majority stake in Munich-based influencer marketing agency SC Media House

🚀 Interesting moves from investors

💸 KOMPAS VC closes €160M Fund II for industrial tech startups

💰 EQT secures €3.1bn for European logistics fund

💵 Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, doubling down on deeptech and long-term ownership

🗞️ In other (important) news

🇩🇪 SPRIND launches €125M Next Frontier AI challenge to back new AI paradigms in Europe

🔧 UK to develop AI hardware plan

🤖 Europe's AI-native founders are building faster - and younger - than ever

🇪🇺 Europe urged to become first "electro-continent" with 50% electrification target by 2040

🤖 Freepik rebrands as Magnific, unifying its AI creative stack as enterprise and "no-collar" growth accelerates

🇬🇧 ManaMind secures $1.5M to develop autonomous testing for gaming

🇮🇹 Always Friday raises €1.05M to automate corporate event planning with AI agents

🇨🇿 Tapaya raises €1M pre-seed to power payments on any device

🇨🇭 Qendra gets €162,000 to scale quantum computing systems

🇩🇰 Atech raises pre-seed to unlock a new era of Physical AI builders with the "Lovable for hardware"