💸 Notable and big funding rounds

🇪🇸 EOS-X Space raises $140M

🇩🇪 Verdane is reportedly investing more than $100M in Eterno

🇬🇧 Primer raises £75M to accelerate US expansion

🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🤖 Mistral acquires Austria's Emmi AI

🇮🇹 Cosmico completed the acquisition of Flatmates

🇩🇪 The Dutch bike rental company Swapfiets is acquiring the e-bike growth company Dance

🇪🇸 Factorial acquires YepCode to drive a new generation of AI-powered HR integrations

🚀 Interesting moves from investors

💵 Mouro Capital secures $400M first close for latest fund

💸 Skybound launches with $38M to back early deeptech founders

💸. Ispania Growth Fund is launched, a €300M fund to support the green and digital transition in Spain

🗞️ In other (important) news

🇩🇪 Dunia Innovations unveils €280M Berlin GigaLab to industrialise AI-driven materials discovery

🚗 Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia

💵 Monzo reports revenue and profits leap

🍔 After the hype, Europe's foodtech sector is rebuilding around fundamentals

🤖 AI model "capability overhang" biggest challenge facing European businesses, says OpenAI revenue chief

🤖 AI: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025

🔭 European tech startups to watch

🍷 Alcolase raises €1.5M to tackle alcohol intolerance with enzyme technology

🇬🇧 NEX Health Intelligence secures €1M to tackle hospital infection spread

🇪🇸 Overwatch AI secures $1.5M to streamline airline operations

🇮🇪 Irish Better Futures raises €600K for AI-driven engineering documentation automation

🇫🇮 Retailgrid targets retail spreadsheets with €358,000 pre-seed round