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

💸 Notable and big funding rounds

🇩🇪 NEURA Robotics secures up to $1.4B Series C to scale physical AI and cognitive robotics platform

🇫🇮 ICEYE raises €450M at €10B+ valuation as demand for sovereign space intelligence accelerates

🇩🇪 Europe conducted fewer than 10 orbital launches in 2025. Isar Aerospace just raised €270M to fix that

🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🇦🇹 Longevity company MoleQlar is acquiring biotech and skincare company Tomorrowlabs

🇨🇭 Temenos acquires additiv to strengthen its wealth proposition

🇬🇧 Barclays to acquire GoHenry, expand youth financial education offering in UK

🚀 Interesting moves from investors

🇩🇪 German VC coalition calls for institutional capital shift to power next-gen startups

💰 Creator Fund closes $56M to back Europe's scientific founders

💸 Pitchdrive raises €60M to back Europe's AI-native founders

🇬🇧 Barclays to acquire GoHenry, expand youth financial education offering in UK

🗞️ In other (important) news

🇮🇹 Bending Spoons files for US IPO

⚖️ Legora to open Paris, Milan and Madrid offices and London engineering hub

⚛️. Deliverance AI exits stealth to power sovereign enterprise AI

🇬🇧 British startups to "scale here" and "stay here", as UK PM unveils £400M chip plan

🔭 European tech startups to watch 🇫🇮 Granarium raises €1M+ to commercialise renewable supercapacitors for grid stability

🇵🇱 sunbay.io raises €550,000 to automate invoice collection for finance teams

🇳🇴 AI startup Mimir raises €518,000 pre-seed to automate e-commerce operations

🇬🇧 Cosine secures industry backing for Britain's first sovereign frontier model

🇫🇮 Space safety startup Aavuus lands pre-seed funding to tackle space debris tracking