Last week, we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €2.1 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

📊 The top three industries that raised the most were fintech (€502.9 million), security (€500 million), and semiconductors (€349.7 million). At the country level, 🇩🇪 Germany took first place (€806.8 million), followed by 🇫🇷 France (€625.2 million) and 🇳🇱 the Netherlands (€372.7 million).

Last week, we announced the launch of the StartupDaily.news Funding Explorer, now free and open to everyone. Built for founders, investors, analysts, journalists and others following the European tech ecosystem, the platform provides access to funding data, investor activity, company profiles and market trends.

As the Funding Explorer is currently in beta, we welcome your feedback through the dedicated feedback section within the platform. Your input will help us refine and improve the product as we continue to develop it.

❗ Now, let's get you up to speed on everything that happened last week, including your handy.csv file , allowing for an even more in-depth analysis.

  • GERMANY: Stark bags €500M in new funding
  • FRANCE: Health insurance outfit Alan agrees €480M funding round
  • NETHERLANDS: Chip gear maker Nearfield Instruments raises $380M
  • GERMANY: Car subscription company Finn becomes a unicorn after a €140M Series D funding round
  • GERMANY: Taktile receives $110 million in a Series C
  • FRANCE: Tissium raises €30M in equity funding, €30M in debt
  • NETHERLANDS: Leyden Labs secures €40M to develop intranasal protection against influenza and coronaviruses
  • UK: Isometric raises over £30M to expand AI certification platform
  • FRANCE: Tsuga lands €30M to expand AI agent platform
  • UK: Astral Systems raises £23M to tackle the global shortages of medical radioisotopes
  • SPAIN: a16z backs Prosper AI with $30M as healthcare providers seek fewer admin tools
  • UK: Tech firm Seat Unique secures £20M investment
  • SWEDEN: Sportway raises €20M as AI reshapes sports broadcasting
  • UK: equipal raises £16.25M in funding
  • UK: Superlight raises £15.9M to boost commercial EV truck manufacturing
  • GERMANY: VARM bags €17.5M to scale insulation across Europe
  • UK: HICX secures £15M to close supplier data gap
  • FRANCE: AlpSemi raises €17M to advance solid-state circuit breaker technology
  • GERMANY: Almetra secures €16.3M Series A to drive smarter manufacturing
  • GERMANY: JUPUS raises €13M to power the next generation of AI-driven law firms
  • FRANCE: Flease secures €13M to expand sustainable fleet leasing across France
  • UK: New funding takes Trimtech Therapeutics' seed round to £35.6M
  • BELGIUM: Timefold raises $13M Series A to scale scheduling optimisation infrastructure
  • IRELAND: Ubotica raises $11M to scale real-time maritime intelligence from space
  • SPAIN: FOSSA raises €9.25M to accelerate the deployment of secure communications satellites
  • FRANCE: Linc raises €8.5M with 100+ angels to crack world's most complex payroll market
  • FRANCE: Wheere raises €8.5M to launch its first satellite
  • IRELAND: TensorX raises €8M in seed funding
  • FRANCE: Sopht raises €7.5M to reduce companies' IT bills
  • SPAIN: H2SITE raises €6M in second close of Series B funding
  • UK: Silveray secures £5M to expand X-ray technology into healthcare
  • NORWAY: Eqon raises $6M in seed funding
  • AUSTRIA: Graph Therapeutics brings total funding to over $10M to advance precision immunology
  • CZECH REPUBLIC: Logistics startup Grid.online lands €4M after growing deliveries 10× in a year
  • GERMANY: Maple Aviation secures a €4M investment
  • AUSTRIA: Fintech Talentir secures €4M for international expansion
  • GERMANY: Mona AI secures a €3.8M investment as part of a seed extension
  • SWEDEN: Fika Jobs raises $4M for AI-powered video resumes
  • AUSTRIA: Ora Computing raises €3.5M to build the efficiency layer of the AI stack
  • GERMANY: Companisto, Prolimity Capital Partners, and others are investing €3.3M in Innok Robotics
  • ITALY: Compri secures €3.2M to build AI-powered procurement teams
  • GERMANY: Kyrok secures €3.1M to bring AI to pharma and chemical supply chains
  • GERMANY: mkind receives a €3M investment
  • GERMANY: Zelara lands €3M to bring continuous learning to customer engagement
  • SPAIN: Kalipso raises $3.2M to scale regulatory compliance platform
  • DENMARK: Acodyne secures €2.5M to develop next-generation autonomous logistics aircraft
  • SWEDEN: Wayout raises €2.42M to scale decentralised drinking water infrastructure platform
  • REPUBLIC OF SERBIA: SuperPlane secures $2.6M to turn production operations into an AI-native workflow layer
  • GERMANY: Wakeline lands €2.1M to bring continuous learning to AI
  • SPAIN: Floox closes a €2M funding round to consolidate its position as a European leader in the electric mobility sector
  • UK: Ademen has secured £1.6M investment
  • UK: Adtech Covatic raises £1.5M
  • IRELAND: HR Duo secures £1.4M to scale and accelerate UK expansion
  • DENMARK: Serpier raises €1.4M to help online retailers improve digital visibility
  • TÜRKİYE: Ideasets received a $1.25M investment from Gelecek Holding, based on a valuation of $10M
  • UK: AI company Unloqs secures £900,000 funding
  • SPAIN: WAIIS raises €1M to boost its shared mobility super app
  • GERMANY: CoTrainer closed €1M investment round
  • SPAIN: Naturr closes an investment round of €620,000
  • LITHUANIA: Superpal raises €500,000 for AI coworker platform built inside Slack
  • UK: LabCycle secures £430,000 to commercialise lab plastic recycling system and cut incineration waste
  • SWEDEN: MiMove secures €450,000 to expand real estate platform across Southern Europe
  • SWEDEN: Waveium raises €470,000 pre-seed round
  • SWITZERLAND: Isospec Analytics was awarded a €434,000 Tech Growth loan from FIT
  • SWITZERLAND: Backbone received a €433,000 FIF Growth Award
  • TÜRKİYE: Revogo, a sustainable e-commerce platform, has received a $300,000 investment
  • SPAIN: SegurosIA raises €150,000 from Eoniq.fund to boost its artificial intelligence technology for insurance companies
  • SWITZERLAND: Crìa Technologies received a €108,000 FIF Seed Tech Award
  • SWITZERLAND: Skilder received a €22,000 Digital Grant by FIT
  • SWITZERLAND: MYSTONES received a €22,000 Digital Grant by FIT
  • PORTUGAL: Coalex.ai secures funding to scale 'decision firewall' for AI in production
  • UK: URUNN app secures seven-figure raise
  • AUSTRIA: TradersYard raises fresh capital
  • SWEDEN: Anferra receives investment
  • TÜRKİYE: Cypien AI, having completed its pre-seed follow-up investment, has reached a valuation of $4.5M
  • POLAND: Talkin' Things lands Orbit Capital financing amid growing traceability demand
  • GERMANY: Backed by Lakestar, Seedcamp and EWOR, SE3 unveils spatial AI platform for autonomous systems
  • GERMANY: lingomatch received an undisclosed sum of investment
  • POLAND: LiveKid acquires Aldea to expand in Latin America
  • GERMANY: House of Gaia Group is acquiring Codio Impact
  • GERMANY: The young Munich-based legal tech company beglaubigt.de is acquiring the insolvent company firma.de
  • FRANCE: Withings acquires the Rennes-based medtech company Biosency
  • UK: Edtech Pastest acquires financial platform Medics' Money
  • UK: PayPoint acquires Aperidata
  • NETHERLANDS: Backbase buys agentic banking platform Kasisto