DEALS MONITOR
Deal of the Week
Each week our analysts go through the list of recently announced deal and select the most outstanding one to be awarded “Deal of the Week”.
The selection criteria are focused on the “whole picture” of the announced deal, such as raised investment, type of investment round, investors and further perspective of company development.
AWARDED DEAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
18.07.2024
Deal of the Week |
2024
Nearfield Instruments secures €135 million in landmark deep-tech funding round
- HQ: NL
Founded: 2016
- Series C
- Sector: Electronics, Machinery Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Investment Raised: EUR 135M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Walden Catalyst, Invest-NL, Innovation Industries, ING Group
12.07.2024
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Calendar Week # 28 |
2024
SciRhom Secures EUR 63 Million Series A Financing Round to Accelerate iRhom2-targeting Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases
- HQ: DE
Founded: 2016
- Series A
- Sector: Biotechnology
Investment Raised: EUR 63M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Wellington Partners, PhiFund Ventures, MIG Capital, Kurma Partners, High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Hadean Ventures, Bayern Kapital, Andera Partners
21.06.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 25 |
2024
iOnctura Raises EUR80M in Series B Financing
- HQ: CH
Founded: 2017
- Series B
- Sector: Biotechnology
Investment Raised: EUR 80M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: VI Partners, Syncona Partners LLP, Schroders Capital, M Ventures, Inkef, European Innovation Council, 38 Future Health Fund
13.06.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 24 |
2024
Mistral AI raises 600 million euros in latest funding round
- HQ: FR
Founded: 2023
- Series B
- Sector: Generative AI
Investment Raised: EUR 600M €
EUR 5.2B
Valuation
Investors: SV Angel, ServiceNow Ventures, Sanabil, Samsung Venture Investment, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Millennium New Horizons, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Latitude, Korelya Capital, IBM Ventures, Headline, Hanwha Asset Management, General Catalyst, Eurazeo, Cisco Systems, Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Bertelsmann Investments, Belifus Bank, Andreessen Horowitz
07.06.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 23 |
2024
Airbus’s Stratospheric Drone Business Aalto HAPS Secures $100 Million From Japanese Investors
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2022
- Venture – Series Unknown
- Sector: Satellite Communication
Investment Raised: USD 100M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Space Compass Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Mizuho Bank, Development Bank of Japan
31.05.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 22 |
2024
World’s first contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, raises $55M
- HQ: SE
Founded: 2013
- Series C
- Sector: Healthcare
Investment Raised: USD 55M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Samsung Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Lauxera Capital Partners, Heartcore Capital, Headline, EQT Ventures, Bonnier Ventures
24.05.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 21 |
2024
Generative AI Translation Startup DeepL Locks Up $300M
- HQ: DE
Founded: 2017
- Venture – Series Unknown
- Sector: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Investment Raised: USD 300M €
USD 1.7B
Valuation
Investors: Index Ventures, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Teachers' Venture Growth, IVP, ICONIQ Growth, Atomico
17.05.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 20 |
2024
Voice Assistant Builder PolyAI Closes $50 Million Series C; Backers Include Hedosophia, Nvidia and Khosla Ventures
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2017
- Series C
- Sector: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Investment Raised: USD 50M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Zendesk, Sands Capital Ventures, Passion Capital, Point72 Ventures, NVentures, Khosla Ventures, Hedosophia, Georgian
10.05.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 19 |
2024
Wayve lands $1B from SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA to build AI tech for self-driving cars
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2017
- Series C
- Sector: Autonomous Vehicles
Investment Raised: USD 1B €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank
29.04.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 18 |
2024
Dutch startup Vitestro $22M for revolutionary autonomous blood drawing device
- HQ: NL
Founded: 2017
- Series A
- Sector: Healthcare
Investment Raised: ER 20M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Sonder Capital NYBC Ventures Inves-NL European Innovation Council
22.04.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 17 |
2024
CN Bio raises $21 million to scale up organ-on-a-chip technology
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2009
- Series B
- Sector: Biotechnology
Investment Raised: USD 21M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: CN Innovations Bayland Capital
15.04.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 16 |
2024
Finland’s satellite imaging startup ICEYE raises oversubscribed €87M growth funding round
- HQ: FI
Founded: 2014
- Venture – Series Unknown
- Sector: Aerospace
Investment Raised: EUR 87M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Solidium Move Capital Blackwells Capital Christo Georgiev
08.04.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 15 |
2024
Reshape wants to help ‘decode nature’ by automating the ‘visual’ part of lab experiments
- HQ: DK
Founded: 2018
- Series A
- Sector: Biotechnology
Investment Raised: USD 20M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Y Combinator R7 Partners Per Falholt Nicholas Francis Astanor Ventures ACME Capital 21st.BIO
01.04.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 14 |
2024
Neurosterix launches with $63M to Advance Allosteric Modulator Therapeutics for Neurological Disorders
- HQ: CH
Founded: 2024
- Series A
- Sector: Biotechnology
Investment Raised: USD 63M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Perceptive Life Sciences Perceptive Advisors Acorn Bioventures
25.03.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 13 |
2024
Robovision raises $42M to accelerate AI-powered industrial automation
- HQ: BE
Founded: 2009
- Series A
- Sector: Agtech
Investment Raised: USD 42M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Target Global Red River West Astanor Ventures
18.03.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 12 |
2024
Angelini Ventures invests into extended €75.8 million ($82 million) Series C financing round for Nouscom
- HQ: CH
Founded: 2015
- Series C
- Sector: Biotechnology
Investment Raised: EUR 75.8M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: 5AM Ventures Andera Partners Angelini Ventures Bpifrance EQT life science Indaco Venture Partners M Ventures Panakes Partners Revelation Partners Versant Ventures XGEN Venture
11.03.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 11 |
2024
Tubulis Closes Upsized €128 Million Series B2 to Accelerate Clinical Development of Solid Tumor-Focused ADC Pipeline
- HQ: DE
Founded: 2012
- Series B
- Sector: Healthcare, Biotechnology
Investment Raised: EUR 128M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Andera Partners Bayern Kapital BioMedPartners coparion Deep Track Capital EQT life science Evotec Frazier Life Sciences Fund+ High-Tech Grunderfonds Nextech Invest OCCIDENT Seventure Partners
04.03.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 10 |
2024
Monzo, the UK challenger bank with 9 million customers, raises $430 million
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2015
- Series Unknown
- Sector: Banking, FinTech
Investment Raised: USD 430M €
USD 3.6B
Valuation
Investors: CapitalG Tencent Passion Capital Hongshan Fund Google Ventures
26.02.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 9 |
2024
Solar panel startup Enviria secures $200m from BlackRock
- HQ: DE
Founded: 2017
- Series B
- Sector: Renewable Energy
Investment Raised: USD 200.6M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Blackrock
19.02.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 8 |
2024
Aegir Insights: Decision-Making Software Provider Raises €8.5 Million
- HQ: DK
Founded: 2020
- Series A
- Sector: CleanTech
Investment Raised: EUR 8M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Climentum Capital Seaya
12.02.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 7 |
2024
Flower Labs raises $20M Series A
- HQ: DE
Founded: 2023
- Series A
- Sector: Machine Learning
Investment Raised: USD 20M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Betaworks Clément Delangue Factorial Capital Felicis First Spark Ventures Mozilla Ventures Pioneer Fund Scott Chacon Y Combinator
05.02.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 6 |
2024
Croatian autonomous vehicle startup Project 3 Mobility raises around $107 million
- HQ: HR
Founded: 2019
- Series A
- Sector: Autonomous Mobility
Investment Raised: USD 107M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: TASARU Mobility Investments
29.01.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 5 |
2024
Enterprise Therapeutics Closes £26 million ($33.1 million) Series B Follow-on Financing
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2014
- Series B
- Sector: HealthTech
Investment Raised: GBP 26M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Versant Ventures Panakes Partners Novartis Venture Fund IP Group Forbion Capital Partners Epidarex Capital
22.01.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 4 |
2024
Sweden’s H2 Green Steel raises €4.5bn in debt and equity funding
- HQ: SE
Founded: 2020
- Series: Venture Round
- Sector: GreenTech
Investment Raised: EUR 300M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Temasek Holdings Siemens Financial Services Mubea Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund Just Climate Hy24 GIC Andra AP-fonden Altor
15.01.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 3 |
2024
Sunday Natural secures investment from CVC Fund VIII
- HQ: DE
Founded: 2013
- Private Equity
- Sector: Health
Investment Raised: EUR 800M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: CVC Fund VIII
08.01.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 2 |
2024
Picnic raises €355M: Edeka and Bill Gates Foundation Trust among investors
- HQ: NL
Founded: 2015
- Venture – Series Unknown
- Sector: Food & Beverages
Investment Raised: EUR 355M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Edeka (https://www.edeka.de/) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/)
01.01.2024
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 1 |
2024
Vico Therapeutics Announces $60 million (€54 million) Series B Financing to Advance VO659 Clinical-Stage Program for Rare Neurological Diseases and Expand Pipeline
- HQ: NL
Founded: 2019
- Series B
- Sector: Health Care
Investment Raised: EUR 54M €
Valuation Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Ackermans & van Haaren Droia Ventures EQT life science Eurazeo Kurma Partners Polaris Partners Pureos Bioventures
25.12.2023
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 52 |
2023
AA backers sell £450m stake to US investor Stonepeak
- HQ: UK
Founded: 1905
- Private Equity
- Sector: Automotive
Investment Raised: GBP 450M €
Remains Undisclosed
Investors: Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners
18.12.2023
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 51 |
2023
$800m investment to accelerate Octopus Energy’s global clean energy growth
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2015
- Private Equity
- Sector: Energy Efficiency
Investment Raised: USD 800M €
USD 7.8bn
Valuation
Investors: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Generation Investment Management Origin Energy Tokyo Gas
11.12.2023
Deal of the Week |
Calendar Week # 50 |
2023
London-based fintech SumUp raises €285 million to provide small merchants with the tools to scale their businesses
- HQ: UK
Founded: 2011
- Venture – Series Unknown
- Sector: FinTech