25.07.2025

Deal of the Month |

Calendar Week # 30 |

July |

2025

Stuttgart’s Q.ANT raises €62M to scale energy-efficient photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: EUR 62m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Verve Ventures, Venionaire Capital, UVC Partners, TRUMPF, Onsight Ventures, LEA Partners, L-Bank, imec.xpand, Grazia Equity, Cherry Ventures

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

Sunsave secures £100m debt facility and £13m Series A equity funding

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: GBP 13m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Clearance Capital, IPGL, Michael Spencer, Norrsken VC, Roland Rudd, Sir Stuart Rose

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

Monet Raises to Tackle Creative Sector’s Finance Gap

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: GBP 17m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Dan Adler, Force Over Mass Capital, Michael Fischer, Paul Rippon

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

Lightyear closes $23M and launches AI-powered market intelligence

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 23m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Hardi Meybaum, Kaarel Kotkas, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Markus Villig, Metaplanet, NordicNinja VC, Ott Kaukver, Skaala, Specialist VC, Superangel

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

Deeptech industrielle dans la métallurgie des Terres Rares, MagREEsource lève 23 millions d’euros pour développer une filière souveraine de fabrication d’aimants bas carbone et annonce une nouvelle

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 23m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Fund for the Future of Industry, BNP Paribas Développement, Bpifrance, C2Ad, Finindus, Groupe Pochet, Innovacom, KYOSEIL AM, L-Acoustics, Rhône Dauphiné Développement

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

London-based inforcer raises €29.8 million to equip MSPs with their Microsoft multi-tenant management solution

Founded: 2022

Investment Raised: USD 35m €

USD 165m

Valuation

Investors: Dawn Capital, Meritech Capital Partners

25.07.2025

Deal |

Calendar Week # 30 |

2025

GV and 20VC back Buena’s vision to reinvent property management through AI-powered rollups

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 49.42m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Capnamic, Google Ventures, Stride.VC, The Twenty Minute VC

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

German AI startup Makersite raises €60 million to accelerate product sustainability in the design process

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: EUR 60m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Hitachi Ventures, KOMPAS VC, Lightrock, Partech, Planet A Ventures, SE Ventures, Translink Capital

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

Accounts payable start-up Xelix raises $160m Series B

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 160m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Insight Partners, LocalGlobe, Passion Capital

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

INPP invests £250m in Sizewell C nuclear project

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: GBP 250m €

GBP 8.1b

Valuation

Investors: Amber Infrastructure, Centrica, EDF, International Public Partnerships, La Caisse, UK Government

25.07.2025

Deal |

2025

PX3 inks €330m deal with cybersecurity firm BV Tech

Founded: 2005

Investment Raised: EUR 330m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Fondo Italiano d'Investimento, Px3 Partners

21.07.2025

Deal |

Calendar Week # 29 |

2025

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

USD 1.8B

Valuation

Investors: Accel, byFounders, Creandum, Denise Persson, Dharmesh Shah, European Tech Collective, George Kurtz, Hummingbird Ventures, Ilkka Paananen, Job van der Voort, Linda Tong, Mati Staniszewski, Melissa Tan, Olivier Pomel, Paul Copplestone, QuantumLight, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Steffen Tjerrild, Stewart Butterfield, The Twenty Minute VC, Varun Anand, Victor Riparbelli, Visionaries Club