Deal of the Month Archives - Venionaire DealMatrix

03.06.2026

Deal of the Month |

May |

2026

Isomorphic Labs Series B: Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1 Billion funding to scale its AI drug design engine

HQ: UK

Founded: 2021

Series B

Sector: AI, BioTech, Pharmaceutical

Investment Raised: USD 2.1b €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: The round was led by Thrive Capital, and includes participation from existing backers Alphabet and GV alongside new investors MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund

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08.05.2026

Deal of the Month |

April |

2026

Blue Energy Funding: $380M to build grid-scale nuclear reactors in shipyards

HQ: DK

Founded: 2023

Series C

Investment Raised: USD 380m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: The round was led by XI Capital with participation from At One Ventures, Engine Ventures, and Tamarack Global.

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01.04.2026

Deal of the Month |

March |

2026

German startup Upvest secures $125M for strategic expansion in Europe

HQ: DE

Founded: 2017

Series D

Sector: Financial Services Saas Software, FinTech

Investment Raised: $125M €

USD 735m

Valuation

Investors: The USD 90m equity round is led by Sapphire Ventures and Tencent, with support from Bessemer Venture Partners and BlackRock

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02.03.2026

Deal of the Month |

February |

2026

Wayve secures $1.5B to deploy its global autonomy platform

HQ: UK

Founded: 2017

Series D

Sector: Autonomous Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles

Investment Raised: USD 1.5b €

USD 8.6b

Valuation

Investors: The round was closed with participation from Microsoft, NVIDIA and Uber, alongside investment from global automakers Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis

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02.02.2026

Deal of the Month |

January |

2026

Parloa Raises $350M Series D at $3B Valuation

HQ: DE

Founded: 2018

Series D

Sector: AI

Investment Raised: USD 350m €

USD 3b

Valuation

Investors: The round was led by General Catalyst and joined by existing investors such as EQT Ventures, Altimeter Capital and Durable Capital Partners

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31.12.2025

Deal of the Month |

December |

2025

Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation

HQ: SE

Founded: 2023

Series B

Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: USD 330m €

USD 6.6b

Valuation

Investors: This round was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund. Additional investors in this round include NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, T.Capital (Deutsche Telekom), Atlassian Ventures, and HubSpot Ventures. They’re joined by Khosla Ventures, DST Global, EQT Growth, Kinship Ventures, and returning investors Accel, Creandum, and Evantic, among others.

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02.12.2025

Deal of the Month |

November |

2025

Peter Thiel-backed Quantum Systems triples valuation to €3B with €180M funding

HQ: DE

Founded: 2015

Venture – Series Unknown

Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Defence Tech, Drones

Investment Raised: EUR 180m €

EUR 3b

Valuation

Investors: The round was led by Balderton Capital and joined by investors including Peter Thiel, Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Notion Capital

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06.11.2025

Deal of the Month |

October |

2025

Munich-based Tubulis secures €308 million to advance antibody-drug conjugate innovation

HQ: DE

Founded: 2012

Series C

Sector: Biotechnology

Investment Raised: EUR 308m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Led by Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, with participation from Wellington Management and Ascenta Capital, alongside existing investors including Nextech Invest, EQT Life Sciences, Frazier Life Sciences, Andera Partners, Deep Track Capital, Bayern Kapital, Fund+, OCCIDENT, Seventure Partners, and HTGF.

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30.09.2025

Deal of the Month |

September |

2025

Mistral’s USD 2b Series C Is Europe’s Largest AI Round By A Lot

HQ: FR

Founded: 2023

Series C

Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: USD 1.7m €

USD 13.7b

Valuation

Investors: Led by ASML Holding NV, and existing investors including DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz and Bpifrance

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30.08.2025

Deal of the Month |

August |

2025

Riverlane raises $75 million to meet surging global demand for quantum error correction technology

HQ: UK

Founded: 2016

Series C

Sector: Computer, Information Technology, Quantum Computing, Software

Investment Raised: USD 75 M €

USD 325 M

Valuation

Investors: Planet First Partners, National Security Strategic Investment Fund, EDBI, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Altair

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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

HQ: DE

Founded: 2018

Series A

Sector: Manufacturing, Quantum Computing, Semiconductor

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

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30.06.2025

Deal of the Month |

June |

2025

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing raises €189 million to scale technology that compresses LLMs by up to 95%

HQ: ES

Founded: 2019

Series B

Sector: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Quantum Computing

Investment Raised: EUR 189m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bullhound Capital, Capital Riesgo de Euskadi “ Grupo SPRI, CDP Venture Capital, Forgepoint Capital International, HP Tech Ventures, Quantonation, Santander Climate VC, SETT, Toshiba Corporation

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09.05.2025

Deal of the Month |

May |

2025

German Quantum Systems raises €160 million as it targets global leadership in aerial intelligence solutions

HQ: DE

Founded: 2015

Series C

Sector: Aerospace

Investment Raised: EUR 160m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Airbus Defence & Space, Airbus Ventures, Balderton Capital, Bullhound Capital, DTCP, Hensoldt, HV Capital, LP&E AG, Notion Capital, Omnes Capital, Peter Thiel, Porsche Automobil Holding, Project A Ventures

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30.04.2025

Deal of the Month |

April |

2025

Noxtua secures €80.7M to build Europe’s First sovereign Legal AI

HQ: DE

Founded: 2017

Series B

Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: EUR 80.7m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Verlag C.H.BECK, Northern Data Group, Dentons, CMS

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31.03.2025

Deal of the Month |

March |

2025

Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors

HQ: FR

Founded: 2020

Series A

Sector: Renewable Energy

Investment Raised: EUR 32m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Credit Mutuel Impact, Lowercarbon Capital

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28.02.2025

Deal of the Month |

February |

2025

Luminance Raises $75 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by Point72 Private Investments

HQ: UK

Founded: 2015

Series C

Sector: Legal Tech

Investment Raised: GBP 59m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Forestay Capital, March Capital, National Grid Partners (NGP), Point72 Ventures, RPS Ventures, Schroders Capital, Slaughter and May

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31.01.2025

Deal of the Month |

January |

2025

Bioptimus raises $41M to develop a ‘GPT for biology’

HQ: FR

Founded: 2024

Series A

Sector: Biotechnology

Investment Raised: USD 41m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Cathay Innovation

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31.12.2024

Deal of the Month |

December |

2024

Nscale raises $155M for AI-ready data centres and GPU infrastructure

HQ: UK

Founded: 2023

Series A

Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: USD 155M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

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05.12.2024

Deal of the Month |

November |

2024

Munich-based The Exploration Company secures over €150 million to further develop their reusable spacecraft

HQ: DE

Founded: 2021

Series B

Sector: Aerospace

Investment Raised: EUR 150m €

EUR 300m

Valuation

Investors: Balderton Capital, Bayern Kapital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bpifrance, Cherry Ventures, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, EQT Ventures, NGP Capital, Omnes Capital, Plural Platform, Promus Ventures, Red River West

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31.10.2024

Deal of the Month |

October |

2024

OroraTech’s space-based wildfire detection brings in $25M to put more imaging satellites in orbit

HQ: DE

Founded: 2018

Series B

Sector: Information Technology

Investment Raised: EUR 25m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Ananda Impact Ventures, Bayern Kapital, ConActivity KG, Edaphon, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Findus Venture, Korys

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30.09.2024

Deal of the Month |

September |

2024

EQT Leads $102.5 Million Series A Funding Round in Belgian Radioisotope Producer PanTera

HQ: BE

Founded: 2022

Series A

Sector: Health Care

Investment Raised: EUR 93m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: EQT Life Sciences, Eurazeo, Ion Beam Applications, Korys, Kurma Partners, Paladin, PMV, SFPIM

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18.07.2024

Deal of the Month |

July |

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

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13.06.2024

Deal of the Month |

June |

2024

Mistral AI raises 600 million euros in latest funding round

HQ: FR

Founded: 2023

Series B

Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software

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

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31.05.2024

Deal of the Month |

May |

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 1.1B €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA

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01.04.2024

Deal of the Month |

April |

2024

Neurosterix launches with $63M to Advance Allosteric Modulator Therapeutics for Neurological Disorders

HQ: CH

Founded: 2024

Series A

Investment Raised: USD 63M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Perceptive Life Sciences Perceptive Advisors Acorn Bioventures

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20.02.2024

Deal of the Month |

February |

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

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20.01.2024

Deal of the Month |

January |

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

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20.12.2023

Deal of the Month |

December |

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

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20.11.2023

Deal of the Month |

November |

2023

European OpenAI Competitor Aleph Alpha Raises $500M

HQ: DE

Founded: 2019

Series B

Sector: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Investment Raised: 500M USD €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bosch Ventures Burda Principal Investments Christ & Company Hewlett Packard Enterprise Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence SAP Schwarz Group

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20.10.2023

Deal of the Month |

October |

2023

Partners Group to invest up to $1.05bn in Exus

HQ: ES

Founded: 2015

Private Equity

Sector: Asset Management

Investment Raised: USD 1.05 bn €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Partners Group (https://www.partnersgroup.com/en/)

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