30.03.2026

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 13 |

2026

Granola Series C: Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 125m €

USD 1.5b

Valuation

Investors: The round was led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins

23.02.2026

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 8 |

2026

FYLD Raises $41 Million Series B to Accelerate the Delivery of Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects with AI

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 41m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: The round was led by New-York based Energy Impact Partners LP (“EIP”) with participation from European growth equity specialist Partech through its Growth Impact Fund

12.01.2026

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 2 |

2026

Shopify competitor Swap raises $100M six months after raising $40M

Founded: 2022

Investment Raised: USD 100m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: The round was co-led by DST Global and ICONIQ

05.01.2026

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 1 |

2026

Kraken Technologies Raises $1 Billion in First Standalone Round at $8.65 Billion Valuation

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 1b €

USD 8.65b

Valuation

Investors: The investment round was led by D1 Capital Partners, with participation from Fidelity International, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and Durable Capital Partners.

31.12.2025

Deal of the Month |

December |

2025

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

Founded: 2023

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.

19.12.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 51 |

2025

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

Founded: 2023

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.

02.12.2025

Deal of the Month |

November |

2025

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

Founded: 2015

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

01.12.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 48 |

2025

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

Founded: 2015

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

31.10.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 44 |

2025

AI Video Startup Synthesia Valued At $4 Billion In New $200 Million Raise

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 200m €

USD 4b

Valuation

Investors: Google Ventures (GV)

10.10.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 41 |

2025

n8n Secures $180 Million Series C Funding, Hits $2.5 Billion Valuation to Lead AI-Powered Workflow Automation

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 180m €

USD 2.5b

Valuation

Investors: Led by Accel, with support from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and T.Capital also join the round, with previous backers including Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe and HV Capital making follow-on investments.

03.10.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 40 |

2025

Nscale closes $433M round, days after bagging $1.1BN funding

Founded: 2024

Investment Raised: USD 433M €

USD 3.5b

Valuation

Investors: T.Capital, Sandton Capital Partners, Point72, NVIDIA, Nokia, G Squared, Fidelity, Dell Technologies, Blue Owl, Aker

30.09.2025

Deal of the Month |

September |

2025

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

Founded: 2023

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

26.09.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 39 |

2025

British AI firm Nscale raises $1.1 billion in Nvidia-backed funding round

Founded: 2024

Investment Raised: USD 1.1b €

USD 3.1b

Valuation

Investors: Led by Norway’s Aker, with additional backing from Nvidia, Nokia and Dell

12.09.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 37 |

2025

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

Founded: 2023

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

30.04.2025

Deal of the Month |

April |

2025

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

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 80.7m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

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

25.04.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 17 |

2025

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

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 80.7m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

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

31.12.2024

Deal of the Month |

December |

2024

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

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 155M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

13.12.2024

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 50 |

2024

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

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 155M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Sandton Capital Partners, Kestrel 0x1, Florence Capital, Bluesky Capital

23.10.2024

Deal |

2024

London-based Oriole Networks raises €20.2 million to reduce energy consumption of AI data centres

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 22m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Clean Growth Fund, Dorilton, Plural Platform, UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures

17.10.2024

Deal |

2024

Omnea raises $25M to tackle the painfully annoying procurement problem

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: EUR 20m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Accel, Anne Raimondi, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Clarke, First Round Capital, Point Nine

17.10.2024

Deal |

2024

Gladia believes real-time processing is the next frontier of audio transcription APIs

Founded: 2022

Investment Raised: USD 16m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Athletico Ventures, Gaingels, Illuminate Financial, Mana Ventures, Motier Ventures, Roosh Ventures, Soma Capital, XAnge, XTX Markets

13.06.2024

Deal of the Month |

June |

2024

Mistral AI raises 600 million euros in latest funding round

Founded: 2023

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

27.02.2024

Deal |

2024

Gen AI startup Photoroom raises $43m round at $500m valuation

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 43M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Aglae Ventures (https://aglaeventures.com/) Balderton Capital (https://www.balderton.com/) Y Combinator (https://www.ycombinator.com/)

21.02.2024

Deal |

2024

Exohood Labs an Emerging Technology Company on the Path to Becoming a Unicorn

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 112M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Livsquare Capital

21.02.2024

Deal |

2024

Napier AI Raises £45M in Funding

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: GBP 45M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Crestline

20.02.2024

Deal |

2024

AZmed Secures €15 Million in Series A

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: EUR 15M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Maison Worms Teampact ventures Techstars

25.10.2023

Deal |

2023

Exklusiv: HR-Start-up Empion erhält 6 Millionen Euro Investment

Founded: 2022

Investment Raised: EUR 6M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Cavalry Ventures (https://cavalry.vc/) Redstone (https://www.redstone.de/)

25.10.2023

Deal |

2023

Swiss-based Viso raises €8.7M to make and deploy AI vision apps for businesses

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 8.7M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Accel (https://www.accel.com/) James Isilay Mehdi Ghissassi Mihai Faur Remy Lazarovici Stef van Grieken

24.10.2023

Deal |

2023

Oxolo Closes €13M Series A Funding

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 13M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Alex T√§ubert Christian Vollmann DN Capital Johannes Plehn Mischa Rurup Stefan Wiskemann Thomas Hagemann

18.10.2023

Deal |

2023

Aindo closes a €6 million Series A round

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: EUR 6M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: United Ventures (https://unitedventures.com/) Vertis SGR S.p.A. (https://www.vertis.it/contatti/)