24.01.2023

Deal |

2023

France-based PASQAL bags €100M to build quantum computers with atoms and laser

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bpifrance (https://www.bpifrance.com/) Daphni (https://www.daphni.com/) EIC Fund (https://eic.ec.europa.eu/investment-opportunities_en) Eni Next (https://www.eni.com/eninext/en-US/home.html) Quantonation (https://www.quantonation.com/) Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures (https://aramcoventures.com/) Temasek Holdings (https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/index)

23.01.2023

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Calendar Week # 4 |

2023

France-based PASQAL bags €100M to build quantum computers with atoms and laser

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bpifrance (https://www.bpifrance.com/) Daphni (https://www.daphni.com/) EIC Fund (https://eic.ec.europa.eu/investment-opportunities_en) Eni Next (https://www.eni.com/eninext/en-US/home.html) Quantonation (https://www.quantonation.com/) Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures (https://aramcoventures.com/) Temasek Holdings (https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/index)

14.11.2022

Deal |

2022

London-based BeZero Carbon secures €48 million to bring transparency to the growing carbon market

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 48M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Contrarian Ventures (https://www.cventures.vc/) EDF Ventures (https://www.edf.fr/en/pulse/ventures) Hitachi Ventures (https://www.hitachi-ventures.com/) Illuminate Financial (https://www.illuminatefinancial.com/) IntercontinentalExchange (https://www.theice.com/index) Molten Ventures (https://www.moltenventures.com/) Norrsken VC (https://www.norrsken.vc/) QIMA (https://www.qima.com/) Quantum Energy Partners (https://www.quantumep.com/)

03.10.2022

Deal |

2022

Romanian game studio Amber raises $20 mln for M&A growth

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: USD 20M €

USD 170M

Valuation

Investors: Emona Capital (https://www.emonacapital.com/)

27.09.2022

Deal |

2022

After being bootstrapped for almost a decade, Bending Spoons raises €355.6M from Ryan Reynolds, others

Founded: 2013

Investment Raised: EUR 355.6M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Banco BPM (https://www.bancobpm.it/) Creator Partners (https://www.creatorpartners.com/) Gabrielle Union Intesa Sanpaolo (https://www.intesasanpaolo.com/) Keisuke Honda Maximum Effort (https://www.maximumeffort.com/)

21.09.2022

Deal |

2022

Billionaire Niel Buys 2.5% of Vodafone for GBP 753m to ‘Accelerate’ Deals

Founded: 1982

Investment Raised: GBP 753M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Atlas Investissement (https://www.linkedin.com/company/atlasfrancefinance/?originalSubdomain=th)

19.09.2022

Deal |

2022

Sievo Announces $44 Million Growth Investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity

Founded: 2003

Investment Raised: USD 44M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Susquehanna Growth Equity (https://sgep.com/)

14.09.2022

Deal |

2022

UK-based Ownera bags €20M from J.P. Morgan, others to unlock the institutional tokenised securities market

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 20M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Accomplice Blockchain (https://accompliceblockchain.co/) Archax (https://www.archax.com/) Draper Goren Holm (https://drapergorenholm.com/) JP Morgan (https://www.jpmorgan.com/AT/en/about-us) LRC Group (https://www.lrceurope.com/) Polymorphic Capital (https://polymorphic.capital/) Ropart Asset Management (https://ropartfunds.com/) tokentus (https://tokentus.com/)

08.09.2022

Deal |

2022

Gravitee nabs $30m to simplify API development and management

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 30M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: AlbionVC (https://albion.vc/) Kreos Capital (https://www.kreoscapital.com/) Oxx (https://www.oxx.vc/) Riverside Acceleration Capital (https://www.riverside.ac/)

07.09.2022

Deal |

2022

Localyze, a SaaS for staff relocation, gets $35M as it gears up for US launch

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Frontline Ventures (https://www.frontline.vc/) General Catalyst (https://www.generalcatalyst.com/) Job van der Voort Visionaries Club (https://visionaries.vc/) Web Summit (https://websummit.com/)

05.09.2022

Deal |

2022

ELISE nabs $14.8 million to boost low-code engineering platform for process automation

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 14.8M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BMW i Ventures (https://www.bmwiventures.com/) Cherry Ventures (https://www.cherry.vc/) Spark Capital (https://www.sparkcapital.com/) UVC Partners (https://www.uvcpartners.com/) Venture Stars (http://www.venture-stars.com/)

01.09.2022

Deal |

2022

everphone Raises over $32M in Series C-2 Funding

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 32M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Cadence Growth Capital (https://www.cadencegrowthcapital.com/) Deutsche Telekom (https://www.telekom.com/de) Henrich Blase Kevin Ryan signals Venture Capital (https://signals.vc/)

25.07.2022

Deal |

2022

Portuguese startup Spotlite secures €1.5 million for its space monitoring tech

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 1.5M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: EDP Ventures (https://www.edpventures.vc/) Indico Capital Partners (https://www.indicocapital.com/) Portugal Ventures (https://www.portugalventures.pt/) Shilling (https://www.shilling.vc/)

14.06.2022

Deal |

2022

No-code tool Next Matter lands $16M to automate business processes

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 16M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BlueYard Capital (https://www.blueyard.com/) Crane Venture Partners (https://crane.vc/) OMERS Ventures (https://omersventures.com/)

03.05.2022

Deal |

2022

AMF invests SEK 955 million in Polarium

Founded: 2004

Investment Raised: SEK 955M €

USD 900M

Valuation

Investors: AMF (https://www.amf.se)

01.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Meteomatics raises 13.5m CHF in a Series B financing round led by Klima Energy Transition Fund

Founded: 2012

Investment Raised: CHF 13.5M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Alantra (https://www.alantra.com/)

31.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Offering low-power transistors the size of human DNA, Terra Quantum raises $15 million in Series A funding

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 15M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Remains Undisclosed

24.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Weglot raises $50 million to turn any website into a multilingual site

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 45M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Partech (https://partechpartners.com)

22.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Amsterdam-based off-street parking platform ParkBee raises €30M from Kees Koolen, others

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: EUR 30M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: InnovationQuarter (https://www.innovationquarter.nl/en/) Koolen Industries (https://www.koolenindustries.com) Statkraft Ventures (https://www.statkraftventures.com)

22.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Luxembourg-based LEKO Labs raises €18.57M to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable housing; appoints new CEO

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: EUR 18.57M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 2150 (https://www.2150.vc/) AMAVI Capital (https://amavi.capital/) Extantia Capital (https://extantia.com/) Freigeist Capital (https://freigeist.com/) Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability/climate-innovation-fund) Rise PropTech (https://riseproptech.eu/) Tencent (https://www.tencent.com/)

17.02.2022

Deal |

2022

VEON announces a RUB 30 billion (c.USD 400 million) seven year term loan with VTB Bank

Founded: 1992

Investment Raised: RUB 30B €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: VTB Bank

03.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Frontline worker HR platform Snapshift raises $45M round led by Highland Europe

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 45M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bpifrance (https://www.bpifrance.com/) Highland Europe (https://www.highlandeurope.com/) UL Invest (https://ulinvest.lu/en/accueil-english/)

25.01.2022

Deal |

2022

Top Russian Colocation Provider IXcellerate Closes Latest Round of Funding to Accelerate Expansion Plans

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 190M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Mubadala (https://www.mubadala.com/) Russian Direct Investment Fund (https://rdif.ru/Eng_Index/)

23.11.2021

Deal |

2021

Chinese fund Orient Hontai controls 80% of Mediapro by injecting 620 million

Founded: 1994

Investment Raised: EUR 620M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Orient Capital (https://www.orientcap.com/)

22.03.2021

Deal |

2021

Berlin-based Camunda raises €82M to reinvent process automation for the digital enterprise

Founded: 2008

Investment Raised: EUR 82M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Highland Europe (https://www.highlandeurope.com/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/)