01.01.2026

Deal of the Year |

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

11.08.2025

Deal |

2025

Maven Leads £5 Million Investment in Approov to Redefine Mobile App Security

Founded: 2001

Investment Raised: GBP 5m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Lanza Tech Ventures, Maven Capital Partners, Scottish Enterprise, Souter Investments

11.08.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 32 |

2025

Tanso raises €12M to grow ESG software for industry

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: EUR 12m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Capnamic, Fortino Capital, henQ, UVC Partners

04.08.2025

Deal |

2025

Sava lands $19M for world-first biosensor to disrupt real-time health monitoring

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: GBP 14.2m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Athletico Ventures, Balderton Capital, Exceptional Ventures, Italian Founders Fund, JamJar Investments, Norrsken VC, Pentland Ventures, True.

04.08.2025

Deal |

2025

StanChart’s Crypto Arm Zodia Markets Raises $18 Million

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: USD 18.2m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Circle Ventures, Human Capital, Pharsalus Capital, The Operating Group, Token Bay Capital, XVC Tech

04.08.2025

Deal |

2025

Good Job Games secures $60M Series A to build the future of Match-3 gaming

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 60m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Anthos Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures

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 |

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

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

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

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

30.06.2025

Deal |

2025

Swedish startup Tandem Health secures €42.6 million to reduce admin burden on clinicians

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: EUR 42.6m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Amino Collective, Kinnevik, Northzone, Visionaries Club

30.06.2025

Deal |

2025

EverDye Raises €15M in Series A Funding

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: EUR 15m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 212 NexT, Asterion Ventures, Crédit Mutuel Innovation, Daphni, European Innovation Council, Maki.vc, Ring Capital

24.06.2025

Deal |

2025

Mercanis cements over $20M: Charting the future of AI-driven procurement

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 17.3m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Angel Invest, AVP, Capmont Technology, Dr. Marcell Vollmer, Dr. Ulrich Piepel, Mirko Novakovic, Partech, Signals Venture Capital, Speedinvest, Victor Jacobsson

24.06.2025

Deal |

2025

Jet HR soars and closes a maxi round of 25 million. All the details on the tech company’s operation

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: EUR 25m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Base10 Partners

17.06.2025

Deal |

2025

German start-up Payrails raises $32m in Series A funding

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: USD 32m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, EQT Ventures, General Catalyst, HV Capital

17.06.2025

Deal |

2025

Look Up secures major capital boost to expand radar network and space traffic services

Founded: 2022

Investment Raised: EUR 24m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: EIC Accelerator, ETF Partners, Expansion Ventures, Karista, Leadwind, MIG Capital

17.06.2025

Deal |

2025

Proxima Fusion secures €130M to supercharge Europe’s Nuclear Energy Ambitions

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: EUR 130m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Balderton Capital, Bayern Kapital, Cherry Ventures, Club degli Investitori, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Elaia, HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds), Leitmotif, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Omnes Capital, Plural Platform, redalpine, UVC Partners, Visionaries Tomorrow, Wilbe Capital

10.06.2025

Deal |

2025

Wordsmith AI Raises $25M Series A from Index Ventures to Deploy Fleets of Legal AI Agents and Power the Rise of Legal Engineers

Founded: 2024

Investment Raised: USD 25m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Index Ventures, Scottish Enterprise

22.05.2025

Deal |

2025

Jeito Capital Leads a USD 65 million Financing in ReproNovo to Develop Transformational Treatments in Reproductive Medicine and Women’s Health

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: USD 65m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: ALSA Ventures, AXA Investment Managers, Jeito Capital, M Ventures, Ysios Capital

22.05.2025

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 21 |

2025

German scale-up Flip secures €25 million to expand new AI-powered capabilities for deskless workers

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: USD 28m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: HV Capital, LEA Partners, Notion Capital, Roland Berger

16.05.2025

Deal |

2025

UK-based Origin raises $21M Series A to tackle fragmented employee benefits

Founded: 2024

Investment Raised: USD 21m €

USD 85m

Valuation

Investors: Acadian Ventures, Felix Capital, Jacqui Canney, Laura Modiano, Notion Ventures, Paul Daugherty, Tudor Havriliuc

16.05.2025

Deal |

2025

Madrid-based startup Shakers raises €14 million to help businesses integrate teams of specialised talent with AI

Founded: 2021

Investment Raised: EUR 14m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Athos Capital, Brighteye Ventures, K Fund, Partech, Wayra

16.05.2025

Deal |

2025

Largest ever funding in UK space tech: Space Forge raises £22.6M to launch new era of space manufacturing

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: GBP 22.6m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: British Business Bank, Cardiff Capital Region, Gaingels, Helium-3 Ventures, London Technology Club, National Security Strategic Investment Fund, NATO Innovation Fund, Space.VC, Stellar Development Foundation, Type One Ventures, Unruly Capital, World Fund

09.05.2025

Deal |

2025

HAYA Therapeutics Raises $65 Million in Series A Funding to Deliver Precision RNA-Guided Medicines for Chronic and Age-Related Diseases

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 65m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: +ND Capital, 4See Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, Apollo Health Ventures, ATHOS, Bernina BioInvest, Earlybird Venture Capital, Eli Lilly, LifeLink Ventures, Longview Ventures, Schroders Capital, Sofinnova Partners

09.05.2025

Deal |

2025

AppSignal Raises $22M in Series A Funding

Founded: 2012

Investment Raised: USD 22m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Elsewhere Partners

09.05.2025

Deal |

2025

StackOne Raises $20m Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) to Reinvent SaaS and AI Agent Integrations

Founded: 2023

Investment Raised: USD 20m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Episode 1, Google Ventures, Playfair Capital, Workday Ventures, XTX Ventures

09.05.2025

Deal |

2025

German FinTech startup Circula secures €15 million as it cuts expense admin by 80%

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: EUR 15m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Alstin Capital, Capnamic, CIBC Innovation Banking, Peak, Storm Ventures, WENVEST Capital

11.04.2025

Deal |

2025

NexGen Cloud Secures $45 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Europe

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 45m €

USD 309m

Valuation

Investors: Moore & Moore Investment

31.03.2025

Deal of the Month |

March |

2025

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

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 32m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Credit Mutuel Impact, Lowercarbon Capital