27.10.2026

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 43 |

2026

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Legora Series E: Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation

  • HQ: SE

Founded: 2023

  • Series E
  • Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Legal Tech

Investment Raised: USD 550m €

USD 8.8b, post-money

Valuation

Investors: The round was led by Atreides Management, as well as Baron Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Menlo, and other top names. The company plans to use the fresh capital to further expand across North America.

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20.07.2026

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Calendar Week # 29 |

July |

2026

Helsing Series E: European defencetech leader secures $1.8B at $18B valuation

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2021

  • Series E
  • Sector: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Defence Tech, Drones

Investment Raised: USD 1.8b €

USD 18b, post-money

Valuation

Investors: Dragoneer Investment Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Disruptive, Iconiq, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, JPMorganChase, CPP Investments, General Catalyst, Plural, and StepStone

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10.06.2025

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Calendar Week # 23 |

2025

German investech Scalable Capital bags $175m funding round

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Financial Services

Investment Raised: EUR 155m €

EUR 1.3b

Valuation

Investors: Balderton Capital, HV Capital, Noteus Partners, Sofina, Tencent

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04.04.2025

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2025

IceMOS Technology Closes $22 Million Series E Investment to Fund Launch of New Power Semiconductor Device Technology mSJMOS

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2003

  • Series E
  • Sector: Optical Communication

Investment Raised: USD 22m €

USD 88m

Valuation

Investors: 57 Stars

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29.01.2025

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2025

EQT co-leads TravelPerk’s USD 200 million Series E

  • HQ: ES

Founded: 2015

  • Series E
  • Sector: Business Travel Saas Software Ticketing Travel

Investment Raised: USD 200m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Atomico, Blackstone Group, EQT Ventures, General Catalyst, Kinnevik, Noteus Partners, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund

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20.12.2024

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2024

Finland’s ICEYE Secures $65M in Additional Funding

  • HQ: FI

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Aerospace

Investment Raised: USD 65m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: BlackRock, Christo Georgiev, Plio, Seraphim Space, Solidium

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22.11.2024

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2024

Quanta Dialysis Technologies Closes Over $60M Series E Funding

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2008

  • Series E
  • Sector: Health Care

Investment Raised: USD 60m €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: b2venture, Glenview Capital Management, Novo Holdings

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05.03.2024

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2024

Green hydrogen economy gets a boost: Germany’s Sunfire secures over €215M

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2010

  • Series E
  • Sector: Renewable Energy

Investment Raised: EUR 215M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Ahren Innovation Capital Blue Earth Capital (http://blueearth.capital) Carbon Direct Capital (http://carbondirectcapital.com) Carbon Equity (http://carbonequity.com/) Climate Pledge Fund (http://fund.theclimatepledge.com) GIC (http://www.gic.com.sg) LGT group (http://www.lgt.com) Lightrock (http://www.lightrock.com) Planet First Partners (http://www.planetfirst.partners/)

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14.11.2023

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2023

Blockchain.com raises $110 million in Series E funding

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2011

  • Series E
  • Sector: Blockchain

Investment Raised: USD 110M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Access Industries (https://www.accessindustries.com/) Baillie Gifford (https://www.bailliegifford.com/en/uk/individual-investors/) Coinbase Ventures (https://www.coinbase.com/de/ventures) Freeman Capital (https://freemancapital.co/) Google Ventures (https://www.gv.com/) Kingsway Capital (https://www.kingswaycap.com/) Lakestar (https://lakestar.com/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) Moore Capital (https://www.moorecap.com/login) Pledge Ventures (https://www.pledgeventures.vc/) Prudence (https://prudenceinv.com/)

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18.07.2023

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2023

Tractable AI Raises $65M in Series E Funding

  • HQ: EN

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Artificial Intelligence

Investment Raised: USD 65M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Georgian (https://georgianventures.com/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/)

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15.05.2023

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2023

UK pensions fintech Smart lands $95m Series E funding

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Financial Services

Investment Raised: USD 95M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Aquiline Capital Partners (https://www.aquiline.com/) Barclays (https://www.barclays.co.uk/) Chrysalis Investments (https://chrysalisinvestments.co.uk/) DWS Group (https://www.dws.com/de-at/special-pages/audience-selection/?returnUrl=%2Fde-at%2F) Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (https://fisv.com/) Natixis Private Equity (https://www.im.natixis.com/en-institutional/topic/private-equity)

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01.11.2022

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2022

Volocopter raises $182M to bring air taxi closer to certification

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2011

  • Series E
  • Sector: Transportation

Investment Raised: 182M €

USD 1.87B

Valuation

Investors: NEOM Gly Capital Management

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10.10.2022

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Calendar Week # 42 |

2022

Munich-based vacation rental company Holidu secures €100M, eyes expansion

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Travel

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 83North (https://www.83north.com/) Common Fund (https://www.commonfund.org/) coparion (https://www.coparion.vc/) EQT Ventures (https://eqtventures.com/) HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) LIOS Ventures (https://lios.vc/) Northzone (https://northzone.com/) Possible Ventures (https://www.possible.ventures/) Prime Ventures (https://www.primeventures.com/) Senovo (https://senovo.vc/) Vintage Investment Partners (https://www.vintage-ip.com/)

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22.06.2022

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2022

German HR Startup Personio Raises $200 Million

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2015

  • Series E
  • Sector: Human Capital

Investment Raised: USD 200M €

USD 8.5B

Valuation

Investors: Accel (https://www.accel.com/) Alkeon Capital (https://www.alkeoncapital.com/) Altimeter Capital (https://www.altimeter.com/home) Global Founders Capital (https://www.globalfounderscapital.com/) Greenoaks Capital (https://www.greenoaks.com/) Index Ventures (https://www.indexventures.com/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) Meritech Capital Partners (https://www.meritechcapital.com/) Northzone (https://northzone.com/)

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20.06.2022

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2022

German travel booking unicorn Omio raises $80m Series E

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2013

  • Series E
  • Sector: Travel

Investment Raised: USD 80M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Goldman Sachs Asset Management (https://www.gsam.com/content/gsam/global/en/homepage.html) Lazard Asset Management (https://www.lazardassetmanagement.com/at/de_de) New Enterprise Associates (https://www.nea.com/) Stack Capital (https://www.stackcapitalgroup.com/) Temasek Holdings (https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/index)

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08.05.2022

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2022

Veteran startup Pyramid Analytics has raised $120 million and isn’t really striving for an exit

  • HQ: NL

Founded: 2008

  • Series E
  • Sector: Analytics

Investment Raised: USD 120M €

USD 880M

Valuation

Investors: Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings (https://www.clalbit.co.il/) General Oriental H.I.G. Growth Partners (https://higgrowth.com/) Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) (https://www.jvpvc.com/) Kingfisher Capital LLC (https://www.kingfishercapital.com/) Kreos Capital (https://www.kreoscapital.com/) Maor Investments (https://maorinvestments.com/) Sequoia Capital (https://www.sequoiacap.com/) Viola Growth (https://www.viola-group.com/fund/violagrowth/)

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04.05.2022

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2022

Alan raises another $193 million for its medical one-stop shop startup

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2016

  • Series E
  • Sector: Health Care

Investment Raised: USD 193M €

EUR 2.517B

Valuation

Investors: Coatue (https://www.coatue.com/) Dragoneer Investment Group (https://www.dragoneergrowth.com/) Exor Seeds (https://www.exor.com/) Index Ventures (https://www.indexventures.com/) Lakestar (https://www.lakestar.com/) Ribbit Capital (https://ribbitcap.com/) Teachers’ Venture Growth (https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teachers-venture-growth/) Temasek Holdings (https://www.temasek.com.sg/en/index)

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15.03.2022

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2022

Employee engagement firm Staffbase becomes Germany’s latest unicorn; secures €106M in Series E round

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Business Information Systems

Investment Raised: EUR 106M €

USD 985M

Valuation

Investors: General Atlantic (https://www.generalatlantic.com/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/)

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07.03.2022

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Calendar Week # 11 |

2022

Getir is now worth nearly $12 billion after raising another $768 million

  • HQ: TU

Founded: 2015

  • Series E
  • Sector: e-commerce

Investment Raised: USD 768M €

USD 11.8B

Valuation

Investors: Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (https://www.adg.ae/) Alpha Wave Global (https://www.alphawaveglobal.com/) Mubadala (https://www.mubadala.com/) Sequoia Capital (https://www.sequoiacap.com/) Tiger Global Management (https://www.tigerglobal.com/)

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04.03.2022

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2022

Volocopter Raises USD 170 million in First Signing of Series E Financing Round

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2011

  • Series E
  • Sector: Aerospace

Investment Raised: USD 170M €

USD 1.7B

Valuation

Investors: Whysol Investments (http://www.whysol.com/en) Honeywell (https://www.honeywell.com/us/en) btov Partners (https://btov.vc) Atlantia (https://www.atlantia.com/en/)

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15.02.2022

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2022

Secret Escapes Survived Pandemic Thanks to $74 Million Fundraising

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2010

  • Series E
  • Sector: Tourism

Investment Raised: USD 74M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Secret Escapes’ shareholders

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26.01.2022

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2022

SKC consortium invests $80m in UK anode startup Nexeon

  • HQ: UK

Founded: 2006

  • Series E
  • Sector: Electronics

Investment Raised: USD 80M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: SKC (https://www.sk-inc.com/en/)

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26.01.2022

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2022

Distalmotion Raises $90Million To Accelerate Adoption Of Surgical Robot Dexter

  • HQ: CH

Founded: 2012

  • Series E
  • Sector: Health Care

Investment Raised: USD 90M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: 415 CAPITAL (https://415capital.com/) Revival Healthcare Capital (https://www.rvlhc.com/)

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11.01.2022

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2022

Back Market, the Renewed Electronics Marketplace, raises $510 Million and is Now Valued at $5.7 Billion

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2014

  • Series E
  • Sector: Consumer Electronics

Investment Raised: USD 510M €

USD 5.7B

Valuation

Investors: Aglaé Ventures (https://aglaeventures.com/) Eurazeo (https://www.eurazeo.com/en) General Atlantic (https://www.generalatlantic.com/) Generation Investment Management (https://www.generationim.com/) Sprints Capital (https://sprintscap.com/)

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05.01.2022

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2022

French Payroll Solution Specialist Payfit raises €254M

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2015

  • Series E
  • Sector: Human Resources

Investment Raised: EUR 254M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Accel (https://www.accel.com/) Bpifrance (https://www.bpifrance.com/) Eurazeo (https://www.eurazeo.com/en) General Atlantic (https://www.generalatlantic.com/)

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22.11.2021

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Calendar Week # 48 |

2021

Jobandtalent Secures $500m in Series E Fundraising Round to Accelerate Expansion

  • HQ: ES

Founded: 2009

  • Series E
  • Sector: Marketplace

Investment Raised: USD 500 M €

USD 2.35 Billion

Valuation

Investors: Kinnevik (https://www.kinnevik.com/) SoftBank VisionFund 2. Atomico (https://atomico.com/) Infravia (https://infraviacapital.com/) Kibo (https://kibo-capital.com/) Quadrille (https://www.quadrillecapital.com/)

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27.10.2021

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2021

Aito raised its largest funding round to date

  • HQ: NL

Founded: 2012

  • Series E
  • Sector: Automotive

Investment Raised: EUR 4.1M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: KBC Focus Fund (https://www.kbcsecurities.com/en.html) Innovation Industries (https://www.innovationindustries.com/) Forward.one Venture Capital (https://www.forward.one/)

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19.10.2021

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2021

Fintech firm N26 is now worth more than Germany’s second-largest bank

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2013

  • Series E
  • Sector: FinTech

Investment Raised: USD 900M €

USD 7B

Valuation

Investors: Third Point Ventures (https://www.thirdpointventures.com/) Dragoneer Investment Group (https://dragoneer.com/) Coatue (https://www.coatue.com/)

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11.10.2021

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2021

Personio, an HR platform for SMEs, raises USD 270M on a USD 6.3B valuation, expands into workflow automation

  • HQ: DE

Founded: 2015

  • Series E
  • Sector: SaaS

Investment Raised: USD 270M €

USD 6.2N

Valuation

Investors: Northzone (https://northzone.com/) Meritech Capital Partners (https://www.meritechcapital.com/) Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://lsvp.com/) Index Ventures (https://www.indexventures.com/) Greenoaks Capital (https://www.greenoaks.com/) Global Founders Capital (https://www.globalfounderscapital.com/) Altimeter Capital (https://www.altimeter.com/home) Alkeon Capital (https://www.alkeoncapital.com/) Accel (https://www.accel.com/)

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21.09.2021

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2021

Marketplace platform Mirakl raises USD 555M at $3.5 billion valuation

  • HQ: FR

Founded: 2011

  • Series E
  • Sector: e-commerce

Investment Raised: USD 555M €

USD 3.5B

Valuation

Investors: Silver Lake (https://www.silverlake.com/?v=2) Permira (https://www.permira.com/) Felix Capital (https://www.felixcap.com/) Elaia (https://www.elaia.com/) 83 North (https://www.83north.com/)

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