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25 Jun 2026Alan closes a €480 million Series G at a €5.5 billion valuation, the largest European healthtech raise of 2026, on the back of €800 million in annual recurring revenue growing 53 percent year-on-year and profitability in France.
24 Jun 2026The European Innovation Council opens applications on 30 June for its first-ever direct equity vehicle targeting pure-play defence scaleups, deploying up to €30 million per company from a €100 million pool and breaking a decades-old EU funding prohibition on defence investment.
23 Jun 2026A Berlin drone startup founded two years ago closed a €500 million round at a €3.5 billion valuation, led by Sequoia and Founders Fund, making it one of the most valuable defence-tech companies Europe has produced.
22 Jun 2026Europe just minted a deep-tech unicorn in the one corner of chipmaking it does not yet own. Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam metrology firm spun out of TNO, raised a $380 million Series D at a $1.6 billion valuation, the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history.
22 Jun 2026Europe's best-funded quantum hardware company is about to go public, and it is doing it on Nasdaq. A shareholder vote on 25 June would take Finland's IQM to a US exchange, with only a secondary listing back home in Helsinki.
19 Jun 2026A survey of 500 silicon-photonics firms lands the same month as the EU Chips Act 2.0, and its message cuts against the usual one: what stalls Europe's deep tech is not grant money but manufacturing access. Two thirds cannot get a research chip onto a fab line to scale it.
18 Jun 2026Two of Europe's biggest tech investors, Earlybird and AVP, are raising a EUR500m fund aimed only at defence and dual-use. It is private capital built to stop European defence startups shipping their scale-up rounds, and their IP, across the Atlantic.
19 Jun 2026Finland just handed Solar Foods EUR77.8m to build a factory that grows protein from air and CO2. The cheque comes from Helsinki, not Brussels, but it is pure EU machinery: an IPCEI, the bloc's route to grants no normal state-aid rule would permit.
#10
13–20 Jul 2026
Latest
5 sections · 5 min read

Helsing raised $1.8B at an $18B valuation this week — European defence AI has stopped accepting a discount, and is now commanding a premium.

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#09
6–13 Jul 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

This week, Google, Nvidia, and Europe’s largest utility backed European science labs directly. When your future customers lead your round, the market has spoken.

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#08
29 Jun–6 Jul 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

This week, the world’s largest asset managers entered European defence tech. The sector is no longer a venture bet.

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#07
22–29 Jun 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

Europe opened its first defence equity window this week. Sequoia and Founders Fund had already climbed through it.

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#06
15–22 Jun 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

Europe never had a startup problem — it had a scale-up problem. This week, Brussels wired the balance sheet to fix it.

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#05
8–15 Jun 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

Europe can't win the chatbot war, so the smart money is betting it builds the robots instead.

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#04
1–8 Jun 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

Brussels rewrites the tech stack — and 30 days remain on the richest grant in Europe.

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#03
9–16 Mar 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

Europe just had its biggest funding week in history. Two records broken, seven days apart.

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#01
25 Feb 4 Mar 2026
5 sections · 5 min read

The EU funding intelligence brief for founders who are actually building.

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