This week our research tracked: 55 technology financing deals worth more than 629 million eurosover 10 exits, M&A deals and rumorsand related news articles from across Europe.
In addition to this week’s top financials, we’ve also indexed the most important/industry-related news items you need to know about.
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💸 Major funding rounds to watch
🇫🇷 pigment increase $145 million in Series D to enhance strategic decision-making in businesses
🇫🇷 dangling car secure €100 million credit facility for growth ambitions
🇸🇪 Scale come out of stealth “Fintech for Fintech Financial Operators” and with funding of 100 million euros
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Notable acquisitions and mergers
🇬🇧 Content Curator Wakelet get Online portfolio provider Bulb
🇫🇷 Aesop obtained Power your HR SaaS with Remote
🇩🇪 Stuttgart-based DI Group takes over most of the finances, baby
🚀 Interesting moves by investors
💶 Crowdfunding platform Seedrs target Following the restructuring of sports
🔬Empirical venture increase £8.25 million for deep science
🇸🇪Main capitals take in 28 billion SEK – Focus on Sweden
🗞️ Other (important) news
🇪🇺 Q1 2024 show Resilient quarter for European technology companies
🇪🇺 18 European mobility companies collaborate call to action Toward transportation innovation
🤖 Inside the creation of a UK AI company boom
📡 Recommended reading and listening
🇩🇪 10 German startups look in 2024
🥕 When agritech shines: Current status of food tech 2024
📲 Vectary API enables more startups model using AR
🌳 Overview of circular economy startup Bpacks using bark to reduce plastic waste
👷Connected Worker Platform Zaptic land Industry connections through Hexagon’s Sixth Sense program
🔭 European tech startups to watch
💡Syntropic increase Achieving 7 numbers with light-based depression treatment
🎛️ Warwick Acoustics increase £7m to increase production of sustainable in-car audio systems
✈️ Tour operator Eurotrips secure Investment of 260,000 euros from day 8
🇪🇪 Baker Hughes back Elcogen expands cutting-edge solid oxide technology for hydrogen
🇸🇪 Ironic biotech raises €1 million for iron-rich plant-based protein