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New features, data and fixes — newest first.

  1. 28 October 2026

    • Company pages have readable addresses: /companies/{name}-{first 8 characters of the id}, for example /companies/impress-31f2c99f. Links to the old /companies/{id} addresses redirect to the new ones, and a merged duplicate company now redirects to the company it was merged into.
    • The JSON API and the MCP server keep their existing url fields unchanged and add canonicalUrl (and companyCanonicalUrl on investor deals) with the new company address.
    • Rows from /api/v1/rounds, /api/v1/exits and /api/v1/changes add pageUrl, an absolute link to the page each figure comes from. The API index states the licence (CC BY 4.0) and the attribution it asks for, and llms.txt lists the page address patterns and the data-as-of date.
    • Period reports now cover every year, half-year, quarter and month since 2015. Half-year reports are new (for example /reports/2025-h1).
    • Country and sector breakdowns in the period reports now count equity, the same basis as the country and sector pages, so a report and the matching country or sector page show the same figure.
    • The market map in the JSON API and the MCP server accepts half-year periods (2026-h1) and adds equityEuros and debtEuros to each country and sector row. The existing euros field and the order of the rows are unchanged.
    • Every chart has a data table underneath listing the figures it plots.
    • Country and sector year pages show the last three years with year-on-year changes and list the largest equity rounds and the largest debt rounds separately. The report archive totals are equity, like the reports themselves.
    • Country and sector year and period pages link to the previous and next period, the same period a year earlier and the Europe-wide report for that period.

  2. 27 October 2026

    • Headline funding totals now count equity only. Rounds recorded as debt (debt financing, convertible notes) or grants are shown next to the headline figure instead of inside it, and quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year changes are calculated on equity. This applies to the home page, Trends, Geographies, country and sector pages, period reports, Labs, the weekly signals and the embeddable charts. Round counts still include every round. The definition is on the Methodology page.
    • The market map in the JSON API and the MCP server now splits each period into equityEur, debtEur and grantEur. The existing disclosedEur field keeps its meaning, so current integrations are unaffected.
    • Company profiles in the JSON API and the MCP server now give round and exit dates as calendar days (YYYY-MM-DD), the same format as the rounds list.
    • Rounds announced as post-IPO debt are now classified as debt.
    • For integrations that keep a copy of the data: responses from /api/v1/rounds now link to the changes feed, which returns only the rounds added or removed since a given time.

  3. 24 October 2026

    • Founder information is now shown at company level only: company profiles list founders by name, and the Founders page reports diversity as aggregate statistics.
    • Common addresses now lead to the right page: /deals opens the Rounds list and /api opens the API reference, and links to companies and deals work whatever the letter case of the ID.
    • The Exits page loads faster: its charts and map load as you scroll to them.

  4. 14 September 2026

    • Two reference pages for the machine-readable side of the Explorer: the JSON API (/api-docs) with every endpoint, parameter, pagination rule and rate-limit header, and the MCP server (/mcp) with install steps for Claude, Cursor, VS Code and ChatGPT and the eight tools it exposes. Both are linked from the home page, the footer and the API & MCP overview in the Explore menu.
    • The API and the MCP server now state their coverage explicitly: the full dataset the site renders, with live counts, no sample tier, no key and no account. The same statement is in llms.txt, the OpenAPI description and the API index.
    • The API & MCP overview page (/for-ai, formerly "For AI agents") now documents the changes feed for keeping a local copy in sync, lists the three rate-limit windows (per minute, hour and day) and spells out the CC BY 4.0 attribution condition.
    • The RSS feed (/feed.xml) is readable again from feed readers such as Feedly and NetNewsWire.

  5. 8 September 2026

    • New sector: Defence, with its own hub page and available as a filter in the API and the MCP server. Reported by two readers who could not find defence, agritech or food in the sector list.
    • The Sectors page now lists every sector in the dataset, not only the twenty largest; Agritech, Foodtech and nine others were present in the data but missing from the table.

  6. 31 August 2026

    • Search engines are now pointed only at pages with enough substance to stand on their own: company profiles with a description and at least one round, investor profiles with three or more deals, and every hub, country, sector and report page. Deal pages stay live and linked from their company profiles.
    • Incremental sync for integrations: /api/v1/changes and the list_changes MCP tool return the rows added or removed since a timestamp, oldest first, with a resumable cursor, so a mirror can stay current with a handful of requests instead of re-walking the whole rounds list.

  7. 31 July 2026

    • Exits, Trends and AI Analysis are now linked from the footer on every page.

  8. 28 July 2026

    • New in the top navigation: Labs, a home for experimental views built on the live dataset. It opens with four experiments: a funding time-lapse that plays ten years of European funding on an animated map, a head-to-head country comparison, Funding Wrapped recap cards, and a Not disclosed transparency scoreboard.
    • Funding Wrapped turns any completed quarter or year into ready-to-share cards: pick a period and any country or sector, then download the card as an image or share it straight to X or LinkedIn. The next quarter’s set appears the day the quarter closes.
    • Not disclosed shows how transparent European funding really is: the share of rounds that publish an amount, the most transparent and most tight-lipped countries, disclosure by stage, and the trend over the past decade.
    • Links shared on social media and in chat apps now unfurl into live data cards: a company link previews its total raised and rounds, a country link its totals and European rank, and a comparison link shows the actual head-to-head.
    • Tables now respond to a click anywhere on the row: open a company, round or investor without hunting for the link. And on iPhone, using search and filters no longer zooms the page.
    • Every country and sector now has an embeddable funding-by-year chart that can be dropped into any article or page, with the source label built in.
    • Signals and Reports moved into the Explore menu to keep the top navigation focused.

  9. 17 July 2026

    • City names are now unified across spellings: Kyiv/Kiev, Milan/Milano, Zurich/Zürich, Antwerp/Antwerpen, The Hague/Den Haag and some twenty more variant pairs now count as one city on the geography pages, with the English name shown. Kyiv, previously split across two spellings, now shows its full €1.6B.
    • AI insights are now generated only when the window actually contains a material movement — a quiet fortnight produces silence instead of a low-signal card.

  10. 13 July 2026

    • The "For AI agents" page now shows how to connect the MCP server to Claude (web, desktop and mobile), Cursor, VS Code and ChatGPT, with one-click "Add to Cursor" and "Install in VS Code" buttons and copy-paste setup for the rest.
    • The MCP server and JSON API can now filter funding rounds by sector, and exits by date range and by where the exited company is based, so questions like "European exits in the last month" or "UK fintech rounds this year" take a single call.
    • New one-call market map, as both an MCP tool and a JSON endpoint: the funding picture for any period (year, quarter or month), with totals and breakdowns by country, sector and stage, plus data provenance.
    • Investor profiles gained an optional compact response for leaner AI-assistant answers, and an unrecognized filter value (a misspelled sector, stage or country) now returns a clear error instead of a silently empty result.

  11. 11 July 2026

    • The MCP server is now live on the web at funding.tech.eu/api/mcp: AI assistants can search funding rounds, companies, investors and exits over HTTP, with no key and no sign-up. The For AI agents page shows the endpoint and a one-line install command.

  12. 10 July 2026

    • The Companies directory loads noticeably faster.
    • Totals, charts and reports now place every round on the same calendar day its page shows, so a round always counts in the month and year you see on it.

  13. 9 July 2026

    • Country and sector pages now break funding down by half-year, quarter and month, not just by year. Each view shows how that country or sector ranks (in Europe, or among sectors), along with its largest rounds, the split between equity and debt financing, and the biggest deals of the period.
    • Exits and M&A are now shown across the site: country and sector pages include an exits panel with disclosed values, acquiring companies list what they have acquired, and exits link through to the companies involved.
    • Every breakdown links to the deals behind it. Use "view all deals" to open the Rounds list already filtered to that country, sector and time period.
    • The Rounds explorer gained sector and date-range filters, and the country picker on the Geographies page is now alphabetical.

  14. 8 July 2026

    • AI Analysis now publishes each story once: a finding already covered recently is not repeated under another category.

  15. 6 July 2026

    • New year-by-year pages for every country and sector, for example "UK startup funding 2025" or "Fintech funding 2025", each with the totals, top rounds and trends for that year.
    • Company, investor, deal, country and sector pages now open with a plain-language sentence summarising the key numbers.
    • Long lists now have numbered pagination and a sharper site icon, plus behind-the-scenes work so pages settle into place more smoothly as they load.

  16. 2 July 2026

    • AI Analysis verifies every figure against the underlying dataset before publishing, and all amounts use live ECB exchange rates, for consistent and accurate reporting.
    • The open JSON API now publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 specification, making it easier for developers and AI agents to build on the data.
    • Plus accessibility and link-accuracy improvements, and a range of behind-the-scenes work on performance, reliability and data quality.

  17. 29 June 2026

    • AI Analysis now covers a wider range of rounds, sectors and countries, so there is more variety in what appears each day, with clearer formatting for amounts and dates.
    • Funding amounts across rounds, investors and reports now use consistent, accurate currency conversion.
    • Charts are now easier to use with a keyboard and a screen reader, and their labels meet accessibility contrast standards.
    • Plus a range of behind-the-scenes improvements to performance, reliability and accuracy.

  18. 26 June 2026

    • Each live pulse in AI Analysis now shows when it was published, so you can tell at a glance how fresh it is.
    • Plus behind-the-scenes improvements and groundwork for features still to come.

  19. 24 June 2026

    • Company profiles now show a clear one-line description of what each company does, drawn from its own website. We are filling in the ones that were missing.
    • Every chart on the site can now be downloaded as a PNG with the Tech.eu logo and source baked in, ready for an article, deck or report.
    • Fixed: some charts could briefly show gaps in older years while data updated.

  20. 23 June 2026

    • Company sector now shows in the Latest funding list and the Rounds table.
    • AI insight and report charts can be downloaded as PNG.
    • New "For AI agents" hub with an RSS feed of AI insights: open, machine-readable access for agents and developers.
    • Homepage now shows what is new since your last visit, with a live prompt when fresh funding data lands.
    • Investor data is now in the open JSON API: an investor directory and full profiles with portfolio, biggest deals and co-investors.
    • An MCP server for AI assistants exposes the funding dataset as callable tools: funding rounds, companies, investors, exits and market maps.

  21. 22 June 2026

    • Public launch at funding.tech.eu.
    • Full-coverage sitemap so every company, investor and deal is discoverable.
    • Open JSON API and /llms.txt for programmatic, cited access.
    • Social share cards for every page.