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Bird, based in the Netherlands, closed a €394M debt round dated 23 September 2026. This is the country's only debt deal in the past 30 days and accounts for the entirety of the €394M in debt financing…
Portuguese company TEKEVER closed a €508M Series D+ round on 23 September 2026, the largest single round in the 7-day window and the only deal recorded for the Robotics sector in that period. It also …
Fintech recorded €2.83B across 53 deals in the recent 90-day window, up from €1.96B across 73 deals in the prior period. The euro total rose 44% while deal count fell by 20 deals, indicating fewer but…
Cloud funding reached €3.42B in the recent 90-day window across just 5 deals, up from €2.999B across 4 deals in the prior period, a 14% increase in euro terms on one additional deal.
Cleantech funding declined to €713M in the recent 90-day window from €1.535B in the prior period, a 54% drop, even as deal count rose from 29 to 30. Energy funding rose to €825M from €527M, a 57% incr…
Transportation funding rose to €511M in the recent 90-day window from €270M in the prior period, an increase of 89%, while deal count fell from 24 to 16, indicating larger average round sizes.
Robotics funding was roughly flat at €1.473B in the recent 90-day window versus €1.482B in the prior period, a decline of under 1%, while deal count rose from 13 to 17 deals.
Italian company EXEIN closed a €234M round on 15 September 2026, ranking as the seventh-largest deal in the 30-day window and the largest single deal recorded for Italy in that period, which totalled …
The ten largest rounds of the last 90 days total €11.6B, or 49.4% of the €23.4B raised in the period, indicating that European funding remains heavily concentrated in a small number of mega-rounds rat…
Germany recorded €5.29B across 95 deals in the recent 90-day window, up from €2.76B across 97 deals in the prior period. Deal count fell slightly while capital raised rose 92%.
France raised €4.39B in the recent 90-day window versus €2.24B in the prior period, a rise of 96%, while deal count fell from 67 to 39.
The Netherlands raised €1.28B in the recent 90-day window, up from €405M in the prior period, a rise of 215%, while deal count held steady at 24.
Lithuania raised €246M across 7 deals in the recent 90-day window, up from €6M across 4 deals in the prior period. The rise reflects a very small prior base of €6M.
Belgium raised €157M across 17 deals in the recent 90-day window, down from €1.01B across 22 deals in the prior period, a decline of 84%.
The 30-day window recorded €10.9B across 219 deals, up from €3.9B across 166 deals in the preceding 30-day period, a rise of roughly 183%. The increase is driven largely by two very large rounds — Mis…
The 7-day window recorded €1.77B across 64 deals, down from €4.0B across 60 deals in the preceding 7-day period, a decline of roughly 56% in value despite a slightly higher deal count.
Cybersecurity funding grew from €252M to €1.1B, a 338% increase, while deal count fell from 23 to 19 in the same window, indicating a low-base swing concentrated in fewer rounds.
Defence sector funding increased from €104M to €1.03B, a 9.9x rise, with deal count up from 9 to 12, marking the sharpest relative increase among tracked sectors off a small prior base.
Healthtech funding declined from €2.68B to €1.6B, a 40% drop, while deal count fell from 92 to 74, an 18-deal decrease, showing funding falling faster than deal volume.
Software sector funding fell from €2.33B to €1.72B, a 26% decrease, with deal count declining from 149 to 132, a drop of 17 deals.
Space sector funding declined from €1.35B to €793M, a 41% decrease, while deal count fell from 17 to 12, a drop of 5 deals.
AI led sector funding over the past 7 days at €3.0B across just 7 deals, representing roughly 71% of the €4.3B raised across all sectors in the window, well ahead of Space (€387M, 1 deal) and Telecom …
The UK led 30-day country funding with €4.0B across 42 deals, but €2.7B of that — the bulk of it — came from just 2 debt deals, meaning equity-style investment in the country was substantially smaller…
The six biggest individual rounds listed for the window sum to €9.62B, equivalent to roughly 41% of the €23.3B raised across the full 90-day period. This shows a small cluster of mega-rounds carrying …
Funding volume over the 7-day window fell to €4.0B from €4.5B in the prior 7-day period, even as deal count rose from 43 to 61 deals.
German space company The Exploration Company closed a €387M Series C round on 8 September 2026, ranking among the largest European rounds of the past 30 days.
Dutch company Wonderful raised a €475M Series C round on 2 September 2026, the largest deal recorded for the Netherlands in the past 30 days and a major contributor to the country's €499M total fundin…
The six biggest rounds listed, led by Mistral AI's €3.0B and Nscale's €2.588B, sum to €9.618B, more than 42% of the €22.65B total raised in the 90-day window, underscoring reliance on a small set of m…
French AI company Mistral AI closed a €3B Series D+ round dated 8 September 2026, the largest deal in the 30-day window and the main driver behind France's €3.28B total over that period across 7 deals…
