Cleantech funding falls 53.5% to €752M with fewer deals

Cleantech funding in the 90 days to 18 August 2026 fell to €752M from €1.62B in the prior window, a decline of 53.5%, while deal count slipped from 36 to 29, seven fewer transactions. That drop stands out even against a broader pattern of sector pullbacks: Healthtech also contracted, from €2.6B to €1.43B, and Deeptech eased from €1.22B to €844M, but Cleantech's percentage decline is steeper than either. Within the tracked sectors, Cleantech's recent total of €752M places it among the smaller pools of capital, well behind Cloud's €3.15B, AI's €2.95B and Software's €2.8B for the same period, and also behind Energy at €952M and Semiconductors at €950M. The combination of fewer deals and a lower aggregate points to reduced activity at both the volume and value level for the sector across the window, in contrast to sectors such as Software and Robotics, which recorded higher totals than in the preceding 90-day period.

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