Cleantech funding drops 54% while Transportation rises to €549M
90 days to 2026-09-02
Cleantech funding fell from €1.58B to €724M over the 90-day comparison window to 2 September 2026, a 54% decline, while deal count slipped from 34 to 28. Transportation moved the other way, rising from €229M to €549M, a 2.4x increase, with deal count edging up from 19 to 20.
The divergence leaves Cleantech well behind several other sectors tracked in the same window: it now trails AI (€3.43B), Cloud (€3.42B), Fintech (€2.85B), Robotics (€2.78B), Software (€1.74B) and Healthtech (€1.60B) in recent funding. Transportation remains among the smaller categories in absolute terms, with its €549M still below Cleantech's €724M despite the sharper growth rate. Combined, the two sectors accounted for €1.27B of recent funding across the twelve sectors listed, against €1.81B in the prior 90-day period, underscoring that Cleantech's decline outweighed Transportation's gain in absolute euro terms.
Explore the sectors →AI-generatedWritten by an AI model from Tech.eu Funding Explorer data (2026-09-03). Figures are checked against the underlying data and each draft is reviewed by an independent second model before publishing; anything unverifiable is held back. Not investment advice. Labelled for AI transparency (EU AI Act Art. 50, applicable from 2 Aug 2026).