Cloud funding rises to €3.42B on just 5 deals

Cloud funding in the 90 days to 8 September 2026 rose to €3.42B from €3.0B in the prior 90-day window, a 13.9% increase, even as deal count moved from 4 to 5 — meaning the average round size expanded sharply on a very thin sample. With €3.42B, Cloud ranks as the second-largest of the twelve tracked sectors by recent funding, behind only AI's €6.18B and ahead of Fintech's €2.69B. Cloud's 5 deals stand in stark contrast to AI's 63 and Fintech's 49 over the same window, underscoring that its total is concentrated in very few, large transactions rather than broad deal activity. Compared with Software, which recorded 133 deals for €1.67B, Cloud generated roughly twice the capital with a small fraction of the deal count, a pattern distinct from most other sectors in the dataset, where higher funding levels generally coincide with substantially larger numbers of deals.

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