Top 10 rounds account for 44% of 90-day volume

The ten largest rounds of the 90 days to 21 August 2026 total €10.0B, or 44% of the period's €22.69B in overall funding, underlining how concentrated capital deployment has become at the top end of the market. That total funding figure itself is little changed from the prior 90-day window's €22.02B, a rise of about 3%, even though deal count fell from 783 to 646 rounds, a drop of 137 deals — meaning fewer companies are absorbing a similar amount of capital. The scale gap between the top and the middle of the market is stark: the median round size is just €5M, versus an average of €35.1M pulled up by the mega-deals. Germany hosts three of the six largest disclosed rounds — Helsing at €1.58B, Neura Robotics at €1.21B and Quantum Systems at €1.05B — while the UK's Pure Data Centres (Pure DC) round of €2.32B stands as the single largest in the window, 1.5 times the size of Helsing's round.

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