Period-over-Period Capital Momentum Turns Sharply Positive
90 days to 2026-06-23
Data table
| Amount | |
|---|---|
| 2016 | €17B |
| 2017 | €26B |
| 2018 | €23B |
| 2019 | €37B |
| 2020 | €51B |
| 2021 | €120B |
| 2022 | €102B |
| 2023 | €75B |
| 2024 | €75B |
| 2025 | €72B |
| 2026 | €84B |
Total funding across European tech rose from €19.04B in the prior 90-day window to €23.09B in the most recent period, a gain of roughly €4.05B or approximately 21% period-over-period. That increase came despite deal count slipping from 731 to 714, a decline of about 2.3%, confirming that the capital uplift is concentrated in fewer, larger transactions rather than a broad expansion of deal activity.
The scale of that concentration is striking. The top ten rounds alone accounted for 47.2% of the €23.09B total, and the six largest disclosed rounds — Pure Data Centres (€2.32B), Isomorphic Labs (€1.79B), Neura Robotics (€1.21B), Stegra (€1.19B), Ineffable Intelligence (€936M), and Kpler (€861M) — together represent roughly €8.31B, or about 36% of the period total on their own.
That dynamic is further illustrated by the gap between average and median round sizes: the average round stood at €32.3M against a median of just €4.4M, a ratio of approximately 7.3-to-1, underscoring how heavily the aggregate is skewed by a small number of outsized raises at the top of the distribution.
Explore the market trends →AI-generatedWritten by an AI model from Tech.eu Funding Explorer data (2026-06-23). 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).