European Telecom startup funding raised during H2 2017.
In H2 2017, 23 European Telecom companies raised a combined €498M across 25 funding rounds, down 55.3% versus H2 2016. UK led by capital raised, and Mainport Innovation was the most active investor. Data as of 23 Aug 2026.
9 exits · €299M disclosed.
| Imagine | Acquisition | Oct 2017 | €120M |
| SIRIN Labs | ICO | Aug 2017 | €91M |
| nfon | IPO | Oct 2017 | €81M |
| TDC | Acquisition | Oct 2017 | €6.0M |
| Interoute | Acquisition | Oct 2017 | €1.9M |
| Company | Stage | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truphone | Other | Oct 2017 | €289M |
| Hyperoptic | Other | Aug 2017 | €85M |
| Drayson Technologies | Series C | Jul 2017 | €17M |
| Brabbler | Other | Jul 2017 |
| €15M |
| Ginlo | Other | Oct 2017 | €15M |
| Ekinops | Other | Jul 2017 | €15M |
| Ekinops | Other | Sep 2017 | €13M |
| Whipper | Seed | Aug 2017 | €12M |
| Shapr | Other | Jul 2017 | €8.4M |
| Worldsensing | Series B | Aug 2017 | €8.3M |
| Fairphone | Other | Sep 2017 | €6.5M |
| CAILabs | Other | Jul 2017 | €5.0M |
| Origin Broadband | Other | Sep 2017 | €2.2M |
| Bequant | Seed | Aug 2017 | €1.8M |
| Dark Matter | Other | Sep 2017 | €1.8M |
