This week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €475 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

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💸 Notable and big funding rounds

🇪🇸 PLD Space continues stellar year of growth with €158.9M ESA award

🇬🇧 Stability AI raises $76M, with Warner and Sony investing

🇨🇭 Adaptyv raises $40M to build automated lab for agentic biology


🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🇫🇷 Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, says report

🇩🇪  NEURA Robotics acquires ADLATUS to bring Physical AI to autonomous cleaning

🇦🇹 Wels-based health IT group x-tention acquires majority stake in Innsbruck-based health tech company syndena


🚀 Interesting moves from investors

💰 Einride founders launch venture firm, targeting €450M European deep tech investments

💵 Inside Startup Due Dil: the AI tool turning hours of VC diligence into 10 minutes


🗞️ In other (important) news

🤖 Revolut launches AI unit as proclaims virtues of proprietary AI

🪖 Ploughshare’s TAG Alliance grows to 19 members as defence spin-outs accelerate

🇸🇪 Sweden's top-funded tech companies in H1 2026


📡 Recommended reads and listens

🩺  COPD diagnosis is broken. TidalSense wants to fix it with 75 seconds of breathing

⛵ How intelligent technology could redefine recreational boating as MIRAVA moves towards production

🌿 PlantVoice is bringing ‘plant intelligence’ to precision agriculture

🤖 Human must not surrender cognition to AI


🔭 European tech startups to watch 

🇩🇪 Kazimi raises €2.2M pre-seed to tackle bot activity in mobile marketing

🇬🇧 Itoflow lands $2.5M to scale investment research and portfolio management

🇧🇪 Motion lands $2M to expand humanoid robot deployments across Europe

🇸🇪 Aquacheq secures €135,000 to advance smart water technology

🇪🇸 The Regional Development Agency is once again investing €100,000 in Vumi to accelerate its commercial expansion