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European tech weekly recap: More than 60 tech funding deals worth over €2.7B

Tech.eu Tamara Djurickovic 20 July 2026, 08:00

European tech companies raised over €2.7 billion across more than 60 funding deals last week, with artificial intelligence attracting €1.6 billion of that total. Germany led by country with €1.7 billion in funding, followed by Sweden with €620.5 million and the UK with €231.9 million. The funding landscape shows continued investor interest in AI, healthtech, and software across the continent, alongside notable M&A activity including SAP's €1 billion acquisition of Prior Labs.

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Last week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €2.7 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. 📊 The top three industries that ...

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The open-weight model wars just got hotter and more complicated. Alibaba's decision to open-source Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, arrives as Kimi K3—Zhipu's 2.8T parameter system—has already claimed the top spot on Frontend Web App Arena with a 1326 Elo rating, outpacing even frontier models on certain benchmarks. Both moves signal that the frontier of capable AI is no longer exclusively held by closed API providers, a shift that's forcing the U.S. administration to consider layered policy restrictions on Chinese open models. Yet technical voices inside and outside government are pushing back, arguing that constraining open-weight systems paradoxically weakens security and competition rather than strengthening either. Meanwhile, the infrastructure problems keeping teams awake have matured: model routing, world modeling for agents, and long-horizon reliability are now first-class concerns, not afterthoughts. Frontier models have even begun solving mathematical problems at superhuman levels—like finding counterexamples to the 3D Jacobian conjecture—suggesting the bottleneck has shifted from raw capability to engineering deployment.

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European tech weekly recap: More than 60 tech funding deals worth over €2.7B

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