European tech weekly recap: Over €3.9B invested across 70+ deals
Tech.eu Tamara Djurickovic
Europe’s tech scene logged 70+ deals worth over €3.9B last week. France did most of the heavy lifting, led by Mistral’s €3B round.
Based on reporting by Tech.eu, Tamara Djurickovic — read the original for the full story.
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Last week was one of those stretches where the headline number hides an even bigger story. Tech.eu tracked more than 70 funding deals across Europe, and the total came to over €3.9 billion. There were also more than five exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news items mixed in. That’s a busy week by any measure, but the money was anything but evenly spread.
Artificial intelligence took the biggest slice by a mile, pulling in €3 billion. Space came next with €387.5 million, while healthtech trailed far behind at €115.1 million. France alone accounted for €3.2 billion, with Germany on €481.2 million and the UK on €86.1 million. The numbers tell a pretty blunt story: one giant AI round can tilt an entire continent’s weekly totals.
Mistral’s €3 billion Series D sat at the centre of that picture, described as a push for sovereign AI into its next phase. France also showed up again with Positive, formerly Sarbacane, completing a €106 million refinancing to buy companies, plus smaller rounds for Implicity, Arlequin AI, Actionable, Olenbee, Ed.ai and Tellia. Germany’s week included The Exploration Company’s $450 million Series C for reusable space transport, Limetax’s €36 million AI roll-up play, Ethris’ €30 million from the European Investment Bank, and Ground A’s €9 million-plus counter-drone bet.
Elsewhere, the spread was broad but thinner. The UK turned up with Jack & Jill, CloudNC, Improbable-backed Bolter, SCI Semiconductor and others. Spain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland and Portugal all had their own deals, from HVR Energy and Deneb Medical to Tavion, Rebaba, Jaipur Robotics and Hope Care. At the smaller end, the list gets almost comic in its variety: legal AI, compostable coatings, memory-safe chips, and a startup that wants AI to smell things. Europe’s funding market is clearly alive. It’s just very, very French this week.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is what a market looks like when everyone says “AI” and one company answers with €3 billion. The rest of Europe is still doing the useful, messy, under-hyped work, but the capital keeps clustering where the story is loudest. Open data like the Funding Explorer matters because otherwise the whole week gets mistaken for a single giant cheque and a lot of background noise.
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