Legora’s valuation leaps to $8.8B, Europe's tech funding rebounds, and solving the problem of brain fog
Tech.eu Cate Lawrence ● Covered by 8 sources
Legora just raised $550M and its valuation jumped to $8.8B. Europe's funding is bouncing back too, with mega-rounds doing the heavy lifting.
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Legora is suddenly sitting on an $8.8 billion valuation after raising $550 million. That is the sort of number that changes the tone of a market. Not because one company proves everything is fixed, but because it shows investors are again willing to write very large cheques in Europe when the story looks strong enough.
This week’s Tech.eu round-up counted more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.5 billion, along with four exits, M&A transactions and other related news stories across Europe. The headline trend is the one buried in the roundup: European tech funding has rebounded to €27.8 billion, and billion-euro mega-rounds are doing a lot of the work.
The rest of the list backs that up. Pigment pulled in £250 million with help from the Scaleup Europe Fund. iwoca secured a €185 million credit line. Blackwall hit a $2.2 billion valuation with a $100 million Series C, only weeks after joining Estonia’s unicorn club. And the investor side is still active too, with Nvidia backing four German startups as part of its 10 billion European investment pledge, while Seaya raised €600 million for a new growth fund.
There’s also a steady flow of deals and policy money aimed at the next layer down: EIT launched a €40 million funding call to help university deep tech research reach the market, and the FSE Group rolled out a £70 million-plus London growth fund for underserved scaleups. That mix matters. Europe does not just need splashy mega-rounds; it needs a pipeline that can survive long enough to become the next one.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Europe’s funding bounce looks better than another season of startup optimism, but the same old trick is at work: a few giant rounds make the whole market look healthier than it is. The sensible move now is to keep funding the boring middle, not just the headline monsters. Otherwise the continent ends up with a lot of expensive trophies and not enough companies that can actually grow up.
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