NVIDIA to buy Hugging Face, Einride launches VC firm, and fixing COPD diagnosis
Tech.eu Cate Lawrence
Nvidia is reported to be buying Hugging Face for $12.9B, while Einride’s founders are starting a VC firm. Also: TidalSense says COPD diagnosis can be cut to 75 seconds of breathing.
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This week’s European tech roundup had the usual mix of giant numbers and smaller, sharper moves. More than 35 funding deals added up to over €475 million, alongside more than five exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and other news across the continent. The headline-grabber is the reported $12.9 billion deal: Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face, according to the source Tech.eu cites. That is the kind of acquisition that changes how people talk about AI infrastructure, even before the paperwork dust settles.
There were also plenty of signs that Europe’s hardware and deep tech crowd is still finding money. PLD Space picked up a €158.9 million ESA award, Stability AI raised $76 million with Warner and Sony investing, and Adaptyv raised $40 million to build an automated lab for agentic biology. None of that sounds small in isolation. Put together, it says investors and institutions are still willing to back very different bets, from rockets to AI to biotech tooling.
The investor side was busy too. Einride’s founders launched a venture firm and say they’re targeting €450 million in European deep tech investments. That is a serious target, not a vanity side project. And it fits the pattern in this roundup: founders aren’t just building companies anymore, they’re also setting up shop on the other side of the table.
There was more movement in health tech and industrial software. NEURA Robotics acquired ADLATUS to push Physical AI into autonomous cleaning, and x-tention bought a majority stake in syndena. On the reading list, TidalSense’s pitch stood out because it goes after something very old-school and very broken: COPD diagnosis. Its claim is simple enough to understand in one breath, which may be the point — 75 seconds of breathing, and a better answer than patients often get now.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
The real story here isn’t the shiny Nvidia headline. It’s that Europe keeps producing companies and founders who want to own the picks and shovels as well as the apps, which is healthier than chasing the same chatbox dream for the hundredth time. Open systems, deep tech, and unglamorous medical fixes still look like the grown-up parts of this market.
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