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Scaling Europe #55 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 14 Sept 2026 — Mistral, Miro, EU Inc and much more...The top Deep Tech startups to join in Stockholm — Article · Scaling Europe · 8 Sept 2026 — Join these startups if you want to join a rocket ship in Sweden!The Top AI Startups to join in Paris — Article · Scaling Europe · 8 Sept 2026 — Join these companies if you want to be on board a rocketship!Scaling Europe #54 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 7 Sept 2026 — Europe got its FIRST EVER satellite into space from the continent....Scaling Europe #53 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 7 Sept 2026 — Hugging Face gets bought for $13bn and Lovable buys its domainScaling Europe Daily - 4.9. — Daily · Substack · 4 Sept 2026 — ️ Nvidia confirmed it's buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, and eComID just acquired another Stockholm startup to move into second-hand fashion…Scaling Europe Daily - 3.9. — Daily · Substack · 3 Sept 2026 — ️ Londoners can now get matched with a self-driving Uber, and Wonderful just doubled its valuation to $5bn in six months…Scaling Europe Daily - 2.9. — Daily · Substack · 2 Sept 2026 — ️ A Cambridge spinout launched an AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic, and a German startup raised €20m for anti-drone lasers…Top Sequoia-backed companies hiring now — Article · Scaling Europe · 1 Sept 2026Scaling Europe Daily - 1.9. — Daily · Substack · 1 Sept 2026 — We’re moving the newsletter over to LinkedIn soon.Scaling Europe Daily - 31.8. — Daily · Substack · 31 Aug 2026 — ️ Pasqal just went public on Nasdaq and its shares nearly doubled on debut, and a French startup raised €15m to build robots that prep teeth for veneers…Scaling Europe Daily - 28.8. — Daily · Substack · 28 Aug 2026 — ️ Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9bn, and SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X's humanoid robot maker at $6bn…Scaling Europe Daily - 27.8. — Daily · Substack · 27 Aug 2026 — ️ Stability AI just became the first AI company backed by all three major music labels, and Einride's founders are raising up to €450m to build 10 new unicorns…Scaling Europe Daily - 26.8. — Daily · Substack · 26 Aug 2026 — ️ Oura is planning a $3bn IPO that could value the smart ring maker at over $16bn, and Revolut just launched its own in-house AI unit to power fraud detection…Scaling Europe Daily - 25.8. — Daily · Substack · 25 Aug 2026 — ️ Revolut hit 80 million users just three months after 75 million, and NEURA Robotics bought its fifth company in 16 months to build smarter cleaning robots…Scaling Europe #52 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 24 Aug 2026 — A big week for European chips and a new Robotics unicornScaling Europe Daily - 22.8. — Daily · Substack · 22 Aug 2026 — ️ A UK startup's ocean robots are the only ones to survive a Category 5 hurricane, and Vienna's Enpulsion just bought a British space propulsion company…Scaling Europe Daily - 21.8. — Daily · Substack · 21 Aug 2026 — ️ Fractile is raising at $6.5bn to take on Nvidia after an Anthropic chip deal, and Domyn just won an EU deal to build an AI model in 24 languages…Scaling Europe Daily - 20.8. — Daily · Substack · 20 Aug 2026 — ️ Harvey just picked DeepL to translate documents for its 200,000 lawyers worldwide, and Bulgaria's Graphwise just scored one of the country's biggest software exits…Scaling Europe Daily - 19.8. — Daily · Substack · 19 Aug 2026 — ️ Spotify's Daniel Ek just opened his body-scanning startup's first US clinic with a 25k waitlist, and Revolut's founder raised €432m for an AI-run venture fund…Scaling Europe Daily - 18.8. — Daily · Substack · 18 Aug 2026 — ️ Gravis Robotics become Europe's newest robotics unicorn, and Monzo's chairman is stepping down after a shareholder revolt rattled the board…Scaling Europe #51 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 17 Aug 2026 — A big week for Stockholm while London gets a new AI labScaling Europe Daily - 14.8. — Daily · Substack · 14 Aug 2026 — ️ Legora is in talks to nearly double its valuation to $10bn just months after its last raise, and Duolingo just bought a London animation studio…Scaling Europe Daily - 13.8. — Daily · Substack · 13 Aug 2026 — ️ Lovable just raised €343m at an €11.4bn valuation, and a 25-year-old school dropout's stake in his AI chip startup is now worth over $1bn…London's Top Deep Tech Startups — Article · Scaling Europe · 12 Aug 2026Sweden's Top AI Startups — Article · Scaling Europe · 12 Aug 2026 — The very best Swedish AI companiesEurope's Youngest Self-Made Billionaires — Article · Scaling Europe · 12 Aug 2026 — A list of Europe's youngest tech billionairesScaling Europe Daily - 12.8. — Daily · Substack · 12 Aug 2026 — ️ A Hamburg biotech is using alpaca antibodies to fight salmon's $4bn lice problem, and Bristol's flying taxi startup just raised €86.6m…Scaling Europe daily - 11.8. — Daily · Substack · 11 Aug 2026 — ️ Cambridge Aerospace raised €259.7m to build missile defenses that shoot down drones, and Revolut just landed a French banking licence with a €1bn expansion plan…Scaling Europe #50 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 10 Aug 2026 — Three new unicorns, and Demis steps down...Scaling Europe Daily - 8.8. — Daily · Substack · 8 Aug 2026 — ️ Nscale is eyeing a September IPO after signing $51bn worth of future contracts, and a UK company built a machine that pulls 500 litres of water from thin air…Scaling Europe Daily - 7.8. — Daily · Substack · 7 Aug 2026 — ️ Chargepoly is already decarbonising a million km of freight a month, and Vangrid wants to turn your smartphone into a robot's eyes…Scaling Europe Daily - 6.8. — Daily · Substack · 6 Aug 2026 — ️ A week-old startup just signed a $10bn compute deal with Anthropic, and Berlin's Moss becomes Europe's newest unicorn with a €30m raise…Scaling Europe Daily - 5.8. — Daily · Substack · 5 Aug 2026 — ️ HappyRobot joins the unicorn club with a $150m raise, and Bending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.3bn, its first deal since going public…Scaling Europe Daily - 4.8. — Daily · Substack · 4 Aug 2026 — ️ Netflix's Reed Hastings backs a €2.8bn UK chip startup two years after it launched, and Mastercard completes its $1.8bn purchase of BVNK…Scaling Europe #49 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 3 Aug 2026 — 2 new unicorns, and $3bn for IndexScaling Europe Daily - 1.8. — Daily · Substack · 1 Aug 2026 — ️ Index Ventures raises $2bn across three new funds, and Lovable nears a $13.2bn valuation after acquiring AI agent startup...Scaling Europe Daily - 31.7. — Daily · Substack · 31 Jul 2026 — ️ Highland Europe closes a €1.1bn fund after backing Bending Spoons' Nasdaq listing, and a London Microsoft-security startup raises $50m after growing 300% in a year…Scaling Europe Daily - 30.7. — Daily · Substack · 30 Jul 2026 — ️ Vinted crosses into the US at a $9bn valuation, moving closer to a potential IPO, and Legora makes its fifth acquisition of the year…London's Top AI companies — Article · Scaling Europe · 29 Jul 2026Scaling Europe Daily - 29.7. — Daily · Substack · 29 Jul 2026 — ️ SoftBank is in talks to acquire Gravis Robotics for $500m, and Dwelly raised $170m to automate UK letting agencies with AI…Scaling Europe Daily - 28.7. — Daily · Substack · 28 Jul 2026 — ️ Not only one, but TWO UNICORNS emerge today across Europe...Scaling Europe #48 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 27 Jul 2026 — AEurope's Space Tech Unicorns — Article · Scaling Europe · 26 Jul 2026 — Europe is about to get a new space tech unicorn. Let's look at the others.Scaling Europe Daily - 25.7. — Daily · Substack · 25 Jul 2026 — ️ Moa Technology raised €25.9m to fight herbicide-resistant weeds with AI, and TidalSense raised €16.6m for an AI breath test that detects COPD…Scaling Europe Daily - 24.7. — Daily · Substack · 24 Jul 2026 — ️ A brand-new London fund just raised €5.95b,, the largest first-time fund of its kind ever, and kausable raises €12m for AI that never needs retraining…Scaling Europe Daily - 23.7. — Daily · Substack · 23 Jul 2026 — ️ Revolut becomes Europe's most valuable private company at a $115bn valuation, and Samsung is in talks to back Mistral, its first AI bet outside Google…Scaling Europe Daily - 22.7. — Daily · Substack · 22 Jul 2026 — ️ London's Humanoid becomes Europe's newest unicorn with a €133m raise, and Revolut lands Australia's first unrestricted fintech banking licence…Scaling Europe Daily - 21.7. — Daily · Substack · 21 Jul 2026 — ️ Lockheed Martin makes its first move into Europe with an €87m fund, and CuspAI raises €393.2m with Nvidia, Meta and Samsung on board…Scaling Europe #47 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 20 Jul 2026 — WHAT A WEEKScaling Europe Daily - 18.7. — Daily · Substack · 18 Jul 2026 — ️ Prior Labs went from €9m to a €1bn SAP acquisition in 18 months, and UK defence unicorn Cambridge Aerospace is in talks to raise $300m at a $3.4bn valuation…Scaling Europe Daily - 17.7. — Daily · Substack · 17 Jul 2026 — ️ Mistral in talks to raise €3bn at a €20bn valuation, doubling in ten months, and Microagi closes Germany's largest ever seed round…Scaling Europe daily - 16.7. — Daily · Substack · 17 Jul 2026 — ️ Neko Health raises €612.7m to expand AI health screening to the US, and Finland clears Europe's first driverless car fleet…Scaling Europe Daily - 15.7. — Daily · Substack · 15 Jul 2026 — ️ Uber is in advanced talks to buy Delivery Hero, and Valarian raises $50m to prove AI sovereignty is more than a buzzword…Scaling Europe Daily - 14.7. — Daily · Substack · 14 Jul 2026 — ️ Moneybox becomes a unicorn with a £1.1bn valuation, and Helsing raises $1.8bn in Europe's biggest ever defence tech round…Scaling Europe #46 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 13 Jul 2026 — Two new unicorns and Lovable valued at $13bn....Scaling Europe Daily - 11.7. — Daily · Substack · 11 Jul 2026 — ️ Oxylabs hits a €3.1bn valuation after 11 bootstrapped years, and Yann LeCun raises a new €200m AI fund…Scaling Europe Daily - 10.7. — Daily · Substack · 10 Jul 2026 — ️ Kraken Technology becomes Europe's newest defence tech unicorn with a $175m round, and QuantumDiamonds raises €91m in EU-backed chip funding…Scaling Europe Daily - 9.7. — Daily · Substack · 9 Jul 2026 — ️ Lovable is in talks for a $12bn+ valuation, doubling in six months, and Payhawk crosses $100m in annual revenue…Scaling Europe Daily - 8.7. — Daily · Substack · 8 Jul 2026 — ️ Nscale secures a MASSIVE $900m credit line to build AI data centres, and Proxima Fusion raises Europe's largest ever fusion round…Scaling Europe Daily - 7.7. — Daily · Substack · 7 Jul 2026 — ️ Novartis just paid $1.5bn for a London startup that raised only $121m, and Klarna applies for a US banking licence to cut out its partner banks…Scaling Europe #45 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 6 Jul 2026 — Two IPOs and ElevenLabs valued at $22bn....Scaling Europe Daily - 4.7. — Daily · Substack · 4 Jul 2026 — ️ ElevenLabs eyes a $22bn valuation just months after its last raise, and the Netherlands becomes the first country to control its military drones with one software system…Scaling Europe Daily - 3.7. — Daily · Substack · 3 Jul 2026 — ️ Quantum Systems lands a €1bn mega-round, and IQM becomes Europe’s first public quantum company…Scaling Europe Daily - 2.7. — Daily · Substack · 2 Jul 2026 — ️ Bending Spoons hits Nasdaq with a $1.68bn IPO, and Wayve launches an $85m employee payout…Scaling Europe Daily - 1.7. — Daily · Substack · 1 Jul 2026 — ️ The UK commits £1.6bn to defence innovation, and InSoil lands one of the year’s biggest agriculture funding rounds...Scaling Europe Daily - 30.6. — Daily · Substack · 30 Jun 2026 — ️ The week started with big news from Peec AI as it races towards a $200m valuation after hitting $10m ARR, and that's not all...Scaling Europe #44 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 29 Jun 2026 — A big week for European sovereigntyScaling Europe Daily - 27.6. — Daily · Substack · 27 Jun 2026 — ️ Hugging Face crosses $100m ARR, and Denmark is investing €200m to help Europe’s scaleups stay in Europe.Scaling Europe Daily - 26.6. — Daily · Substack · 26 Jun 2026 — ️ Alan is now worth €5.5bn after a huge raise, and the UK doubles down on new VC funds...Scaling Europe Daily - 25.6. — Daily · Substack · 25 Jun 2026 — ️ Germany dominates the day with STARK tripling its valuation in months, and Munich gets a new unicorn...Scaling Europe Daily - 24.6. — Daily · Substack · 24 Jun 2026 — ️ Bending Spoons heads to Nasdaq, and the UK backs Oxford and UCL AI labs with £60m...Scaling Europe Daily - 23.6. — Daily · Substack · 23 Jun 2026 — ️ A new AI unicorn for the UK, and Europe starts building an AI model in all 24 EU languages...Scaling Europe #43 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 22 Jun 2026 — Can Europe build sovereign AI?Scaling Europe Daily - 19.6. — Daily · Substack · 19 Jun 2026 — ️ OpenAI picks Stockholm for its first Nordic office, as a new €500m DefenceTech fund launches in EuropeScaling Europe Daily - 18.6. — Daily · Substack · 18 Jun 2026 — ️ Poland backs ElevenLabs, Cleo races towards Europe’s $500m ARR club and CuspAI is set to raise at a $2.6bn valuationScaling Europe Daily - 17.6. — Daily · Substack · 17 Jun 2026 — ️ Cohere triples its London footprint, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in expanding their presence in the city...Scaling Europe Daily - 16.6. — Daily · Substack · 16 Jun 2026 — ️ The UK is turning into a much bigger AI force, as the sector hits £1.2tn and n8n expands in LondonScaling Europe #42 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 15 Jun 2026 — Europe has a new Decacorn and Bending Spoons looks to IPOScaling Europe Daily - 13.6. — Daily · Substack · 13 Jun 2026 — ️ Europe’s AI race is producing some very big numbers, with Mistral AI now eyeing a €20bn valuation…Scaling Europe Daily - 12.6. — Daily · Substack · 12 Jun 2026 — ️ One of Europe’s biggest rounds of the year goes to a robotics company, while Cambridge Aerospace eyes a $3.5bn valuation…Scaling Europe Daily - 11.6. — Daily · Substack · 11 Jun 2026 — ️ London is attracting some of the world’s biggest AI companies, while Slush publishes its first Impact Report…Scaling Europe Daily - 10.6. — Daily · Substack · 10 Jun 2026 — ️ Finland’s startup ecosystem is on fire, with ICEYE becoming Europe’s latest decacorn…Scaling Europe Daily - 9.6. — Daily · Substack · 9 Jun 2026 — ️ $300m Series C from PhysicsX and movements towards sovereignty and innovation within AI in the UK...Scaling Europe #41 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 8 Jun 2026 — Revolut valued at $115bn....Scaling Europe Daily - 6.6. — Daily · Substack · 6 Jun 2026 — ️ Dwelly eyes $200m, and Europe’s first AI-native bank takes shape…GR3N secures €15.5M to build microwave PET recycling plant — Funding · Scaling Europe · 5 Jun 2026 — The Swiss climate tech startup will use the new capital to build a commercial-scale plant using microwave technology to recycle complex PET and polyester waste.Scaling Europe Daily - 5.6. — Daily · Substack · 5 Jun 2026 — ️ Fuse Energy hits $550m ARR, and Lovable reaches 25 million projects…Generalist AI raises €371.4M to build universal robotics software — Funding · Scaling Europe · 5 Jun 2026 — Generalist AI raised €371.4M to build a foundational AI 'brain' capable of controlling various types of robotic hardware.Fuse Energy raises €25M Series B extension to scale green utility model — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The London-based energy supplier secured fresh capital to expand its vertically integrated renewable energy model.Airspeed secures €17.2M Series A for autonomous sales agents — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The London-based startup uses autonomous AI agents to automate CRM updates and sales follow-ups for more than 200 global customers.New Dawn Bio secures €2.1M pre-seed to grow lab-cultured wood — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — Wageningen-based New Dawn Bio is developing cultured wood grown from tree stem cells in bioreactors to eliminate logging and manufacturing waste.Merantix Capital secures €103M to scale European industrial AI startups — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The Berlin-based VC firm's largest fund to date will back 40 early-stage European startups embedding AI into industrial and enterprise sectors.Innovorder raises €20M to scale its restaurant digitalisation platform — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The Paris-based FoodTech scale-up will use the funding to expand its AI-driven restaurant management platform across Europe and pursue organic growth.Kodesage secures €6.05M Seed round to automate enterprise code maintenance — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The London-based startup secured Seed funding from Picus Capital to help enterprises manage technical debt and maintain complex legacy codebases using AI.Scaling Europe Daily - 4.6. — Daily · Substack · 4 Jun 2026 — ️ Factorial hits a €2.1bn valuation, and quantum computing lands a whopping €400m…Hume raised €32.4M Series A to automate small business operations — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The Netherlands-based startup, founded by former Robinhood and Superhuman executives, aims to automate end-to-end operations for small businesses.Semble secures €35.8M Series C for private healthcare infrastructure — Funding · Scaling Europe · 4 Jun 2026 — The London-based healthtech provider will use the Series C capital to expand its clinical infrastructure platform across the UK and France.Luma secures €34M to build spatial AI data layer — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The UK-based startup raised €34M from A16Z and Nvidia to develop generative AI models that turn 2D images into photorealistic 3D assets.OQC secures €300.7M in record-breaking European quantum round — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The Reading-based quantum hardware firm raised €300.7M in a Growth round to scale its 3D architecture and enterprise cloud services.