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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.Wordsmith raises €66.4M Series B to automate corporate legal workflows — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The London-based startup secured capital from Redpoint and Index Ventures to automate contract reviews and complex document analysis for in-house legal teams.Upstream secures €2.85M Seed round to rebuild the AI inbox — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — French startup Upstream raised €2.85M to build an AI-native email client designed to manage automated workflows and delegate tasks to digital agents.Balkantel banks €5M Seed to fix CEE payment fragmentation — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — Bulgarian fintech Balkantel raises €5M Seed round to streamline fragmented payment infrastructure for merchants across Central and Eastern Europe.Oxford Quantum Circuits secures €301M to scale data-centre quantum platform — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — Oxford Quantum Circuits raised a €301 million Series C to scale its hardware and integrate quantum computing directly into global data-centre infrastructure.Paypercut raises €5M Seed for CEE payment expansion — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The Sofia-based payments platform will use the fresh capital to expand its merchant services and checkout solutions across eight markets in CEE.Flok Health secures €11.5M to scale AI-driven physiotherapy clinic — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The Cambridge-based healthtech startup uses spatial AI to deliver automated, personalised physiotherapy video sessions for patients with MSK conditions.Scaling Europe Daily - 3.6. — Daily · Substack · 3 Jun 2026 — ️ Martin Scorsese joins Black Forest Labs, and ex-Revolut founders raise $26m…Quobly secures €115M Series A to industrialise silicon quantum computing — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The French startup will use the capital to scale production of its silicon-based quantum chips using existing semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure.Factorial secures €138M Series D at a €2.3B valuation — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The Spanish HR tech platform raised €138M to scale its automated workforce management tools for mid-market companies globally.INXM banks €5.7M pre-seed to automate enterprise workflows — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — Berlin-based INXM raised €5.7M in pre-seed funding to launch its AI-driven process execution engine for enterprise and Mittelstand operations.Gigaton secures €24.4M to decarbonise heavy industry with AI — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — London-based Gigaton raises $26m to deploy industrial AI for reducing emissions and energy costs in heavy manufacturing sectors like cement and steel.Oxford Quantum Circuits secures €308M Series C for global hardware deployment — Funding · Scaling Europe · 3 Jun 2026 — The UK scaleup will expand its 'quantum computing as a service' model across global data centres following the largest private quantum raise in European history.Agile Robots raises €750M growth round from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — Munich-based Agile Robots is in talks to raise approximately €750M in a growth round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to scale its AI-powered industrial hardware.EnduroSat eyes €188M Series C for satellite expansion — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — The Bulgarian satellite manufacturer is seeking fresh capital to scale its software-defined satellite services across Europe and the US.Enara Bio banked €48.8M to target cancer via genomic dark matter — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — London-based Enara Bio secures €48.8M to develop cancer immunotherapies targeting genomic "dark matter" for T-cell receptor therapies.Zazume secures €2.5M to consolidate Spanish rental management market — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — The Barcelona-based PropTech startup will use the bridge funding to acquire rental management portfolios and expand its AI-powered platform across Spain.Tilt raises €23.9M Series A to scale live-commerce platform across Europe — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — London-based live-commerce platform Tilt secures €23.9M to expand its video-led shopping marketplace and AI tools across Europe.Twinco Capital banks €165M to scale purchase order financing — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — The Madrid-based fintech provides upfront liquidity to global suppliers by financing purchase orders for large retail supply chains.DEScycle secures €10M in grants to advance e-waste metal recovery — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — London-based DEScycle secured over €10M in grant funding from EU and UK programmes to scale its modular platform for recovering critical metals from e-waste.Modelia secures €1.03M to scale AI visual asset production for fashion brands — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — Madrid-based Modelia raises €1.03 million to help fashion brands automate the production of industrial-scale visual campaigns using generative AI.Poindexter Labs raises €2.4M Seed round to automate AI data pipelines — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — The London-based startup founded by a former maths teacher raised capital after bootstrapping to £1.6M in revenue to fix automated data pipelines for AI.Scaling Europe Daily - 2.6. — Daily · Substack · 2 Jun 2026 — ️ Revolut, Mistral, Wayve and ElevenLabs join forces for European startups…Phia secures €32.48M Seed round from celebrity-led investor group — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — The German consumer goods startup raised over €32M from a celebrity-heavy syndicate including Paris Hilton and Justin Bieber.Emmi AI banks €6M backed by Mistral AI co-founders — Funding · Scaling Europe · 2 Jun 2026 — The Vienna-based startup develops AI world models and simulation technology to train agents in virtual environments.Gradient Labs doubles Series A to €24.3M for autonomous finance agents — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — The London-based startup, founded by former Monzo engineers, will use the capital to scale its automated AI agents for lending and compliance workflows.Gradient Labs raises €24.4M Series A to automate financial operations — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — The London-based startup founded by former Monzo executives will use the capital to scale its autonomous AI agents for complex banking operations.Fluidic Machines raises €11.4M for fluid circuit board prototyping — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — Fluidic Machines raised €11.4M to develop reconfigurable circuit boards that use liquid metal to rewire physical electronics in under a minute.Circular11 secures €2.7M to turn low-grade plastic waste into lumber alternatives — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — Dorset-based Circular11 raised €2.7M to scale proprietary technology that transforms low-grade plastic waste into low-carbon building materials and outdoor furniture.Battery storage startup encosa secures €25M Seed round — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — Munich-based encosa provides an end-to-end battery storage and energy trading platform designed to reduce electricity costs for energy-intensive SMEs.Lune & Wild secures €2.3M to expand premium children’s food brand — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — London-based Lune & Wild raised €2.3M in Series A funding led by Guinness Ventures to expand its chef-led organic baby and children’s food brand.Scaling Europe #40 — Weekly · Beehiiv · 1 Jun 2026 — Mistral signs big customer, Stark to be valued at 2.5bn....H100 raises €1,000M to build European AI infrastructure — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — Paris-based AI infrastructure firm H100 has secured €1,000M to counter the dominance of American model makers and scale European computing power.Invisix banks €20M Seed to fix chip manufacturing flaws — Funding · Scaling Europe · 1 Jun 2026 — The ASML spinout will use the capital to scale its electron-beam metrology tools for high-end semiconductor manufacturing.Gentrace raises €4.34M Seed to solve the AI testing bottleneck — Funding · Scaling Europe · 31 May 2026 — The Helsinki-based startup builds evaluation and monitoring infrastructure to handle the surge of code produced by AI assistants.Scaling Europe Daily - 30.5. — Daily · Substack · 30 May 2026 — ️ Oura files for an IPO, and a London AI lab emerges with $50m…Bayshore secures €7.4M seed to automate legal compliance with AI agents — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — The legal tech startup raised €7.4M to convert regulatory rulebooks into machine-readable code for automated compliance agents.Oblivious AI secures €2.8M Seed round for data security tools — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — Dublin-based Oblivious AI secures €2.8M Seed funding to develop secure environments for processing sensitive data without compromising privacy.Atheni secures €0.42M pre-seed to scale its AI adoption platform — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — The London-based startup secured investment from angel Alex Chesterman to help employees bridge the gap between AI access and measurable business value.Cloudgeni raises €858k Pre-Seed to automate cloud infrastructure operations — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — The Oslo-based startup develops autonomous AI agents to automate cloud infrastructure configuration, security, and compliance monitoring.Webout secures €1.65M to scale personalised video platform in the US — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — Based in Brno, Webout raises €1.65M in Seed funding to expand its automated personalised video platform into the US market.Fonoa secures €94.4M Series C to automate global tax operations — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — Dublin-based Fonoa raised €94.4M and acquired PwC’s Indirect Tax Edge platform to automate global tax compliance for digital giants like Netflix and Uber.Silverflow secures €37M Series B for global payment infrastructure expansion — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — The Amsterdam-based fintech is scaling its cloud-native processing platform after seeing transaction volumes reach an annualised run rate of one billion.MokN raises €12.9M Series A as GV makes first French investment — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — French cybersecurity startup MokN raises €12.9m led by GV to expand its proactive identity recovery platform and enter the UK and US markets.Fonoa raises €101.4M Series C and acquires PwC’s tax platform — Funding · Scaling Europe · 29 May 2026 — The Croatian-founded fintech will use the capital and its acquisition of PwC’s tax platform to automate global tax compliance for digital businesses.