Luxembourg’s Balnord in €70m Baltic startup fund
Luxembourg-based Balnord, a new early stage investor for the Baltic Sea Region, announced that it has oversubscribed its €70 million fund target and is well…
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Lisbon VC Armilar closes €120m first round
Iberdrola secures €500m EIB loan for Baltic wind farm
EIB in €100m loan to Holmen, Swedish forest firm
Bending Spoons valued at $11bn, agrees to acquire AOL
Legora, AI legaltech, raises $150m at $1.8bn valuation
EIB Global in €100m loan for Armenian micro firms
EQT to invest €250bn, warns Europe to ‘remove barriers’
EIB group approves €9.2bn investment in housing tech
Eurostar invests €2bn for Alstom double-decker trains
Eurostar has announced a €2 billion investment in up to 50 new double-decker trains built by Alstom Group – the first ever to operate through…
IKEA retailer buys €720m forest land in Latvia, Estonia
Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group — the largest IKEA retailer — said it agreed to acquire 153,000 hectares of mostly forest land in…
APG pension invests €300m in energy firm Return
Amsterdam-based energy storage provider Return said it has entered a long-term partnership with pensions administrator APG, on behalf of pension fund ABP, one of the…
Tubulis raises €308m for cancer drug development
Munich-based biotech firm Tubulis has announced the successful closing of a €308 million financing. Tubulis said the proceeds from the Series C financing “will be used…
Finland’s Oura valued at $11bn as it raises $900m
Finnish smart ring maker Oura announced it has raised over $900 million in funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with significant participation from…
EU fines Gucci, Chloé, Loewe €157m for ‘fixing prices’
The European Commission said it has fined fashion companies Gucci, Chloé and Loewe for “fixing resale prices, in breach of EU competition rules.” The Commission said its investigation revealed that…
Ecorobotix, Swiss agricultural spray firm, raises $150m
Switzerland-based Ecorobotix, the AI-powered Ultra-High Precision (UHP) agricultural spraying company, said it has raised $150 million in Series C and Series D funding rounds. Ecorobotix…
SoftBank to buy ABB’s robotics business for $5.3bn
Japan’s SoftBank Group (SBG) said it reached a definitive agreement with Swiss conglomerate ABB Ltd to acquire ABB’s robotics business for $5.375 billion. ABB said it…
Google invests another €5bn in Belgium amid AI push
Google has announced a new, two-year €5 billion investment in Belgium for 2026 and 2027. The investment will expand the company’s data center campus in…
EIB to lend €500m for Romania’s A1 motorway
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is set to provide its first loan for Romania’s planned A1 motorway from Bucharest to the western border. The EIB…
Estonia rail infrastructure firm gets €45m EIB loan
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Estonian national railway infrastructure manager AS Eesti Raudtee have signed a €45 million loan agreement to accelerate the country’s…
Filigran, Paris cybertech firm, raises $58m
Paris-based cybertech company Filigran said it completed a Series C funding round worth $58 million, bringing its total fundraising to over $100 million in just…
Milan’s NanoPhoria Bioscience closes €83m Series A
NanoPhoria Bioscience, a Milan-based biotech company, announced the successful first close of its €83.5 million Series A financing round. The round was led by XGEN…
Einride raises $100m for autonomous freight drive
Einride, the Swedish tech firm that provides digital, electric and autonomous solutions for road freight, has raised about $100 million in funding from a mix…
55 North, Danish quantum VC, in €134m first close
Copenhagen-based 55 North, the world’s largest dedicated quantum technology venture capital fund, said it has announced the first close of its €300 million inaugural Fund…
EU’s EIT approves largest-ever funding round of €978m
The EU’s European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) said its Governing Board has approved an allocation of €978 million, its largest-ever funding round, “to…
Spotify, music streaming giant, in leadership changes
Stockholm and New York-based Spotify announced that founder and CEO Daniel Ek will “transition to the role of executive chairman” effective January 1, 2026. The music…
Nscale raises $1.1bn Series B, largest ever in Europe
Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, announced it has raised the largest Series B in UK and European history, at $1.1 billion. The financing was…
Global debt rises to record $338 trillion says IIF
By Mark McSherry Total global debt rose by more than $21 trillion in the first half of 2025, reaching a record high of nearly $338…
Big Pi Ventures of Greece launches €130m growth fund
Athens-based Big Pi Ventures has announced the launch of Big Pi Growth I, the “first tech growth equity fund out of Greece and Southeast Europe.”…
Ventech, Paris-based VC, closes flagship fund at €175m
Paris-based Ventech, the European early-stage venture capital firm, announced the final close of its sixth flagship fund at €175 million — the largest fund in…
EIB approves €1.34bn Portugal affordable housing loan
The European Investment Bank (EIB) said it has approved a €1.34 billion framework loan to support the construction and renovation of around 12,000 affordable housing…
Barcelona’s Suma closes €210m climate tech fund
Barcelona-based Suma Capital has announced the final closing of SC Net Zero Ventures I, the Climate Tech fund within its SC Venture strategy, with €210…
VC Aspire11 gets Czech pension support in €500m fund
Prague-based investment firm Aspire11 said it is launching its inaugural €500 million global fund — backed by Czech pension funds — “to back generational companies…
Italy’s Bending Spoons buys Vimeo for $1.38bn cash
Vimeo, the New York-based video platform for business, said it agreed to be acquired by Milan-based technology conglomerate Bending Spoons in an all-cash transaction valued…
Development bank climate finance at record $137bn
Global climate finance by multilateral development banks (MDBs) — including the European Investment Bank (EIB) — increased 10% last year to a record $137 billion,…
ASML invests €1.3 billion in Mistral AI of France
Netherlands-based semiconductor equipment giant ASML Holding NV and France-based Mistral AI have announced a strategic partnership based on a long-term collaboration agreement “to explore the…
Scintil Photonics of France in €50m Series B funding
Scintil Photonics, a Grenoble, France-based technology firm in Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics for AI infrastructure, announced the completion of a €50 million Series B funding round…
DataCrunch raises $64m in data sovereignty push
Finland’s DataCrunch said it has raised $64 million in Series A funding to accelerate its ambition of “becoming Europe’s first AI hyperscaler, without compromising on…
EU fines Google €3bn ‘for distorting adtech competition’
The European Commission said it has fined Google €2.95 billion for allegedly breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (adtech). “It did…
ViCentra raises $85m to scale insulin patch pump
Netherlands-based ViCentra, a medical device firm innovating in insulin delivery for people with diabetes, announced the successful close of an upsized $85 million Series D financing….