Open Cosmos secures €300M, Europe at "acute risk of marginalisation, and Sweden’s evolving foodtech ecosystem

If email is more your thing, you can always subscribe to our newsletter and receive a more robust version of this round-up delivered to your inbox. ❗ Want to explore the data in more detail? The free, open-access Tech.eu Funding Explorer offers deeper insights into funding rounds, investor activity, company profiles and market trends. Either way, let's get you up to speed. 💸 Notable and big funding rounds 🇩🇪 Open Cosmos secures €300M to expand satellite intelligence and connectivity 🇮🇹 Exein raises $270M at $1.7B valuation, claims title of Europe’s most valuable cybersecurity scaleup 🇪🇸 Fever raises $250M in funding round led by EQT 🇳🇱 AI chip startup EUCLYD lands over €200M Series A, taps ex-ASML chief Peter Wennink as Chairman 🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers 🇨🇭Endra launches Power Studio and acquires Planlabs to expand into mechanical engineering 🇧🇪 LeHibou acquires Afarax and accelerates its expansion in Europe 🇩🇪 The Vienna Stock Exchange is acquiring a majority stake in North Data 🇫🇷 Fime acquires Red Alert Labs 🚀 Interesting moves from investors 💰 BioInnovation Institute backs 17 early-stage startups with €9.5M 💵 Brighteye Ventures lands $72M first close to back the future of learning and work 💸.Crane Venture Partners raises €419 million as it expands across Europe, APAC and the US 🗞️ In other (important) news 🇪🇺 Europe at "acute risk of marginalisation" unless billions in AI funding committed, warns new report 🇸🇪 Swedish fintech Trustly to cut around 200 jobs 🌬️ Research by LF Energy finds open source could deliver 2-5x more value for energy grids 💵 Monzo launches metal credit card that auto-invests cashback 📡 Recommended reads and listens 🇫🇮 Finland's top-funded tech companies in H1 2026 🛰️ Kuva Space takes on illicit crop monitoring with hyperspectral satellites and AI 🇸🇪 From Oatly to agritech: inside Sweden’s evolving foodtech ecosystem 🤖 Open AI closes the gap as Europe bets on sovereignty and infrastructure 🔭 European tech startups to watch 🇬🇧 OriginalVoices raises £1M pre-seed round led by Iona Star 🇪🇸 Nearby Computing secures €680,000 to scale cloud-to-edge orchestration platform 🇹🇷 AI-native game studio Arcustin Games raises $500,000 from Webrazzi GSYF 🇳🇱 Custodea secures €350,000 to give European SMEs greater control over their data 🇮🇹 Fastweb+Vodafone backs Italian insurtech Mama Insurance in new funding round Would you like to write the first comment? Login to post comments