{
  "id": 2972945,
  "title": "European tech weekly recap: More than 45 tech funding deals worth over €684M",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/european-tech-weekly-recap-more-than-45-tech-funding-deals-worth-over",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech.eu",
    "slug": "tech-eu",
    "url": "https://tech.eu/2026/08/24/european-tech-weekly-recap-more-than-45-tech-funding-deals-worth-over-eur28b/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Last week, European tech funding saw over 45 deals worth more than €684 million, along with exits, M&A transactions and related news. FinTech led in funding with €239.2 million, followed by robotics at €178 million and AI at €99 million. Switzerland topped funding with €172.5 million, followed by France at €150 million and the UK at €122.9 million.\n\nIn Switzerland, SoftBank invested $200M in robotics startup Gravis Robotics. France's Ingenico secured €150M in fresh capital. Spain's Rillet raised a $100M investment at a valuation of $1B. The UK saw Callosum raise $100M in seed round funding. Germany's Oceanloop and Flip secured up to €38.5M and $25M respectively, to expand in AI and frontline worker technologies.\n\nSweden's Pixelgen Technologies raised $15.5M in Series B funding, while Redfaire landed €13M from BGF to scale its ERP and cloud services. SweGaN raised €12.1M to scale gallium nitride on silicon carbide epitaxial wafer production. Lithuania's LITILIT received €8M for femtosecond lasers in mass manufacturing. Germany's amber received €7M for its AI-powered business knowledge platform.\n\nMedly AI raised $8M for AI-powered tutoring, and AssistMe secured €6.5M in Germany. Computomics raised €6.3M for climate-smart plant breeding in the country. Denmark's Velatir got €5M for AI infrastructure expansion. UK's Oshen raised €4.27M for robot swarms to act as ocean's \"eyes and ears\". Sweden's Solinide closed €4M to commercialise photonic chips for AI data centres.\n\nNorway's Birdsview raised €3.7M for \"MRI for concrete\" technology, while Iceland's SnerpaPower secured €3.4M to help power-intensive industries. UK's Noggin HQ became the nation's newest credit reference agency. Singular Photonics developed next-generation image sensors in Denmark. Aisel raised €1.7M to tackle psychiatry's capacity crisis.\n\nAI diagnostics startup Eyedentity secured €1.4M in Sweden. Qodia received €1.2M investment in Germany. bmp Ventures invested €500,000 in LabThunder. EcoNomad raised £400,000 for waste-to-energy tech in the UK. Paralo aimed to tackle golf’s fragmented technology stack with £270,000.",
  "summary": "Last week, we tracked more than 45 tech funding deals worth over €684 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.📊 The top three industries that ra...",
  "key_points": [
    "Over 45 tech funding deals worth €684M in Europe last week",
    "Switzerland led funding with €172.5M, followed by France and UK",
    "Notable deals included SoftBank's $200M in Gravis Robotics and Ingenico's €150M in France"
  ],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}