Tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams have invested in European social and community-based investment app Shares and been appointed as the company's first brand ambassadors. The fundraise comprises $26 million of equity and $20 million of debt. Railsr (formerly Railsbank) has closed its Series C funding round by raising $46 million. The company has been working on cultivated meat, and more specifically lab-grown foie gras. In total, the company banked €48 million. Mons, Belgium-based I-care Group, a company that specialises in predictive maintenance and reliability solutions, has secured €50 million in a fresh funding round led by a major Belgian industrial investor and CPH Bank.įrench startup Gourmey raised a Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. London-based metaverse platform Improbable has raised a new $100 million investment round, led by UK blockchain company Elrond, at a valuation of more than $3 billion, and says it’s aiming for profitability by the end of this year.ĭublin-based no-code automation firm Tines has raised $55 million in a Series B extension at a $300 million valuation. Stockholm-based SME lender DBT has secured 3.1 billion Swedish crowns ( roughly €285 million) in a debt facility to accelerate its business.

What happened this week in European Tech? - > Notable and big funding rounds With that said, let's get down to business with the biggest European tech news items for the past couple of days ( subscribe to our free newsletter to get this round-up in your inbox). If you haven't seen them yet, we've made all the videos from the Summit last May available as a playlist on our YouTube channel - enjoy! We've also got some news for you: we're already gearing up for the second edition of the Summit! Save the date: 24 May in Brussels. This week, our research team tracked tracked more than 100 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion, and over 25 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.Īs always, we are putting all of them together for you in a list sent in our round-up newsletter next Monday (note: the full list is for paying customers only, and also comes in the form of a handy downloadable spreadsheet).

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