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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇨🇭 SoftBank invests $200M in robotics startup Gravis Robotics
🇫🇷 Ingenico secures €150M in fresh capital
🇪🇸 Rillet received a $100M investment at a valuation of $1B
🇬🇧 Callosum raises $100M seed round
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇩🇪 The Munich-based investment firm Tiven is acquiring Sonnen, the battery storage manufacturer
🇨🇭 Digital health startup Aepsy acquires Kinastic
🇩🇪 Billion-dollar startup Dash0 acquires Berlin-based tech company Polar Signals
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Defence tech investor and builder Gallos raises $50M
💰 QuantumLight Closes $500 Million Second Venture Fund to Back AI and Crypto Startups
💵 Venture studio led by ex-GCHQ & NSA leaders raises £35m
🇩🇪 Billion-dollar startup Dash0 acquires Berlin-based tech company Polar Signals
🗞️ In other (important) news
💰 Monzo chairman Gary Hoffman to stand down after nearly eight years
👥 ‘A nervous system as a service’: Julian Teicke’s new bet on human connection
💵 Nebius looks to raise $4.5BN through bond issue
🇫🇷 France’s top-funded tech companies in H1 2026
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🐕🦺 At 14, Sasha Bagrov is building a safer marketplace for teenage odd jobs
🔬 How the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions transformed research careers over 30 years
👩❤️👩 Bootstrapped and profitable: Taimi and Hily set their sights on IPO readiness
🇩🇰 Aisel raises €1.7M to tackle psychiatry’s capacity crisis
👥🔭 European tech startups to watch
💡 Astute raises $1.2M and launches B2B new media platform
🇱🇹 AI startup Guideless raises €1M to streamline software training
🇬🇧 EcoNomad raises £400,000 to bring waste-to-energy tech to small livestock farms
🇬🇧 Paralo raises £270,000 to tackle golf’s fragmented technology stack