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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇸🇪 Lovable’s valuation doubles to $13.3BN as raises $400M in new funding
🇬🇧 Cambridge Aerospace’s valuation leaps to $3.4B as raises $300M
🇬🇧 Flying-taxi maker Vertical Aerospaces secures £74M
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇬🇧 Duolingo snaps up UK animation studio Animade
🇩🇰 Again acquires Geno to combine AI-driven discovery with industrial biomanufacturing
🇨🇭Circet acquires Technik Partner
🇩🇪 VAFO Group acquires Pets Deli
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Monzo and Lovable backer Accel raises enlarged $800M early-stage fund
💵 Exponent closes €750m H&MV Engineering continuation fund for at €1.4bn valuation
🗞️ In other (important) news
💰 Revolut clinches French banking licence
💵 July 2026’s top 10 European tech deals you need to know about
⚛️ MSCA-backed QuBriC brings Alice & Bob into Europe’s quantum error correction push
🚗 Uber ups robotaxi offensive in Europe, with partnership expansion
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🔧 Isembard founder: We’re a politician’s “wet dream”
🩸 Efferon is ‘selling time’ in the race to treat sepsis
🇺🇦 Hollow Home: The Ukrainian game telling the civilian story of war
How research partnerships under the MSCA are driving innovation
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇩🇰 Palette raises €3M pre-seed to develop an OS for AI-native teams
🇳🇴 Visoid raises $2.5M to expand AI visualisation platform for architects
🇸🇪 Millow raises €2M to expand mycelium protein across Nordic foodservice
🇫🇮 STRGY AI raises €1M to scale its AI-powered strategy execution platform
🇬🇧 HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML
🇩🇪 Biotech AquaNab secures funding to tackle sea lice with nanoantibodies