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💸 Notable and big funding rounds
🇪🇸 PLD Space continues stellar year of growth with €158.9M ESA award
🇬🇧 Stability AI raises $76M, with Warner and Sony investing
🇨🇭 Adaptyv raises $40M to build automated lab for agentic biology
🫱🏽🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers
🇫🇷 Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, says report
🇩🇪 NEURA Robotics acquires ADLATUS to bring Physical AI to autonomous cleaning
🇦🇹 Wels-based health IT group x-tention acquires majority stake in Innsbruck-based health tech company syndena
🚀 Interesting moves from investors
💰 Einride founders launch venture firm, targeting €450M European deep tech investments
💵 Inside Startup Due Dil: the AI tool turning hours of VC diligence into 10 minutes
🗞️ In other (important) news
🤖 Revolut launches AI unit as proclaims virtues of proprietary AI
🪖 Ploughshare’s TAG Alliance grows to 19 members as defence spin-outs accelerate
🇸🇪 Sweden’s top-funded tech companies in H1 2026
📡 Recommended reads and listens
🩺 COPD diagnosis is broken. TidalSense wants to fix it with 75 seconds of breathing
⛵ How intelligent technology could redefine recreational boating as MIRAVA moves towards production
🌿 PlantVoice is bringing ‘plant intelligence’ to precision agriculture
🤖 Human must not surrender cognition to AI
🔭 European tech startups to watch
🇩🇪 Kazimi raises €2.2M pre-seed to tackle bot activity in mobile marketing
🇬🇧 Itoflow lands $2.5M to scale investment research and portfolio management
🇧🇪 Motion lands $2M to expand humanoid robot deployments across Europe
🇸🇪 Aquacheq secures €135,000 to advance smart water technology
🇪🇸 The Regional Development Agency is once again investing €100,000 in Vumi to accelerate its commercial expansion