Growth
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Azalea Vision’s EU funding puts smart lenses on the clinical road
Belgian healthtech Azalea Vision has won EIC backing to move its smart contact lens platform into clinical development.
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Quantum Systems’ $1.2bn round puts European defence tech on a different funding curve
Quantum Systems has raised one of Europe’s largest defence tech rounds to scale autonomous systems across air, land, and sea.
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Google’s Proxima bet shows AI’s energy problem reaching fusion
Proxima Fusion’s €411m round links Europe’s clean energy ambitions with the power demands of AI infrastructure.
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Orbit Capital adds debt to CEE’s scaleup toolkit
Orbit Capital has closed a €107 million growth debt fund for Central and Eastern European scaleups.
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Climentum raises patient capital for Europe’s climate hardware gap
Climentum Capital has reached a €60 million first close for its second European climate hard tech fund.
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Klarna turns Google’s shopping case into a damages weapon
A Swedish court has awarded PriceRunner damages in a private antitrust case against Google’s shopping practices.
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Europe’s funding market is active, not easy
June data shows Europe’s funding market remains active but selective.
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IQM takes Europe’s quantum story to Nasdaq
Finland’s IQM has entered public markets through a SPAC combination.
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Wayve pushes AI driving into production
Wayve is courting automakers with an AI driving system designed to scale across vehicles and cities.
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Dawnguard brings security into architecture
Amsterdam based Dawnguard has launched a platform to automate security architecture for cloud native systems.
