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European funding rounds in hardware and deep tech, new funds and public programmes, open calls, and the EU rules that change how founders raise capital — each with a short note on why it matters and a link to the source.
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Basel-based biotech Nouscom closed an oversubscribed €120 million Series D financing co-led by M Ventures and Revelation Partners to advance its neoantigen-based cancer immunotherapy. This is a sizeable late-stage biotech round relevant for deep-tech founders and investors tracking European clinical-stage financings.
Oxford spin-out OMass Therapeutics raised an oversubscribed €275 million Series C led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, Forbion and Novo Holdings to advance small-molecule therapies. It signals continued large-scale biotech investor appetite in the UK, relevant for deep-tech founders benchmarking round sizes.
UK biopharma Microbiotica announced the first close of a €42 million Series C led by British Business Bank with participation from Tencent, IP Group and others to develop precision microbiome medicines. Relevant as another European biotech growth round for benchmarking investor terms.
Rabot Energy, a provider of dynamic electricity tariffs that turns homes into virtual power plants, raised a $50 million Series B to expand its platform and growth. The round signals continued investor interest in energy-tech infrastructure that bridges software and physical grid assets, relevant for cleantech founders raising growth capital.
Lyon-based accounting software company Dougs raised €50 million from Expedition Growth Capital to accelerate AI automation. It's a software business for accounting services, not a hardware or deep-tech company.
Skeleton Technologies received a strategic investment from Siemens, pushing its valuation above $1 billion, to accelerate US expansion. The deal signals continued strategic capital flowing into European energy-storage hardware companies, though the investment amount itself was not disclosed.
Barcelona-based fintech ID Finance has raised €545 million in combined debt and equity to scale its consumer credit app Plazo in Spain. It's a large late-stage financing mix of debt and equity, though the company is a software fintech rather than a hardware or deep-tech venture.
German energy unicorn 1Komma5 raised €70 million as its planned IPO remains on hold. The round underscores that even late-stage hardware-heavy cleantech firms are turning to private capital while public listing windows stay closed.
London-based Sava Technologies raised a €32.08 million Series B led by Ascensia to fund manufacturing scale-up and commercial readiness for its wearable glucose microsensor platform, partnering with Ascensia for European distribution. It shows continued European investor appetite for physical medtech hardware nearing commercialisation.
Weight loss startup Yazen raised €50m in a round led by Verdane. The round is a software/consumer health play rather than a hardware or deep-tech offering.
Endeavor Catalyst closed an oversubscribed $320m Fund V as Europe becomes its fastest-growing market. This signals more global capital available for European scale-ups to tap.
Spiko, a French fintech, raised a $90m Series B led by Index Ventures and Speedinvest. The company builds software for tokenized money market funds rather than hardware or deep tech, so while it signals strong investor appetite it is less directly relevant to physical-product founders.
Munich-based industrial robotics startup RobCo doubled its valuation to over €892 million in nine months via a combination of new investment and an employee secondary sale, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed and others. It signals strong investor appetite for European industrial automation and robotics hardware.
London-based Metaview raised a €53.1 million Series C led by Insight Partners to scale its agentic recruiting software platform. The company builds a software application on top of existing AI models rather than hardware or deeptech, so it sits outside the physical-product focus despite being a sizable European funding round.
Belgian tech companies raised €1.09 billion in H1 2026, though funding was heavily concentrated with one company accounting for about 79 percent of the total. This market data gives founders and investors a benchmark for the health and concentration of the Belgian venture funding landscape.
The EU's €5bn Scaleup Fund will be able to back not only EU companies but also UK and US companies. This expands the pool of capital available to European scale-ups and signals how the fund's eligibility rules are shaping up.
Copenhagen-based IoT infrastructure and connectivity company Onomondo raised more than €100M led by Aspirity Partners, which also signed a definitive agreement related to the deal. It's a connectivity/software infra round, included as a funding event for European deep-tech-adjacent scale-ups.
The UK's £1bn Scale-Up Fund is being set up, with VCs vying to manage it. It could become a significant new public financing instrument for European scale-ups seeking growth capital.
Reverion, a German company building reversible fuel cell power plants, closed a €154.2 million Series B led by Mundi Ventures' Kembara fund to scale production. It signals continued large-scale capital availability for European hardware-based energy transition startups.
UK life-sciences startup Basecamp Research raised $140m in a Series C round backed by Anthropic and Nvidia to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery. It highlights strong investor appetite for European biotech/AI hybrids, relevant for deep-tech founders seeking large growth rounds.
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