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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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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.
The European Commission and the EIB Group launched the European Institutional Investors Pact, a voluntary framework to channel more long-term institutional capital into Europe's tech and scale-up ecosystem, with thirteen investors already signalling intent. For hardware and deep-tech founders, this signals a potential new pool of growth-stage capital designed to close Europe's scale-up funding gap.
Portuguese defence-tech company TEKEVER, which builds AI-powered autonomous systems, announced the first close of a $580 million Series D round at a $6.4 billion valuation. This is a major growth-stage round for a European hardware/deep-tech defence startup, underscoring strong investor appetite for autonomous systems in Europe.
Berlin‑founded legaltech Noxtua closed a Series C of more than €100 million, with C.H.BECK taking a majority stake. It's a large European funding event but the company builds legal AI software rather than hardware, so it's less directly relevant to physical‑product founders.
Cloud startup Verda raised $189m in a round led by Emergence Capital. It's a sizable software‑cloud funding event, not directly relevant to hardware or deep‑tech founders but useful market context.
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