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bunch raised €30.1M Series B to modernise private markets infrastructure across Europe. The Berlin fintech is building the plumbing layer for fund admin, LP management, and SPVs. Exactly the infrastructure the European secondaries boom needs right now. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#PrivateMarkets
eleQtron raised €57M Series A — one of the largest quantum computing Series As worldwide. The German trapped-ion pioneer already has €54M in order backlog. Led by Schwarz Group's digital arm. Industrial quantum is moving from lab to factory floor. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#QuantumComputing
eleQtron raised €57M Series A — one of the largest quantum computing Series As worldwide. The German trapped-ion pioneer already has €54M in order backlog. Led by Schwarz Group's digital arm. Industrial quantum is moving from lab to factory floor. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#QuantumComputing
Primer raised €86.2M Series C — led by Sofina with Peak XV, Balderton, Accel & Tencent backing. The London payments infrastructure play is going all-in on AI for finance teams. When global growth investors double down on a European fintech, listen. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#Fintech
Viktor just hit €12.9M ARR within 10 weeks of launch — then raised €64.7M Series A led by @Accel. This Warsaw/Munich AI coworker lives in Slack & Teams and works across your existing stack. Europe's AI wave is for real. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#AIStartups
The EIC's Scaleup Europe Fund — a €5B initiative — just named EQT as fund manager. First close expected autumn 2026. The most ambitious European VC infrastructure bet ever made. Watch this space closely. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#VentureCapital
BREAKING: Paris-based Advanced Machine Intelligence raised $1.03B in what's officially Europe's largest-ever seed round. A frontier AI research lab betting on world models. The AI race goes truly global. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#AIStartups
Verda raised €100M and plans to hire 100 people by year-end. The Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company is positioning Finland as a northern European compute hub for the AI era. Europe's data centre build-out is accelerating — and it's not just London and Frankfurt anymore. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#DeepTech
Verda raised €100M and plans to hire 100 people by year-end. The Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company is positioning Finland as a northern European compute hub for the AI era. Europe's data centre build-out is accelerating — and it's not just London and Frankfurt anymore. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#DeepTech
Spanish VC Seaya launched a €1B Growth Tech Fund I focused on applied AI and deeptech scale-ups. Europe's growth-stage funding infrastructure is finally catching up with the ambitions of its founders. Madrid is firmly on the European venture map. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#VentureCapital
Nscale secured €670M for its Norway AI infrastructure project. The global hyperscaler — engineered from the ground up for AI — is building Europe's sovereign compute backbone. Modular, vertically integrated, and dead serious about scale. The infrastructure race is on. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#AIInfrastructure
Berlin's Bunch raised €30.1M Series B to modernise European private markets infrastructure. The plumbing of alternative assets is getting a long-overdue upgrade. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#Fintech
Warsaw meets Munich: @ViktorAI just raised €64.7M Series A — hitting €12.9M ARR just 10 weeks post-launch. Their AI coworker lives in Slack & Teams and works across tools companies already use. The European AI coworker wars have officially begun. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#AIStartups
London's @PrimerIO closed a €86.2M Series C — one of the biggest European fintech rounds of May 2026. AI for payments infrastructure is the new frontier. Who said fintech was slowing down? #TheEuropeanTechLedger#Fintech
Vinted is proving that circular economy business models can achieve massive, highly profitable scale. They have successfully shifted consumer behavior toward second-hand fashion across Europe. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#CircularEconomy
Veriff's AI-driven identity verification technology is keeping the digital world secure. A brilliant Estonian export handling millions of automated KYC checks for global platforms. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#IdentityVerification
Trustpilot remains the digital benchmark for consumer review transparency. A Danish powerhouse that has scaled its trust-building platform to cover hundreds of millions of reviews globally. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#ConsumerTech
Tequipy raised €3M led by Smedvig Ventures to automate global IT device logistics. Founded by Revolut's former IT chief. IT Ops-as-a-Service is an underrated category. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#Enterprise
European AI startups raised more in Q1 2026 than in all of 2022. Voice AI, agentic software, legal AI, and AI infrastructure are the hottest categories. Late-stage funding nearly doubled YoY. The European AI decade has started. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#AIStartups
Norway's Lace Lithography raised $40M Series A for technology that could reshape how chips are made. European deeptech targeting the most strategic bottleneck in global tech. Sovereignty starts in the fab. #TheEuropeanTechLedger#DeepTech