Dutch AI platform Wonderful, a two‑year‑old startup that relocated from Israel to the Netherlands, raised $550 million in a Series C round led by Insight Partners, bringing its total capital raised to $800 million and valuing the company at $5 billion. The round included Salesforce and existing backers such as Index Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Spanish AI/Deeptech spinout IPronics raised $125 million in a Series B round led by Nvidia, marking a significant funding milestone for the company.
Uplift Ventures announced the creation of a €100 million fund aimed at closing the financing gap for European deep‑tech companies, especially those developing Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI and Logistics solutions. The fund will back up to 20 startups and will be supported by Jungheinrich, with the firm taking flexible roles from lead to co‑lead investor.
French AI startup Mistral AI secured a massive €3 billion financing round, with strategic investors Samsung, Nvidia, ASML and the European Scaleup Fund leading the round. The capital will be used to scale up its AI model development, hire talent and build out compute resources, positioning Mistral as a major player in the European generative‑AI landscape.
Planet Farms partnered with Swiss Life Asset Managers in a joint venture that brings up to €125 million of capital to develop new indoor farms in Europe, marking a shift of vertical farming toward an infrastructure asset class rather than a pure startup model.
French quantum‑computing startup Pasqal has entered the Nasdaq market after securing $360 million in financing, marking a major milestone for the company and the European deep‑tech ecosystem.
Anthropic, the US AI startup, entered into a $45 billion deal with European compute provider Nscale to secure compute capacity for its artificial‑intelligence development.
Swedish industrial decarbonisation startup Stegra raised the largest round in H1 2026, obtaining €1.4 billion to finish its Boden steel plant, marking a landmark financing for European green‑steel initiatives
Verkor, the unicorn specialized in electric batteries, will change its CEO on 1 September.
German cognitive‑robotics startup NEURA Robotics, fresh from a record €1.2 billion Series C raise, announced the acquisition of Ulm‑based Adlatus Robotics to add AI‑driven “brains” to its cleaning robots and expand its Neuraverse ecosystem.