EBRD has joined the shareholder base of Polish e‑commerce startup Sportano, injecting €15 million as a minority investment to fund its push into other European markets.
Two years after its creation, French mobility startup Stairling bought the MySam platform (founded in 2016) and renamed it Staircab. The deal gives Stairling access to about 200,000 corporate clients and 18,000 drivers across 200‑350 cities, allowing the company to provide a white‑label VTC service to hotels, airports, tourism offices and other organisations. The acquisition complements Stairling’s cooperative model for drivers and supports its ambition to become a leading fintech player in the gig‑economy. A new funding round is being finalised to secure an ACPR licence for handling driver payments directly.
Swedish e‑commerce group Wesports Group has obtained a new loan facility of up to 1 billion Swedish crowns. The financing will be used to buy more specialist sport and leisure businesses, with the aim of reaching 10 billion crowns in revenue by 2031.
Sioux Technologies, a Dutch high‑tech software group, completed the full takeover of its Romanian development centre in Cluj‑Napoca. The unit, originally launched in 2018 as Qubiz Software Services, posted 2025 revenues of about 19 million lei (≈3.8 million EUR) and a net profit of roughly 470 k EUR. The acquisition, undisclosed in price, aims to enlarge the local team and deepen the company’s engineering capacity for sectors such as semiconductors, medical technology and analytics.
Hyrox, founded in 2017 in Hamburg and now a global phenomenon with more than 1.4 million participants, is changing hands as the owners of luxury brand Louis Vuitton (LVMH) move to acquire the company.
Amanda Mattsson and co‑founder Lova Svensson started Period Pack as a school project and grew it into a company with million‑euro profits operating across Europe. Mattsson is now leaving her role as CEO and selling her shares in the business.
Spanish travel‑management startup BizAway secured €10 million from BBVA to fund the purchase of Dutch firm Uniglobe Alliance Travel and to boost its footprint in the Benelux market, marking a significant step in its European growth strategy.
Italian startup Bending Spoons announced it will acquire collaborative whiteboard platform Miro for $1.355 billion, planning to invest heavily in product performance and long‑term growth.
Spanish travel‑tech startup Perk raised a $300 million private credit facility in the first half of 2026, providing capital for product and AI development as well as international expansion, notably launching its expense‑management solution in the US.
Swedish climate data startup Normative, which has raised over SEK 600 million, is being bought by French Greenly for SEK 700 million.