US legal‑tech AI startup Harvey announced the closing of a massive funding round that lifted its valuation to about 148 billion SEK, a development noted as a competitive move against Swedish AI‑law firm Legora, which is targeting a 100 billion SEK valuation.
UK AI chip designer Fractile, founded in 2022 by Oxford PhD Walter Goodwin, is raising a $600 million round at a $5.6 billion valuation. The round includes backing from Cocoa Ventures, Accel and Founders Fund. The company, which has yet to launch a commercial product, claims its architecture can run large language models up to 100 times faster while cutting operational costs by 90 %. It aims to have its specialised chips ready for data‑centre deployment by 2027 and has signed a sales deal with Anthropic. Executive Carmen Alfonso Rico, now VP of Business Operations, highlighted the company’s potential to become Britain’s first trillion‑dollar firm.
Refurbed, the Vienna‑based refurbished electronics marketplace, announced that co‑founder Kilian Kaminski will be a keynote speaker at the EU‑Startups Summit 2027 in Malta, where he will discuss sustainable entrepreneurship and circular business models.
Dutch deep‑tech battery startup LeydenJar, spun out of TNO, has raised more than €100 million to commercialise its pure‑silicon lithium‑ion battery anodes, with a production plant slated to start in early 2027.
Nearfield Instruments, a Dutch semiconductor metrology startup, raised $380M in the first half of 2026 to expand production and accelerate R&D.
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.
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.
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.
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.