Accel Raises Enlarged $800M Fund for European and Israeli Startups
The Silicon Valley firm behind Monzo and Lovable has closed an $800m early-stage fund for Europe and Israel, part of a broader $3.5bn global raise.
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The Silicon Valley firm behind Monzo and Lovable has closed an $800m early-stage fund for Europe and Israel, part of a broader $3.5bn global raise.
The Stockholm-based AI software creation platform more than doubled its valuation, with a round co-led by Menlo Ventures and the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund.
EU-Startups' 2026 review highlights 10 European ventures applying AI, robotics and biotech to oceans and water, with recent rounds including €17M for cargo.one and €10M for Kvasir Technologies.
ECB board member Piero Cipollone described a three-layer threat to banks from digital payments and positioned the digital euro as the structural response.
The fintech has won approval from France's ACPR and the European Central Bank as it expands its regulated presence across Western Europe.
The UK defence technology startup, founded less than two years ago, has more than doubled its valuation since April in a round led by DFJ Growth.
Tech.eu tracked more than 35 funding deals worth over €1 billion across Europe in a single week, led by UK chip firm Olix's $312M round.
Tech.eu's H1 2026 report shows the UK topping European tech funding, with cloud and AI infrastructure drawing the largest sums.
A wave of European photonics companies is turning light-based research into commercial products for telecoms, data centres and quantum technologies.
The Coimbra-based startup will grow its AI-driven Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management services, backed by private investors and Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The agentic AI startup for supply chains secured $150 million led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, reaching a $1.2 billion post-money valuation.
The venture firm has closed roughly €1.7 billion in new capital across seed, venture and growth funds, doubling down on AI as it marks its 30th anniversary.
The Italian agritech startup will use the seed round to commercialise its portable platform for detecting mycotoxins in agricultural supply chains across Africa and Europe.
The European Space Agency's July roundup covered an Artemis II crew visit, a remote software upgrade for the Hera probe, launch preparations and new astronaut activity aboard the ISS.
Tech.eu logged more than 50 funding deals across Europe in a single week, led by iwoca's £250M debt facility, alongside its newly released H1 2026 report.
The UK company secured Series C funding led by Insight Partners to expand its unified Microsoft security and AI management platform for managed service providers.
The Pfäffikon-based company buys NVIDIA GPU servers, runs them on renewable power and rents the capacity out under long-term contracts.
London's Intropy secured €9.5 million in Seed financing while UK-based inforcer closed a $50 million Series C round, both centred on AI-driven platforms.
London-based Intropy has secured $11m in seed funding led by Felix Capital as it plans a New York office and product development.
The acquisition of Wexler, a fact intelligence platform for litigation teams, marks Legora's fifth purchase this year and seeds a new London engineering hub.
UK-based Kinematic Trees raised £585K for its robot-agnostic software, while Lithuania's Sigvi secured €1.2M to expand its AI car rental platform across Europe.
Swiss quantum computing startup ZuriQ has closed a $25.5 million seed round led by Quantonation to advance its trapped-ion processors built on a two-dimensional architecture.
Greyparrot, 5U AI and Xeltis have each secured new investment to expand AI waste analysis, freight automation and regenerative medical implants.
The European Space Agency has released a video explaining how eclipses occur and why totality is rare, ahead of three eclipses set to cross Europe between 2026 and 2028.
Warner Bros. Discovery's TNT Sports and HBO Max will carry the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games for the first time, with more than 600 hours of live coverage and free-to-air highlights on Channel 5.
The Italy-based cybersecurity startup, founded by Mario Candela, secured a seed round led by United Ventures to expand its team and open offices in Rome and San Francisco.
The Spanish AI-quantum scaleup says its latest round would push total funding to around $800m and value the company at $1.7bn.
The Italian cybersecurity startup raised a €3 million seed round led by United Ventures for its AI-native platform built to detect attackers already inside corporate networks.
As products and payments converge across operators, player trust is increasingly seen as the differentiator driving retention in Europe's growing online gambling sector.
Berlin's telli secured $15M to automate customer-facing operations, while Munich's Aampere raised €4.2M to expand its used electric car resale platform across Europe.