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A wild week for Europe. Wayve in $2B talks, ŌURA raises $900M, new offices popping up across 5+ cities: MAJOR EXPANSIONS Cohesity opens new London office Treon opens new office near Helsinki PAIR Finance expands to Italy with Milan office Revolut evaluating larger headquarters in Madrid Mesh-AI announces new office in Lisbon (& hiring) JustPark settles into new King’s Cross office, London Lumera moves into Stockholm HQ at Regeringsgatan 65 FUNDING ROUNDS UK | Wayve – raising up to $2B at $8B valuation DE | HyImpulse – €45M Series A European rocket tech DE | Arbio – €31.1M Series A AI-first property management FI | ŌURA – $900M at $11B valuation smart ring (led by Fidelity) UK | Jack and Jill – $20M seed AI recruitment (led by Creandum) PL | Minerva – $3M seed public procurement (led by OpenOcean) IT | Cyberwave – €7M cybersecurity solutions (opens Milan office) DE | Bees & Bears GmbH – €5M seed (+€500M financing framework) UK | Dexory – $165M Series C AI warehouse robotics (led by Eurazeo) EE | Starship Technologies – $50M Series C autonomous delivery robots SE | Kernel (YC S25) – $14M combined seed + Series A (led by Kinnevik) SE | Epiminds – $6.6M seed multi-agent marketing AI (led by Lightspeed) UK/US | ClaimSorted – $13.3M seed AI insurance claims (led by Atomico) SE | Strawberry – $6M seed agentic browser (led by General Catalyst, EQT) DK | Dreamdata – $55M Series B B2B marketing analytics (led by PeakSpan) HIRING SIGNALS Nord Security – 82 roles, Vilnius HQ Lovable – 23+ positions in Stockholm Synthesia – 41 roles in London/Europe Mesh-AI – 3 engineering roles in Lisbon Voi Technology – 26+ roles in Stockholm INFRASTRUCTURE & POLICY Wolt book sparks Finnish ecosystem chatter Oxford North £1.2bn innovation district launches etn. drops Eps. 001 with slick suits + Andreas Klinger Tech Zity (55,000m² Vilnius campus) featured in DW Friedrich Merz calls for single European stock exchange Vercel exits Spain citing employment/growth difficulties European Commission leaks EU–INC draft. Founders NOT happy Carlos Moedas re-elected in Lisbon, Unicorn Factory Lisboa continues {Tech: Europe} hosts EU’s biggest AI hackathon, draws 400+ founders That's Week 42 (Oct. 13-19). We often complain that Europe is too fragmented. Growth ties us together. (And the data doesn’t lie.) Let’s shift the narrative. More next week. ✌🏼 P.S. What’d I miss?
Go Cyberwave !! Simone Di Somma !
Tech and love for Europe unites us all 🤝🏼
love this
I think n8n is missing
Thank you Jeremy Bamberg Here more insights about STARSHIP founder, hope that it inspires https://ebooks.innovationsoftheworld.com/INNOVATE-Estonia-Volume-1.html#page/19
Jeremy Bamberg Great share Jeremy. Thanks for the update. Very impressive indeed.
ep 1 was killer let's goo
CIO | Imperial College London | London Innovation Ecosystems
2dNot sure what the data threshold is for ‘what did I miss’, but the reported extra £890m and associated increase in both scale and breadth of EIT Oxford last week is worth noting in the context of all this other great activity.