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June 17, 2026

Series D funding rises 308% in first half of 2026

From Wayve to ElevenLabs, Europe's biggest scaleups are raising bigger rounds as AI reshapes the continent's funding landscape


It’s January 2022, Old Street, London. On the back of an almost hallucinatory period for European startups, employees at fintech unicorn Checkout.com’s headquarters are celebrating the closing of a $1bn Series D at a comfortable $40bn valuation.

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Federico Scolari

Federico Scolari is a senior intelligence analyst and data lead at Sifted. Find him on LinkedIn

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