# Data

Europe’s leading pre-seed investors in 2026

From London to Helsinki: the VC funds consistently backing Europe's earliest-stage startups

AI safety startups mapped: 37 companies building Europe's trust layer

Amid growing alarm over the threats of a rapidly-developing technology, AI safety has become a catch-all term

The companies that shot up Sifted’s DACH & CEE leaderboard

Despite their size, Berlin-based unicorns N8n and Parloa are among the biggest climbers 

Just three deals make up almost half of all VC funding in Germany this year

More than a third of all German VC funding since Sifted started tracking in 2024 has gone to just 10 companies

The 10 robotics startups that raised the biggest rounds in H1 2026

Robotics startups in Europe raised more in H1 2026 than the previous two years combined. Here are the big hitters

Record number of CVCs making repeat bets on European robotics

Chipmakers and AI infrastructure players are leading the activity, according to Sifted data

Europe’s 30 most active public funds in H1 2026

The EIC leads public funding efforts, but country-specific funds are increasingly active

The 144 new funds this year and what they reveal about Europe's investment market

Europe's fund managers are raising again. Just not the ones you'd expect.

European robotics startups raised more in six months than past two years combined

Neura Robotics's €1.2bn raise gives continent biggest ever half for robotics funding

The European startups racing to power the AI boom, mapped

From nuclear to geothermal to tidal power, Sifted maps the European startups developing new sources of electricity for the continent’s growing data centre buildout

Go big and go abroad: Europe’s startups are expanding internationally as early as seed

13 early-stage deeptech startups Tier 1 VCs backed in H1 2026

Some of the continent’s most active investors backed companies tackling problems once considered too complicated

AI, dual use and spacetech: the new stars of debt funding

Mistral wanted to beat Anthropic. Now it’s becoming Palantir

Data exclusively seen by Sifted shows the company has made a rapid internal pivot

The sectors with the most momentum heading into H2

Sifted dug into the data to discover the hottest sectors across Europe in the first half of 2026

European rounds are getting bigger, but fewer companies are closing them

Every median value for every round has increased for each of the past three comparable years, but dealcount's down for many rounds.

Europe’s leading tech hubs by deal activity in H1 2026

Capital and specialisation are driving new (and smaller) European tech hubs

European biotech mapped: 90 startups reshaping medicine

From drug discovery to gene editing, these startups are transforming the future of medicine

The sovereign capital, global chipmakers and serial investors behind Europe’s new unicorns 

Out of more than 300 investors, only 25 have invested in two or more new unicorn.

The 25 companies Europe’s startup insiders watched most closely in H1

Sifted Pro readership data reveals which European startups and scaleups investors, corporates and advisers were monitoring most actively in H1

One unicorn a week: Europe's new model for billion-dollar startups

Europe is minting unicorns again: younger, faster to $1bn and clustered around AI-native bets

H1’s biggest M&A deals

A look back at European exits so far this year

Europe’s proactive health startups, mapped

From full-body scans to biological age tests, startups are building for consumers who want more data, earlier warnings and personalised ways to take control of their health

European deeptech investment hits annual record in just six months

European deeptech startups and scaleups have enjoyed a funding bonanza