# Funding

Defence startup Mistt raises £5m to build the ‘next GPS’ for autonomous systems and AI

The startup is building a 4D data map for defence customers and ultimately world model makers

Missile startup Hypersonica raises €100m from Lightspeed, General Catalyst as missile defence takes off

The Series B raise reportedly values the startup at around €700m.

Talent tops European AI startups’ concerns as funding pressures mount

Sifted’s AI 100 survey finds funding climbing the list of concerns, buyers circling and more respondents open to a US move

Is France’s startup nation falling out of love with Macron?

Amid a debt crisis and mounting social unrest, the French tech sector is wondering what happened to the president’s early promises

Are Europe's fastest-growing startups hiring wrong?

A new category of AI-native hiring tools is emerging, designed specifically for founders and hiring teams moving quickly

The climate tech startups still growing despite the funding slowdown

Pivots, rebrands, new pitches: founders are reinventing themselves as AI takes the spotlight

New funds in Europe in Q3 2026

Europe's biggest new funds back growth, AI and defence

Exclusive: Heartcore Capital leads $17m raise for AI agent startup Nous

Mosaic Ventures, Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back Ventures also backed the round

Scaleup capital drives a fifth straight quarter of growth, as Paris and Munich outstrip London

European tech notched the highest quarterly total for funding on record in Q3, the third quarter in a row the figure has been broken

Oslo tech struggles to break out of Stockholm's shadow

Despite the tough market, VCs see promise for Norwegian deeptech

Italian startups are growing up: bigger early-stage rounds and more late-stage money, data shows

Bigger seeds, a rebound in growth rounds and a record year for late-stage equity point to a maturing pipeline

The banks, lawyers, accountants and PR firms supporting Europe’s 250 fastest-growing startups

The service providers most in demand with Europe’s fastest-growing startups, based on data collected for the Sifted 250

Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs are queueing up for growth-stage funding rounds

Twelve of the 22 startups on the Sifted 250 planning a Series B or C by Q3 2027 are fintechs, with eight based in the UK

The most capital-efficient startups in Europe

These nine startups made more revenue in a year than capital raised since they were founded

Is Europe’s secondaries boom only serving the 1%?

Much of the secondaries excitement has focused on giants like Lovable, Revolut and Elevenlabs

Inside the ‘secondaries arms race’: How employee liquidity is becoming fundamental to private businesses

As early investors and employees increasingly look for liquidity opportunities, high-growth tech companies are using secondary share sales to unlock trapped equity

The most active growth equity investors in Europe

83 growth-stage investors with at least three growth investments have deployed capital into European companies this year

Claret Capital raises €575m for fourth debt fund as ‘less sexy’ startups need access

The firm aims to lend to VC-backed startups in areas like climate, lifesciences and spacetech

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.

Why late-stage secondary offerings are transforming private market access

Mapped: the AI labs taking over King’s Cross

The area is home to a fast-growing cohort of buzzy labs

Berlin’s Peec AI targeting $200m valuation in new fundraise, sources say

The startup last raised $21m in November

The European investors set to win big from Anthropic’s $1tn+ IPO

Some European investors managed to squeeze into the US AI model maker’s cap table

M&A: The European startups raising cash and on the hunt for acquisitions

A strategy once reserved for incumbents is now filtering down to younger VC-backed startups