Char.gy raises €118.2M, Sidekick Health acquires PINK!, and Denmark’s thriving tech ecosystem

This week we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

In addition to this week’s top financials, we’ve also indexed the most important/industry-related news items you need to know about.

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💸 Notable and big funding rounds

🇫🇷 Artificial intelligence startup Poolside received $400M investment with a $2 billion valuation

🇬🇧: EV charging startup Char.gy raises €118.2M to support the charging infrastructure across the UK

🇪🇸 TravelPerk gets €125M to accelerate in US market

🇬🇧 Zilch secures £100 million financing deal

🇩🇪Isar Aerospace raises €65M as part of an extended Series C financing round

🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

🇬🇧Global Payments snaps up UK payments firm Takepayments

🇩🇪 Sidekick Health acquires PINK! to bolster its femtech offering

🇬🇧Quod Orbis acquired by Dedagroup to fuel global growth

🚀 Interesting moves from investors

🇪🇸 Spanish Kfund raises €70M for AI and cloud startups

🇱🇹 Lithuanian VC firm Raft Capital Management launches €50M fund for Baltic companies

🌍NATO Innovation Fund announces its first investments from €1B Fund to advance these sectors

🗞️ In other (important) news

🏦Share sale ‘to value Revolut at more than £30bn’

🇬🇧 London stock market overtakes Paris as Raspberry Pi shares continue to rise

🇬🇧 One-third of trading on Robinhood’s UK app outside market hours, says UK boss

📡 Recommended reads and listens

🇩🇰 Denmark: Europe’s hub for tech innovation and collaboration

🌳 Preqin and Measurabl partner to track properties’ ESG compliance

🇬🇧 Will Labour’s plan to close private equity tax ‘loophole’ harm UK tech?

🇩🇪  “How the heck can you build a multi-billion dollar business in Düsseldorf?” questioned VC

🇨🇭 DeepTech is reviving the Swiss startup ecosystem

🔭 European tech startups to watch

🇬🇧 BBC invests £500,000 in virtual streaming

🇨🇿 Zerops raises $500,000 pre-seed for flexible developers’ cloud

🇧🇪 AI sales assistant for salespeople on the go ‘Donna’ raises $1.6M pre-seed

🇭🇺Sustainability startup Denxpert raises €1M from Sofia Angels Ventures

🇩🇪 GenAI startup mika lands €800,000 for automated accounting