Last month saw 420 VC investments across Europe, with $7.5 billion invested in total – a 155% increase in funding volume compared to June last year.
Number and volume of announced funding rounds over the past 12 months*
- Number of funding rounds
- Invested volume in $bn
Leading Industries and Investors
According to the number of conducted investments, AI leads with 195 investments, followed by Health Care with 124 and FinTech with 63, each ahead by a significant margin of the next industry, Energy (33).
Y Combinator was the most active investor with 11 investments. Followed by EIC Accelerator, Plug and Play and Kima Ventures with 7 investments each and Bpifrance (6 Investments) rounding out the top five most active investors.
Top 10 Industries of Financed Startups
- AI
- Health Care
- FinTech
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- BioTech
- Marketing
- Food and Beverage
- Web
Top 5 Investors with the highest number of deals
- Y Combinator
- EIC Accelerator
- Plug and Play
- Kima Ventures
- Bpifrance
Notable funding rounds across Europe
In June, the largest funding round was a $1.4 billion Series C by NEURA, a Metzingen-based Venture which builds AI-powered cognitive robots for industrial and everyday use. Founded in 2019 in Germany, NEURA raised the investment mainly to scale up production and accelerate the industrial deployment of NEURA’s 4NE1 humanoid robot at scale, supported by global expansion and the buildout of its Neuraverse data platform.
Seed Rounds made up the largest share of rounds (41%). Despite that, the largest volume of $2.16bn was invested in 6 Series C Rounds.
The largest Seed Round was secured by Dapple, a Dublin-based company which is the Enterprise OS Cloud, a new type of AI infrastructure that sits between the public cloud and private data centers. Founded in 2025 in Dublin, Dapple raised $30 million (€27.6 million) in June.
Number and total volume of financing rounds per stage
- Number of funding rounds per stage
- Volume of financing rounds per stage in $mn
Detailed overview by stage
European VC Industry Hotspots
In June, London remained the leading hotspot for European VC by number of investments (73), followed by Paris (28), Berlin (20), Barcelona (14) and Stockholm (12).
The most investments by country were in the UK (114), followed by Germany (50) and France (45).
When ranked by investment volume rather than the number of investments, Metzingen ($1.4bn) with one investment and Munich ($453mn) with 9 investments join London, Berlin and Paris in the top 5 cities.
VC Exit Overview
In June, 51 exits took place and one IPO took place.
With 19 exits, Health Care companies were the largest exit industrie, followed by FinTech (12) and EdTech (9) companies.
Most companies exited are based in France with 12 exits, followed by Germany with 11 exits.
- Number of Acquisition Exits
- Number of IPO Exits
PE Acquisitions Overview
In June, 65 PE acquisitions (13% of all VC and PE investment rounds) were conducted, an decrease of 1pp compared to last month.
With 12 acquisitions, the UK saw the highest number of companies acquired in June.
Health Care (14), Food and Beverage (11), Software (10), Consulting (7) and PropTech (6) were the top acquisition industries mentioned.
The standout deal was Bain Capital’s €~7.4 billion acquisition of Everllence, a provider of large engines, turbomachinery and energy systems for the marine and power generation industries.
- % of all investment rounds
- Number of PE acquisitions
*All data from CrunchBase, as of July 7, 2026.
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