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Funding Europe’s Future

Funding Europe’s Future
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Europe has no shortage of talent, savings, or ambition. But when it comes to turning breakthrough innovation into global scale, the capital still falls short.

Without long-term capital backing long-term innovation, Europe can’t truly scale. When companies reach the breakout stage, the decisive growth round too often comes from abroad, taking value, control, and future returns with it. Europe builds the innovation, but too often someone else captures the upside.

In our latest Build in Europe piece, we examine why institutional capital remains under-allocated to venture, why Europe’s IPO markets struggle to recycle returns, and how public capital can move from co-investor to strategic anchor. From pension reform and Solvency II to capital markets integration and deep tech funding, the question is simple: if Europe wants to scale its companies, can it scale its capital?

You can read more in our final Build in Europe article.

What else is happening...

→ Have You Heard? Dublin's Aerska just raised $39 million to help treat brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

→ Speedinvest News: Our open letter pushing European tech to address the scaleup funding gap, co-written with our friends at AVP and Quantonation, was published by Les Echos and Pathfounders.

→ Our Perspective: Our Partner Will Wells reflects on this year's Munich Security Conference and why Europe must urgently build its own "Neo-Primes" in defense and AI to secure its industrial and economic future with the Ventures podcast.

Additional portfolio updates, deep-dive content, job openings, and more below ⬇️

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Have You Heard?

Our portfolio's latest funding announcements

The Aerska team

Aerska announces a €32 million ($39 million) Series A, just months after we co-led their $21 million seed round.

The Dublin-based company is pioneering RNA medicines to treat, delay, and prevent brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's by getting RNA-interfering (RNAi) molecules into the brain to silence the genes that cause neurodegenerative diseases.

EU Startups has the details.

Complyance Founder & CEO, Richa Kaul

Complyance, an AI-first platform that automates enterprise GRC to reduce manual risk management by up to 70%, raises $20 million in new funding led by GV. The fresh capital will help the London-based company build and scale more products as it expands its go-to-market approach. TechCrunch has more.

The Wayflyer team

Wayflyer, an Irish fintech unicorn that lends to small businesses, has raised $250 million in debt funding from ATLAS SP Partners to meet the growing demand for non-dilutive capital for small businesses around the world. Bloomberg has the details.

Welcome to the Family

Bindbridge founders George Roche, George Crane, and Simeon Spasov

Cambridge, UK- based Bindbridge is pioneering a new class of molecular glues that can transform how we protect the world’s crops.

By addressing herbicide resistance at scale and rebuilding resilience in global food systems, cofounders George Roche, George Crane, and Simeon Spasov's computational platform unlocks billion-dollar markets with a scalable, IP-first model, laying the groundwork for a new era of sustainable agriculture. Read more in AgFunderNews.

  • Diligent AI is a Y Combinator-backed startup building autonomous AI analysts for financial crime compliance. Founded by Edoardo Maschio and Ahmed Gaber, Diligent already works with global fintechs, banks, and publicly listed payment processors to supercharge KYC teams with its AI agents. We're excited to lead the round alongside fintech investor Shapers, with participation from the CEOs and founders of N26, Allica Bank, IDnow, Billie, and Cybersource. Learn more in Finance Forward.

Portfolio Headlines & Highlights

News and updates from across our portfolio

Vocca AI co-founder, Eliott Hoffenberg, in conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron. Courtesy: Eliott Hoffenberg

Our Perspective

Sector-focused expertise and insights on the VC ecosystem at large

Our Partner Will Wells joined the Ventures podcast to break down the "analog-to-autonomy" transition in European defense, highlighting how a new generation of "Neo-Primes" like Helsing are replacing traditional hardware with software-driven battlefield intelligence. He also shares firsthand insights from the Munich Security Conference on the rapid scaling of deep-tech startups, reflects on the high-stakes lessons learned from missing early rounds in giants like ElevenLabs, and much more. Watch here.

  • Our Growth team investor Caroline Niemeyer spoke to Tech Funding News about what VCs really expect before a Series A in 2026 and how the European market has shifted in recent years.

Who's Hiring?

There are more than 1,000 vacancies across our portfolio. Browse open jobs below and on our website.

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