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Europe is thirty markets pretending to be one. Pick a country - the numbers, charts and directories below follow. Counted from the Sesamers round tracker and directories.

€52.3BCapital tracked
1,598Disclosed rounds
100Funds deploying
1,501Startups tracked

Europe, in numbers

Sesamers round tracker · disclosed rounds only · EUR-converted

Capital by sector

AI15%
Fintech13%
EV Charging6%
Defence Tech6%
Other60%

Capital by quarter (€M)

3,994
Q1 26
4,915
Q2 26
12,566
Q3 26
1,683
Q4 26

Rounds by stage

Pre-seed
11%
Seed
32%
Series A
28%
Series B
12%
Series C
5%
Series D+
1%
Growth
10%
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Sagacity
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Wavo
Inventory financing for independent retailers and brands
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Ubitium
Ubitium Seed
Seed · €12,500,000 view →
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Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures Pre-seed–Seed · AI
Led 4 of 18 rounds tracked in United Kingdom. Kima Ventures backs two startups a week from Paris, around 100 new…
EUR 150k–EUR 150k view →
Partech
Partech Seed–Series A
Led 12 of 16 rounds tracked in United Kingdom. Partech invests from seed to growth across Europe, North America and Africa…
EUR 300k–EUR 100M view →
Serena
Serena Pre-seed–Seed · AI
Led 8 of 15 rounds tracked in United Kingdom. Serena is a Paris venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Marc…
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MaMA Invent 2026 Startup zone
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The Sound of Solutions 2026 Competition
€15k+ in kind · none
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Oct Salience Labs raises $125M Series B to wire AI clusters with light Bullhound Capital leads an oversubscribed $125M Series B into Oxford's Salience Labs, with AMD Ventures and… News 15
Oct Alchera raises £2.7M seed to plan UK roads and buses with AI Cambridge's Alchera closed a £2.7M seed, with Maven Capital Partners leading £2M through the South West… News 16
Oct Wavo raises €10M to free the cash SMEs bury in stock Wavo buys its clients' stock and sells it back as they sell, no debt and no… News 14
Oct Epyr raises €15M Series A to electrify industrial heat SlateVC leads a €15M Series A for Epyr, whose firebrick heat batteries already cover a quarter… News
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