i5invest Europe || EU Tech M&A Tracker

OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Financial Services automates LBO modeling, buyer screening, earnings analysis and pitchbook creation with source citations....

European AI founders gain three structural edges despite unicorn relocation risks:

• Deep technical talent from 27% STEM university enrollment and...

A €760 million ESA contract signed days after The Exploration Company's $450 million raise is accelerating its push into reusable cargo services and...

Blackstone is acquiring Flow Control Holdings, a maker of liquid cooling components for high-density AI data centers, through its private equity and...

Anthropic's private valuation—now estimated at $1.05–1.5 trillion after a $965 billion Series H—reflects share scarcity and AI-market frenzy more than...

Brenntag's M&A team uses Grata's natural language search to start with a global list of 15,000 companies and narrow it to 500 via 2-3 filters in...

Milan-based Lexroom is acquiring French legal research platform Query Juriste and Bulgarian provider Praven Intelekt to bring its AI-powered research,...

Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Fin, integrating the AI customer agent platform with its 76% resolution rate, 30,000+ customers, and...

Startup exit horizons are splitting by industry. AI-hardware companies now exit in a 4.7-year median, while late-stage venture-backed firms stretch to...

Canada-EU talks on critical raw materials, energy and defense create fresh openings for European tech and infrastructure investors.

• Critical...

Thales Alenia Space's €500 million deal with Eutelsat for IRIS² marks a key step in building Europe's sovereign satellite communications...

US investors are pouring larger cheques into Europe's AI, defence and strategic tech sectors, drawn by growing opportunities in the continent's...

Microsoft's Edge browser remains exempt from the EU Gatekeeper regime, following an update that includes Opera's response.

Founders owning 25% of a ₹2,000 crore company hold stakes worth six times more than those with 80% of a ₹100 crore firm. The real goal is healthy dilution that grows total enterprise value, not minimising ownership percentage alone.

Epiris's £1.08bn take-private of Gamma Communications and Yellow Wood's $1bn purchase of Nestlé's VMS platform underscore continued sponsor appetite for both UK tech public-to-private deals and corporate portfolio carve-outs.

Schindler sold its Berlin-based AI real estate startup BuildingMinds to Zurich's Lookthrough, becoming the acquirer's largest institutional...

Neura Robotics' rapid M&A push is assembling a physical AI platform through targeted European robotics acquisitions.

• Fifth acquisition in 16...

UK fintech funding collapsed to a decade-low £1.8bn in H1'26, yet AI-related deals rose to £445m (25% share) from £382m. This split, paired with PE...

US corporate investment is projected to rise 40% in real terms by end-2026, versus just 12% in the euro area. This widening gap may depress European startup growth and exit valuations while making targets more attractive to US acquirers.

Global M&A reached US$2.8 trillion in H1 2026 with the lowest quarterly deal count in a decade, as capital flowed only to assets offering scale, infrastructure control, regulated access or proprietary data. Generic exposure was ignored.