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Global Switch inks 10-year solar corporate PPA with Drax in UK

by dcdJune 3, 2026

Edinburgh-based Wordsmith raises €60.2 million Series B to scale legal AI platform for in-house teams

by EU StartupsJune 3, 2026

Factorial raises €129 million, reaching €2.1 billion valuation to become on of Europe’s most valuable scale-ups

by EU StartupsJune 3, 2026

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Major estate agency group completes third acquisition in just over a month

Comings & Goings

ASML spin-out Invisix raises €20m to support chip x-ray technology

Italy

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from Aeffe, Intesa SanPaolo, Kasanova, OVS, and more

DISTRESSED ASSETS

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from Aeffe, ArecNeprix, Prelios, illimity, and more

Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from WeRoad, H14, Intesa SanPaolo, Sinergia Venture Fund, P101, Azimut, CDP Venture Capital, and more

Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from WeRoad, DeepTree, Airbnb, CDP, and more

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici, Bain Capital Private Equity, Nexi, F2i, Hellmann & Friedman, Rina, CDP, Arca Space Capital, Apax, and more

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from BeBeez, Metriks AI, Nexi, CDP, CVC, newcleo, NewHold Investment Corp, SSC Napoli, Underdog Global Partners, Ariel Investments, and more

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Gateways to Italy – Offer your services to funds and investors willing to explore opportunities in Italy. Become a partner!

ItaHub

Crypto-assets supervision rules in Italy, Banca d’Italia will supervise payment systems and Consob on market abuse

Crypto-assets supervision rules in Italy, Banca d’Italia will supervise payment systems and Consob on market abuse

by Stefania Peveraro

November 4, 2024

Joint document published by the two authorities clarifying who does what on crypto-assets, following the publication in Italy's Official Gazette...

Italy’s SMEs export toward 260 bn euros in 2025

Italy’s SMEs export toward 260 bn euros in 2025

September 9, 2024

With two months to go before the NPL Directive, in Italy the securitization rebus is still to be unraveled

With two months to go before the NPL Directive, in Italy the securitization rebus is still to be unraveled

EU’s AI Act, like previous rules on technology, looks more defensive than investment-oriented

EU’s AI Act, like previous rules on technology, looks more defensive than investment-oriented

January 9, 2024

Premium

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from PWC, The Italian Government, The EU NPL Secondary Market Directive, and more

Global infrastructures investments will amount to 6.900 billion US Dollars per year by 2050 and data centers will catalize 3000 billion in 5 years, JLL and PwC say

Italy’s venture capital, nearly €2 bn in funding in 2025 (net of Bending Spoon’s venture debt). BeBeez Report

Italy’s venture capital, nearly €2 bn in funding in 2025 (net of Bending Spoon’s venture debt). BeBeez Report

February 3, 2026

Italian private equity accelerates, driven by add-ons. BeBeez reports.

Italian private equity accelerates, driven by add-ons. BeBeez reports.

September 7, 2025

AlixPartners: Automotive, retail and manufacturing sectors may go through restructuring in 2025

AlixPartners: Automotive, retail and manufacturing sectors may go through restructuring in 2025

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DACH

Factorial raises €129 million, reaching €2.1 billion valuation to become on of Europe’s most valuable scale-ups

Spanish HRTech unicorn Factorial is today announcing the closing of a €129 million ($150 million) Series D funding round, propelling...

IQM adds financial commitment from Ilmarinen to its PIPE ahead of SPAC merger

Amazon launches water replenishment projects in Indiana and India

Berlin’s INXM emerges from stealth with €5.7 million to build AI process execution engine for enterprises

Factorial Raises $150M Series D, Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation to Become One of the Most Valuable AI Scale-Ups in Europe

Pure DC inks biomethane purchase agreement to power Dublin, Ireland data center

SEALSQ acquires majority stake in Geneva’s Wecan Group with €5.4 million investment to scale post-quantum financial security solutions

Iberia

Submer launches Rubix Data Centers, claims platform has 8GW powered land portfolio

by dcd

Immersion cooling firm Submer has launched a new data center platform, Rubix Data Centers, and claims to have an 8GW...

Used by Desigual, AWWG and Fútbol Emotion, Spanish AI fashion platform Modelia raises €1.03 million

Modelia, a Madrid-based platform for generating and managing visual assets using AI for the fashion industry, has closed a €1.03...

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Benelux

Etix to acquire Eurofiber’s French data centers

by dcd

Edge data center firm Etix is set to buy four French data centers from fiber firm Eurofiber.The companies this week...

ASML spin-out Invisix raises €20m to support chip x-ray technology

Riverty Establishes Bank in Luxembourg

Alpac Capital and United Group announce agreement for the sale of Adria News Network

France

CEA-Leti and CNRS spin-off Quobly raises €115 million to industrialise silicon-based quantum computers

Quobly secures €115 million Series A to bring silicon-based quantum computers to market

EDF selects SoftBank and Eclairion to deliver AI data center projects at former power stations in France

Scandinavia & Baltics

Vantaa to Present “Future Tech City” Positioning at ARCTIC15 2026

by Arctic Startup

- Advertisement - --> City of Vantaa joins ARCTIC15’s 15th Anniversary Edition as Main Partner to highlight its role in...

Google breaks ground on data center in Horndal, Sweden

Swedish Oplane raises €4.5M seed to automate threat modeling for AI coding teams

ASSA ABLOY acquires Sentinel Dock & Door in Canada

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Global Switch inks 10-year solar corporate PPA with Drax in UK

Data center operator Global Switch has signed a 10-year corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) with Drax Energy Solutions to support ...

June 3, 2026

Edinburgh-based Wordsmith raises €60.2 million Series B to scale legal AI platform for in-house teams

Wordsmith, an Edinburgh-based legal AI startup building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, today announced a €60.2 million ($70 ...

June 3, 2026

Factorial raises €129 million, reaching €2.1 billion valuation to become on of Europe’s most valuable scale-ups

Spanish HRTech unicorn Factorial is today announcing the closing of a €129 million ($150 million) Series D funding round, propelling ...

June 3, 2026

UK’s Oxford Quantum Circuits raises €301 million Series C to scale Quantum-AI data-centre platform

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a UK-based company building quantum computers and a secure, scalable Quantum-AI data-centre platform for enterprise and ...

June 3, 2026

IQM adds financial commitment from Ilmarinen to its PIPE ahead of SPAC merger

IQM Quantum Computers has announced it has upsized its PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) following a commitment from Ilmarinen, ...

June 3, 2026

Amazon launches water replenishment projects in Indiana and India

Amazon has announced its third water replenishment project in Northwest Indiana and another in India.The US project will support the ...

June 3, 2026

Reinventing food waste: 10 European startups creating value from leftovers

European startups are rethinking what happens to food once it leaves the traditional supply chain. What was once seen mainly ...

June 3, 2026

London’s TrueLayer acquires Dutch in3

London’s TrueLayer acquires Dutch in3

London’s scaleup TrueLayer, a firm that Francesco Simoneschi (ceo) and Luca Martinetti (cto) founded in 2016 raising since then 322 million US Dollars, ...

June 3, 2026