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Banca Sistema has completed a EUR 53 million funding transaction tied to its Janus securitisation, selling mezzanine and junior notes to third-party investors after receiving Bank of Italy clearance.
Banca SistemaSpanish HR software scale-up Factorial has acquired Berlin-based Empion, adding AI-driven candidate and employee assessments as a new platform capability as it pushes deeper into Germany.
FactorialBritish Business Bank is funding Molten Ventures with EUR 203 million, adding state-backed firepower to UK and European growth-stage tech investing.
Molten VenturesEstonian company Frankenburg Technologies has secured EUR 30 million in new funding, underscoring Europe’s accelerating flow of private capital into defense and other strategic technologies.
Frankenburg TechnologiesIntera Partners-backed Suvia Group has acquired AutoRepairGroup, establishing its first footprint outside Finland and adding Belgium’s largest independent body repair network to its platform.
Intera PartnersAmsterdam-based enterprise AI startup Wonderful raised $550 million (~EUR 509m) in a Series C led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce and a broad VC syndicate participating.
Wonderful fundingValsa Group, backed by Aksìa Capital V, has acquired Italian specialty bakery producer I Maestri del Forno in an add-on deal. Sellers rolled a minority stake, reinforcing Aksìa’s buy-and-build play in premium bakery.
AksìaValencia-based iPremom has raised EUR 15 million in a seed round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with Asabys Partners and APEX Ventures participating, to advance early pregnancy risk detection testing.
iPremomThe British Business Bank has committed up to £46 million (~EUR 55m) to Zinc Capital Management for a new deeptech fund, adding more capital to UK early-stage technology financing.
British Business BankPolish healthcare venture Science4Beauty has secured a EUR 1.6 million funding round backed by 4growth VC and Hard2beat. Terms, valuation, and use of proceeds were not disclosed.
Science4BeautyScannell Properties has acquired a 13,345 sq m site in Cabiate, Italy, to develop a build-to-suit production facility for Dometic Marine. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Scannell PropertiesValencia-based iPronics raised EUR 125 million to scale silicon-photonics optical circuit switching aimed at easing networking bottlenecks inside AI data-center clusters.
iPronicsUK AI group Pri0r1ty Intelligence has acquired the operating assets of employee benefits platform Pirkx from administrators, using a £50,000 upfront payment plus a capped royalty structure.
Pri0r1ty IntelligenceGenerali Real Estate has moved to acquire a minority stake in Italian real estate manager REAM. Financial terms have not been disclosed, with governance and strategic intent now in focus.
Generali Real EstateMindful Capital Partners and minority shareholder Berrier Capital have exited Italian single-use medical devices maker Sidam via a sale to Plastiflex Group, strengthening the buyer’s fluid-management platform.
SidamItalian foodtech Foorban has raised EUR 7.2 million in a funding round fully subscribed by IMPACT Partners. The financing underlines investors’ selective appetite for defensible, operations-led models in food services.
FoorbanDutch semiconductor metrology player Nearfield Instruments has closed a $380m Series D led by Fidelity, with Temasek and QIA among participants. The round underlines rising late-stage capital for European deep-tech tied to semiconductor equipment.
Nearfield InstrumentsUK healthcare startup Pharosyn has secured EUR 2.5 million in funding to build a competitive-intelligence platform for pharmaceutical teams. Moonfire, Entrepreneurs First, Transpose Platform and General Advance participated.
PharosynSwiss email security vendor xorlab has raised EUR 5 million from a syndicate led by existing backer Spicehaus Partners to expand across regulated European markets.
xorlab fundingCianfrocca Trasporti has acquired Italy-based Green Planet Logistics for EUR 200 million, betting on scale and a broader intermodal logistics footprint. Terms beyond headline value were not disclosed.
Cianfrocca TrasportiNuveen has announced the acquisition of private credit manager Arcmont Asset Management, deepening its European direct lending push. Terms were not disclosed.
NuveenApax Digital has agreed to become majority shareholder in UK fintech Wematch, backing its push to digitise securities finance workflows and expand internationally.
Apax DigitalGerman photonics start-up INLEAP Photonics has secured a EUR 20 million seed round led by UVC Partners to scale production of laser-based counter-drone systems for defence and critical infrastructure.
INLEAP PhotonicsMondeVita has acquired a strategic majority stake in Milan-based Underscore District, the brand accelerator behind Magliano, GR10K and WOK Store, as it builds an Italian luxury platform.
MondeVitaCloover has secured an EIF-backed guarantee to scale financing for residential solar and heat pump installs across Europe, de-risking a capital-intensive installer-led distribution model.
ClooverSearchlight Capital has agreed to invest in Swedish technology company Aderian. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Searchlight CapitalFinlogic has acquired labels producer CP Serigrafica, its 21st deal, to add capacity and deepen its footprint in central Italy as labeling consolidation continues.
FinlogicSkanska has agreed to exit its Business Link flexible workspace operation in Poland in a deal valued at EUR 20 million, underscoring developers’ reshaping of office strategies toward flex-led services.
SkanskaMubadala has committed up to EUR 600 million to two ADD Capital-managed real estate funds targeting European living assets, including an Italy-focused vehicle. The move underlines sovereign appetite for residential strategies amid Europe’s housing shortage.
MubadalaItalian consumer company ARAV has secured a EUR 6 million financing from Tyche Bank. The funding adds fresh capacity as lenders keep a tight focus on credit quality in discretionary categories.
ARAVBanco BPM has provided EUR 9.5 million in acquisition financing to support Fornopronto’s purchase of 100% of Panificio Stefani Group, underscoring debt-backed consolidation in Italy’s fragmented bakery market.
Banco BPMArgos Fund-backed Axitea has acquired Digitronica.IT, a Verona-based software specialist in integrated security management. The deal extends Axitea’s 2026 acquisition run as Italian security and cyber demand continues to rise.
Argos FundMML Capital has agreed a 27% minority investment in offshore professional services group Mourant. The deal adds fresh private equity capital to a legal-adjacent platform serving cross-border funds and sponsors.
MML CapitalAdvanced Electric Machines has raised £16 million (~EUR 19m) from a climate-and-innovation investor group to push rare-earth-free motor designs from development into scaled manufacturing.
Advanced Electric MachinesSweden's Monava has raised an undisclosed funding round led by Gungnir Capital, with Foundry Ventures and Hede Capital participating, to scale commercialisation of its passive acoustic counter-drone system as European defence demand rises.
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