European AI companies raised over €5.3 billion in 2025, with strong investor activity across foundation models, defence AI, enterprise automation and applied AI startups targeting healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and customer support.
European AI companies raised over €5.3 billion during 2025, with capital heavily concentrated among a small
group of companies led by Mistral AI, Helsing, Black Forest Labs, Synthesia,
ElevenLabs and n8n.
While foundation models, defence AI and generative media
attracted some of the year’s largest rounds, the broader market also showed
AI infrastructure, high-performance computing and enterprise applications were the big winners in Q1 investment in European…
The chip giant became a dominant player in startup investing last year. It took part in 14 funding rounds, up from seven in 2024.
Il valore medio dei deal è salito dell’86% rispetto allo scorso anno a 49,3 milioni di dollari
French AI startup Mistral said it will invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.43 billion) into digital infrastructure projects in Sweden.
More than a third of the €66.2bn worth of VC deals in Europe were in AI-related companies
AI leads investment, with the UK and France dominating fundraising despite a marginal month-on-month dip.
