Today I want to share an announcement that means a great deal to me, and I wanted to do it with you personally.When I bought Tech.eu back in 2021 from my old friend Robin Wauters and the investors of that period, we set ourselves a simple goal: to keep a finger on the pulse of Europe's technology ecosystem. We have worked hard at it ever since, and we are still at it. We have spent these years trying to connect Europe and the regions around it, looking for ways to build more synergy across the ecosystem, coming up with ideas, putting them into practice, and never really stopping.You have known for years that funding news is one of the areas where Tech.eu has real depth. We share that data with you regularly in our reports and our newsletters, and we will keep doing that. But something was missing. And I do not think that gap was only ours. I think it was a gap in the ecosystem as a whole, and we rolled up our sleeves to close it.
The headline totals with the full FX reconciliation: every amount is recomputed in euros at the ECB rate on the round's date and checked against the stored figure — 99.4% high-confidence, landing within 0.29% of the original.
Today I am happy to share the Tech.eu Funding Explorer with you. We have taken Tech.eu's database, built up over years, and given it an interface you can actually explore. It holds 51,352 funding rounds, 38,147 companies, 30,176 investors and 8,743 exits, along with around €692 billion in disclosed funding and a lot of finer detail underneath. Every round is connected to its company, its investors, its sector and the source behind it, and on top of that the Explorer reads its own data to produce signals and to write AI reports and analysis. There is much more to come, and the whole thing is open to all of you, completely free.
