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222 spinouts, €4.9bn raised: Europe’s top universities for spinout funding in H1 2026
Europe’s university spinouts pulled in close to €4.9b in the first half of 2026 — with just a handful of blockbuster companies accounting for a disproportionate share of that total. Sifted analysed 222 (disclosed) funding rounds across Europe in H1, tracing each back to the lab, department or tech transfer office it came from. As may be expected, Oxford and Cambridge comfortably top the rankings, with both universities producing more than a dozen rounds in H1, spread across quantum, biotech and deeptech. Aalto University lands in third place with €502.9m raised but €450m of that is a single company, satellite […]






