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Thursday 8 October 2026

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Bpifrance is the most active European public investor. The ten European public investors that joined the most VC rounds directly since January 2021: Bpifrance (817 rounds, an estimated €3.2B of its own money, 17 unicorns backed), the EIC Fund, Enterprise Ireland, HTGF, British Business Bank, CD

Since January 2021, Bpifrance has joined 817 VC rounds directly, putting in an estimated €3.2B of its own money and backing 17 unicorns. The chart ranks the ten most active European public investors, with each one's own investment, the total size of the rounds they joined and how much of it went to deep tech.

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  • Venture builder for cross-border deep technology ventures.

  • LedgebrookBoston$200M Late VC

    An InsurTech MGA on a mission is to bring Specialty insurance into the modern era. Led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management.

  • MatchpointWatertown$150M Series B

    Designing a new era of precision covalent medicines informed by breakthroughs in ultradeep chemoproteomics and machine learning. Backed by Nextech Invest and Norwest Venture Partners.

By country

  • US$70B
  • China$6.7B
  • France$4.7B
  • UK$3.6B
  • India$1.3B
  • Netherlands$1.2B

By sector

  • Enterprise software$49B
  • Health$9.7B
  • Security$8.1B
  • Energy$7.9B
  • Transportation$6.9B
  • Semiconductors$6.9B

$97B across 2,200 rounds in September, by headquarters and by sector.

  • MeltySan Francisco$125K raised

    AI-powered platform for game modification and creation.

    DMDavid Miller founded it after studying at Columbia University.

  • AI-powered, eligibility-first scholarship search engine.

    ASArman Singhal

  • Clinical workflow platform turning care-team requests into accountable commitments with evidence-backed closure.

    BACCBJ Adesoji & Chris Collins founded it. Adesoji worked at IBM and Crest Agro Products Farms.

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