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Funding 🇬🇧Sep 11, 2026 Canterbury Christ Church University wins £200,000 grant to close robotics skills gap

Robotics🇸🇪Sep 11, 2026 HMS Networks bids €21M for Spanish hotel-tech firm Robot

M&AFintech🇩🇪Sep 11, 2026 Mountain Alliance buys into UK defence-tech startup Evolved Aerospace

🇩🇪Sep 10, 2026 Hélène Huby’s bet on European space sovereignty

M&ARobotics🇵🇱Sep 10, 2026 ETC sells Polish subsidiary ETC-PZL to Polsport, keeps 10-year supply tie

FundingEducation🇫🇷Sep 10, 2026 Ed.ai lands €5M seed to scale AI grading in France and the US

🇹🇷Sep 10, 2026 CoreX takes 77.73% controlling stake in Türkiye's Polisan Holding

FundingSemiconductors🇬🇧Sep 9, 2026 KVector raises £3.8m seed to build low-power radar antennas

FundingSecurity🇬🇧Sep 9, 2026 SCI Semiconductor raises £5m for memory-safe chips

IPOsHealth🇩🇪Sep 9, 2026 Freudenberg buys Denmark's Nilfisk for $580M, ending stock listing

Telecom🇳🇱Sep 9, 2026 Gimv Anchor takes stake in €342M Dutch industrial firm Batenburg

FundingEnergy🇫🇷Sep 9, 2026 Kepplair Evolution raises €6 million to build European water bombers

FundingSemiconductors🇬🇧Sep 9, 2026 Quantinuum secures $100M in federal CHIPS funding to scale quantum computing

M&AEnergy🇮🇹Sep 8, 2026 Ariston buys 83% of Vietnam's Mutosi to enter water purification

FundingEnergy🇬🇧Sep 8, 2026 Doncasters closes $330M refinancing after June IPO

FundingRobotics🇩🇪Sep 8, 2026 Ground A raises €9.1M pre-seed to bring laser drone-killer to market

M&AEnergy🇨🇦Sep 8, 2026 Laserax buys majority stake in Germany's SLCR Lasertechnik

FundingHealth🇨🇭Sep 8, 2026 Infera Neuro lands $62,000 FONGIT grant to build brain-computer chips

FundingSpace🇩🇪Sep 8, 2026 The Exploration Company raises $450M in Europe's biggest space Series C

InvestorsEnergy🇨🇿Sep 8, 2026 Strnad's defence fund raises $170M, beats first target

FundingSecurity🇨🇾Sep 7, 2026 Theon secures $380M facility as defense backlog hits €1.46B

FundingSecurity🇬🇧Sep 7, 2026 Uforce eyes $500M Series A at $5B valuation to arm NATO with combat drones

M&ASecurity🇫🇷Sep 7, 2026 Groupe RG buys Italy's Morganti to expand European safety-gear lead

🇨🇭Sep 7, 2026 Five new startups to watch, from firefighting drones to cancer screening

Semiconductors🇭🇺Sep 7, 2026 Czechoslovak Group closes 36.55% stake in Hungary's Rába

Investors 🇬🇧Sep 7, 2026 Molten Ventures hits £175M first close on growth fund, targets £350M

M&ASemiconductors🇸🇪Sep 7, 2026 Hexagon takes full ownership of China's ZG Technology

FundingEnergy🇨🇭Sep 7, 2026 Swiss deeptech Jaipur Robotics raises $5.1M seed to automate waste-to-energy plants

ProductsSpace🇩🇪Sep 6, 2026 Isar Aerospace reaches orbit with Spectrum rocket

Space🇩🇪Sep 5, 2026 ESA awards Rocket Factory Augsburg $220M launch grant

M&ASecurity🇫🇷Sep 5, 2026 MBDA's GDI Simulation buys AGENIUM to build 120-person defence AI firm

M&AEnergy🇩🇰Sep 5, 2026 Rite-Hite buys Danish ventilation maker KE Fibertec

🇬🇧Sep 4, 2026 Seraphim launches new space technology ETF across European exchanges

M&ASemiconductors🇫🇷Sep 4, 2026 France's NanoXplore buys chipmaker Scalinx to build European microelectronics champion

M&AReal Estate🇫🇷Sep 4, 2026 VINCI Energies buys France's SECAL, an €30M lifting-equipment group, from Isatis Capital

M&ATelecom🇫🇷Sep 4, 2026 Orange buys Dome to expand secure private 5G for defence

Investors 🇪🇸Sep 4, 2026 PHI opens €150M fourth fund with acquisition of German aluminium maker ALJO

FundingRobotics🇫🇷Sep 4, 2026 Drone Volt raises $2.7M to fund high-margin push after €50M order

Enterprise Software🇫🇮Sep 4, 2026 Ex-Nokia engineers' defence startup Creoir raises seed round from Sweden's Gungnir Capital

FundingSpace🇨🇭Sep 4, 2026 Stellar Alpina lands $176K grant to shrink in-space rocket engines

M&AGaming🇺🇸Sep 4, 2026 Corsair completes Fanatec buyout after Endor insolvency, vows supply-chain fix

FundingMedia🇳🇱Sep 4, 2026 NXP lands $250M EIB loan to expand Malaysia chip plants

Semiconductors🇵🇱Sep 4, 2026 Romania's Arobs sells satellite unit Arobs Polska to Poland's WB Electronics

Robotics🇩🇪Sep 3, 2026 NRW.BANK backs its first defence startup with €1M round for Skylance

FundingRobotics🇩🇪Sep 3, 2026 Munich's Project-S exits stealth with seed round to track space debris

FundingSecurity🇩🇪Sep 3, 2026 VisionSpace lands €300K grant to build its own satellite computer

IPOsRobotics🇧🇪Sep 2, 2026 Drone Volt takes stake in Bruges drone startup Sol.One as IPO looms

FundingRobotics🇺🇦Sep 2, 2026 Ukraine's Vyriy raises $22M in bonds in 20 days from 24,000 investors

FundingEnergy🇬🇧Sep 2, 2026 Quantum Blockchain raises £350K to fund crypto-mining and quantum research

M&AEnergy🇬🇧Sep 2, 2026 Perth's Nexxis buys UK wind-turbine robotics firm BladeBUG