A CBInsights Report: The Most Well-Funded Tech Startups In Europe

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  • The top-funded startup in Europe is global communications company OneWeb in the UK, with almost $3.5B in total disclosed equity funding.
  • Rounding out the top 3 most well-funded startups in the region are online payments service provider Klarna in Sweden ($1.1B in disclosed equity funding) and mobile banking platform N26 in Germany ($683M).
  • Eight of the 37 companies featured in our map are unicorns, with disclosed valuations of $1B+ (all tracked in real time on the CB Insights global unicorn club tracker). These unicorns are: Klarna ($5.5B valuation, Sweden), N26 ($3.5B, Germany), BlaBlaCar ($1.6B, France), Vinted ($1.1B, Lithuania), Acronis ($1B, Switzerland), Glovo ($1B, Spain), OutSystems ($1B, Portugal), and Bolt ($1B, Estonia).
  • The region is home to 16 countries whose most well-funded tech startup has raised over $100M in equity funding. Only OneWeb and Klarna have raised more than $1B+ in equity funding.
  • The least well-funded startup on the map is Serbia-based data analysis tool Content Insights, which has raised $3.6M.
  • Since our last update of this map in April, only 1 featured startup has exited: Switzerland-based Veeam Software, which was acquired by VC firm Insight Partners in January 2020 at a valuation of $5B+.
Source: CBInsights
STARTUP CONTINENT: THE MOST WELL-FUNDED TECH STARTUPS IN EUROPE
Company Country  Total Equity Funding ($M)
OneWeb United Kingdom 3469
Klarna Sweden 1122
N26 Germany 683
Glovo Spain 513
BlaBlaCar France 449
OutSystems Portugal 422
Picnic Netherlands 329
Vinted Lithuania 260
RELEX Solutions Finland 222
AMCS Group Ireland 202
Trustpilot Denmark 179
Acronis Switzerland 178
Bolt Estonia 177
Tricentis Austria 174
DocPlanner Group Poland 137
Odoo Belgium 104
Job Today Luxembourg 81
ivi Russian Federation 81
Kolonial.no Norway 61
AImotive Hungary 51
Satispay Italy 50
Mews Systems Czech Republic 42
PDFfiler Ukraine 30
Lidyana Turkey 25.17
Capital.com Cyprus 25
Netdata Greece 21
Software Group Bulgaria 17
FintechOS Romania 16
Gambling.com Group Malta 16
Banuba Belarus 12
Minit Slovakia 11
TripCreator Iceland 10
Gjirafa Albania 8.7
Mintos Latvia 7.8
Gideon Brothers Croatia 5.7
Eligma Slovenia 4.4
Content Insights Serbia 3.6