26 November 2025: "Europe's part of the technological third world"; Dealroom's European Spinouts Report; and more

Welcome to the bi-weekly “Inside European Deep Tech” newsletter, compiled by Robin Wauters, founder of boutique communications agency Profoundo, COO and board member of the European Startup Network, co-driver at EU–INC and formerly founding editor and CEO of Tech.eu.

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Must-reads

• The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance

• Carl Zeiss’ Tradition of Knowledge in Optics

• Can a fragmented Europe continue to prosper?

• Inside Eindhoven’s microchip innovation machine

• The Authoritarian Stack

• Allied Scale and the Future of the West

• Europe In The Age Of AI: A New Urgency To Solve Entrenched Problems - The Innovator

• When will Europe stop being part of the technological third world?

• The EU promised to lead on regulating artificial intelligence. Now it’s hitting pause.

• EU to ease AI, privacy rules as critics warn of caving to Big Tech, Trump

• UK government announces billions of pounds of AI investment including Sovereign AI Unit

• Funding the AI economy: Strengthening Europe’s investment capacity

• How EU Funding drives Digital Sovereignty

• EU startups commissioner Zaharieva: "There’s a lot of propaganda against the AI act."

• Japan’s €33B bet on Europe: deeptech & AI lead as cross-border investment surges

Insights: data, research, interviews and profiles

• European Spinouts Report - 2025

• State of UK Deep Tech 2025 report

• The EU has selected eight high-growth innovators for EIC STEP Scale Up investments

• EWVC x Evertrace: Female founders reshaping Europe’s future 🌟 | November Edition

• 8 innovative start-ups from Ireland making waves

• Meet Estonia’s top 10 deep tech startups, according to the Estonians | Deep Tech News Europe

• Europe’s Critical Tech Reality Check

• Startups driving Europe’s AI transformation

• How deep tech can create 1 million European jobs

• Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?

• These investors have backed the most European AI unicorns

Opinions worth reading

• Is Spain Europe's AI dark horse?

• The eastern frontier is Europe's new critical deeptech engine

• How France and Europe Can Reclaim Industrial Power - DirectIndustry e-Magazine

• How Europe Can Build—and Keep—Next-Gen Deep-Tech Giants - EE Times Europe

• Europe’s deep tech startups are built like labs, yet still trying to get funded like apps

• How Europe outsourced its future to fear

• Forget large AI models, Europe will win on applications

• Europe needs to deliver tech promise for more years like 2025

Major European deep tech startup and scale-up news

• Autonomous-Truck Company Einride Plans to Go Public in SPAC Deal

• Drone maker Quantum Systems set to close €200m raise led by Balderton

• Vaud, Switzerland-based medtech company Distalmotion has completed a $150 million Series G financing round to support the commercial scaling of its DEXTER surgical robot in the United States

• Nokia and NestAI Announce Strategic Partnership and NestAI Raises €100 Million to Accelerate Physical AI Innovation

• Memory Chip Startup Ferroelectric Raises €100 Million for Energy-Saving Tech

• voize lands $50M to bring AI where it’s needed most: the nursing frontline

• French SpaceTech startup Infinite Orbits lands €40 million for satellite servicing growth

• Swiss startup Delvitech lands $40M for AI-driven electronics inspection

• "One satellite per week" - That's the aim of France's U-Space with its new €24 million raise

• French DeepTech Hummink secures €15 million to bring surgical-level precision to microelectronics manufacturing

• Synerise secures strategic financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB)

Major European deep tech investor news

• Sofinnova Partners secures €650M to back breakthroughs in biopharma and medical technology

• Amsterdam’s Keen Venture Partners announces first close of €150M fund

• France’s Audacia launches €150M fund dedicated to next-gen fuels

• London’s Backed VC closes $100M fund to back deep tech founders

• Oyster Bay closes €100M Fund II for next-gen food startups

• Vendep Capital raises €80M to back the next wave of AI-era SaaS founders

• Spain’s Ship2B Ventures achieves €65m first close for blended impact fund

• Day One Capital Launches New €45M Pre-Seed & Seed Fund to Back CEE Startups

• Aramco Ventures Establishes European AI Hub in Paris, Signaling Major Investment Push

• UK’s biggest backer of VC funds eyes more defence deals

• ElevenLabs investor Carles Reina raises $15m solo GP fund to back defence and AI startups

• BRYCK Boosts Deeptech Startups with New €10M Fund

• NATO's NIF Names Erin Hallock Its Newest Partner

In other links

• Cambridge and Oxford star as European DeepTech and Life Science spinouts hit $398bn valuation

• Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company

• Switzerland leads Europe in deep tech and life sciences startups

• EIC fund delivers first step scale-up investments to boost strategic European technologies

• How EQT uses AI to see the startup world differently

• Norrsken teams with tech giants to launch world’s largest AI-for-good hackathon

• Space powers: how critical technologies are emerging from public-private partnerships

• Klaus Hommels: the divisive VC at the centre of European defence tech

• Japanese investors turn to Europe as deep tech boom lures capital abroad

• Scaling Deep Tech in Automotive: What CVCs Look for

• Matt Clifford: It’s rational for British founders to move to the US

• Larry Ellison scales back £10bn Oxford science institute in leadership rift

• Commission hopes to open up Horizon Europe to more newcomers

• European Investment Bank Group expands support for tech innovation in Poland

• Europe’s carmakers face ‘devastating’ chip crisis as Nexperia supply crunch continues

• Einstein Telescope as a catalyst for Dutch deep tech

• Oura could reach 'close to $2 billion' in 2026 sales, almost doubling for the second consecutive year

• Infineon Shares Climb After Chip Maker Forecasts Return to Sales Growth On Booming AI Demand

• Baltic nations agree collaboration on microchip innovation

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