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🚀 This Week in Global VC 🚀 𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝟵.𝟲𝗯𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 across 𝟰𝟱𝟮 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗵! Helsinki brought the snowstorms, but the AI deal flow brought the heat. Catch the top highlights below and dive deeper into this week’s venture landscape in our investment team’s newsletter! Link in the comments. 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 • Anthropic | USA | Series C | EUR 3.73bn | LLM models for advanced AI • Odoo | Belgium | Series D | EUR 500m | Open-source business tools • Lighthouse | UK | Series C | EUR 344m | Hotel data intelligence • Zepto | India | Series D | EUR 326m | Instant grocery delivery • Cyera | USA | Series D | EUR 279m | Data security platform • HealthKart | India | Series F | EUR 142m | Nutritional supplements • Enveda | USA | Series C | EUR 121m | AI drug discovery • Cresta | USA | Series D | EUR 116m | AI-enhanced customer experience • Enfabrica | USA | Series C | EUR 107m | AI-focused networking tech • Aquaria | USA | Series B | EUR 104m | Renewable water solutions 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 • General Catalyst | USA | 6 Investments • Andreessen Horowitz | USA | 5 Investments • Cisco Investments | USA | 5 Investments • Sequoia Capital | USA | 5 Investments • Spark Capital | USA | 5 Investments • Y Combinator | USA | 5 Investments • Pacific Channel| New Zealand | 4 Investments • Accel | USA | 3 Investments • Alumni Ventures | USA | 3 Investments • Antler | Singapore | 3 Investments

🚀 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗖 🚀 𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝟳.𝟮𝗯𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 across 𝟰𝟵𝟭 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 AI’s record-breaking streak keeps going – this week, it’s not OpenAI but 11x, pulling in USD 50m for a Series B just two months after a USD 24m Series A. More on this week in venture investing below and in our investment team's newsletter. Check out the link in the comments! 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 • GreenScale | UK | Early Stage | EUR 1.2bn | Sustainable data center infra • Wonder | US | Series C | EUR 878m | Cloud kitchen platform  • Ualá | Argentina | Series E | EUR 286m | Digital banking for accessible finance • Neo Financial | Canada | Series D | EUR 240m | Banking services with rewards and savings • Metsera | US | Series B | EUR 199m | Biopharma for metabolic diseases • Writer | US | Series C | EUR 185m | GenAI for on-brand content • Alentis Therapeutics | Switzerland | Series D | EUR 168m | Cancer and fibrosis treatments • Firefly Aerospace | US | Series D | EUR 162m | Affordable orbital launch vehicles • Skydio | US | Series E | EUR 157m | AI-powered drones  • CHAOS Industries | US | Series B | EUR 134m | Defense-focused tech solutions 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 • Google Cloud Platform | US | 7 Investments • Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co.,Ltd. | Japan | 7 Investments • Y Combinator | US | 7 Investments • Andreessen Horowitz | US | 6 Investments • Global Brain Corporation | Japan | 6 Investments • Google for Startups | US | 6 Investments • Pfizer INDovation Program | India | 6 Investments • The Catalyst Accelerator | US | 6 Investments • GV (Google Ventures) | US | 5 Investments • 500 Global | US | 4 Investments

Exciting Milestone for Alaiko! 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that our portfolio company Alaiko has joined forces with Zenfulfillment®! Together, they’re set to lead the way in tech-driven D2C fulfillment across Europe. Combining Alaiko’s tech expertise, fresh backing from Moguntia Capital and Zenfulfillment’s innovative solutions—like the robotics-powered Zenrush® 1-day delivery—the merger is poised to raise the bar for speed, efficiency, and customer experience in European e-commerce. We proudly support this strategic move and can't wait to see what the future holds in store. Here’s to the next chapter of growth and industry innovation! 💥 For more details check out the press release in the comments.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗖 🚀 𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝟮.𝟭𝗯𝗻 invested across 𝟯𝟮𝟭 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 Last week’s US elections have been stirring the waters in Venture Capital. Especially Crypto is having its moment, as BTC cracks USD 80,000. For more check out our investment team's newsletter and recent take on how US elections may impact VC. And for the Blockchain curious: be sure to have a look at Heliad Crypto Partners' latest DeFi spotlight: fija Finance. Links in the comments! 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 • Castee, Inc.| Series A | EUR 368m | Social collaboration platform for creators • Auder | Seed | EUR 111m | Order and shipment management platform • Crytocoin | Early Stage | EUR 92m | Cryptocurrency cloud mining platform • DeepRoute.ai | Series C | EUR 92m | L4 self-driving autonomous vehicles • ZAP Surgical Systems, Inc. | Series E | EUR 72m | Radio surgical robots • GROW Inc | Series D | EUR 61m | Savings and investment management platform • PowerX, Inc. | Series C | EUR 58m | Power vessels transporting energy • AmplifyBio | Early Stage | EUR 46m | Therapy discovery R&D platform • Clearcover | Late Stage | EUR 40m | Digital car insurance platform • Crimson Education | Series D | EUR 37m @ EUR 518m pre-money | Tutoring programs 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 • University of Toronto Entrepreneurship | Canada | 5 Investments • Cowin Venture Capital | China | 3 Investments • Denmark's Export and Investment Fund | Denmark | 3 Investments • Panasonic Accelerator | Japan | 3 Investments • Speciale Invest | India | 3 Investments • 8VC | US | 2 Investments • Antler | Singapore | 2 Investments • Accel | US | 2 Investments • Collaborative Fund | US | 2 Investments • FJ Labs | US | 2 Investments

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗖 🚀 𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝟱.𝟭𝗯𝗻 invested across 𝟰𝟬𝟯 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 Investors poured EUR 11.5bn into start-ups over the summer—Q4 will need to be busy one if H2 is supposed to compete with H1's EUR 47.6bn haul. Curious to hear your predictions—can Q4 pick up the summer slack? Want more Venture Capital updates and see what we are thinking about? Check out our investment team's newsletter! https://lnkd.in/ehaNFKbV 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 • Insider. | Turkey | EUR 459m | Online marketing platform leveraging AI • Crusoe | US | EUR 457m | Mobile modular data centers repurposing energy • BETA TECHNOLOGIES| US | EUR 291m | Net zero, all-electric air transport • Seaport Therapeutics | US | EUR 207m | Neuropsychiatric BioTech • Sierra | US | EUR 159m | Conversational enterprise AI agents • Melio | US | EUR 137m | Digital B2B payments platform • Finova Capital | India | EUR 123m | Small volume credit financing • SynOx Therapeutics | Ireland | EUR 116m | Monoclonal antibody treatment • Evommune | US | EUR 105m | Inflammatory disease treatment • Axonis Therapeutics | US | EUR 105m | Neurological disorder therapy 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 • Alumni Ventures | US | 4 Investments • Applied Ventures| US | 4 Investments • European Innovation Council Fund | Belgium | 4 Investments • General Catalyst | US | 4 Investments • Khosla Ventures | US | 4 Investments • Global Brain Corporation | Japan | 3 Investments • Goodwater | US | 3 Investments • HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds | Germany | 3 Investments • IBB Ventures | Germany | 3 Investments • Lightspeed | US | 3 Investments

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗖 🚀 𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝟱.𝟱𝗯𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱  across 𝟰𝟮𝟭 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 No AI deals amongst the Top 10 this week. But action signals are on the horizon — Perplexity is reportedly eyeing a USD 500m round at an USD 8bn pre-money valuation. Meanwhile, former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is said to raise than USD 100m for her new venture. Link to the full stories in the comments. 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 • Praxis | US | EUR 474m | Skill-centric residential society developer • X-energy | US | EUR 452m | Developer of SMRs and Fuel Technology • Treeline Biosciences | US | EUR 381m | Precision drug discovery platform • Lightmatter | US | EUR 362m | Light-powered chip manufacturer • Koloma | US | EUR 267m | Data driven identification of clean hydrogen  • Blockstream | Canada | EUR 189m | Sidechain based blockchain infrastructure • Eruditus Executive Education | Singapore | EUR 136m | Executive education  • Observe, Inc.| US | EUR 131m | Incident troubleshooting SaaS for DevOps needs • Ocean-sky Silkroad Satellite | China | EUR 128m | Satellite communication • Terray Therapeutics | US | EUR 108m | Precision chemical datasets 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 • Andreessen Horowitz | US | 5 Investments • Accel | US | 4 Investments • Founders Factory | UK | 4 Investments • Trust Valley | Switzerland | 4 Investments • Y Combinator | US | 4 Investments • Firestreak Ventures | US | 3 Investments • University of Melbourne Genesis Pre-Seed | Australia | 3 Investments • GV (Google Ventures) | US | 3 Investments • Scale Venture Partners | US | 3 Investments • Soma Capital | US | 3 Investments Want to get all of this and more on Sundays?  Check out our investment team's newsletter! https://lnkd.in/ehaNFKbV

Learn from the best! 🍋 Max and Alex share amazing insights in this masterclass episode on Startup Insider. With lemon.markets and Holvi as partners, businesses can now make the most of their idle cash. To find out how companies can transform their liquidity management check out the episode below! https://lnkd.in/eerMdZa5

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗖 🚀 𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝟰.𝟵𝗯𝗻 invested  across 𝟰𝟳𝟭 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 Clean Energy gets fresh funding and innovative FinTech solutions continue to thrive! Big Shoutout to our portfolio company Nelly Solutions for making it in the top 10 this week. First of many! 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 • Form Energy | US | Energy Storage | EUR 365m • Northvolt | SE | Energy Storage | EUR 200m  • Writer | US | GenAI | EUR 180m • ASAAS | BR | FinTech | EUR 134m • City Therapeutics | US | Life Sciences | EUR 122m • EvenUp | US | Legal AI | EUR 122m   • Nalu Medical, Inc. | US | MedTech | EUR 104m  • Q-CTRL | AU | Quantum Computing | EUR 102m • GROPYUS | AT | Real Estate | EUR 100m • Nelly Solutions | DE | Health + FinTech | EUR 100m 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 • Seraphim Space | UK | 11 Investments • Y Combinator | US | 7 Investments • Alumni Ventures | US | 6 Investments • Lightspeed | US | 4 Investments • Sequoia Capital | US | 4 Investments • Speedinvest | AT | 4 Investments • Accel | US | 3 Investments • Bpifrance | FR | 3 Investments Want to get all of this and more on Sundays?  Check out our investment team's newsletter! https://lnkd.in/ehaNFKbV

Breakfast of Champions, Unicorns and Soonicorns! 🦄 What a way to kick-off the day and keep the Collective Ventures momentum rolling since integrating with Heliad AG! Yesterday, we shared the most important meal of the day with many friends and fresh faces at one of our favorite Berlin gems: Lucy's. Big thanks to everyone to who came out and a special shoutout to Niklas for his amazing opening words, highlighting what makes Nelly Solutions and Collective Ventures a great match! No better way to spark a morning full of insights and buzzing conversations. For those of you who couldn't make it: Stay tuned! This was the first of many - plenty more to come 💫 Can't wait for the next event to get in touch? Reach out to the team anytime! Nicolaus Cecil Julian Falk Philip Caspar

Milestone achieved!! 🚀 Thrilled to announce Nelly Solutions has secured EUR 100m from their new partners at Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG to finance the healthcare systems of tomorrow! Exclusive Opportunity: Join us at tomorrow's Collective Ventures Breakfast where Niklas unveils his vision for the future of healthcare. Limited seats remaining! Don't miss out—ping us directly or reach out to Philip Kurzrock to reserve your last-minute spot!