Europe’s startup ecosystem has grown significantly over the past decade, with more companies achieving billion-dollar valuations. According to Atomico’s State of European Tech report, 11 ecosystems that had no unicorns in 2015 now have at least one.
Investment activity remains high, with European startups securing $18.2B across 1,638 funding rounds in Q3 2025, surpassing the $15.8B raised in Q1 and $14.1B in Q2.
Some of the largest funding rounds in Q3 were led by CityFibre, Revolut, Mistral AI, and Nscale, highlighting telecom, fintech, and AI as the sectors attracting the most capital. This influx of funding is fueling rapid growth, with many high-growth companies actively expanding their teams and opening exciting opportunities for top talent.
Today, we are highlighting some of the biggest funding rounds of the quarter — and the companies currently hiring.
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Note: Certain details of these startups, such as founders’ names and the funding amount, have been sourced from Dealroom.
Revolut
Founder/s: Nikolay Storonsky, Vladyslav Yatsenko
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $2B
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Revolut has set a goal to make spending, transferring, saving, investing, borrowing, and managing money possible in just a few taps. The company currently supports more than 60 million personal customers and over 500,000 business customers in 160-plus countries and regions.
Since its founding in 2015, Revolut has worked to build a platform that removes friction in financial services. In recent years, it has processed over $1T in customer transactions.
Mistral AI
Founder/s: Timothée Lacroix, Guillaume Lample, Arthur Mensch
HQ: Paris, France
Funding raised: €2B
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Mistral AI is a platform that assembles teams to develop generative AI models. The French company aims to develop new models of generative artificial intelligence for companies, combining scientific excellence, an open-source approach, and a socially responsible vision of technology.
Nscale
Founder/s: Josh Payne
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $1.1B in Series B, $433M in a Pre-Series C SAFE round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Nscale is a global provider of advanced AI infrastructure, designed for high-security needs. The company provides vertically integrated compute, networking, storage, managed software and AI services delivered in Nscale-owned and colocated data centres.
With its fully integrated AI tools and new data centres in Europe and North America, Nscale helps customers efficiently train, fine-tune, and run AI applications at scale.
CityFibre
Founder/s: Led by CEO Simon Holden
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: £2.3B (approximately €2.6B)
Hiring: Yes, apply here
CityFibre is constructing an open-access fibre network designed for modern data needs. The company focuses on improving communities in the UK by providing better digital services, supporting businesses, and contributing to the economy.
CityFibre works with major Internet Service Providers and mobile operators, including TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone, and Zen, as well as smaller providers. This allows them to offer fast and reliable broadband, Ethernet, and mobile connections to homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals.
Currently, CityFibre has connected nearly two million premises, and its rollout program aims to eventually serve one-third of the UK, providing access for approximately 8 million homes, 800,000 businesses, 400,000 local authority sites, and 250,000 5G access points.
IQM
Founder/s: Jan Goetz, Juha Vartiainen, Kuan Yen Tan, Mikko Möttönen
HQ: Espoo, Finland
Funding raised: $300M in Series B round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
IQM provides on-premises quantum computers for supercomputing centres, enterprises, and research labs and offers full access to its hardware. The company also has a quantum computing cloud offering “IQM Resonance. To date, it has sold a total of 15 quantum computers.
Currently, the company sells two products — Radiance (flagship machine) and a more affordable quantum computer called Spark, which the company sells to universities.
Nothing
Founder/s: Carl Pei
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $200M in Series C round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Nothing is the first independent consumer technology company. The company has so far launched various gadgets, including smartphones, TWS, and headphones.
Nothing plans to launch its first AI-native devices in 2026, expanding its ecosystem beyond existing smartphones, audio, and wearables.
Aira
Founder/s: Led by CEO Peter Prem
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Funding raised: €150M in equity financing
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Aira aims to position itself as Europe’s top direct-to-consumer brand in clean energy technology. The firm focuses on accelerating the electrification of residential heating through intelligent heat pumps and offers comprehensive home energy-saving solutions.
Aira’s vertically integrated model, paired with a consumer-centric monthly payment plan that requires no upfront costs, enhances its economic competitiveness. The company aims to empower households to participate in the clean energy revolution.
Signal AI
Founder/s: David Benigson
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $165M
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Signal AI is a reputation and risk intelligence company that helps business leaders interpret external information through its AI-driven platform. The company’s technology tracks sentiment, detects emerging topics, and identifies trends to support decision-making.
Its solutions enable executives to recognise key signals within large data sets, anticipate risk, and act on opportunity. Using its proprietary AIQ system, Signal AI processes data from 226 markets in 75 languages.
Xelix
Founder/s: Paul Roiter, Phillip Watts
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $160M in Series B round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Xelix offers an AI-powered platform that integrates with existing systems to detect payment errors, automate supplier reconciliations, and streamline AP Helpdesk operations. The company helps finance teams reduce risk, unlock cost savings, and drive greater efficiency across Accounts Payable.
Enterprise clients like AstraZeneca, BAT, GSK, and Virgin Atlantic claim to have saved millions by their manual AP processes with efficient, automated workflows.
ANYbotics
Founder/s: Peter Fankhauser
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Funding raised: €127M
Hiring: Yes, apply here
ANYbotics is a company that provides AI-driven robotic inspection solutions, addressing challenges in safety, efficiency, and sustainability across industries like energy, power, metals, mining, and chemicals.
The company claims that its ANYmal robots excel in autonomous operations, mobility, and real-time data collection for tasks such as inspections, remote operations, and predictive maintenance.
ANYbotics aims to enhance workforces with autonomous robots, reducing labour shortages and improving safety.
Talon.One
Founder/s: Christoph Gerber, Sebastian Haas
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Funding raised: $135M (approximately €114.7M)
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Talon.One helps brands design and manage personalised promotions, loyalty programs, and gamified incentives to reward high-value customers and drive repeat purchases.
The company serves over 270 enterprise clients across the US, Europe, and Asia, including Adidas, H&M, Costa Coffee, Sephora, Ticketmaster, and Nordstrom.
GRIDSERVE
Founder/s: Toddington Harper
HQ: Buckinghamshire, England
Funding raised: £100M (nearly €115M) in new equity round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
GRIDSERVE focuses on electric vehicle charging and sustainable energy, aiming to make EV use easier for everyone.
The company provides high-power EV charging along the GRIDSERVE Electric Highway through Electric Forecourts and Electric Super Hubs on UK motorways, as well as Electric Retail Hubs at popular shopping sites, all powered by renewable energy.
JobLogic
Founder/s: James Whatmore, Yacoob Moolla
HQ: Birmingham, UK
Funding raised: £100M
Hiring: Yes, apply here
JobLogic provides cloud-based field service management software for service and maintenance contractors. The platform integrates scheduling, quoting, invoicing, job tracking, stock control, and other operations into a single system, allowing businesses to manage their entire workflow in one place.
JobLogic connects back-office teams, mobile workers, and customers, enhancing collaboration and productivity.
Tide
Founder/s: Led by current CEO, Dr. Oliver Prill
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $120M (approximately €101M)
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Tide helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by providing business accounts and administrative services, along with easy-to-use solutions like invoicing, accounting, and website building.
The company’s all-in-one business management platform provides integrated solutions such as expense management and payroll, easy-to-use business current and savings accounts, affordable credit options, seamless payment solutions, as well as connected sales tools such as acquiring and website building.
At present, the UK company has nearly 800,000 SME members in the UK (14 per cent market share) and more than 800,000 SMEs in India.
Climeworks
Founder/s: Dr. Christoph Gebald, Dr. Jan Wurzbacher
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Funding raised: CHF 128M (nearly €137.46M)
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Climeworks develops direct air capture technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The company works to address climate change by offering solutions for lowering carbon levels in the air. Its process captures CO2 for underground storage or for use in industrial applications.
WAAT
HQ: Malakoff, France
Funding raised: €100M
Hiring: Yes, apply here
WAAT is focused on making electric mobility accessible. It offers charging solutions for condominiums, social housing, and businesses, aiming to reduce carbon footprints and promote healthier cities.
With over 250 team members across 20 locations in France, WAAT provides personalised customer support. The company handles all project stages, from installation to maintenance, and offers the MyWAAT app to make charging easier.
Cambridge Aerospace
Founder/s: Steven Barrett
HQ: London, UK
Funding raised: $100M
Hiring: No
Cambridge Aerospace develops systems for air and missile defence aimed at countering drones and missiles, serving European nations.
Framer
Founder/s: Koen Bok, Jorn van Dijk
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Funding raised: $100M in Series D round
Hiring: Yes, apply here
Framer is a tool designed for startups, scaleups, freelancers, agencies, and enterprise teams that integrates design and web building into a single process.
Unlike traditional builders, the Dutch platform provides a flexible design canvas and a modern content management system (CMS). It includes tools for on-page editing, animations, forms, analytics, A/B testing, and live collaboration, enabling companies to create and manage high-performance websites.
N8n
Founder/s: Jan Oberhauser
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Funding raised: €55M in a Series B round in March, and $100M in August
Hiring: Yes, apply here
n8n is a workflow automation platform that combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.
The company supports workflows for more than 3,000 organisations. It allows users to integrate any large language model (LLM) with custom code and includes mechanisms for human oversight. This helps organisations keep control of their automation and AI systems.
CuspAI
Founder/s: Prof Max Welling, Dr Chad Edwards
HQ: Cambridge, UK
Funding raised: $100M in Series A closure round
CuspAI works with partners in automotive, semiconductors, energy, and climate to develop materials that address global challenges in clean air and water, AI compute, and sustainable energy. It aims to enable progress in these sectors by removing materials-related barriers.
The company recently appointed Martin van den Brink, former ASML President and CTO, and Lord Browne, former BP CEO, to its board as part of its commercialisation plans.
