Me again with Europe. But this time numbers, not complaining.
European tech raised €27.8 billion in Q3 2026. 732 deals. That's +32.4% vs Q3 last year and more than 2.5x the same quarter in 2024!!
UK took €12B of it, around 43%. AI companies about €6.7B.
And only last week: Legora from Sweden, $550M at an $8.8B valuation. Blackwall from Estonia, $100M Series C at $2.2B. Daytona from Croatia, valued at $1B. Croatia! Estonia! Small countries, big rounds.
All of it is in the tech.eu Monday recap https://tech.eu/2026/10/26/european-tech-weekly-recap-eur15b-in-deals-and-q3-2026-highlights
So maybe Europe is not that slow? The money is coming. Now the boring part.. make it easy to open and grow a company across borders, and then we can talk about our own OpenAI.
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