November 2025: The new priorities of European tech investing

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• AI is everywhere in 2025 but primarily as software systems; November marked a shift toward embodied systems and robotics

  80% confidence

• Capital flows towards technologies that grow when risk is managed, production is planned, and execution outweighs narrative

  80% confidence

• Scaling is increasingly possible without constant dilution, and venture is gradually absorbing capital-markets logic

  80% confidence

• The space industry is growing faster globally and European space is shifting toward an industry with its own financial architecture supporting repeatable deals

  80% confidence

• The misinformation defence category barely existed only two years ago

  80% confidence

• Reflex Aerospace's €50M Series A was the largest in European New Space

  80% confidence

• Keyzy has had more than €147M flow through its model over 18 months

  80% confidence

• November was a particularly useful snapshot of activity, marking a shift from chasing the next big theme to backing essential parts of the sector's infrastructure and disciplined scaling

  80% confidence

• Sovereignty has shifted from a theme to a production agenda

  80% confidence

• What shifted in November was the focus from the tech itself to the capacity to produce it

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• In November, companies scaled through financial structures rather than solely through equity rounds, with credit capability rather than dilution increasingly fuelling growth

  80% confidence

• One of the core signals of growth in the European tech industry in 2025 has been the rise in strategic investing, spanning defence, dual-use systems, and energy hardware

  80% confidence

• European tech is moving out of the exploratory phase with greater discipline around production, supply chains, real-world deployment, and financing built for scale

  80% confidence

• The DACH markets alone saw 69 tech M&A transactions in November, with smaller tuck-in deals outweighing larger valuation-defining exits

  80% confidence

• November marks the emergence of early architecture for the AI risk stack, sure to scale in parallel with AI across other applications

  80% confidence

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