Magdalena Gołębiewska
Top-funded startups in Europe! Glad to see so many in EE region.
The top-funded startup in Europe is global communications company OneWeb in the UK, with almost $3.5B in total disclosed equity funding.
Rounding out the top 3 most well-funded startups in the region are online payments service provider Klarna in Sweden ($922M in disclosed equity funding) and mobile banking platform N26 in Germany ($683M).
Seven of the 36 companies featured in the map are unicorns, with disclosed valuations of $1B+ (all tracked in real time on the CB Insights global unicorn club tracker). These unicorns are:
Klarna ($5.5B valuation, Sweden),
N26 ($3.5B, Germany),
BlaBlaCar ($1.6B, France),
Cabify ($1.4B, Spain),
OutSystems ($1B, Portugal),
Bolt ($1B, Estonia),
BitFury Group ($1B, Netherlands).
The region is home to 15 countries whose most well-funded tech startup has raised over $100M in equity funding. Only OneWeb has raised more than $1B+ in equity funding.
The least well-funded startup on the map is Croatia-based autonomous robots startup Gideon Brothers, which has raised $2.7M.
Since last update of this map in April, only 1 startup has exited: Russia-based Ozon.ru, which was acquired in a corporate majority round by Moscow-based holding company Sistema.

STARTUP CONTINENT: THE MOST WELL-FUNDED TECH STARTUPS IN EUROPE
Company Country Total Equity Funding ($M)
OneWeb United Kingdom 3469
Klarna Sweden 922
N26 Germany 683
VeeamSoftware Switzerland 500
BlaBlaCar France 449
OutSystems Portugal 422
Cabify Spain 411
RELEX Solutions Finland 222
AMCSGroup Ireland 202
Trustpilot Denmark 179
Bolt Estonia 177
Tricentis Austria 174
BitFury Netherlands 170
DocPlanner Group Poland 137
Vinted Lithuania 119
Showpad Belgium 86
Job Today Luxembourg 81
ivi Russian Federation 81
Kolonial.no Norway 61
AImotive Hungary 51
Satispay Italy 50
Mews Systems Czech Republic 42
PDFfiller Ukraine 30
Capital.com Cyprus 25
Netdata Greece 21
Software Group Bulgaria 17
Gambling.com Group Malta 16
Banuba Belarus 12
TripCreator Iceland 10
Gjirafa Albania 8.7
Mintos Latvia 7.8
Blink Ledger Systems Romania 5
Eligma Slovenia 4.4
Minit Slovakia 3.7
Content Insights Serbia 3.6
Gideon Brothers Croatia 2.7