The financing season is about to restart in Europe after the summer cooling, and if all goes well, the new unicorns will count in dozens – plural. Although mega-rounds are less common than in 2021, this has not prevented 12 European startups in the first half of 2025 to increase rounds in valuations of more than $ 1 billion.
As the usual reservation goes, the performance from the past is not indicative of future results, but this is a good omen for the rest of the year. Anyway, this is also a good indication of the sectors that are hot among investors, from biotech and defense technology to AI, AI and AI.
Here are the new European unicorns from 2025:
September 2025
IQM
IQM, a Finnish startup that develops quantum computers and a cloud platform that taps this hardware, became a unicorn after collecting more than $ 300 million in a financing round of Series B. The company has collected a total of $ 600 million so far.
“We are now the company that has sold most quantum computers worldwide on all major continents,” the CEO Jan Goetz told Techcrunch. The 54-Qubs chips from IQM are already used in computer centers, research laboratories, universities and companies, and the company is getting ready to implement its first 150-Qubit systems.
Framer
No-code website builder Framer achieved a rating of $ 2 billion after the landing of a series D finance round of $ 100 million led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico. The company will use the new money to double its enterprise strategy and AI.
Competing with Figma, Squarespace, Wix and Vibe Codering platforms, Framer has a strong focus on design. The co-founders, Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk, had previously sold a design studio to Facebook in 2011.
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July 2025
Sweet
Fast-growing Swedish AI atmosphere coding Startup Lovable became a unicorn in record time. In July, just eight months after the launch, it raised a Serie A of $ 200 million under the leadership of Accel with a rating of $ 1.8 billion. One comment: Lovable Labs Inc. is Registered in DelawareBut most team members of the startup and roll open are located in Stockholm.
Collect energy
Fuse Energy, a British renewable energy company founded in 2022 by two former Revolut leaders, has collected a financing round thought the company had appreciated more than $ 1 billionThe Times reported in July.
June 2025
Bad
Film-Streaming Service Mubi collected a round of $ 100 million, led by Sequoia Capital in June, so that the company appreciated $ 1 billion and which makes it a unicorn. This Indie Netflix -Rival was founded in 2007 as a composite platform and now also produces films and distributes.
Exist
The French startup Zama has collected a series B of $ 57 million that brought its appreciation to north of $ 1 billion. The company develops gay coding, a technique that uses cryptographic algorithms to keep data safe.
Delivery of space travel
German space Startup Isar Aerospace became a unicorn in June after reaching an agreement with Eldridge Industries for a convertible bond of € 150 million (approx $ 173 million). The launch company turned away from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), that now claims 22 unicorns.
May 2025
Wheel
Tekever, a drone startup for double use from Portugal, picked up a financing round in May that it said confirmed his more than £ 1 billion ratingwho had not been announced before.
It is supported by Ventura Capital, Baillie Gifford, NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Iberis Capital and Crescent Cove, and will finance the company’s plans to invest £ 400 million in a UK development plan of five years.
Quantum systems
German starting quantum systems for starting double use became a unicorn In May 2025, according to PitchBook, on Pick up a series C of € 160 million (about $ 172 million) to speed up its global expansion, scale production and to promote its autonomous drone systems, software and AI.
The round was led by Balderton Capital, with the participation of Hensoldt, Airbus Defense and Space, Bullhound Capital, LP & E AG and existing investors, including HV Capital, Project A, Peter Thiel, DTCP, Omnes Capital, Airbus Ventures, Porsche SE and Notion.
Parloa
Parloa, a German startup that offers a conversation AI platform for customer service, secured $ 120 million in series C financing With a rating of $ 1 billion in May 2025, less than a year after his series B of $ 66 million and two years after his series of $ 21 million A. The series C was led by sustainable capital partners, altimeter Capital and General Catalyst.
March 2025
Isomorphic Laboratories
Isomorphic Labs, an AI-drug discovery platform established in London that ran from Google’s DeepMind in 2021, achieved external capital for the first time in March 2025 with a round of $ 600 million under the leadership of Thrive Capital, with the participation of GV and Alphabet. The appreciation was not announced, but the round size places the British spin -firmly within Unicorn Territory.
February 2025
Tine
Based Tines in Dublin, a startup aimed at AI-driven workflows, was a unicorn in February 2025 After collecting a series C of $ 125 million from new and existing investors with a rating of $ 1.125 billion.
The Irish startup started in security workflow automation, but has adopted in other parts of the technical stack, with applications in infrastructure, engineering and product. When increasing his series C, the company said that it now performed more than a billion automated actions on behalf of its customers every week.
January 2025
Verdiva Bio
Less than a year after the launch has Biotech Verdiva Bio, in London Serie A of $ 410 million In January 2025 as his first announced financing round. This immediately made a unicorn from the company, whose pipeline contains an oral GLP-1 drug that is comparable to Ozempic and Wegovy.
Hakowa -hair
Neko Health, the preventive health startup, co-founder of Spotify’s Daniel Ek, raised a series B of $ 260 million at a rating of $ 1.8 billion in January 2025. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation of General Catalyst, Rosello, and Atom Partners, and atom partners.
The Swedish company offers full-body scans, with the aim of helping people stay healthy through early detection. According to the CEO and co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne, financing Neko’s worldwide expansion of locations outside Stockholm and London will accelerate, as well as investments in R&D.
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