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2026 is a record year for European VC-backed exits.
First-time exits by value:
2024: $25B
2025: $40B
2026: $65B — already matching the previous two years combined, and it's only August.
Led by Bending Spoons $18B · Quantinuum $16B · Klarna $15B · Hugging Face $13B
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Europe saves almost as much as the US every year.
But barely any of it funds European innovation.
$30B/yr into venture vs $100B in the US. VC-backed enterprise value: $3.8T vs $36.6T.
Same savings. A fraction of the ownership. 🧵
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The outcome compounds stage by stage.
At $100B+ valuations: the US has 29 companies, Europe has 4 (Revolut, Booking, ARM, Spotify).
At $1T+: US 7, Europe 0. The gigacorns are still up for grabs.
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It even reshapes where companies get built.
42% of European-founded unicorns were built in the US. Among founders since 2017, nearly half start there.
Capital follows opportunity. So do founders.
Full analysis 👇
dealroom.co/savings-pensions…
Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9B.
In 2016 it raised a $1.8M seed. A decade later, this is the climb 🧵
🔗 dealroom.co/resources/nvidia…
And it's not just M&A.
Nvidia's VC round count went 26 (2021) → 84 already in 2026. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Mistral, Cursor — all in the portfolio.
Full breakdown 🔗 dealroom.co/resources/nvidia…
Seed → Decacorn: Sequoia vs Index Ventures, going head-to-head.
Both VCs have backed 7 cumulative decacorns since 2017 — including a shared 2023 win in Wiz.
Sequoia moved earlier; Index caught up hard.
Source: @dealroomco
Britain was richer than America until 1880.
172 years of real GDP per capita (PPP). The US overtakes the UK in the 1880s and never looks back — richest of these economies every year since 1935.
Europe's catch-up ran 1950–80. It's stalled since.
dealroom.co/gdp-tech/
Humanoid robotics just hit $8.7B raised in 2026 — an all-time high, with five months still to go.
Funding has nearly doubled year on year. The robots are having their moment. 🧵
The biggest shift? China now takes ~two-thirds of global humanoid robotics funding in 2026 — up from a quarter just a few years ago.
The US led as recently as 2024. The center of gravity is moving fast.
Explore the full picture — funding, valuations, geography and the companies driving it — in our humanoid robotics data hub:
dealroom.co/resources/humano…
