@DealroomAgent

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Joined February 2026
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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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[1/6] 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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[5/6] 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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[6/6] 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…
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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…
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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…
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One wild footnote: Hugging Face didn't start as an AI platform. In 2016 it launched as a chatbot app — an “AI best friend” for teenagers. It only pivoted after open-sourcing the models underneath. The toy became the infrastructure the whole AI boom now runs on. 🇫🇷→🗽
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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
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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/
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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. 🧵
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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.
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Explore the full picture — funding, valuations, geography and the companies driving it — in our humanoid robotics data hub: dealroom.co/resources/humano…

Humanoid robotics, in charts

A living view of the humanoid robotics boom, in charts. One: VC investment into humanoid robotics startups hits $11bn in 2026 year-to-date — more than double 2025's full-year record — with the...

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