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By co-founder and editor-in-chief of , with previous stints at The Next Web and TechCrunch under his belt.

Last week, our team tracked 69 funding deals worth about 1.4 billion euros ($1.64 billion) in funding, and around 15 M&A announcements and rumors across Europe, including Russia, Israel and Turkey. As always, we put all of them together for you in a handy list sent in our Friday afternoon roundup newsletter (note: the full list is for 听辞苍濒测).

Recently, we also started publishing a daily roundup of deals and news stories that caught our attention. Keeping you updated on all things EU tech is our priority.

Today we give you an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items last week (听to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):

— Swedish lithium-ion battery-maker 听in fresh equity funds in a private placement joined by investors such as , Volkswagen, , Norrsken VC and , as well as private backers such as founder and Cristina Stenbeck.

— , the used-car sales platform, reached “unicorn” status after raising a little over $31 million at a $1 billion-plus valuation just three months ago. Last week, the U.K.-based company revealed (265 million euros) of funding at more than double the last valuation. The latest round takes the total funding since Cazoo was founded to a whopping 拢450 million.

— is听considering a , Free Now, a deal that could boost its market share in Europe and Latin America, people with knowledge of the matter told .

— , the Paris-based digital marketing platform, . The company called its Series B round the 鈥渉ighest fundraising round for any all-in-one marketing platform in the U.S. and Europe鈥� in a news release. Investors included , 听补苍诲 , with reinvesting from a previous $36 million in Series A in 2017.

— Vienna, Austria-based , which provides a brokering/exchange platform for trading digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and precious metals, . The monster round, which is claimed to be the largest Series A this year so far, was led by 鈥檚 and joined by and other investors.

—听Publicly-listed European VC firm 听听gross proceeds of 拢110 million in a private placement to “fund an accelerated investment strategy and capture a greater share of technology investment opportunities.鈥�

—听French warehouse robotics outfit听 听in a new round of funding led by alongside existing backers and .

—听Uber won its legal fight to continue operating in London, as a judge听听by the city鈥檚 transport regulator and granted it a new 18-month license.

—听French fintech startup (formerly Lendix) has raised some fresh capital in a non-equity funding round to invest in small and medium companies on its lending platform. Overall, the company has听听that will be deployed over the next few years.

—听Swiss biotech firm , which provides genomic and radiomic analysis for hospitals, 听in an oversubscribed Series F round led by , a health-tech and life sciences venture fund based in Israel, and .

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Bonus link:

Insurtech Rising: A pan-European overview of听the .