Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC pipeline.

What the week of 16-22 March delivered was something different in texture rather than volume: smaller rounds, more specific theses, and a pattern of investment that points more clearly at where European capital is actually building conviction. AI agents entering complex physical environments.

Agricultural automation that finally has the engineering to match its ambitions. A new generation of European VC funds drawing on operators who have scaled the continent’s own companies.

1. Upvest – $125M Series D | Berlin, Germany

Upvest has raised $125 million just a year after its last round, pushing its valuation to €640 million from €360 million.

The Berlin fintech powers the infrastructure behind investing apps used by clients including Revolut, N26, Openbank, and ...