About Tech Funding Map
What this is
Tech Funding Map is a free, interactive map of European startup funding rounds. It puts the deals in one place, on a map, so you can see where the money is going without trawling through separate news sites and databases. Filter by stage and sector, or switch between pins, a heatmap and a hex grid.
Covering the last 24 months of European startup funding.
Data source
Most of the data (7,099 of 7,248 rounds) comes from the Tech.eu Funding Explorer, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Tech.eu converts every figure to EUR at the ECB reference rate on the date of the round. The full methodology is at funding.tech.eu/methodology.
The other 149 rounds come from news feeds and newsletters (see below), to catch recent deals that may not be in the Tech.eu dataset yet. I convert those to EUR at an approximate fixed rate. Publishers contributing right now: arcticstartup.com, bebeez.it, dealflowit.niccolosanarico.com, eu-startups.com, fintech.global, fintechnews.ch, frenchweb.fr, maddyness.com, siliconcanals.com, tech.eu, techcrunch.com, techfundingnews.com, therecursive.com, uktech.news.
Supplementary sources
Tech.eu is the backbone, but it can lag the news. To catch deals sooner, I also pull rounds from the feeds and newsletters below, 92 publisher domains in total. When two sources report the same deal, I merge them and keep the Tech.eu record. Every round on the map links back to the article it came from.
| Source | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Tech.eu Funding Explorer | The main dataset, European rounds, CC BY 4.0 |
| EU-Startups | European startup news and funding |
| Tech Funding News | Global tech funding news, European deals only |
| Silicon Canals | European tech and startup news |
| Sifted | European startup and VC reporting |
| UKTN | UK tech and startup news |
| Maddyness | French and UK startup news |
| BeBeez | Italian venture capital and private equity |
| Gründerszene | German startup news |
| Arctic Startup | Nordic startups |
| TechCrunch Venture | Venture news, European deals only |
| Funding newsletters | This Week in Fintech, Path Founders, plus mailings from EU-Startups, Tech Funding News and Tech.eu |
An AI model (Claude Haiku) reads the headlines and articles and extracts the deal details, then the rounds are validated and de-duplicated. I only record a city when the article names one. Otherwise the pin sits at the country centroid. Mistakes can slip through, so check the linked article before you rely on a figure.
Geocoding
The Tech.eu API gives a company's city and country but no coordinates. I match city names to coordinates using cities.json (GeoNames data, CC BY 4.0). When a city doesn't match, the pin falls back to the country centroid.
Attribution
Data: "Tech.eu Funding Explorer", CC BY 4.0. Geocoding: GeoNames via cities.json, CC BY 4.0. Basemap: © CARTO, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who built this
I'm Dan Taylor, and I built Tech Funding Map. I do a bunch of things, but mostly web development, photography and PR.
It's a sibling to Tech Events Map, built for the same reason. European funding news is scattered across dozens of sites, each with its own format. I wanted the rounds on one map, so you can see at a glance where the money is moving.
Dan Taylor
Builder