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Two months after initial insider reports, the mega-deal is official: Helsing receives €1.6 billion in fresh capital and achieves a valuation of €16 billion.

Proxima Fusion has raised €411 million in a Series A2 funding round and is valued at more than €2.4 billion. The financing makes the Munich-based startup the best-funded and highest-valued fusion company in Europe and is to advance the construction of the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.

Munich mobility startup Finn has closed a Series D financing round of just under 100 million euros and reached a company valuation of over one billion euros.

Munich remains a unicorn hotspot: based on a current evaluation of our Munich Startup Insights, we show you which startups have crossed the billion-euro valuation mark. Click through the unicorn gallery and discover the most exciting scaleups in the city right up to true icons of the scene.

For a long time, the USA was the natural place of longing for ambitious tech founders: large funding rounds, rapid growth, a business-friendly environment. But this narrative is crumbling. A current Bitkom survey among founders of German unicorns shows: interest in the USA as a founding location is declining significantly. Instead, Germany and Europe are coming into sharper focus. But what’s behind this shift in sentiment? And how do founders outside the unicorn bubble think about it? We spoke with Benjamin Domnick, co-founder of Wow Urbane Utopien.

Quantum Systems significantly increases its valuation and receives a total of €340 million in 2025 – Europe’s largest dual-use financing to date. The Munich-based company plans further growth, technology expansion, and strategic acquisitions with this funding.

The Munich New Space startup Isar Aerospace receives 150 million euros from Eldridge Industries. With the investment, the valuation rises to over one billion.

The Munich-based drone startup Quantum Systems has completed a Series C financing round of €160 million and is becoming a new Munich unicorn. The capital will be used to drive forward international growth and technological development.

A current Bitkom survey shows: more than half of the founders of German unicorns rate Germany as unsuitable as a founding location. Comprehensive deregulation and stronger harmonization of the EU single market could convince them otherwise.

Munich has a new unicorn: The fitnesstech company Egym secures around 180 million euros in growth capital from L Catterton and Meritech Capital at a pre-money valuation of over one billion euros.

Unicorn status—a company valuation of one billion dollars or more—is a dream for many startups, if only because only a few young companies achieve it and it generates a lot of attention. Which Munich startup could next receive the coveted title?

The Munich-based startup Helsing develops AI solutions to support military intelligence. The startup has now successfully raised 209 million euros in its Series B. This makes the startup Munich’s next unicorn.