Venture Capital Market Watch: Highest Venture Valuation in Europe in 2Q 2020

Connie Koh
3 min readJul 20, 2020

Despite the COVID-19 crisis, European VC’s active remains active, especially in healthtech, insurtech, and artificial intelligence. See below list of top 10 companies with the highest venture valuation in France, Germany, and the UK.

Top 10 Highest Venture Valuation in France

According to PitchBook, France has seen record amounts of capital invested into its startups. The top French companies with the highest venture valuations have a combined value of more than €6 billion. Below is the list of the top 10 top French companies with the highest venture valuation in a variety of industries, including healthtech, insurtech, and artificial intelligence.

1.BlaBlaCar (Long distance ride-sharing network based in Paris)

  • Post Valuation: €1.43 billion

2.Doctolib (Subscription-based online medical appointment management service)

  • Post Valuation: €1.13 billion

3. Chateau.com (Online Wine, champagne and spirits retailer)

  • Post Valuation: €1 billion

4. Meero (Ai /Digital Imagery)

  • Post Valuation: €891.26 million

5. Qonto (Banking services)

  • Post Valuation: €811.39 million

6. Sigfox (Wireless connectivity services for Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Post Valuation: €600 million

7. Blade (Developer of a dematerialized computer to offer cloud gaming servers)

  • Post Valuation: €334.94 million

8. Alan- online digital insurance platform

  • Post valuation: €314.02

9. Vivet Therapeutics (Gene Therapy treatment for inherited liver disorders)

  • Post Valuation: €300.21 million

10. Shift Technology (Cloud-based data security platform)

  • Post Valuation: €277.31 million

Top 10 Highest Venture Valuation in Germany

According to PitchBook, list of companies in Germany with the highest venture valuations have a combined value of more than €15 billion across a range of industries including fintech (insurtech and banking), mobility and e-commerce retail. Below is the list of companies in Germany with the highest venture valuations as of May 21, 2020.

1.N26 (Digital banking platform) — became Europe’s most valuable fintech startup

  • Post Valuation: €3.21 billion

2. AUTO1 Group (online buying and selling used car platform)

  • Post Valuation: €2.91 billion

3. Celonis (Big data technology company offering analysis and optimization of IT related to business processes)

  • Post Valuation: €2.32 billion

4. FlixBus (Bus Transportation Services)

  • Post Valuation: €2 billion)

5. Wefox (Insurance digital marketplace developer)

  • Post Valuation: €1.66 billion

6. CureVac (Developer of a fully integrated biopharmaceutical platform)

  • Post Valuation: €1.5 billion

7. Deposit Solutions (Banking platform developer)

  • Post Valuation: €1 billion

8. About You (E-commerce fashion apparel and accessories platform)

  • Post Valuation: €857.4 million

9. Raisin (Financial marketplace for businesses and individuals can earn higher returns by depositing money in different countries with higher interest rates)

  • Post Valuation: €667.85 million

10. Mister Spex (online eyewear retail platform)

  • Post Valuation: €590.58 million

Top 10 Highest Venture Valuation in the UK

The highest venture valuations have a combined value of more than £24 billion, according to Pitchbook. Below is the list of the PitchBook’s top 10 companies in the UK with the highest venture valuations across a range of industries including fintech mobile, money transferring services, Healthcare, and delivery platform.

1. Telegram (Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app)

  • Post valuation: £4.71 billion

2. Revolut (mobile foreign exchange and money transferring application)

  • Post valuation: £4.21 billion

3. Deliveroo (Food ordering and delivery platform)

  • Post valuation: £3.28 billion

4. Arrival (Environmentally-friendly electric truck developer)

  • Post valuation: £2.56 billion

5. OakNorth (Commercial and business bank)

  • Post valuation: £2.16 billion

6. Monzo (Mobile banking app uses smartphone technology to update balances instantly)

  • Post valuation: £1.68 billion

7. Babylon Health (AI-based application for medical advice and make doctor’s appointment and send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically)

  • Post valuation: £1.61 billion

8. Improbable (Virtual gaming operating system developer)

  • Post valuation: £1.54 billion

9. Checkout.com (online payment platform that tracks and secures digital payment across the internet)

  • Post valuation: £1.54 billion

10. Graphcore (Semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning

  • Post valuation: £1.34 billion

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