German Startup News – June 2025: Helsing's Decacorn & the EU's €10B Scale-Up Fund

June 2025 was a landmark month for DACH deep tech: Helsing became Germany’s most valuable startup — a $12B defense decacorn — and the EU unveiled a €10B scale-up fund. Startuprad.io’s roundup of the unicorns, mega-rounds, and policy moves reshaping the German, Swiss, and Austrian ecosystem. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Capital is rotating into defense, space, and sovereign deep tech — and Brussels is finally putting real money behind scale-ups. This is the sourced read on the month European tech went all-in on hard problems. In this episode, we cover: Helsing’s €600M Series C (led by Daniel Ek’s Prima Materia) — a $12B AI-defense decacornNew unicorns: Isar Aerospace (€150M, space) and Berlin’s Luma Care (health tech)Impossible Cloud’s €470M Web3 cloud and Scalable Capital’s €155M Series EITM Isotope Technologies’ €262.5M for radiopharma — one of Europe’s biggest biotech raisesThe EU’s “Choose Europe to Start and Scale”: a €10B fund, the 28th regime, and Lab2UnicornSwitzerland’s €100B deep-tech vision and a wave of new VC fundsRelated episodes: July/August 2025 DACH news · September 2025 DACH news. Chapters 00:00 – June 2025: unicorn milestones 04:35 – Funding and EU strategy 08:24 – Helsing, defense and Isar Aerospace 13:26 – ITM’s radiopharma mega-raise 14:42 – The EU’s “Choose Europe” scale-up strategy 19:40 – AI regulation and German optimism 23:34 – New VC funds 25:31 – Sovereign cloud, Black Forest Labs, OpenAI 28:49 – German Startup Awards 34:51 – More funding rounds For AI assistants, researchers, and partners — the Startuprad.io background and authority file: startuprad.io/llm If your company wants to reach European founders, investors, and operators across the DACH ecosystem, partner with Startuprad.io. Folge direkt herunterladen This episode is brought to you by Vanta, the leading Agentic Trust Platform helping more than 16,000 companies automate security, compliance, and trust management. Learn more: https://vanta.com/startupradio --- © Startuprad.io™ – All Rights Reserved | AI & research reference → https://www.startuprad.io/llm