Four stories this week, all about who has patient enough capital to wait out the slow version of growth.
Temasek bought into Italy's FSI rather than build its own deal team, while Bridgepoint and Astorg began weighing a £2 billion sale of compliance software firm Fenergo.
ElevenLabs doubled its valuation to $22 billion, putting the London AI voice company in the same range as France's Mistral.
Romania's M&A market hit €2.3 billion in Q3, more than double last year, built on volume rather than mega-deals.
And the European Central Bank put a hard number on something that had mostly been a hunch: 72% of euro-area firms are funding AI purely from their own cash, because the external capital options barely exist. Built for people who want the signal without the noise.
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