Happy Friday!

This week, our聽 team tracked 50 tech funding deals worth over 500 million euros (approximately $591 million), plus 10 M&A transactions, rumors and related news stories across Europe, including Russia, Israel and Turkey.

Meanwhile, here鈥檚 an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week (聽to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):

1)聽Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based startup factory that held an IPO back in 2014, is聽. As rationale for the delisting, a press release says private capital, specifically growth capital, is much more available these days鈥攁nd 鈥渃ould not have been anticipated at the time of the company鈥檚 IPO鈥濃�攕o the need for public trading on capital markets simply isn鈥檛 there anymore.

2)聽Auxmoney, a German credit marketplace that claims to be the largest in continental Europe,聽聽in a round led by Centerbridge Partners, a private equity firm with a history of taking majority stakes.

3)聽The London stock market is set for its largest technology takeover as two leading British translation companies agreed to merge.聽 that they claim will enable them to create a combined language software service with a 鈥渢ruly global presence,鈥� serving some of the world鈥檚 largest businesses.

4) Yandex鈥攖he publicly traded Russian tech giant that started as a search engine but has expanded into a number of other areas鈥攈as announced 鈥攁 ride-hailing and food delivery joint venture it operates in partnership with Uber. As part of the spin-out, Yandex is investing $150 million into the business. That will include $100 million in equity, plus $50 million in the form of a convertible loan.

5) The French government unveiled a massive 鈧�100 billion stimulus package to recover from the economic downturn鈥攊t represents 4 percent of the country鈥檚 GDP. As part of this support plan, the government plans to spend a significant chunk of money on all things digital–startup investment, infrastructure investment and digital transformation. .

6) Mail.ru Group, the LSE-listed Russian internet major, and Sberbank, the state-controlled financial and technology giant,聽 to develop their “O2O” joint venture. Agreed to in June last year, this JV combines the businesses of the two groups across a variety of fields, from ride-hailing and car sharing, to restaurant delivery and e-grocery, to dark kitchens and dark stores.

7)聽Danish tax authorities have聽聽to determine whether the tech giant has any outstanding tax obligation.

8) Kooth, a U.K. startup offering online mental health care, . The company raised 拢16 million through the issue of new shares, and a further 拢10 million was raised from existing shares held by Root Capital, which backed the business in 2015.

9)聽Stockholm-headquartered live video shopping company聽, with $34.5 million of that amount raised during the pandemic.

10) Tesla CEO 聽in Berlin on Tuesday afternoon on the sidelines of their parliamentary group meeting. They told the electric-car pioneer that the German government 鈥渨ill help in whatever way needed to get Tesla鈥檚 Berlin plant up and running.鈥�

Podcast:

: New Fairphone, Napster bought by European startup, and we talk to the CEO of Coursera and Sherry Coutu of Digital Boost.

Bonus link:

Atomico is back with its survey for the annual “State of European Tech” report, which will be released on Dec. 8 in partnership with Slush and Orrick, and with support from Silicon Valley Bank.

As they say, your input is more important than ever in this turbulent year as they will assess the impact of COVID-19 on the EU tech ecosystem.聽!