# From research project to €1B-backed AI lab in 18 months: Prior Labs is Europe’s new deeptech benchmark

> Source: <https://techfundingnews.com/prior-labs-sap-acquisition-1b-ai-tabular-models/>
> Published: 2026-07-20 06:00:00+00:00

Usually, European AI startups spend years proving their models before getting noticed outside academia. Prior Labs did things…