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ScyAI Launches AI Risk Intelligence for Real Assets and Insurance, Secures €2 Million in Funding
ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures . For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima
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NATO Innovation Fund backs Thermal Intelligence with Multi-Million SatVu Investment
SatVu , capturing the highest resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth, led by Anthony Baker, Tobias Reinicke, Camilla Taylor, and Scott Herman, has closed a £30m ($40m) funding round bringing its total equity funding to £60m ($80m), as it accelerates from single-satellite demonstration to execution of a multi-satellite constellation. The round completes with a strategic investment from the NATO Innovation Fund ( NIF ), together with British
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ScyAI Launches AI Risk Intelligence for Real Assets and Insurance, Secures €2 Million in Funding
ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures . For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima
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ETH Zurich Spin-Offs of 2022
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date of the recognition, from earliest to latest) 1) Saeki: Led by Andrea Perissinotto, Oliver Harley, Matthias Leschok, and the team, Saeki builds and operates the world's most efficient and autonomous factories for 3D printing, milling, and inspection of large mission-critical parts. Know More At: saeki.ch 2) RTDT Laboratories: Led by Imad Abdallah, Aris Mukherjee, Dr. Konstantinos Tatsis, Dr. Julien Dep
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Harvard Innovation Labs Ventures in Biotech and Therapeutics
(This round-up is for informational purposes only and in alphabetical order) 1) Melia Diagnostics: Melia Diagnostics researches and develops novel point-of-care diagnostic solutions for dogs and cats. Know More At: meliadiagnostics.com 2) Modulate Bio: Led by Andrew Thomson, MBA, Dario Doller, PhD, and Kevin Hodgetts, PhD, Modulate Bio is developing therapies to treat neurological disorders, including Essential Tremor, epilepsy, and anxiety. Know More At: modulatebio.com 3) M
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Harvard Innovation Labs Ventures in Biotech and Therapeutics
(This round-up is for informational purposes only and in alphabetical order) 1) Ilios Therapeutics: Led by Luca Giani and the team, Ilios Therapeutics is pioneering multi-functional small molecules to combat neurodegenerative diseases. Know More At: iliostx.com 2) InGel Therapeutics: Led by Pierre C Dromel, Ph.D., Deepti Singh, Ph.D, and Patrick Jiang, InGel Therapeutics is a regenerative cell-therapy biotech leveraging novel neuro-protective and neuro-repairing mechanisms to
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ScyAI Launches AI Risk Intelligence for Real Assets and Insurance, Secures €2 Million in Funding
ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures . For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima
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ScyAI Launches AI Risk Intelligence for Real Assets and Insurance, Secures €2 Million in Funding
ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures . For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima
Blackstone Leads Funding of Over $1 Billion to Neysa to Work Towards Building India’s Leading AI Infrastructure Platform
Neysa , purpose-built systems and services to help you accelerate AI adoption and integrate AI seamlessly into your operations, led by co-founders Sharad Sanghi, Anindya Das, and the team, has announced that private equity funds affiliated with Blackstone (collectively, “Blackstone”) and co-investors have entered into definitive agreements to invest in Neysa, enabling a $1.2 billion capital raise. Blackstone and co-investors have provided equity capital of up to $600 million
Sitegeist is Bringing Automated, AI-enabled, Modular Robots on Construction Sites
Sitegeist , delivering easy-to-use, modular construction robots that boost productivity, led by Claus Carste, Nicola Kolb, Julian Hoffmann, and Dr. Lena-Marie Pätzmann, has raised €4M in a pre-seed funding round co-led by b2venture and OpenOcean , with participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and several angel investors, including Verena Pausder, Lea-Sophie Cramer, Alexander Schwörer, and additional strategic backers from the construction and robotics sec
Index Ventures Leads Simile's $100 Million Series A
Simile AI , a simulation platform for human behavior, led by Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein, Lainie Yallen, Percy Liang, and the team, has raised $100 million in Series A led by Index Ventures with participation from Hanabi Capital , A* , Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) , Andrej Karpathy , Fei-Fei Li , Adam D'Angelo , Guillermo Rauch , Scott Belsky , and others. Joon, an oil painter turned entrepreneur, combines creativity with operational excellence, ambition with realism, a
Simmetry.ai is Building Scalable Synthetic Data Platform for AI Training
Simmetry.ai , providing high-quality, annotated training data for your machine learning applications, led by Kai von Szadkowski, Anton Elmiger, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene, has raised €330,000 from NBank , the investment and development bank of the German state of Lower Saxony, as part of the High-Tech Incubator (HTI) accelerator programme. simmetry.ai generates photorealistic, annotated synthetic data to train computer vision models for robotics, autonomous machines, and in
This Startup is Revamping the Global Supply Chains with AI Agents
Didero , the leading AI procurement agent, led by Tim Spencer, Lorenz Pallhuber, Tom Petit, and the team, has raised a $30 million Series A financing round co-led by Chemistr y and Headline , with participation from M12 , Microsoft’s Venture Fund. The Problem - Procurement teams at manufacturers and distributors handle thousands of supplier interactions across email, ERP systems, and spreadsheets, with much of the work still done manually. The Solution - AI agents work with
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ScyAI Launches AI Risk Intelligence for Real Assets and Insurance, Secures €2 Million in Funding
ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures . For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima
ScyAI Launches AI Risk Intelligence for Real Assets and Insurance, Secures €2 Million in Funding
ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures . For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima
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How Bretton AI is Modernizing AML & KYC Staffing
Bretton AI , helping the $30T financial services market move faster while protecting against financial crimes that fund terrorism, human trafficking, and other serious threats, led by Will Lawrence and the team, has raised a $75M Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures , with continued investment from all existing institutional investors, including Greylock , Y Combinator , Thomson Reuters Ventures , and Canvas Ventures, and new investor TIAA Ventures . The company u
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Sapiom is Building Infra to Give AI Agents Trusted Access to the API Economy
Sapiom , giving AI agents trusted access to the API economy, led by Ilan Zerbib, has raised a $15.75M Seed round, led by Accel , with participation from Gradient , Array Ventures , Okta Ventures , Menlo Ventures , Anthropic , Coinbase Ventures , Formus Capital , and Operator Collective . For two decades, the internet economy has been built for humans; interfaces, authentication, payments, and risk models all assume a person is present to sign up, manage access, and approve s
Feb 6
Bound Closes $24.5M Series A to Modernize FX Hedging for Businesses
Bound , making managing currency risk simple, transparent, and predictable, led by Seth Phillips, Dan Kindler, Marita Cavalcanti, and Gerard Hurley, has secured $24.5M in Series A funding, led by AlbionVC . Existing investor Notion Capital and other investors, including Album VC , Moonfire , GoHub Ventures , and others, participated in the round. The platform enables businesses to automate FX hedging, protect margins, and manage international cash flow with minimal effort. C
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How Axiology is Accelerating the Modernisation of Europe’s Capital Markets
Axiology , simplifying access to digital fixed-income instruments by providing infrastructure that connects businesses and retail investors, led by Marius Jurgilas , Andrius Košuba , Andrius Mamontovas , and Algirdas Neciunskas , has raised €5 Million in seed funding led by Exponential Science, e2vc , and Coinvest Capital . It was joined by new investors TIBAS Ventures and Plug and Play . The seed round is also supported by the previous round investors like BSV Ventures , N
Feb 4
Artificial Labs Raises $45M Series B to Accelerate Global Growth
Artificial Labs , building the foundations of modern specialty (re)insurance, led by Martin Reith, David King, Johnny Bridges, Artur Kisiolek, and Ed Howkins, has raised $45 million Series B funding round led by CommerzVentures , a leading European Fintech investor, with support from Move Capital Fund I, a leading European B2B Tech investor, and continued backing from existing investors, including Augmentum Fintech , 6 Degrees Capital , FOM, and TrueSight Ventures . “This r
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Elaia’s Fifth Digital Venture Fund (DV5) Announces First Close at €120 Million to back the best of European Tech
Elaia , backing ambitious tech entrepreneurs with capital and care, has announced the first closing of its fifth Digital Venture Fund (DV5), converging at €120m, reaffirming its mission to back enduring, IP-driven ventures that define the future of European technology. Mimic Robotics, a Zurich-based physical AI company, marks DV5’s first investment, highlighting its focus on breakthrough technologies from leading European hubs. As demand grows for next-generation infrastructu
Elaia’s Fifth Digital Venture Fund (DV5) Announces First Close at €120 Million to back the best of European Tech
Elaia , backing ambitious tech entrepreneurs with capital and care, has announced the first closing of its fifth Digital Venture Fund (DV5), converging at €120m, reaffirming its mission to back enduring, IP-driven ventures that define the future of European technology. Mimic Robotics, a Zurich-based physical AI company, marks DV5’s first investment, highlighting its focus on breakthrough technologies from leading European hubs. As demand grows for next-generation infrastructu
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Mundi Ventures Closes on €750 Million for Kembara, its Largest Deep Tech and Climate Fund
Mundi Ventures , backing bold and purpose-driven founders, led by Partners Javier Santiso, Lluis Vinas, Moises Sanchez, Rafaela Andrade, Rajeev Singh-Molares, and others, has just completed a €750 million first close for Kembara , its fifth fund and largest to date. Europe invests billions in early-stage climate startups, yet many stall at Series B, according to a recent report. New funds are emerging to address this gap, including Spain-based Mundi Ventures’ Kembara Fund
Feb 5
SlateVC Closes €132 Million to Back the Next Wave of Energy Efficiency and Climate Tech Scale-Ups
SlateVC , a growth-focused venture firm dedicated to driving the climate transition forward, led by Chloe Giard, Clement Buyse, Renaud Visage, and Sebastien Leger, has secured €132 million in the first close of its first growth fund, backed by EIF , Bpifrance , France 2030’s FNVI, BNP Paribas , and several family offices. Europe faces rising energy instability, high-cost legacy infrastructure, and import dependence, challenging competitiveness and sustainability. SlateVC
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Voyager Ventures Raises $275 Million to Back Europe’s Energy and AI Builders
Voyager Ventures , investing in energy, industrials, and climate technology companies foundational to future abundance, led by Sarah Sclarsic, Sierra Peterson, and others, has announced Voyager’s $275M Fund II. Systemic instability is accelerating alongside rapid technological progress, with geopolitical tensions, climate risks, and global volatility intensifying as electrification, automation, AI, and advanced manufacturing converge. Emerging technologies have shifted from
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B2Venture Announces Close of Fund V at EUR 150 Million Hard Cap to Support the Next Generation of European Tech Leaders
B2Venture , an early-stage venture capital firm, supported by an unparalleled community of angel investors, led by partners Florian Schweitzer , Andreas Goeldi , Christian Schütz , Dominik Perisa , Gerrit Jurilj , Jan-Hendrik Bürk , Mathias Ockenfels , Sven Eppert , and others, has closed Fund V at the hard cap of EUR 150m, its largest fund to date. The raise marks a major milestone in a 25-year history, with Fund V accelerating the next wave of European tech leaders buildin
Jan 28
2150 Announces the Final Close of 2150’s Fund II, achieves €500 M Under Management
2150 , a venture capital firm investing in technology companies that are redefining cities and the industries that sustain them, led by partners and founders, Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby, Jacob Bro, Christian Hernandez, Christian Joelck, and others, has announced the final close of Fund II. In 2021, 2150 launched with a €200 million fund to reimagine urban environments as climate tech emerged as a distinct venture category. Venture capital deployment surged between 2021 and 2022, w
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NATO Innovation Fund backs Thermal Intelligence with Multi-Million SatVu Investment
SatVu , capturing the highest resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth, led by Anthony Baker, Tobias Reinicke, Camilla Taylor, and Scott Herman, has closed a £30m ($40m) funding round bringing its total equity funding to £60m ($80m), as it accelerates from single-satellite demonstration to execution of a multi-satellite constellation. The round completes with a strategic investment from the NATO Innovation Fund ( NIF ), together with British
NATO Innovation Fund backs Thermal Intelligence with Multi-Million SatVu Investment
SatVu , capturing the highest resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth, led by Anthony Baker, Tobias Reinicke, Camilla Taylor, and Scott Herman, has closed a £30m ($40m) funding round bringing its total equity funding to £60m ($80m), as it accelerates from single-satellite demonstration to execution of a multi-satellite constellation. The round completes with a strategic investment from the NATO Innovation Fund ( NIF ), together with British
Terra Industries Extends Funding to $34M to Protect Africa’s Critical Infrastructure With Autonomous Systems
Terra Industries , protecting Africa's critical infrastructure with autonomy, led by Nathan Nwachuku, Maxwell Maduka, Alexander Moore(Board Director), and AVM Ayoola Jolasinmi, rtd OFR(Advisor), has raised an additional $22 million in funding, led by Lux Capital with participation from existing investors, including 8VC , Nova Global, Silent Ventures , Belief Capital , Tofino Capital , and Resilience17 Capital , founded by Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola, as well as angel i
Arianespace Successfully Launches 32 Amazon Leo Satellites with the First Ariane 64
Arianespace , delivering the most suitable space transportation solution for every customer, led by David Cavaillolès and the team, has successfully launched 32 Amazon Leo satellites with Ariane 64 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellites were delivered to a low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 465 km. The mission lasted 1 hour and 54 minutes, from lift-off to separation of all the satellites. The mission, designated VA267 (LE-01 for Amazon Leo), i
Quantum Systems Secures New European Financing Package to Scale the Future of Unmanned Technologies
Quantum Systems , transforming decision-making processes through aerial data intelligence, led by Florian Seibel, Sven Kruck, and Dave Sharpin, has announced a new financing package supported by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and leading European commercial banks, including Commerzbank , Deutsche Bank , and KfW . The financing will fund Quantum Systems’ investments in technology, manufacturing capacity, and organizational expansion, reinforcing its role in European secu
Axiom Space Secures $350M in Financing to Accelerate Space Station, Spacesuit Development
Axiom Space , building era-defining space infrastructure, led by Dr. Jonathan W. Cirtain and the team, has raised $350-million in financing to advance its mission to deliver the successor to the International Space Station (ISS) and ready its next-generation spacesuits for the United States' return to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Type One Ventures and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) co-led the round, with participation from 1789 Capital , 4iG, LuminA
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How Vega is Rethinking the Enterprises' Ways of Detecting Cyber Threats
Vega , redefining the boundaries of Security Operations by eliminating the limits of the past, led by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen , has raised a $120 million Series B round led by Accel with participation from Cyberstarts , Redpoint , and CRV . The new round nearly doubles Vega’s valuation to $700 million, and brings its total funding to $185 million. Enterprises generate massive security data, yet legacy tools like Splunk rely on centralizing it before detecting threats, a
How Vega is Rethinking the Enterprises' Ways of Detecting Cyber Threats
Vega , redefining the boundaries of Security Operations by eliminating the limits of the past, led by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen , has raised a $120 million Series B round led by Accel with participation from Cyberstarts , Redpoint , and CRV . The new round nearly doubles Vega’s valuation to $700 million, and brings its total funding to $185 million. Enterprises generate massive security data, yet legacy tools like Splunk rely on centralizing it before detecting threats, a
Clearly AI Raises $8.4M Seed Round to Scale Product Security
Clearly AI , automating security and privacy assessments, reducing backlogs, and improving visibility without sacrificing trust, led by Emily Choi-Greene and Joe Choi-Greene, has raised $8.4 million in Seed funding from Basis Set Ventures , Crosspoint Capital Partners , Argon Ventures , Ritual Capital , and Y Combinator . Security teams are facing increasing strain. Each new feature, third-party vendor, and AI deployment demands thorough evaluation across security, privacy,
How enclaive is Bringing Confidential Computing to the Multi-Cloud
enclaive , a deep tech cybersecurity company specializing in confidential computing, led by Andreas Walbrodt and Sebastian Gajek, has announced the successful closing of a €4.1 million Seed funding round, co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund , with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures . Accelerating AI adoption, stricter data regulations, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats have turned cloud computing into a high-stakes tradeoff. While th
How Counter Disinformation Company - Refute is Combating Escalating Hybrid Warfare Threats
Refute , fighting disinformation on behalf of your organisation, detecting and responding to campaigns at the speed of the attackers, led by Tom Garnett and Vlad Galu, has raised £5m in seed funding led by Amadeus Capital Partners , with participation from Playfair , Episode 1 , Osney Capital and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), the UK Government's deep tech venture capital fund that invests in dual-use technologies for national security and defence
Palo Alto Networks Completes Chronosphere Acquisition, Unifying Observability and Security for the AI Era
Palo Alto Networks , the global cybersecurity leader, led by Nikesh Arora, and others, has announced it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere , led by Martin Mao , addressing a core challenge of the AI era: the inability to see and secure the massive data volumes running modern businesses. Chronosphere, recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, was built for large-scale cloud-native environments. The acquisition positions P
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