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How Open Cosmos is Accelerating Real-Time Intelligence and Connectivity from Space
Open Cosmos, the European leader delivering satellite infrastructure, led by Rafel Jorda Siquier, Jordi Barrera Ars, and Aleix Megias Homar, has raised €300 million in funding as governments and enterprises accelerate investment in secure, space-based systems. The round, led by European investors, includes participation from Lightrock, ETF Partners, Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Entrepreneurs First and two major international pension funds. Other participants include Con
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Exein Raises $270m at $1.7bn Valuation to Build the Security Layer for Physical AI
Exein, a global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, Gianni Cuozzo, Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Gerardo Gagliardo, and Gary Walshe, has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, EIB Group through the European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI), KfW Capital and T.Capital, plus existing investors Balderton, HV, Intrepid Growth Partners, 33N Ventures, Lakestar, Supernova Invest, Blue Cloud Ventur
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How Nuance Labs is Building the Foundation Model for Human Conversation and Expression
Nuance Labs, building a human foundation model with emotional intelligence, led by Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by returning investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from returning investors Accel, South Park Commons, and new investors NVIDIA and Define Ventures. The company will open a research preview of its model to the public later this year. Nuance Labs is developing AI that perceives and resp
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Temporal Raises $550M at a $12.55B Valuation as Demand Grows for Reliable AI Infrastructure
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How Open Cosmos is Accelerating Real-Time Intelligence and Connectivity from Space
Open Cosmos, the European leader delivering satellite infrastructure, led by Rafel Jorda Siquier, Jordi Barrera Ars, and Aleix Megias Homar, has raised €300 million in funding as governments and enterprises accelerate investment in secure, space-based systems. The round, led by European investors, includes participation from Lightrock, ETF Partners, Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Entrepreneurs First and two major international pension funds. Other participants include Con
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Buildots Raised $130M in New Funding
Buildots, building construction intelligence to power your whole operation, led by Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici, and Yakir Sudry, has announced $130 million in new funding, led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Mohari Ventures, Qumra Capital, Human Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital, Poalim Equity, and Viola Growth, bringing the total raised to $297 million. Construction leaders manage multi-billion-dollar projects with thousands of moving parts, o
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Nuance Labs, building a human foundation model with emotional intelligence, led by Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by returning investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from returning investors Accel, South Park Commons, and new investors NVIDIA and Define Ventures. The company will open a research preview of its model to the public later this year. Nuance Labs is developing AI that perceives and resp
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How Nuance Labs is Building the Foundation Model for Human Conversation and Expression
Nuance Labs, building a human foundation model with emotional intelligence, led by Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by returning investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from returning investors Accel, South Park Commons, and new investors NVIDIA and Define Ventures. The company will open a research preview of its model to the public later this year. Nuance Labs is developing AI that perceives and resp
Temporal Raises $550M at a $12.55B Valuation as Demand Grows for Reliable AI Infrastructure
Temporal, which develops and distributes the world's leading open-source durable execution system, led by Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev, has raised a $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, co-led by Lightspeed, with Wellington Management, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and Tiger Global, with strong participation from T. Rowe Price and SV Angel. Returning investors include a16z, Sequoia, Index, GIC, Sapphire Ventures, and Amplify. The Challenge of Building Reliabl
Archy Raises $50M Series C to Bring Dental Practices into the AI Era
Archy, the AI platform for dental practice management, led by Jonathan Rat and the team, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by JMI Equity, along with existing investors TCV, Entrée Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV, and Alven. The funding will accelerate development of AI agents that help dental teams automate work across their practices. Archy’s System of Action for Dental Practices. Archy is an AI-powered platform designed to replace fragmented dental soft
Rime Partners With Dialpad as Premier Agentic Text-to-Speech Voice Provider Across Global Communications Platform
Rime, the leading enterprise voice AI platform, led by Lily Clifford, Brooke Larson, and Ares Geovanos, has announced a strategic partnership with Dialpad, the AI platform for customer experience. Under the agreement, Rime will become the primary text-to-speech (TTS) provider for Dialpad’s agentic voice AI products, delivering natural, conversational audio across business communications worldwide. As businesses deploy autonomous AI systems, demand for human-like voice synthes
Positron AI Raises $875 Million at a $5 Billion Valuation to Bring Its Next-Generation Inference Silicon to Market
Positron AI, building the future of AI acceleration, led by Mitesh Agrawal, Thomas Sohmers, and the team, announced an $875 million Series C financing at a $5 billion post-money valuation. The round was co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis Capital, and Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape. As part of the financing, Forest Baskett of NEA, Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, Thomas Jermoluk from
Motive Secures More Than $1.3 Billion to Scale AI Across Physical Operations
Motive, building AI that makes your operations safer and more efficient, led by Shoaib Makani and the team, secured more than $1.3 billion in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). Pranav Singhvi, Managing Director at General Catalyst, joins Motive’s Board of Directors. The funding will support further development of the AI platform, expansion of go-to-market teams, and growth across the world’s largest and most complex organizations. “Motive is b
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Chift Raises €10.5M in a Series A Round led by BlackFin Capital Partners
Chift, building the agentic infrastructure for financial connectivity, led by Gauthier Henroz, Matthieu Hertoghe, and Henry Hertoghe, has raised a €10.5M Series A to solve Europe's financial connectivity problem. The round is led by BlackFin Capital Partners, the European fintech specialist, with its existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund, and Wallonie Entreprendre all doubling down. Chift’s latest milestone reflects the support of its investors, employees, and cu
Chift Raises €10.5M in a Series A Round led by BlackFin Capital Partners
Chift, building the agentic infrastructure for financial connectivity, led by Gauthier Henroz, Matthieu Hertoghe, and Henry Hertoghe, has raised a €10.5M Series A to solve Europe's financial connectivity problem. The round is led by BlackFin Capital Partners, the European fintech specialist, with its existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund, and Wallonie Entreprendre all doubling down. Chift’s latest milestone reflects the support of its investors, employees, and cu
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Limetax Raises €36 Million to Build Germany’s Agentic-First Accounting & Tax Group
Limetax, a Berlin-based technology company bringing established tax firms together in one group and building a proprietary AI agent platform for them, led by Christoph Gamon, Christoph Dansard, and Maximilian Meyer, has raised €36 million in financing, comprising €6 million in pre-seed equity led by Motive Partners, with participation from Activant and Heliad, and a €30 million acquisition facility from a consortium of German banks. Angel investors include former German Finan
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Standard Metrics has Raised $20M in Series B from Its Customers to Accelerate Innovation in the Private Markets
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Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
Silicon Data, providing GPU performance data for companies, led by Carmen Li, and the team, has announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A, led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with additional investment from CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic, and Wintermute. Breed, Hack, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures, and SoGal Ventures also participated. The Series A will support expansion across four areas: benchmark pricing, performance mea
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Uplift Ventures Launches €100 Million Fund to Back Europe's Next Generation of Product-Obsessed Deep Tech Founders
Uplift Ventures, an independently operating venture platform investing in and building startups shaping the future of Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI, and Logistics, has announced the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe's next generation of Deep Tech founders. Uplift Ventures plans to back up to 20 startups and selected Deep Tech funds from its €100 million fund, creating a unique global network that benefits founders long
Uplift Ventures Launches €100 Million Fund to Back Europe's Next Generation of Product-Obsessed Deep Tech Founders
Uplift Ventures, an independently operating venture platform investing in and building startups shaping the future of Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI, and Logistics, has announced the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe's next generation of Deep Tech founders. Uplift Ventures plans to back up to 20 startups and selected Deep Tech funds from its €100 million fund, creating a unique global network that benefits founders long
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Volition Capital Announces Closing of Volition Capital Fund VI with $950 Million in LP Capital Commitments.
Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity investment firm, led by Managing Partners Sean Cantwell, Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, and the team, has announced the final closing of Volition Capital Fund VI, L.P. (“Fund VI”) at its hard cap of $950 million in limited partner capital commitments. Fund VI was oversubscribed, reflecting strong demand from both its existing and new limited partners. Fund VI is the largest fund raised by Volition to date, bringing its total assets
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Seed Capital Closes €130M Fund V to Expand into Sweden and Cybersecurity
Seed Capital, partnering with remarkable entrepreneurs across the Nordics to build global winners, led by General Partners Lars Andersen, Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack, Geeta Schmidt, and Managing Partner Christian Brøndum, has now completed its fifth fund, valued at €130 million. Fund V will make investments ranging from €3 million to €6 million across 15 to 17 companies, from the seed stage through to Series A. The firm continues to concentrate on fintech and AI-driven B2B servi
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Molten Ventures Announces £175m First Close of Molten Growth Fund with Cornerstone Commitment from British Business Bank
Molten Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with a 20-year track record of investing in and developing disruptive high-growth technology companies across Europe and the UK, announced the first close of its Growth Fund at £175 million. The British Business Bank has committed £75 million as a cornerstone investor. Molten Ventures has committed the remaining £100 million of the first close and will continue to seek additional investors, with the aim of growing the Growth Fun
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Andreessen Horowitz Announces 'The Machine Age Fund'
A16Z has raised $1.1B for its newest fund: the Machine Age Fund, aimed at accelerating the physical buildout of AI. The fund reflects a broader push to bring AI into the physical world, positioning the technology as a powerful tool for solving real-world problems and expanding abundance. AI’s capabilities are expanding rapidly, with systems moving from chat to reasoning, coding, and increasingly complex forms of knowledge work. As utility and demand grow, so does the computat
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Einride Founders Launch Navisalma to Turn Europe's Frontier Technologies into Global Leaders
Navisalma, the newly founded European Venture Platform, founded by Einride founders Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed Falck, together with previous McKinsey Partner and Material Economics co-founder Robert Westerdahl, announced its launch. Europe does not have an innovation problem. It has a scaling problem. Europe produces world-class science, engineering, and frontier technologies, backed by centuries of leadership in design, craftsmanship, industrial excellence, and quality
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How Open Cosmos is Accelerating Real-Time Intelligence and Connectivity from Space
Open Cosmos, the European leader delivering satellite infrastructure, led by Rafel Jorda Siquier, Jordi Barrera Ars, and Aleix Megias Homar, has raised €300 million in funding as governments and enterprises accelerate investment in secure, space-based systems. The round, led by European investors, includes participation from Lightrock, ETF Partners, Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Entrepreneurs First and two major international pension funds. Other participants include Con
How Open Cosmos is Accelerating Real-Time Intelligence and Connectivity from Space
Open Cosmos, the European leader delivering satellite infrastructure, led by Rafel Jorda Siquier, Jordi Barrera Ars, and Aleix Megias Homar, has raised €300 million in funding as governments and enterprises accelerate investment in secure, space-based systems. The round, led by European investors, includes participation from Lightrock, ETF Partners, Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Entrepreneurs First and two major international pension funds. Other participants include Con
Galaxia Closes Funding Round to Support Accelerated Growth
Galaxia, building the infrastructure layer for orbital compute, led by Arad Gharagozli and the team, has announced the successful close of its oversubscribed funding round, marking a major milestone in the company’s growth and reinforcing strong investor confidence in its vision for intelligent, sovereign space infrastructure. The 4.5 million CAD round was co-led by Amiral Ventures (QC) and Invest Nova Scotia (NS). The funding will support Galaxia’s next phase of growth, ac
Antares Selected for $161M Strategic Breakthrough Award to Demonstrate Space Reactor
Antares, building microreactors for critical missions, led by Jordan Bramble and the team, has been selected by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration for a Strategic Breakthrough award to advance nuclear power for space. It marks the largest current Department of War award in space nuclear power. “Space has been core to the Antares thesis since the company was founded,” said Jordan Bramble, CEO and co-founder of Antares.
Mach Industries Doubles Valuation to $3.7B in Three Months with Fresh $600M Round
Mach Industries, building next-generation defense systems, led by Ethan Thornton, raised $600 million more, taking its Series C total to $900 million. The extension pushes the Series C’s total size to $900 million and takes Mach’s lifetime funding past $1 billion, just over a year after a Series B valued it at $470 million. Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital, and Sequoia Capital all doubled down in the second tranche, the same group that led the June round. “Mo
Aerospacelab Awarded €2.4 Billion Landmark Contract to Build 264 LEO Satellites for IRIS²
Aerospacelab has been selected as a key Prime Contractor for the LEO segment of the European Commission's IRIS² Programme (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). Building Europe’s Sovereign Satellite Network. Following a competitive selection process with Eutelsat, Aerospacelab has been chosen to build 264 satellite platforms and deliver the fully integrated satellites for the SpaceRISE consortium. The satellites will form the backbone of
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Exein Raises $270m at $1.7bn Valuation to Build the Security Layer for Physical AI
Exein, a global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, Gianni Cuozzo, Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Gerardo Gagliardo, and Gary Walshe, has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, EIB Group through the European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI), KfW Capital and T.Capital, plus existing investors Balderton, HV, Intrepid Growth Partners, 33N Ventures, Lakestar, Supernova Invest, Blue Cloud Ventur
Exein Raises $270m at $1.7bn Valuation to Build the Security Layer for Physical AI
Exein, a global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, Gianni Cuozzo, Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Gerardo Gagliardo, and Gary Walshe, has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, EIB Group through the European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI), KfW Capital and T.Capital, plus existing investors Balderton, HV, Intrepid Growth Partners, 33N Ventures, Lakestar, Supernova Invest, Blue Cloud Ventur
Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B to Advance Trustworthy AI
HiddenLayer, the most comprehensive security platform for AI, led by Chris Sestito, Tanner Burns, James Ballard, and the team, has announced a $100 million Series B funding round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, and Booz Allen Ventures. The company will use the funding to expand its enterprise platform, including Agentic Runtime Security and Agent Harness Security, a new solution designed to se
Air Security Emerges Out of Stealth to Protect AI Agents
Air, the context firewall for AI agents, founded by Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman, has announced that it is coming out of stealth. AI With Seatbelts. AI agents are becoming a fundamental part of enterprise knowledge work, with coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex seeing rapid adoption. Yet enterprises remain cautious about deploying them without stronger controls. Organizations face risks from employees using AI through personal accounts, untrusted agent harnesse
Mindgard Raises $30M Series A
Mindgard, the leader in AI security led by James Brear, Dr. Peter Garraghan, and the team, has raised a $30 million Series A financing led by Album VC with participation from Karma Ventures and existing investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard plans to use the funding to scale the company across product, engineering, sales, and marketing in response to significant customer demand. Mindgard combines AI security research with offensive securi
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