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Epyr Raises €15M Series A to Scale Thermal Energy Storage and Electrify European Industrial Heat
Epyr, the French energy tech company electrifying industrial heat with thermal energy storage, led by Léa Dardenne and Bastien Oggeri, has raised an oversubscribed €15 million Series A round led by SlateVC. Existing investors AENU and Daphni are doubling down, alongside WEPA Ventures, OVNI Capital and Aurum Impact. Epyr’s Series A reflects rising demand for industrial electrification, with fresh capital set to accelerate project delivery, starting with the 35 MWh unit at Pape
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1KOMMA5° Secures New Funding for its Energy AI at a 35 Percent Higher Valuation, Pledging to Invest Over 100 Million Euros in 2027
1KOMMA5º, the Hamburg-based CleanTech unicorn, led by Philipp Schröder, and the team, pledges to invest over 100 million euros in its energy intelligence Heartbeat AI in 2027. Around 70 million euros come from a new financing round at a pre-money valuation of 1.35 billion US dollars (approx. 1.2 billion euros), up 35 percent from its July 2025 round. Around 35 million euros come from 1KOMMA5°'s own operating cash flow. The funds go into AI development, software capabilities,
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only and is ordered by launch date/time, from earliest to latest.) 1) Sona8: Founded by Anton Hantel, Madeleine Malmsten, and Thilo Tamme, Sona8 is a voice agent that talks to every employee about how their work gets done. Know More At: sona8.com 2) Maritime: Founded by Maria Gorskikh and Aryaman Shrivastava, Maritime is a fully managed cloud platform for startups selling AI agents. Know More At: maritime.sh 3) Trelium: Founded by
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Bluecore Energy Secures Low-Enriched Uranium Located at the Largest Commercial Nuclear Fuel Facility in the U.S
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Epyr Raises €15M Series A to Scale Thermal Energy Storage and Electrify European Industrial Heat
Epyr, the French energy tech company electrifying industrial heat with thermal energy storage, led by Léa Dardenne and Bastien Oggeri, has raised an oversubscribed €15 million Series A round led by SlateVC. Existing investors AENU and Daphni are doubling down, alongside WEPA Ventures, OVNI Capital and Aurum Impact. Epyr’s Series A reflects rising demand for industrial electrification, with fresh capital set to accelerate project delivery, starting with the 35 MWh unit at Pape
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Ubitium is Building the First Universal Processor for Physical AI
Ubitium, the semiconductor startup building a universal processor for machines that perceive, think, and act in the real world, led by Hyun Shin Cho, Martin Vorbach, Peter W Weber, and the team, has raised $14 million in new seed funding led by Ibex Investors, with participation from OpenOcean, existing investors including KBC Focus Fund, Runa Capital, and Inflection, and Florian Seibel, co-founder and co-CEO of European defence technology company Quantum Systems, investing p
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Applied Intuition Partners with Honda to Accelerate Software-Defined Vehicle Development
Applied Intuition and Honda have entered a partnership to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles. Together, the companies will build a consolidated, upgradable Honda SDV platform leveraging Applied Intuition’s Vehicle OS software and development tooling. The partnership deepens a relationship that began in 2019, when Honda became Applied Intuition’s first OEM customer in Japan. The automotive industry is shifting from horsepower to computing power, with softw
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Applied Intuition Partners with Honda to Accelerate Software-Defined Vehicle Development
Applied Intuition and Honda have entered a partnership to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles. Together, the companies will build a consolidated, upgradable Honda SDV platform leveraging Applied Intuition’s Vehicle OS software and development tooling. The partnership deepens a relationship that began in 2019, when Honda became Applied Intuition’s first OEM customer in Japan. The automotive industry is shifting from horsepower to computing power, with softw
Danish Legal Tech Startup Raises €2M: SmallClaims Wants AI Agents to Run Court Cases for Europe's Businesses
Nearly half of B2B invoices in Western Europe are paid late, with 6% written off as losses. Late payments contribute to one in four EU bankruptcies. SmallClaims, a Copenhagen-based legal tech company founded in 2021, led by Christian Olson, has raised €2 million in a seed round led by Vendep Capital to make even the smallest court cases economical with AI agents. More than €930 billion in EU claims are written off annually as SMEs abandon small claims that are too costly to p
Klarent Secures $8M Seed to Scale its Agentic Software Testing Platform Globally
Klarent, an autonomous software testing platform, led by Asheem Panakkat and Momchil Ivanov, has announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to fuel its expansion into the United States following strong growth across Europe. The round is led by Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire Ventures and a group of prominent angel investors including Jürgen Galler (former Google Director), Harris Barton, and AngelInvest Ventures, among others. Working on the Lens and
Rebellions and ai& Partner to Bring Energy-Efficient AI Inference Infrastructure to Japan
Rebellions, a global leader in AI inference infrastructure, and ai&, a vertically integrated global AI technology company, are partnering to deploy Rebellions RebelRack within ai&’s heterogeneous infrastructure as part of the ai& inference service in Japan. The collaboration expands domestic access to Rebellions-powered inference, supporting Japan’s sovereign AI priorities. ai& will begin deploying Rebellions-powered infrastructure at its Tokyo data center, with plans to sca
Rivercell Launches With $25 Million to Build Data Platforms and AI Models That Predict How Human Cells Respond to Treatment
Rivercell, building the AI virtual cell to decipher biology and disease, led by Yann Fleureau and Éric Durand, has announced a $25 million seed round led by HV. HCVC, Alven, and Bpifrance Digital Venture also participated in the round, which will fund the scale-up of Rivercell’s proprietary data generation platform, the expansion of its wet lab in Paris (a lab working with chemicals and biological samples), and the launch of its AI Virtual Cell program. As an indication-agnos
Arena Announces a $200 Million Series B at a $3.1 Billion Valuation to Advance Real-World AI Evaluation
Arena, the official AI ranking and LLM leaderboard, led by Anastasios Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ion Stoica, has announced a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation to continue on its mission to measure and advance the AI frontier for real-world use. In parallel, arena is announcing the release of its Alignment Index, which measures how AI can deviate from human values in the real world. Arena’s Series B, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventu
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Santé Raises $15M Series A to Expand the First AI Operating System for Wine & Spirits Retail
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Graduate Ventures Launches Second Seed Fund of €125 Million
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1KOMMA5° Secures New Funding for its Energy AI at a 35 Percent Higher Valuation, Pledging to Invest Over 100 Million Euros in 2027
1KOMMA5º, the Hamburg-based CleanTech unicorn, led by Philipp Schröder, and the team, pledges to invest over 100 million euros in its energy intelligence Heartbeat AI in 2027. Around 70 million euros come from a new financing round at a pre-money valuation of 1.35 billion US dollars (approx. 1.2 billion euros), up 35 percent from its July 2025 round. Around 35 million euros come from 1KOMMA5°'s own operating cash flow. The funds go into AI development, software capabilities,
1KOMMA5° Secures New Funding for its Energy AI at a 35 Percent Higher Valuation, Pledging to Invest Over 100 Million Euros in 2027
1KOMMA5º, the Hamburg-based CleanTech unicorn, led by Philipp Schröder, and the team, pledges to invest over 100 million euros in its energy intelligence Heartbeat AI in 2027. Around 70 million euros come from a new financing round at a pre-money valuation of 1.35 billion US dollars (approx. 1.2 billion euros), up 35 percent from its July 2025 round. Around 35 million euros come from 1KOMMA5°'s own operating cash flow. The funds go into AI development, software capabilities,
Bluecore Energy Secures Low-Enriched Uranium Located at the Largest Commercial Nuclear Fuel Facility in the U.S
Bluecore Energy, a maritime nuclear energy company developing compact, water-cooled nuclear power systems, led by Kofi Asante, has announced significant progress across several critical elements of its first system, including the purchase of low-enriched uranium (LEU) from WMC, continued pre-application engagement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U.S. Coast Guard, and advancement of its maritime classification pathway with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
Epyr Raises €15M Series A to Scale Thermal Energy Storage and Electrify European Industrial Heat
Epyr, the French energy tech company electrifying industrial heat with thermal energy storage, led by Léa Dardenne and Bastien Oggeri, has raised an oversubscribed €15 million Series A round led by SlateVC. Existing investors AENU and Daphni are doubling down, alongside WEPA Ventures, OVNI Capital and Aurum Impact. Epyr’s Series A reflects rising demand for industrial electrification, with fresh capital set to accelerate project delivery, starting with the 35 MWh unit at Pape
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Hadrian Raises $40M to Tackle the AI Hacking Cyber Security Crisis
Hadrian, the agentic AI offensive security platform, led by Rogier Fischer, Maurice Clin, and Olivier Beg, has announced a $40 million funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures, bringing the total funding to $65M. The funding comes as AI reshapes offensive security. AI agents are increasingly capable of conducting cyberattacks with limited hu
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