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FLEXELL SPACE Raises $20 Million in Series A Funding to Expand into the Global Space Solar Power Market
Flexell Space, leading innovations in space solar cells, focusing on improving cost, delivery, design, and power efficiency, led by Taehun(Tim) Ahn, PMP, Dr. Shinyoung Noh, and Keosan Lee, has completed a $20 million Series A funding round. Existing investors InterVest, L&S Venture Capital, and QUAD Ventures made significant follow-on investments. New investors included Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, Industrial Bank of Korea, NH Venture Investment, IBK S
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Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry
Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD, and Foreword, as well as several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2025 by former Stocard founder Björn Goß alongside Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Chr
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.) 1) Assemble: Founded by Aliyan Ishfaq, Shaurnav Ghosh, and Shrish Janarthanan, Assemble accelerates IT teams by performing development work inside core enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, and HRIS. Know More At: assemble.ai 2) PathPilot: Founded by Victor Laguna, PathPilot is AI Agents for Lending Operations. Know More At: getpathpilot.com 3) Fiber AI: Found
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.) 1) Coasty: Founded by Prateek Jannu and Nitish Kovuru, Coasty is the computer-use agent that doesn't break on real software. Know More At: coasty.ai 2) Keystroke: Founded by Blake Rouse and Dallin Bentley, Keystroke is the best way to build AI agents & automations with coding agents. Know More At: keystroke.ai 3) Every: Founded by Rajeev Behera and Barry P
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Nopan Raises €7.2M to Further Build its Performance Platform for Account and Wallet Payments
Nopan, an account and wallet payments platform, led by Konstantin Surkov, Nick Ryabov, and the team, has raised €7.2 million to date, including a new funding round led by Newion, with follow-on investment from Crane and Seedcamp and support from a group of angel investors with deep experience in merchant payments and fintech. Founded by former Netflix payments leaders Konstantin Surkov and Nick Ryabov, Nopan was created to solve a key challenge in digital payments: launching
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How Promptwatch is Powering the Best End-to-End AI Search Optimization Platform
Promptwatch, the analytics platform that helps brands understand and improve how they appear in AI-driven searches and conversations, led by Klaas Foppen and Gijs de Groot, has raised a €6 million seed round led by Seed + Speed Ventures after surpassing €2 million in ARR in May 2026, just 12 months after its launch, demonstrating a rapid and capital-efficient growth with only €1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round also included participation from Blum Ventures, while Arc
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Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry
Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD, and Foreword, as well as several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2025 by former Stocard founder Björn Goß alongside Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Chr
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Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry
Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD, and Foreword, as well as several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2025 by former Stocard founder Björn Goß alongside Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Chr
How Promptwatch is Powering the Best End-to-End AI Search Optimization Platform
Promptwatch, the analytics platform that helps brands understand and improve how they appear in AI-driven searches and conversations, led by Klaas Foppen and Gijs de Groot, has raised a €6 million seed round led by Seed + Speed Ventures after surpassing €2 million in ARR in May 2026, just 12 months after its launch, demonstrating a rapid and capital-efficient growth with only €1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round also included participation from Blum Ventures, while Arc
Ollama has Raised $88M to Enable Every Developer Run Open Models
Ollama, providing the easiest way to build with open models, led by Jeffrey Morgan and Michael Chiang, has raised $88M from Peter Fenton at Benchmark, Tomasz Tunguz at Theory Ventures, Alex Kolicich at 8VC, along with Solomon Hykes (founder of Docker), Aaron Katz (CEO of ClickHouse), Spencer Kimball (co-creator of GIMP and co-founder of Cockroach Labs), Quinn Slack (CEO of Amp), Marianna Tessel (board of directors, Cisco), Michael Montano (former head of engineering at Twitt
Prime Intellect is Building the Open Superintelligence Stack
Prime Intellect, making frontier AI training accessible to every company, led by Vincent Weisser and Johannes Hagemann, has raised $130M, led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and existing investors, bringing the total funding to over $150M to build the open superintelligence stack. Reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping how frontier AI systems are built. While pre-training concentrated advanced AI develo
How Polysense is Shaping the Food Factory of the Future with AI and Computer Vision
Polysense, enabling food lines to catch quality drift before it becomes waste, led by Jarne Bogaert, Yarne De Munck, and Lucas Van Dijck, has closed an oversubscribed seed round of $10.7 million led by Felix Capital, with participation from Fortino Ventures and angel investors including Syndicate One and 100IN. The Belgian technology company helps food manufacturers reduce waste by automating in-line quality control with real-time imaging and synthetic data models. Its platfo
Norm AI Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation Led by Khosla Ventures
Norm AI, setting the norms of agentic law, led by John Nay and the team, has raised a $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by Khosla Ventures, the first institutional investor in OpenAI. Blackstone, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Craft Ventures, Coatue, Vanguard, New York Life, TIAA, Tony James (former President, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Vice Chairman of Blackstone), Jeff Hammes (former Chairman of Kirkland & Ellis), and Fenwick LLP also particip
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Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry
Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD, and Foreword, as well as several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2025 by former Stocard founder Björn Goß alongside Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Chr
Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry
Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD, and Foreword, as well as several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2025 by former Stocard founder Björn Goß alongside Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Chr
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Nopan Raises €7.2M to Further Build its Performance Platform for Account and Wallet Payments
Nopan, an account and wallet payments platform, led by Konstantin Surkov, Nick Ryabov, and the team, has raised €7.2 million to date, including a new funding round led by Newion, with follow-on investment from Crane and Seedcamp and support from a group of angel investors with deep experience in merchant payments and fintech. Founded by former Netflix payments leaders Konstantin Surkov and Nick Ryabov, Nopan was created to solve a key challenge in digital payments: launching
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How Tangos is Scaling Financial Crime Investigations with Autonomous AI
Tangos, building investigation intelligence for risk and financial crime, led by Eyal Azoulay and the team, has raised a $20 million seed financing round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Leaders Fund, Clarim Ventures, Ventureisrael, Signal Fire, Clutch Capital, and Selah Ventures, and a strategic investment by Bright Data. Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneur Eyal Azoulay, Tangos brings together expertise across financial crime investigations, sancti
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How LinqAlpha is Building the Alpha Intelligence Layer for Global Public Markets
LinqAlpha, an AI-powered investment research firm that turns fragmented data from global markets into a real edge, led by Jacob Chanyeol Choi, Subeen Pang, Yongjin Kim, and Hojun Choi, has announced $22 million in Series A funding. The round was anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures, with participation from a global syndicate of strategic financial institutions and venture platforms. Founded by Jacob Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim, and Hojun Choi, LinqAlpha combine
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Taxwire Raises $25M to Scale Fully Managed AI Sales Tax Automation Platform
Taxwire, a global sales tax automation platform led by Andrew Rea and Steven Schmatz, has announced $25M in Seed and Series A funding from Headline Ventures, XYZ VC, Vinyl, Recall Capital, and Nomo Ventures. The platform automates the complexities of sales tax collection, allowing businesses of all sizes to save time, reduce financial liabilities, and seamlessly manage compliance in the US and over 100 other countries. Addressing Tax Compliance Complexity. Indirect tax compli
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Warp Raises $60 Million Series B from Battery Ventures
Warp, an AI-native payroll, compliance, and benefits platform, led by Ayush Sharma and the team, has announced a $60 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Peak XV, Sound Ventures, and Y Combinator, bringing the total funding to $85 million in just under a year. Support and Market Context. The company is backed by leaders from some of the most influential technology organizations of the past two decades, including Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, former Stri
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Paradigm has Raised Its Fourth Fund: $1.2B
Paradigm, a technology investment firm led by Matt Huang and the team, has raised its fourth fund: $1.2B to back the most ambitious builders at the frontier of technology. Founded in 2018, Paradigm invests in frontier technologies spanning crypto, AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, combining research and product development with venture investing. The firm backs founders across stages, with investments in companies such as Zipline, SendCutSend, True Anomaly, and Nous R
Paradigm has Raised Its Fourth Fund: $1.2B
Paradigm, a technology investment firm led by Matt Huang and the team, has raised its fourth fund: $1.2B to back the most ambitious builders at the frontier of technology. Founded in 2018, Paradigm invests in frontier technologies spanning crypto, AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, combining research and product development with venture investing. The firm backs founders across stages, with investments in companies such as Zipline, SendCutSend, True Anomaly, and Nous R
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Expeditions Closes €197M for Fund II to Shape the Future of European Security
Expeditions, investing in the future of European security, led by Mikołaj Firlej and Stanisław Kastory, has announced the final close of its second fund at €197M. Expeditions’ Fund II is investing in the technologies and founders that are shaping the future of European defence and strengthening its sovereignty, helping to define Europe’s role in the world over the next century. Founded in 2021 by defence technology and autonomous warfare experts Dr. Mikolaj Firlej and Stanis
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Climentum Capital Launches Fund II
Climentum Capital, investing in climate hard tech companies shaping a sustainable, resilient, and competitive Europe, led by General Partners Doerte Hirschberg, Dr. Jennifer Jacobs Dungs, Morten Halborg, and Stefan Maard, has announced the close of the first €60 million of Fund II, matching the full size of Fund I. The new fund will continue backing hard tech for a new Europe, investing in climate hard tech companies shaping a sustainable, resilient, and competitive industria
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Rick Hao - Ruya Ventures Closes $50 Million Solo GP Debut Fund to Back Europe's Deep Tech
Ruya Ventures, a solo GP fund led by Rick Hao, closes a $50M Solo GP debut fund to back Europe's deep tech. Ruya Ventures: Investment Philosophy. Ruya Ventures was founded to take a deliberate approach to venture investing rather than pursuing the easiest entry point into the asset class. The focus is on deep technology, informed by more than a decade of investing through cycles where long timelines and high capital intensity made the category less conventional for many inves
Jul 2
Menlo Ventures Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital
Menlo Ventures, an early-stage VC firm, marked its 50th anniversary and announced $3 billion in new capital, the largest raise in Menlo’s history, to back the next generation of AI leaders, from infrastructure and frontier models to AI-native applications across enterprise, healthcare, and consumer markets. Two Funds to Go All In on AI. Menlo Ventures XVII focuses on Seed and Series A investments, backing founders at the earliest stages as they develop breakthrough technologi
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Seedcamp Announces $320 Million in New Funds
Seedcamp, partnering with Europe’s most exceptional tech founders from day one, led by Reshma Sohoni, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, and the team, has announced $320 million in new funds. Seedcamp was the first believer in Revolut, Wise, UiPath, Synthesia, and Fluidstack, back when those category-defining companies were just ideas. It has backed teams like BioOrbit, Sunrise Robotics, and Dust, building where software meets science and the physical world. Across every technology cycl
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FLEXELL SPACE Raises $20 Million in Series A Funding to Expand into the Global Space Solar Power Market
Flexell Space, leading innovations in space solar cells, focusing on improving cost, delivery, design, and power efficiency, led by Taehun(Tim) Ahn, PMP, Dr. Shinyoung Noh, and Keosan Lee, has completed a $20 million Series A funding round. Existing investors InterVest, L&S Venture Capital, and QUAD Ventures made significant follow-on investments. New investors included Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, Industrial Bank of Korea, NH Venture Investment, IBK S
FLEXELL SPACE Raises $20 Million in Series A Funding to Expand into the Global Space Solar Power Market
Flexell Space, leading innovations in space solar cells, focusing on improving cost, delivery, design, and power efficiency, led by Taehun(Tim) Ahn, PMP, Dr. Shinyoung Noh, and Keosan Lee, has completed a $20 million Series A funding round. Existing investors InterVest, L&S Venture Capital, and QUAD Ventures made significant follow-on investments. New investors included Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, Industrial Bank of Korea, NH Venture Investment, IBK S
Helsing Raises US$1.8bn in Series E
Helsing, providing Artificial Intelligence to protect its democracies, led by Dr. Gundbert Scherf, Niklas Köhler, and Torsten Reil, has raised $1.8bn in a Series E, valuing the company at US$18bn. New and existing investors participated in the round, including Dragoneer Investment Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Disruptive, Iconiq, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, JPMorgan Chase, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), General Catalyst, Plural,
Pulse Space Wins $40 Million Space Force Contract for Laser-Based Space Power Technology
Pulse Space, building the power grid for space, led by Karl Stedman and the team, has announced a $40 million contract award from the United States Space Force for technology development, the largest award in the company's history. Karl Stedman said the $40 million award marks a major milestone for Pulse Space, supporting its partnership with the United States Space Force to advance laser-based technologies and accelerate the company’s technical development roadmap. The award
Pixel-Flo Raises £5.25 Million Seed Round to Unlock MicroLED Displays for the Mass Market
Pixel-Flo, reinventing MicroLED production with continuous-Flo™, led by Rick Smith, Suneal Ghataora, Simon Jones, and Sanger Hsu, has raised £5.25 million in seed funding led by Northern Gritstone, with additional investment from SCVC, the Parkwalk Northern Universities Venture Fund, and German investment firm HTGF. Pixel-Flo is developing a scalable manufacturing technology designed to reduce the cost of MicroLED display production. Its proprietary fluidic self-assembly proc
e-peas Secures USD 22 Million in Financing to Reinforce its Leading Position within the Ambient IoT Market
e-peas, powering the future with ambient energy, led by Geoffroy Gosset, Julien De Vos, and the team, has announced the successful closing of USD 22-Million in financing led by Crédit Mutuel Innovation, with the support of its Belgian branch, alongside SFPI, the Belgian federal fund. E‑peas’ growth ambition and long-term vision perfectly align with these two investors' strategic objectives. The capital raise also included the continued support of e‑peas’ historic investors, i
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Dawnguard Launches Platform to Build Secure Cloud Systems from Day Zero, with Fresh Funding and US Office
Dawnguard, building the next-gen platform that makes security easy from day one, led by Mahdi Abdulrazak, Kim van Lavieren, Sarah van Lavieren, and David van der Hoeven, has announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, making it available to organizations looking to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production. Dawnguard announced the opening of its New York City office and an additional $3.3 million
Dawnguard Launches Platform to Build Secure Cloud Systems from Day Zero, with Fresh Funding and US Office
Dawnguard, building the next-gen platform that makes security easy from day one, led by Mahdi Abdulrazak, Kim van Lavieren, Sarah van Lavieren, and David van der Hoeven, has announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, making it available to organizations looking to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production. Dawnguard announced the opening of its New York City office and an additional $3.3 million
NeuralTrust Raises $20 Million to Secure the Growing Swarm of AI Agents in the Enterprise
NeuralTrust, the platform for AI & agent security, led by Joan Vendrell and Victor García, has announced a $20 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain's State Research Agency (AEI). The round will fund engineering,
Ent Emerges from Stealth to Bring Prevention Back to Cybersecurity
Ent, the intent-aware security platform powering the AI-native enterprise, extending endpoint security into a real-time layer of prevention across human and AI-driven work, Elias(Lou)Manousos and Brandon Dixon, has emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed financing led by Decibel, with participation from Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Preventing Cyber Threats Before They Become Incidents. Ent is pioneer
NewCore Emerges from Stealth to Rebuild Workforce Identity for the Agentic Era
NewCore, the security-first identity platform built for humans and AI agents, led by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, has emerged from stealth and has raised $66 million from Cyberstarts, Index Ventures, and Evolution Equity Partners. It is led by a founding team of cybersecurity and enterprise-IT veterans whose prior exits include Check Point's acquisition of Dome9. Identity has emerged as the primary attack surface within modern enterprises. Many of the large
Cyera is Building The Trust Layer for Enterprise AI
Cyera, the AI security platform, led by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, Yonatan Itai, and the team, has announced its Series G: $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts and Temasek, in addition to all existing investors, including Accel, AT&T Ventures, Blackstone, Coatue, Spark Capital, among others. Building The Trust Layer For AI. Cyera was founded to help enterprises understand what sensitive data they hav
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