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Impulse Space Announces $308 Million Series D Extension to Meet Increasing Demand for In-Space Mobility
Impulse Space, developing the in-space mobility infrastructure to accelerate our future beyond Earth, led by renowned propulsion expert Tom Mueller, and the team, has announced a $308 million extension to its Series D round, bringing the combined round total to $808 million. The extension included participation from existing investors 137 Ventures, BANNER VC, DFJ Growth, Linse Capital, Lux Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, among others, reflecting continued confidence in th
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Impulse Space Announces $308 Million Series D Extension to Meet Increasing Demand for In-Space Mobility
Impulse Space, developing the in-space mobility infrastructure to accelerate our future beyond Earth, led by renowned propulsion expert Tom Mueller, and the team, has announced a $308 million extension to its Series D round, bringing the combined round total to $808 million. The extension included participation from existing investors 137 Ventures, BANNER VC, DFJ Growth, Linse Capital, Lux Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, among others, reflecting continued confidence in th
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EnduroSat Raises $205M to Scale Next-Generation Space Fleets
EnduroSat, a space company building standardized, software-flexible satellites and a streamlined constellations-as-a-service model, led by Raycho Raychev, has raised $205 million in a round co-led by Riot Ventures and Atreides Management, with backing from the European Innovation Council, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, House Capital, Lux Capital, Omnes Capital, Giant Ventures, Emphatic Capital & Endeavor Catalyst. Scaling Serial Production. The funding will help EnduroSat ex
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Sakana AI Introduces Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier
Sakana AI has released Fugu Max, which expands the Pareto Efficiency Frontier by orchestrating its largest pool of open and specialized models to date, and Fugu Ultra v2, which pushes peak performance higher than ever before, without the indispensable reliance on the frontier models it orchestrates. The Two-Dimensional AI Frontier. The AI industry has largely focused on one metric: building increasingly capable and expensive foundation models. But real-world AI has another cr
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Integral Raises €18m Series A Led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman to Build the AI-Native Accounting, Tax, and Payroll Services Firm for SMEs
Integral, connecting accounting, tax, and payroll in one AI-native firm, led by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, has announced an €18m Series A, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with its existing investors Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures joining again. It brings the total capital raised by Integral to more than €30m. Where Integral Started. Before Integral, the founders spent years building banking and payments products for businesses and sp
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AI Has Made Building Software Easier. Building the Right Product Is Still Hard
By Ayush Yadav, Founder, AY Technologies. This is an Op-Ed on Operators' Stack, Menlo Times. There has probably never been a better time to build software. What once required weeks of engineering can increasingly be prototyped in days, sometimes hours. AI can generate code, debug problems, create interfaces, explain unfamiliar technologies, and help small teams experiment with ideas that previously required significant time and money. As someone building software products for
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Sakana AI Introduces Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier
Sakana AI has released Fugu Max, which expands the Pareto Efficiency Frontier by orchestrating its largest pool of open and specialized models to date, and Fugu Ultra v2, which pushes peak performance higher than ever before, without the indispensable reliance on the frontier models it orchestrates. The Two-Dimensional AI Frontier. The AI industry has largely focused on one metric: building increasingly capable and expensive foundation models. But real-world AI has another cr
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Sakana AI Introduces Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier
Sakana AI has released Fugu Max, which expands the Pareto Efficiency Frontier by orchestrating its largest pool of open and specialized models to date, and Fugu Ultra v2, which pushes peak performance higher than ever before, without the indispensable reliance on the frontier models it orchestrates. The Two-Dimensional AI Frontier. The AI industry has largely focused on one metric: building increasingly capable and expensive foundation models. But real-world AI has another cr
Integral Raises €18m Series A Led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman to Build the AI-Native Accounting, Tax, and Payroll Services Firm for SMEs
Integral, connecting accounting, tax, and payroll in one AI-native firm, led by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, has announced an €18m Series A, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with its existing investors Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures joining again. It brings the total capital raised by Integral to more than €30m. Where Integral Started. Before Integral, the founders spent years building banking and payments products for businesses and sp
Periodic Labs Introduces Periodic Neon
Periodic Labs, an AI research and deployment company creating models and autonomous labs to accelerate science, led by Liam Fedus, Dogus Cubuk, and the team, has introduced Periodic Neon, a 1T-parameter model that was post-trained to analyze experimental results and deployed to its physical labs. This is a step towards putting autonomous discovery into the hands of scientists. Building AI-Powered Materials Labs. Since launching last year, Periodic has built high-throughput la
Liquid Compute Announces its Launch to Build a Regulated Venue that Commoditizes Intelligence
Liquid Compute, building a regulated exchange for compute: verification, clearing, settlement, and price discovery for neoclouds, AI companies, and traders, led by Ronit Jain and Aarav Patel, emerges from stealth with a $15 million seed round co-led by Chemistry and Firstmark. They are joined by K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Brainchild Holdings, UFO Holdings, Y Combinator, and angel investors such as Dmitry Balyasny. Alongside the launch, the company is announcing pe
Jack & Jill Raises $40M Series A to Make Warm Introductions at the Scale of the Internet
Jack & Jill, an AI agent for your career, led by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan, has raised a $40M Series A, led by Air Street Capital with participation from Creandum and Madrona, to move faster toward a job market where every person and company has an agent in their corner. Jack is an AI agent for candidates, while Jill is an AI agent for employers. When the two identify a potential match, they connect the candidate and company directly, removing the traditional applicatio
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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Integral Raises €18m Series A Led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman to Build the AI-Native Accounting, Tax, and Payroll Services Firm for SMEs
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Integral, connecting accounting, tax, and payroll in one AI-native firm, led by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, has announced an €18m Series A, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with its existing investors Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures joining again. It brings the total capital raised by Integral to more than €30m. Where Integral Started. Before Integral, the founders spent years building banking and payments products for businesses and sp
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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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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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Impulse Space Announces $308 Million Series D Extension to Meet Increasing Demand for In-Space Mobility
Impulse Space, developing the in-space mobility infrastructure to accelerate our future beyond Earth, led by renowned propulsion expert Tom Mueller, and the team, has announced a $308 million extension to its Series D round, bringing the combined round total to $808 million. The extension included participation from existing investors 137 Ventures, BANNER VC, DFJ Growth, Linse Capital, Lux Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, among others, reflecting continued confidence in th
Impulse Space Announces $308 Million Series D Extension to Meet Increasing Demand for In-Space Mobility
Impulse Space, developing the in-space mobility infrastructure to accelerate our future beyond Earth, led by renowned propulsion expert Tom Mueller, and the team, has announced a $308 million extension to its Series D round, bringing the combined round total to $808 million. The extension included participation from existing investors 137 Ventures, BANNER VC, DFJ Growth, Linse Capital, Lux Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, among others, reflecting continued confidence in th
EnduroSat Raises $205M to Scale Next-Generation Space Fleets
EnduroSat, a space company building standardized, software-flexible satellites and a streamlined constellations-as-a-service model, led by Raycho Raychev, has raised $205 million in a round co-led by Riot Ventures and Atreides Management, with backing from the European Innovation Council, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, House Capital, Lux Capital, Omnes Capital, Giant Ventures, Emphatic Capital & Endeavor Catalyst. Scaling Serial Production. The funding will help EnduroSat ex
EUCLYD Raises Over €200 Million to Break the AI Efficiency Wall
EUCLYD, a European semiconductor systems company developing ultra-efficient infrastructure for foundation AI models, led by Bernardo Kastrup and Atul Sinha, has signed a Series A financing round of more than €200 million, co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, Scaleup Europe Fund, which is managed by EQT, and Innovation Industries, with participation from EIFO, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, imec.xpand, Brabant Development Agency (BOM), and Quadri. Peter We
How Open Cosmos is Accelerating Real-Time Intelligence and Connectivity from Space
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Galaxia Closes Funding Round to Support Accelerated Growth
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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
Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
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HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B to Advance Trustworthy AI
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