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Validio , the agentic enterprise data management platform, led by Patrik Liu Tran, Adrian Strömberg, Sophia Granfors, and Christopher Alfred Brown, has raised  $30 million in Series A funding led by Plural . Previous investors and angels such as Lakestar , J12 , Kevin Ryan (MongoDB), Denise Persson (Snowflake), and Emil Eifrem (Neo4J) also participated in the round. The round brings Validio’s total funding to $47 million and will be used to further scale go-to-market across t

Silverflow , the cloud-native payment processing company, led by Anne Willem de Vries, Paul Buying, Robert Kraal, and the team, has raised   $40 million (€37 million) in a Series B funding round led by Picus Capital , with participation from Rabo Investments  - Corporate Venturing, and existing investors, Inkef , GPT, Crane , and Coatue . This European-led investment will strengthen the global expansion of Silverflow, accelerate development of its payment processing platform,

Vast , building next-generation space stations, led by Jed McCaleb , Max Haot , and the team, has raised  $500 million in new funding led by Balerion Space Ventures  with participation from  IQT ,  Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) ,  Mitsui & Co., Ltd ,  MUFG ,  Nikon Corporation (Nikon) , Stellar Ventures ,  Space Capital , and  Earthrise Ventures  to advance its mission of enabling humanity to live and work in space long-term. Jed McCaleb, founder and first investor, also p