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Collective, the AI-native financial operating system for Businesses-of-One, led by Hooman Radfar, Ugur Kaner, and Bugra Akcay, has announced $100 million in new funding to accelerate its mission of building the agentic financial OS for solo entrepreneurs. The round includes a $40 million Series B led by General Catalyst, QED, and Gradient Ventures, along with Intuit Ventures, FT Partners, and SemperVirens, alongside a $60 million growth facility from General Catalyst’s Custom

Seraphim Space, the global leader in SpaceTech investment, led by General Partners Mark Boggett, James Bruegger, and Rob Desborough, launched the Seraphim Academy, a selective programme that will invest $150,000 in early-stage companies through two funding stages and provide up to 12 months of tailored support to help founders raise capital, secure customers, and scale internationally. Building on the Success of Xona. The Academy draws on Seraphim’s track record of backing co

Rendezvous Robotics, the company building spacecraft that assemble themselves in orbit, led by Joe Landon, Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, Gerry Hudak, Phil C. Frank, and the team, has raised $20 million in an oversubscribed seed round. MaC Venture Capital and Toyota Ventures led the financing, which comes as the company prepares for a first-of-its-kind mission in 2028, when seven independent spacecraft tiles will autonomously join to form a single spacecraft, separate, and assemble again

Proxima Fusion, Europe’s leading stellarator fusion company, and Kyoto Fusioneering, a leading fusion technology provider headquartered in Japan, have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their cooperation on critical technologies needed to build and operate commercial fusion power plants, strengthening the industrial supply chain behind Germany’s ambition to become a global leader in fusion energy. Under the MoU, both companies will expand collaboratio

Cowboy Space, building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence, led by Baiju Bhatt, has revealed the Big Iron Data Center Rocket. Cowboy Space has unveiled Big Iron, a launch vehicle whose upper stage is designed to remain in orbit and operate as a megawatt-class data center. The announcement was made on Monday evening. “What we want to do is put a lot of available power in orbit, in our case to power chips, to power AI data centers,” Cowboy Space COO and Chi

MP Space, building the hardware driving the space industrial era, led by Jay Manley and Sam Paterson, has secured a $23 million (US$16 million) Seed round led by Blackbird, with Seraphim Space, Systemiq Capital, Speedinvest and MFV Partners. The funding round, one of the largest seed raises for an Australian deep-tech company, will help MP Space expand local manufacturing, broaden its power-system platforms, and grow its Australian engineering team. The investment aligns wit

Boom Supersonic, America’s most vertically integrated aviation and energy company, led by Blake Scholl and the team, has unveiled its first complete supersonic turbine core, unveiled a 2GW turbine superfactory, and announced it is developing the world’s most advanced all-digital foundry, capable of casting the world’s most advanced single-crystal turbine blades and vanes. The Superfactory will create up to 500 high-paying jobs. The Superfactory is operational now and already

Skyfly, a company that designs, builds, and sells electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), led by Michael Thompson and the team, has closed a $10 million seed round led by specialist growth equity investor HICO Investment Group, with participation from Archangel, Europe’s only dedicated next-generation defence technology fund. The investment will help Skyfly transition its two-seat Axe electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from prototype to

Neura Robotics, expanding the skill set of robots with cognitive capabilities so that they can work with humans in existing environments without having to invest in complex and costly safety systems, led by David Reger and the team, has introduced Neuron AI, its multimodal foundation model for Physical AI. Neuron AI combines 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state, language, and memory to help robots perceive and act beyond visual information alone. Its Perception-Language-Actio

Merlin, a leading U.S.-based developer of cost-effective, takeoff-to-touchdown autonomy for both legacy and next-generation airborne systems, led by Matthew George and the team, has added an Aero L-39C Albatros to its test fleet, the company’s first jet. Merlin has added its first jet, the Aero L-39C Albatros, to its test fleet. The aircraft will serve as a dedicated testbed to advance Merlin Pilot’s aircraft-agnostic autonomy capabilities for tactical aircraft and dynamic m

Rabot Energy, a market leader in dynamic electricity tariffs, led by Jan Rabe and the team, has raised a €50 million Series B funding round. The new lead investor is Endeit, a growth capital investor specializing in European tech scale-ups, together with the DeepTech & Climate Fund (DTCF). Existing investors included HV Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bosch Ventures, CNI, Acurio Ventures, and vent.io. The funding will support the company’s next growth phase, targeting

Qilimanjaro, building analog, full-stack quantum computers, led by Marta P Estarellas, Victor Canivell, and the team, has completed a €19.6 million first close of its Series A funding round, led by Indra Group, through IndraMind, with an investment of €10 million. The Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), under the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, has also renewed its commitment to the company with a new investment of €9.6 mill

PRIMA, a wireless brain-computer interface implant, is now commercially available in Europe for patients with vision loss caused by geographic atrophy. In a New England Journal of Medicine study, 84% of 32 patients assessed at 12 months reported being able to read letters, numbers, and words. The technology is now being trialled for Stargardt disease and retinitis pigmentosa. In the PRIMAlia trial at Sydney Eye Hospital, the first Stargardt patient received the implant in May

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

Fortastra, an orbital defense company built for scale, led by Dr. Michael Smayda, has raised $30 million in Series A led by First In, with participation from Upfront Ventures, Space Capital, Rsquared, Side Door Ventures, ATX Ventures, among others, as well as existing investors. Fortastra will use the funding to accelerate the development of its on-orbit security platforms, expand its engineering and operations teams, and strengthen its autonomy and manufacturing capabilitie

Arsenal-2 Will Expand Virginia-Class Submarine Production Capacity. Anduril has announced Arsenal-2, a new software-defined shipyard backed by a $3.7 billion private investment to manufacture critical Virginia-class submarine components and assemblies. The facility is part of a broader $6.6 billion effort, including a Navy contract worth up to $2.9 billion, aimed at expanding the U.S. submarine industrial base and increasing production capacity. Arsenal-2 will manufacture lar

Buntar Aerospace, a Ukrainian defense tech startup building autonomous combat systems, led by Ivan Kaunov, Bohdan Sas, and Kateryna Bezsudna, has locked in a $16 million investment round led by Freedom Fund and a top-tier international private equity fund, joined by Gardar, Iron Wolf, and Autonomy Capital, taking the company's total funding to $30 million. Buntar Aerospace deploys the Buntar-1 reconnaissance drone alongside Buntar Copilot, software designed to support drone o

Foundry Management, backing exceptional founders to build inside the industrial world, created by Atlas Holdings and A16Z, led by Arye Barnehama, has announced its launch. To the Founders Building in the Physical World. The opportunity is to build companies that change what the world can make, move, and power, putting technical expertise to work on tangible problems across industries people depend on. Artificial intelligence is opening new possibilities across factories, inf

Varda, a microgravity-enabled life sciences company that processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth, led by Will Bruey, Delian Asparouhov, and Jon Barr, has announced a Series D fundraising round today, bringing the total amount of capital raised by the microgravity-enabled life sciences company to $598 million. The $251 million fundraise was led by Lux Capital and Natural Capital, with participation from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Genera

Quartermaster, connecting every vessel on the water to create a comprehensive, real-time picture of our oceans, unlocking critical data insights that underpin a prosperous global maritime ecosystem, led by Neil Sobin, Matt Beck, and Steve Ribaudo, has raised $140 million, including a $100 million Series B led by Insight Partners with new participation from Overmatch Ventures, and a $40 million venture debt facility from Stifel. First Round Capital and Quiet Capital, who co-le