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Soverli , an ETH-Zurich spin-off, led by Ivan Puddu and Moritz Schneider, has secured  $2.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Founderful , with participation from the ETH Zurich Foundation , Venture Kick , and cybersecurity industry figures. Built on four years of ETH Zurich research, Soverli’s patent-pending technology runs multiple isolated operating systems on a single device, enabling a sovereign OS to operate alongside Android on standard smartphones with fast, seamless

Serval , a unified help desk, access management, and automation platform with a built-in AI agent workforce, led by Jake Stauch and Alex McLeod, has raised  $75 million in Series B funding, led by Sequoia  with participation from Redpoint , Meritech , First Round , General Catalyst , Evantic , Sound Ventures , Radical Ventures , and others, bringing the total funds raised to $127 million since August and valuing the company at $1 Billion. This pre-empted round reflects Serval

Harness , delivering intelligent AI automation, so your team ships code faster, safer, and smarter, led by Jyoti Bansal, Carlos Delatorre, and others, has secured  a $240 million Series E financing round, comprised of a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sachs  and a planned $40 million tender offer with participation from IVP , Menlo Ventures , and Unusual Ventures . This investment values Harness at $5.5 billion. The real bottleneck in software engineering lies not in w

Port , the agentic engineering platform, led by Zohar Einy, Yonatan Boguslavsky, Aviv Teldan, Ariel Sakin, and others, has secured  $100M Series C led by General Atlantic , with participation from Accel , Bessemer Venture Partners , and Team8 , bringing the total funds raised to $158M and valuing the company at $800M. In recent years, the company has become a leading provider of commercial Internal Developer Portals (IDPs), now supporting hundreds of customers worldwide. IDPs

Qargo , the intelligent transport management platform, led by Adriaan Coppens, Joeri De Turck, Sander De Wilde, Colin Blakely, and others, has secured  $33 million in Series B funding led by  Sofina , alongside existing investor  Balderton Capital , taking the total investment raised to $54 million and marks the growing impact of AI technology on one of Europe’s most analogue industries. Qargo Intelligence automates major parts of the transport workflow, from order creation a

Trendtracker , predictive intelligence that turns trends into strategy, led by Vincent Defour, Mathias Colpaert, Valentijn Destoop, and others, has secured  $7 million Series A funding round led by  Armilar , with participation from existing investor  Capricorn Partners . The investment accelerates Trendtracker’s mission to deliver an autonomous AI strategy and foresight analyst that streamlines strategic research, planning, and decision support for organizations. Pedro Ribei

Vybe , making vibe-coding work inside companies, led by Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos, has raised  $10M in seed funding, led by  First Round Capital ,  Y Combinator , Orange Collective , Pelion Ventures , Pioneer Fund , with participation from an incredible group of operators and founders, including Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Ami Vora (Anthropic), Shishir Mehrotra (Grammarly), Olivier Godement (Open AI), Stephen Deasy (Confluent), and many others.   Fast-growing companies often

University 2 Ventures , building the #1 pre-seed/seed deep tech university spin-off investment platform for Europe, led by Dr. Philipp Semmer, Dr. Johannes Triebs, Michael Schmitt, and Moritz von Klot, has completed  the first closing of its €60 million Fund I, with support from corporates including anchor LP Jungheinrich via Uplift Ventures , alongside family offices, serial entrepreneurs and industry executives. The fund is designed to support teams transforming Europe’s re

Outset , the most advanced AI-moderated research platform for research teams, led by Aaron Cannon and Michael Hess, has secured  $30M in Series B funding led by Radical Ventures  with participation from M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, alongside existing investors 8VC , Y Combinator , and Adverb Ventures . This raise follows a breakout year for the team, with the business growing more than 8× and customers across industries adopting the newly created category of AI-moderated res

Channel3 , building a database of every product on the internet, led by Alexander Schiff, George Lawrence, Evan Fenster, and Ignacio Valdez, has secured a $6M seed round led by Matrix , joined by Y Combinato r and Ludlow Ventures . Last year, the team at Studio was building an AI teacher with personalized curriculums and needed reliable product recommendations. Existing APIs provided only articles or outdated listings, and indexing the entire product web was clearly a full co

Saviynt , securing over 100 million identities at global leaders, led by Sachin Nayyar, Paul Zolfaghari, Shankar Ganapathy, Ajay Garg, Jeff Margolies, Atul Vij, Akshay Sivananda, and others, has secured  a $700M Series B Growth Equity Financing at a valuation of approximately $3 billion led by Funds managed by KKR , with participation from Sixth Street Growth  and TenEleven , as well as new funding from existing Series A investor Carrick Capital Partners . The multi-firm inve

Aneli Capital , investing in visionary startups to revolutionize industries and drive transformative change, led by Daiva Rakauskaitė, Jacek Blonski, Nerijus Baliunas, Sabina Siniciene, and others, has announced  €35 million fund to support early-stage startups in the Baltics, Poland, and other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, that will primarily focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as robotics, space, photonics, and energy startups, to

Nu Quantum , building the quantum networking technology to scale quantum computers, led by Dr. Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Dr. Claire Le Gall, Ed Wood, Danny Garden, Amii Shepperson, Sam Funnell, and Jonathan Cumming, has secured $60 million in Series A funding round led by National Grid Partners , including participation from Gresham House Ventures  and Morpheus Ventures , and continued support from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners , IQ Capital , Ahren Capital , C

Orbital Marine Power , the future of clean, predictable power solutions, led by Andrew Scott, Chris Milne, and Oliver Wragg, has secured £7 million in investment. PXN Ventures  – the combined VC arm of Praetura Ventures and Par Equity- joined existing shareholders, including Scottish Enterprise, to invest in Orbital. The investment follows strong momentum in Canada, where Nova Scotia recently awarded Orbital and Eauclaire Tidal Ltd major new tidal energy licenses through its

Assaia , providing airports and airlines with real-time visibility of turnaround operations, led by Christiaan Hen, Max Diez, Dmitry Chugreev, Jan Willem Kappes, Louise Niven, and others, has secured  $26.6 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by European investment firm Armira Growth , alongside existing investors. The new capital will help Assaia scale its AI platform globally and launch new solutions to boost airport, airline, and ground-handler efficie

Pryzm , the AI command center for federal business development growth and accelerated acquisitions, led by Nick LaRovere, David Istrati, Justin Deckert, Matt Hawkins, Joe Lace, and Bronwyn Davies, has secured a $12.2 million seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s ( a16z ) American Dynamism fund, with participation from existing investors XYZ Venture Capital , Amplify.LA , and Forum Ventures .  The funding accelerates Pryzm’s mission to modernize federal technology ac

Empromptu , creating accurate AI applications automatically, led by Dr. Sean Robinson and Shanea Leven, has secured $2 million in funding, led by Precursor Ventures , with participation from Alumni Ventures , Founders Edge, Rogue Women VC , South Loop , and Zeal Capital , as well as angel investor Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder of LaunchDarkly. Shanea Leven, Founder and CEO of Empromptu, remarked: “SaaS apps shouldn’t need rewrites to become intelligent; they should modernize in

FoodLabs , founded with the commitment to revolutionize the food system and improve both planetary and human health, led by Christophe Maire, Patrick Noller, Thilo Winter, Bastian Stöhr, Florian Breiner, and others, has closed  its Third Fund of €105m to invest in early-stage food tech startups in Europe.  Founded in 2016, FoodLabs invests in software and hardware startups driving a healthier, more sustainable food system. Its portfolio includes Formo (animal-free cheese), Kl

Quilt , the world’s most intuitive, advanced, and efficient ductless heat pump on the market, led by Paul Lambert, Matthew Knoll, and Bill Kee, has secured  a $20M Series B round from   Energy Impact Partners , Galvanize ,  Lowercarbon Capital ,  Gradient Ventures ,  Alumni Ventures , Incite Ventures , and others. The company is welcoming  Tom vonReichbauer (former CFO of Nest, Sunrun, and ICON) and  Veery Maxwell  (co-head of Galvanize Climate’s Innovation + Expansion fund)

Unconventional AI , rethinking the foundations of a computer to optimize energy efficiency for AI, led by MeeLan Lee , Sara Achour , Michael Carbin , and Naveen Rao , has secured  $475 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed  and Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from Sequoia , Lux Capital , DCVC , Future Ventures , Jeff Bezos, and many other amazing investing partners, valuing the company at $4.5 Billion. Naveen Rao, cofounder and CEO, will personally be investing $