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By Kevin Lausten, CEO, Morpheus Space - A leading innovator and manufacturer of advanced electric propulsion systems for in-space mobility. Electric propulsion is shifting satellites from fixed assets to mobile infrastructure. As orbital congestion rises, maneuverability is becoming a core driver of mission value. Access to Space Is Improving but Orbital Mobility Remains Constrained The “New Space” era has fundamentally changed launch economics. The cost per kilogram to orbit

Algorithmiq, bringing quantum to life, led by Sabrina Maniscalco, Guillermo García-Pérez, Matteo Rossi, and Boris Sokolov, has raised €18 million in funding led by United Ventures and Italian institutional investor Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), with continued participation from Inventure VC. This funding round brings Algorithmiq’s total funding raised to €36m, and represents Italy’s largest-ever venture capital investment in a quantum startup. While the quantum computing

Eyeo, building the future of imaging, led by Jeroen Hoet, Alden Carracillo, Gerd Van den Branden, and Jan Genoe, has raised €40 million in Series A funding, bringing eyeo’s total funding to €55 million. The round is led by Innovation Industries, with participation from existing investors imec.xpand, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, QBIC fund, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), and Brabant Development Agency (BOM). eyeo has developed a nanophotonic color-splitting technology that enhance

By Helena Rebane, CEO of AddSearch For years, companies built websites for a browsing-based path to conversion. The assumption was simple: attract visitors, help them explore, guide them toward the right information, and move them gradually toward action. But that logic belongs to an earlier web. At AddSearch, what we increasingly see is that visitors arrive with far less patience and far more context, often shaped by AI tools before they ever reach the site. They are not loo

NanoStruct, developing high-performance biosensors to increase the quality of your products, led by Henriette Maaß, Kai Leibfried, Enno Schatz, and the team, has raised a seed funding round of €2.6 million led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital, and the AUXXO Female Catalyst Fund. The funding builds on previous grants from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) and the European Union. Molecular Fingerprint Instead of Days of Waiting D

By Andra Bagdonaitė, General Partner at FIRSTPICK Most early-stage investment decisions are made with almost no data. There's no revenue to analyze. No market share to defend. No proven team history at the specific problem they're now attacking. And yet capital gets deployed, at speed, in volume, based on frameworks built for a world that increasingly no longer exists. The question every serious early-stage investor should be asking right now: what is actually driving convict

Wisdom Ventures, a leading early-stage VC fund investing in tech-enabled wellbeing, led by Bradley Horowitz, Cecily Mak, Soren Gordhamer, and the team, announced the close of its oversubscribed $77.7M Fund II. The new raise comes after the successful deployment of its $10 million Fund I. With the new fundraise, Wisdom Ventures will deepen its investment in startups building technologies that advance human resilience and wellbeing at scale. “In an era where AI is reshaping eve

Graduate Ventures, empowering founders through funding and support, is celebrating its 80th investment. The milestone backing goes to FrostByte, a Delft startup whose technology makes it possible to build quantum computers at a greater scale. The investment is part of a 1.3 million euro funding round, alongside Innovation Quarter, Paeonia Group, UNIIQ, and an angel investor. Since its founding in 2021, Graduate Ventures has invested in 79 startups from the ecosystems of TU De

Sweden Ballistics, securing Europe's explosives supply, led by Joakim Sjöblom, Carl Duforce, Sebastian Reismer, and the team, has raised a €30 million funding round to complete construction of its TNT manufacturing facility in Nora, Sweden. The €30m strategic investment is made up of several investors. Firstly, Sweden’s ex-Chief of Army, Major General (ret) Karl Engelbrektson. In 2023, Karl took on the position of Head of Advisory Board at Finserve Global Security Fund (GSF).

Astranis, building the world's most advanced satellites for high orbits, led by John Gedmark and the team, has raised $450 million in new capital, bringing the company’s total raised to more than $1.2 billion as it scales to meet increased demand for its spacecraft designed for geostationary orbit (GEO) and other high orbits. The funding includes a new $300 million Series E round co-led by Snowpoint Ventures and Franklin Templeton, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz,

Quantum Motion, building a full-stack CMOS quantum computing, led by James Palles-Dimmock, Simon Benjamin, John Morton, and the team, has announced a $160 million Series C round to commercialise its scalable and energy-efficient approach to quantum computing. The round is co-led by DCVC and Kembara, with participation from new investors, the British Business Bank, and Firgun, alongside existing investors Oxford Science Enterprises, Inkef, Bosch Ventures, Porsche Automobil Hol

Asterix Health, the modern workforce solution for primary care, led by Julian Titz, Max Thilo, and the team, has raised £2.1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its remote GP workforce model across NHS primary care. The round was led by Triple Point, with participation from D2, Entrepreneurs First, Basis Capital, DLB Ventures, and a group of notable angels. The platform already supports practices serving 250,000 patients, freeing up more than one GP session per day per pract

Fazeshift, your AI agents for accounts receivable, led by Caitlin Leksana, Timmy Galvin, and the team, has announced Series A, bringing the total funding to $22 million. The Problem Fazeshift is Solving Accounts receivable remains one of the most manual and fragmented workflows in modern businesses, spread across spreadsheets, email threads, and disconnected systems. This slows payments, restricts working capital, and forces finance teams to focus on collections rather than s

Scale AI, building reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions, led by Alexandr Wang and the team, has announced that the U.S. Department of War's (DoW) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has expanded its enterprise agreement with Scale AI, increasing the total potential value from $100 million to $500 million. The five-fold ceiling increase follows strong demand for the Production OTA agreement, with projects across computer vision, gene

Pit, learning your workflows and building them for you, led by Adam Jafer and Fredrik Hjelm, has announced its launch alongside $16 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The round includes participation from Lakestar, the Pit founders, and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut, as well as the Stena and Lundin families. Pit is launching as an “AI product team as a service,” enabling companies to build and deploy custom, production-grade s

Lunar Outpost, the industry leader in commercial space robotics, lunar surface mobility, and in-space infrastructure, led by Justin Cyrus, Forrest Meyen, AJ Gemer, Julian Cyrus, and the team, has announced a $30M Series B led by Industrious Ventures, with participation from Type One Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Promus Ventures, Reliable Equity, and others. The funding will accelerate production and deployment of the company’s advanced robotics and mobility platforms as it scales

Altara, building scientific intelligence for the physical world, led by Catherine Yeo and Eva Tuecke, has announced its launch. The company has raised a $7M seed round from Greylock Partners, Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, and angel investors, including Jeff Dean and leadership from OpenAI and AMD. The first wave of AI has accelerated digital work across writing, coding, and customer support, while progress in the physical world has lagged. A new era is now emerging, drive

CopilotKit, the enterprise agentic frontend stack, led by Atai Barkai, Uli Barkai, and the team, has raised a $27 Million Series A funding led by Glilot Capital, NfX, and SignalFire, with participation from Discovery Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, DVC, Abstraction Capital, 97212 Ventures, Deep Acre, J-Ventures, Gurtin Ventures, and Fresh Fund. CopilotKit is now used by a majority of Fortune 500 companies, powering millions of daily agent-user interactions in production.

Moment Energy, building a new standard for commercial-scale energy storage, led by Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan, Gabriel Soares, and Gurmesh Sidhu, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over $100 million. The Series B round was led by Evok Innovations, with participation from Liberty Mutual Investments, W23 Global Fund, and Acario (the corporate venture capital arm of Tokyo Gas), joining the company’s major investors, Amazon’s

Corvera, building AI supply chain management for fast-growing brands, led by Christopher Kong, Dirk Breeuwer, Matthew Collins, and Berk Güngör, has raised $4.2M in Seed funding, led by 6 Degrees Capital, with participation from 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, Multimodal Ventures, Y Combinator, and a group of exceptional angels and operators, including Jake Heller (Casetext), Christian Mathiesen (Frigade), and Dom Maskell (Runna). The funding round marks the close of