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Cloudberry , a venture capital firm based in Helsinki and London, led by Rene Kromhof, Veera Pietikäinen, Lawrence Lundy-Bryan, Tuomas Hollman, and Lukas Steinmann, has announced  the launch of Europe’s first semiconductor venture fund with an initial close of €30 million. The fund invests in companies advancing the technological frontier with semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials to advance compute, connectivity, sensing, and power.   Cloudberry’s fund, anchored

Enlightra , building scalable, extreme-bandwidth, and low-power optical interconnects for the future of computing and communications, led by John Jost and Maxim Karpov, has announced it has raised a total of $15 million in funding to tackle the biggest bottleneck in AI infrastructure: fast and energy-efficient data transfer. The company’s investors include Y Combinator , Runa Capital , Pegasus Tech Ventures , Protocol Labs , Halo Labs, Asymmetry Ventures , and TRAC VC , among

Neural Concept , revolutionizing how customers design their products by speeding up R&D cycles, augmenting product performance and solving their next engineering challenges, led by Dr Pierre Baqué, Théophile Allard, Dr Jonathan Donier, Thomas von Tschammer, and Philippe Cuendet, has raised  a $100 million Series C funding round led by Growth Equity  at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from existing investors Forestay Capital , Alven , HTGF , D. E. Shaw Ventures