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Reflex Aerospace , manufacturer of high-performance satellite platforms, led by Walter Ballheimer, Alexander Genzel, Felix Motzki, Dennis Moore, Cecile Schirmer, and Henrik Rutzky, has raised  €50 million Series A funding led by Human Element  together with Alpine Space Ventures ,  Bayern Kapital , and HTGF , as well as additional German and European investors. The round will accelerate the build and deployment of sovereign satellite constellations across Optical, SAR, SDA, a

TestSprite , an AI testing agent and automation platform, led by Yunhao Jiao, Rui Li, Shawnie Shan , and others, has secured  $6.7 million in seed funding, led by Trilogy Equity Partners , with participation from Techstars , Hat-Trick Capital , Jinqiu Capital, MiraclePlus , Baidu Venture , and EdgeCase Capital Partners. As AI increasingly writes software, validation must advance just as fast. The scale and complexity of AI-generated code require a new testing infrastructure,

octonomy AI , an AI company building agentic systems for complex enterprise support and service workflows, led by Sushel Bijganath, Oliver Trabert, Thorsten Grote, Markus Hanslik, and Thomas Bollig,   has raised  $US20 million, led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital , with participation from Capnamic , NRW.Bank , and the TechVision Fund, bringing the total funding to US $25 million since its founding 15 months ago. Octonomy equips heavy-equipment industries with AI systems