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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

Photon Bridge, redefining photonics integration, led by Paul Marchal and Rui Santos, has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers that will be needed to connect increasingly large clusters of AI processors. The round was co-led by new investors, the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, with existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber, and Brabant Development Agency (BOM) also increasing their inves

IVEX, a deep-tech company whose safety-testing technology is used in official vehicle assessments, led by Mario Torres and the team, is bringing its NCAP Evaluator software to NVIDIA Halos SAFE (Safety Assurance Framework for Evaluation), expanding the safety evaluation capabilities available within NVIDIA's autonomous-driving ecosystem. The software helps developers evaluate and score simulated and real driving tests against NCAP protocols, enabling them to compare safety pe

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

OMass Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing small molecule therapeutics against highly validated target ecosystems, led by Rosamond Deegan and the team, has announced an oversubscribed $310 million (£230 million) Series C financing round. Proceeds from the financing will support the advancement of the Company’s lead program, OMS1620, a potential best-in-class MC2 (melanocortin-2) receptor antagonist, through Phase 2 clinical development in congenital adrenal hyperp

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

Salience Labs, a leader in photonic chips targeting connectivity for AI data center infrastructure, led by Vaysh Kewada and Johannes Feldmann, has announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed $125 million Series B funding round. The round is led by Bullhound Capital, with Principal Callum Stewart joining the Salience Labs Board of Directors. Additional investor participation came from AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and British Busines

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

1KOMMA5º, the Hamburg-based CleanTech unicorn, led by Philipp Schröder, and the team, pledges to invest over 100 million euros in its energy intelligence Heartbeat AI in 2027. Around 70 million euros come from a new financing round at a pre-money valuation of 1.35 billion US dollars (approx. 1.2 billion euros), up 35 percent from its July 2025 round. Around 35 million euros come from 1KOMMA5°'s own operating cash flow. The funds go into AI development, software capabilities,

Bluecore Energy, a maritime nuclear energy company developing compact, water-cooled nuclear power systems, led by Kofi Asante, has announced significant progress across several critical elements of its first system, including the purchase of low-enriched uranium (LEU) from WMC, continued pre-application engagement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U.S. Coast Guard, and advancement of its maritime classification pathway with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

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

Ubitium, the semiconductor startup building a universal processor for machines that perceive, think, and act in the real world, led by Hyun Shin Cho, Martin Vorbach, Peter W Weber, and the team, has raised $14 million in new seed funding led by Ibex Investors, with participation from OpenOcean, existing investors including KBC Focus Fund, Runa Capital, and Inflection, and Florian Seibel, co-founder and co-CEO of European defence technology company Quantum Systems, investing p

Modern air and missile defense faces a growing range of threats, from low-cost drones to hypersonic missiles, while existing interceptors remain expensive, inflexible, and costly to adapt. This creates an unfavorable cost-exchange and strains critical defensive stockpiles. Anduril developed Steelfin to address these challenges with adaptable, scalable defense capabilities designed to evolve alongside emerging threats. Steelfin is a family of configurable, mass-producible surf

Universal Quantum, the company building large-scale quantum computing systems for real-world use, led by Sebastian Weidt and Winfried Hensinger, has announced it has secured over $100 million in Series A funding - marking the largest Series A ever raised by a quantum firm headquartered in the UK. The round was co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures, with participation from EDBI, Artal (advised by Invus), Integral GlobalTech, Main Sequence, Hostplus, NGS Super, IAG Capital, EdenBa

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

Startup Policy Forum, a vital bridge between the startup community and policymakers, led by Shweta Rajpal Kohli, Avantika Gode, and Shubhangi Poddar, has launched DeepVerse, its centre for deeptech Innovation, bringing together investors, deeptech founders, policymakers, global technology companies, and academia to support the development of India’s deeptech ecosystem. DeepVerse will focus on policy, research and collaboration across 10 deeptech sectors, from semiconductors a

Furientis, manufacturing interceptor missiles engineered from day one for high-rate production, led by Brody Franzen and Aris Simsarian, has annouced $25M seed round, led by Benchmark Capital. Designing for Production at Scale. Furientis was founded in May 2025 around a central concern: while the U.S. produces some of the world’s most advanced defense technology, production capacity remains far below the scale required by modern threats. The debate around cost asymmetry, such

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

Volantis, a scalable solution to the memory bottleneck, enabling more than an order-of-magnitude increase in capacity and bandwidth, led by Tapa Ghosh and Roy Meade, has raised a Series A, led by Lachy Groom and Abstract, totalling $97M in funds raised to date, including from Sam Altman, Jeff Dean, Dylan Patel, John Doerr & others. Volantis is developing an optical interconnect technology designed to enable models with over 10 trillion parameters to run at speeds of up to 10,

Satylt, the above cloud service provider, led by Rama Afullo, Nelson Psenjen, and the team, has raised an $8 million seed round. The Kenyan-American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business and briefly joined SpaceX’s Starlink team in 2024, where he saw untapped potential for computing in space. He later co-founded Satlyt, headquartered in Sunnyvale and Nairobi, to build software that enables satellites to share large computing workloads. The company ha

Efficient Computer, the company building the world's most energy-efficient processors, led by Brandon Lucia, Graham Gobieski, and Nathan Beckmann, has announced it has entered into agreements for more than $97 million in Series B financing at a $650 million valuation, bringing its total funding raised to $173 million. The new round is led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Eclipse, Union Square Ventures, Giant Ventures, Triatomic Capital, TO Capital, TF Capital, Mana Ven

Charter Space, the AI-native economic defense company insuring the rapidly growing space economy, led by Yuk Chi Chan and Yukun Yin, has announced the close of an oversubscribed $5 million seed round, led by Crystal Venture Partners with participation from QED, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Hustle Fund, and other leading fintech and space investors. The round brings Charter’s total funding to $8 million, following the company’s earlier $3 million pre-seed round. The new funding f

CScale, building an integrated light engine to deliver reliable optical connectivity for AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale, led by Martin Lund, Sanjai Kohli, and the team, has exited stealth, announcing $145 million in Series C funding to accelerate development and commercialization of optical interconnect for AI scale-up, the high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency connections that let accelerators work together like a single, much larger computer. The round brings the company’s

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

SiMa.ai, scaling physical AI, led by Krishna Rangasayee and the team, announced $150 million in Series C financing, bringing the total capital raised to $500 million and valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, with participation from Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Maverick Capital, +ND Capital, Point72, and StepStone Group. AllianceBernstein, Baron Capital, J.P. Morgan, and the State

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

Neko Health, which designs and engineers its own hardware, software, and clinical protocols in-house, powering a next-generation health scan, led by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, has opened its doors in New York. Neko Health has opened its first U.S. clinic at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, following a waitlist of more than 25,000 New Yorkers. Founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Neko has already served more than 100,000 members across Sweden and the UK. Its

Basecamp Research, training frontier AI models for therapeutic design, led by Glen Gowers, PhD, Oliver Vince, PhD, and the team, has announced a $140M Series C financing to train a new generation of EDEN models and advance a pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics towards clinical development. The oversubscribed round was led by S32, with participation from Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, Inception Fu

Hubble Network, building a low earth orbit satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled device can connect to, led by Alex Haro, Ben Wild, John Kim, has raised a $200 million Series C led by Smith Point Capital, with Seraphim, Carthona Capital, Earthshot Ventures, Y Combinator, and RPM Ventures. It brings total funding to $300 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, one year after a $70 million Series B. The Hubble satellite network enables devices with Bluetooth® LE radios to c

Outpost Technologies Corporation, the reentry startup building shipping-container-sized Earth return vehicles, led by Jason Dunn, Amir Blachman, and the team, has announced a new program called Space Factories, which will offer customers a way to manufacture goods in orbit, without needing to build bespoke hardware of their own. Each Space Factory is a standardized in-space manufacturing module designed to produce products such as pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and advanced

Tekever, Europe’s leading provider of AI-powered autonomous systems, led by Ricardo Mendes, and the team, has announced the first close of its US$580 million Series D financing, valuing the company at US$6.4 billion. UC Investments (University of California) and Baillie Gifford led the round, which marks UC Investments’ first direct investment in Europe. Merlyn Advisors joined TEKEVER as a new strategic investor alongside continued investment from shareholders Crescent Cove,

StandardX, the UK-headquartered European deep tech company founded in 2025, led by Dr Richard Pearson, Dr Ross Allen, and the team, has raised £10m seed funding to build the world's first scalable isotope refinery to radically increase production of the rare isotopes that will enable the next century of innovation in medicine and energy. The round was led by Vsquared Ventures and East X Ventures, with additional backing from firstminute capital, UKI2S (the UK Innovation and S

Qualcomm has launched two flagship smartphone processors, called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, with a focus on facilitating better AI-focused features. At its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm highlighted new chip capabilities designed to improve personalization for AI agents. New sensing hubs can run models with up to 200 million parameters locally, enabling features such as on-device personal transcription, speaker identification, and usage

TERASi, a Swedish spinout from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, specializing in next-generation high-frequency wireless solutions that combine cutting-edge design techniques and scalable manufacturing, led by James Campion, Adrian Gomez, and Bernhard Beuerle, has raised €11 million to scale the deployment of its wireless systems for unjammable and undetectable communication, a pressing capability gap for Europe. The round was co-led by the NATO Innovation Fund and JOIN Capi

AstroForge, unlocking the resources of the Solar System, led by Matt Gialich, has introduced Autonomy-1: the first autonomous space mission, powered by solo. Spacecraft still rely heavily on ground teams to analyze telemetry, diagnose anomalies, make decisions, and send commands. In deep-space missions, these teams also depend on scarce and expensive ground infrastructure, while communication delays increase with distance from Earth. AstroForge says mission operations accoun

Morphotonics, the global leader in large-area nanoimprinting technology, led by Hugo da Silva, Jan Matthijs ter Meulen, Bram Titulaer, and Maurice Berden, has closed a Series B financing round of more than €40 million to scale its manufacturing technology for AI glasses, Augmented Reality waveguides, and advanced photonic components. Morphotonics develops large-area nanoimprint lithography platforms. The expanded Series B reflects the continued support of existing investors 3

Mazama Energy, driving the global energy transition by delivering Next-Generation geothermal energy from SuperHot Rocks, led by Sriram Vasantharajan, has raised $135 million in new capital to accelerate superhot rock geothermal commercial development, including an oversubscribed Series B led by Centaurus Capital, founded by John Arnold, and Doerr Capital. ConocoPhillips and Shell Ventures joined the round, with repeat investment from Khosla Ventures and Gates Frontier. Additi

TUSK IC, a spin-out of KU Leuven and developer of CMOS ICs for the automotive, industrial, and SatCom segments, led by Kathleen Philips and the team, has announced the successful closing of its Series A funding round led by Matterwave Ventures, FORWARD.one, and Flanders Future Tech Fund, managed by PMV, with participation from the Schaubroeck family and continued support from the current investors. The funding will accelerate commercialization of TUSK’s Standard CMOS-based b

Impulse Space, developing the in-space mobility infrastructure to accelerate our future beyond Earth, led by renowned propulsion expert Tom Mueller, and the team, has announced a $308 million extension to its Series D round, bringing the combined round total to $808 million. The extension included participation from existing investors 137 Ventures, BANNER VC, DFJ Growth, Linse Capital, Lux Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, among others, reflecting continued confidence in th

EnduroSat, a space company building standardized, software-flexible satellites and a streamlined constellations-as-a-service model, led by Raycho Raychev, has raised $205 million in a round co-led by Riot Ventures and Atreides Management, with backing from the European Innovation Council, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, House Capital, Lux Capital, Omnes Capital, Giant Ventures, Emphatic Capital & Endeavor Catalyst. Scaling Serial Production. The funding will help EnduroSat ex

EUCLYD, a European semiconductor systems company developing ultra-efficient infrastructure for foundation AI models, led by Bernardo Kastrup and Atul Sinha, has signed a Series A financing round of more than €200 million, co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, Scaleup Europe Fund, which is managed by EQT, and Innovation Industries, with participation from EIFO, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, imec.xpand, Brabant Development Agency (BOM), and Quadri. Peter We

Open Cosmos, the European leader delivering satellite infrastructure, led by Rafel Jorda Siquier, Jordi Barrera Ars, and Aleix Megias Homar, has raised €300 million in funding as governments and enterprises accelerate investment in secure, space-based systems. The round, led by European investors, includes participation from Lightrock, ETF Partners, Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Entrepreneurs First and two major international pension funds. Other participants include Con

Galaxia, building the infrastructure layer for orbital compute, led by Arad Gharagozli and the team, has announced the successful close of its oversubscribed funding round, marking a major milestone in the company’s growth and reinforcing strong investor confidence in its vision for intelligent, sovereign space infrastructure. The 4.5 million CAD round was co-led by Amiral Ventures (QC) and Invest Nova Scotia (NS). The funding will support Galaxia’s next phase of growth, ac

Antares, building microreactors for critical missions, led by Jordan Bramble and the team, has been selected by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration for a Strategic Breakthrough award to advance nuclear power for space. It marks the largest current Department of War award in space nuclear power. “Space has been core to the Antares thesis since the company was founded,” said Jordan Bramble, CEO and co-founder of Antares.

Mach Industries, building next-generation defense systems, led by Ethan Thornton, raised $600 million more, taking its Series C total to $900 million. The extension pushes the Series C’s total size to $900 million and takes Mach’s lifetime funding past $1 billion, just over a year after a Series B valued it at $470 million. Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital, and Sequoia Capital all doubled down in the second tranche, the same group that led the June round. “Mo

Aerospacelab has been selected as a key Prime Contractor for the LEO segment of the European Commission's IRIS² Programme (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). Building Europe’s Sovereign Satellite Network. Following a competitive selection process with Eutelsat, Aerospacelab has been chosen to build 264 satellite platforms and deliver the fully integrated satellites for the SpaceRISE consortium. The satellites will form the backbone of