Jen Phan, a former early-stage investor at btov Partners, has raised $15 million for her startup Passionfroot, with backing from Anthropic's investor btov Partners, to build what she describes as AI's…
Berlin-based telli has raised a $15 million seed round to deploy AI agents that automate customer operations, with backing from redalpine, Cherry Ventures, and Y Combinator. Co-founders Finn zur Mühle…
London-based Arrakis emerged from stealth with $38 million raised over six months, including a $30 million round led by Blossom and Accel, with Datadog CEO and an OpenAI executive joining as investors…
Twin sisters Danielle and Leah Cohen-Shohet, Princeton graduates and former Goldman Sachs employees, raised $44 million at a $1.15 billion valuation for their wellness company Genius AI, making it a u…
Roi Tiger, a former Meta vice president who built a controversial surveillance tool, launched a $1.2 billion cybersecurity AI unicorn with $180 million in funding.…
Samsung is in talks to invest approximately €1 billion in Mistral at a €20 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times, one day after launching a robotics unit.…
Circeus has acquired Dondy to scale its AI agents that convert customer conversations into revenue, extending an acquisition spree aimed at integrating customer support, email marketing, and SMS tools…
Naren Shaam, an Indian-born Harvard Business School graduate, secured $10 million in funding for Omio to launch AI-powered multimodal travel services in Japan and Southeast Asia.…
Kanishka Narayan, born in Bihar, India, and raised in Cardiff, has been appointed as the UK's new AI minister at the Cabinet level, shaping British AI policy.…
Natural, a payments startup building infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in funding just 193 days after its launch, CEO Kahlil Lalji announced. The company positions itself as a rival…
Female-led Prodlane has raised €4 million in seed funding to develop an AI assistant for technical teams, aiming to capture and preserve the expertise of experienced manufacturing employees before the…
China revised stock market listing rules three weeks before AI startup DeepSeek filed for a mainland IPO, raising questions about regulatory timing. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence …
Databricks raised funding at a $188 billion valuation, driven by Coatue's bet on enterprise AI governance tools that are outpacing the underlying AI models. The company, founded by UC Berkeley academi…
CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK-based startup, closed a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, co-led by Bezos Expeditions, to scale its AI-driven materials discovery platform. The company's valua…
Prior Labs, a European AI startup, has grown from a research project to a €1B-backed lab in 18 months, setting a new benchmark for deeptech in the region.…
Belgian biotech Sightera raised €3 million to reverse the typical AI drug discovery process by first analyzing extreme patient biology to identify novel drug targets. The company's approach aims to im…
Lithuanian health-tech company Kilo, after laying off 100 employees in 2023, pivoted to a venture studio model and now reports a €404 million valuation by leveraging artificial intelligence.…
Tyred, a startup developing an AI platform that predicts bicycle breakdowns before they occur, has raised £2.5 million in funding. The company aims to help cyclists avoid unexpected mechanical failure…
Applied Computing, an Imperial College spinout using physics-based AI to optimize refinery operations, raised $20 million from KBR and Databricks. The London startup's technology is already deployed a…
Meticulous, a London-based startup founded by former Dropbox and Palantir employees, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Chemistry with participation from Menlo Ventures to address the chall…