A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering …

OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform
OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform

The Amsterdam startup, which gives employees direct anonymous access to psychologists, lifestyle experts, and financial counsellors through their employer, now serves more than 2,000 organisations across five European markets. Smartfin led the round; R…

OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deaths
OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deaths

OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem. T…

Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global
Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global

A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland in under two years, it apparently is. Halter, the New Zealand-born agtech company, announce…

DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready
DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready

Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect on January 17, 2025, was supposed to mark the beginning of a new er…

AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027
AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027

The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based startup buildin…

Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech
Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech

A €2.06 million EU grant gives the Grenoble deep-tech startup non-dilutive runway to industrialise a four-component technology platform, and moves it one step closer to its first commercial drilling campaign. Fourteen months after closing a €3.4 millio…

Photoncycle raises €15M Series A to address Europe’s seasonal energy storage gap
Photoncycle raises €15M Series A to address Europe’s seasonal energy storage gap

Norwegian energy storage startup Photoncycle has raised €15 million in Series A funding to commercialise its seasonal energy storage technology across Europe. The round was led by NordicNinja and Voima Ventures, with participation from Lifeline Venture…

Photoncycle raises €15M Series A to address Europe’s seasonal energy storage gap
Photoncycle raises €15M Series A to address Europe’s seasonal energy storage gap

Norwegian energy storage startup Photoncycle has raised €15 million in Series A funding to commercialise its seasonal energy storage technology across Europe. The round was led by NordicNinja and Voima Ventures, with participation from Lifeline Venture…

Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal-based biological crop protection
Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal-based biological crop protection

Copenhagen-area AgTech startup Mycoverse has secured €2.4 million in pre-seed equity financing to advance a biological crop protection platform that uses fungi to replace or reduce chemical pesticides. The round was co-led by Future Food Fund and High-…