Ghent’s Companion.energy raises €7.8M to automate enterprise energy in real time
Ghent’s Companion.energy raises €7.8M to automate enterprise energy in real time

The seed round, led by Realyze Ventures and Pi Labs, will fund expansion into Germany and Spain as volatile power markets push large industrial firms past their spreadsheets. Electricity used to move with the seasons. Now it moves by the minute, and th…

A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can
A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can

Between commercial aircraft at 10km and conventional satellites at 500km lies a band of near-Earth space that has never been used commercially. Very low Earth orbit, or VLEO, sits at 200 to 300km, an altitude historically reserved for spy satellites an…

Moonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race.
Moonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race.

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. If the round closes at that target, it would mark a seven-f…

Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the world’s first microwave-powered PET recycling plant
Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the world’s first microwave-powered PET recycling plant

Swiss cleantech startup GR3N has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round to build the world’s first commercial-scale microwave-assisted PET recycling plant. The round was led by 360 Capital, with new investor VP Textile also participating. The proceed…

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, b…

Data-centre developer Switch in talks to raise at $50bn-plus valuation
Data-centre developer Switch in talks to raise at $50bn-plus valuation

Switch is trying to raise money at a valuation that would have looked implausible for a data-centre developer a few years ago. The Las Vegas company is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, according to The Information…

Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital
Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation, selling 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 each…

Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame
Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame

Two years ago, Ramp was a $7.65 billion corporate card company. On Wednesday, it announced a $750 million Series F that values it at $44 billion, a nearly six-fold increase that makes it one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world. …

Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do
Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do

The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should hav…

Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US
Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US

Perk, the corporate travel and spend management group that until last year traded as TravelPerk, has closed a $300 million private credit facility, money raised as debt rather than equity and at a scale the company says few technology firms have reache…