Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels
Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels

The Bristol-and-Lisbon climate-tech firm is scaling MykoFoam, a carbon-negative mycelium insulation panel grown from industrial residues at its Portuguese pilot plant. Mykor, the Bristol-headquartered climate-tech firm growing carbon-negative building …

Airbnb leads a $58M Series C in WeRoad and hires its CEO to run hotels
Airbnb leads a $58M Series C in WeRoad and hires its CEO to run hotels

The Milan group-travel platform takes a $58M Series C and a strategic 10% Airbnb shareholding. Andrea D’Amico leaves to run Airbnb’s hotels division. Airbnb has led a $58m Series C in WeRoad, the Milan-based group-adventure-travel platform, taking a 10…

Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon
Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon

Stord, a logistics technology company that helps retailers manage inventory, checkout, and fulfillment, has raised $250 million in a Series F round that values the company at $3 billion. The round was led by Strike Capital with participation from Found…

Avrea raises $4.7M to fix CI/CD before AI coding breaks it
Avrea raises $4.7M to fix CI/CD before AI coding breaks it

The Helsinki startup, founded by Aiven’s Hannu Valtonen and Nosto’s Juha Valvanne, is betting that AI-generated code will overwhelm existing build pipelines. Helsinki startup Avrea emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $4.7m in pre-seed funding led by E…

Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed
Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed

Paris-based Lucis, a preventive-health platform that pairs blood biomarker testing with an AI-driven companion app, has raised a $20m Series A led by Singular, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator and angel investors including Céline …

Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform
Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform

The Tampere startup wants to rebuild physics simulation as the data engine for AI-driven hardware design. Tampere-based Quanscient has closed a €10 million Series A to scale its cloud-based multiphysics simulation platform, in a round led by Danish qua…

Uber goes after Delivery Hero in full, with an offer that sits below the close
Uber goes after Delivery Hero in full, with an offer that sits below the close

The €33-per-share proposal lands at a slight discount to Friday’s price, but with Uber already sitting on a quarter of the company and DoorDash circling, the bid is the start of the negotiation, not the end of it. Delivery Hero confirmed on Saturday th…

India’s SolarSquare is raising $60M at a $500M valuation. It has powered 50,000 homes.
India’s SolarSquare is raising $60M at a $500M valuation. It has powered 50,000 homes.

SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop solar startup, is in advanced talks to raise $55 million to $60 million at a valuation between $450 million and $500 million, TechCrunch reports. B Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners are set to co-lead the Series C r…

Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have
Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have

Moment, the fintech company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, has raised $78 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra. The …

SpaceX launched Starship V3 three weeks before its IPO. The booster exploded.
SpaceX launched Starship V3 three weeks before its IPO. The booster exploded.

SpaceX launched the 12th test flight of its Starship rocket on Friday evening from Starbase, Texas, marking the debut of the upgraded Version 3 vehicle. The flight successfully deployed 20 mock Starlink satellites and beamed live video from space, but …