Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund
Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund

While AI peers chase billion-dollar megafunds, the Eventbrite founder’s venture firm has gone the other way. Kevin Hartz, the Eventbrite co-founder turned long-time seed investor, has closed a $450m fund at A*, his San Francisco venture firm, according…

Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI
Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI

Peak XV leads. M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners join; earlier investors return. Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life are named enterprise customers; total funding now stands at $72m. Vapi, the San Francisco-based enterprise voice-A…

Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments
Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments

Ditto, an Amsterdam-based health-tech building AI-generated summaries of medical appointments for patients, has raised €7.6m, the company said on Monday. The round is led by Heal Capital with participation from Rubio Impact Ventures. Earlier backer Chr…

Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance
Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance

Visionaries Club returns; Stéphane Kurgan (ex-King COO) and Miro founder Andrey Khusid join. Total funding now over $30m in less than two years. The London fintech says its customers see late-payment rates 7x lower than the UK SME average. Adfin, the L…

White Circle raises $11m Seed for production AI control platform
White Circle raises $11m Seed for production AI control platform

Senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, Mistral, Datadog and Sentry have backed the Seed. The platform claims more than one billion API requests served and lists Lovable and two of the world’s largest digital banks among its cust…

Paymentology raises $175m co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners
Paymentology raises $175m co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners

Paymentology, the London-based global issuer-processor, has raised $175m in a round co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners, the company said on Tuesday. Apis invested through its Apis Growth Fund III vehicle, which the firm said takes its total …

Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre
Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre

Nscale, the vertically integrated AI-infrastructure company, has secured an additional $790m of debt financing to continue building out its AI data centre in Narvik, northern Norway, the company said on Monday. The committed facility was provided by AB…

Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system
Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system

Happl, the London- and New York-based provider of an AI-native employee-benefits platform for multinational employers, has raised $11m in a Series A round. The round was led by Portage Ventures, with participation from F Capital and continued backing f…

Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build
Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build

Mizuho, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have the mandate. Pricing is expected this month. The trade follows Alphabet’s record CHF, sterling and euro issuances in February and last week’s $17bn euro-Canadian-dollar combination, all targeted at the $…

Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn
Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn

The geothermal developer increased its share count by 26% and its top-of-range price by about 8% in an SEC filing on Monday. The revision points to the demand for clean baseload power that AI data-centre buyers have been ready to pay for. Fervo Energy …