Innovation Industries leads the Series A. imec.xpand, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, QBIC, HTGF, and BOM return. Total funding now stands at €55m. The money funds in-house chip design and a push toward volume sensors built on the company’s NCOS color-splitt…
Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert Gür are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely’s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC’s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Yazı…
The London company building silicon-CMOS spin qubits has been one of the cleaner technical credentials in European quantum hardware. The choice of investee for the EU’s first major late-stage venture commitment, announced post-Brexit, is itself the new…
Meituan Dragon Ball is leading a $2bn round in the Beijing-based maker of the Kimi chatbot, with China Mobile and CITIC Private Equity Funds participating. The valuation is roughly seven times the figure Moonshot carried sixteen months ago. Moonshot AI…
The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, where the company says quoting and risk modelling can …
IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup’s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company’s Infrahub platform is in production at TikTok and at one European cloud provider that says it has cut deployment times …
The Voi co-founder, Adam Jafer, is the chief executive. Lakestar joined a16z on the round, with strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Early customers, including Voi, Tre, Stena Recycling, and Kry, are reporting deployment …
The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General C…
The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most of the money funds the same product. The strategic shift is who else gets to buy it. European defence-te…
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out of Roper Technologies. Ametek pays a full multiple for picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI-infra…