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A new report on the French tech ecosystem by Alexandre Dewez, a partner at venture firm 20VC, paints a picture of a startup scene that is growing more dependent on a handful of AI companies while the rest of the market stalls. French startups raised €6.7 billion across 411 funding rounds in 2025, a 5% decline in […]
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Cognition AI has raised more than $1 billion in new funding at a $26 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth since a September round that valued the company at $10.2 billion. The round was co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with participation from Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management, and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. […]
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Capchase, a New York-based vendor financing platform for enterprise technology companies, has raised more than $200 million in new funding to scale its embedded lending infrastructure globally. The round, a mix of debt warehouse facilities and equity from institutional investors, is the company’s largest to date and reflects growing demand for financing tools that […]
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The Tel Aviv-founded defence-AI firm has closed a $31M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $60M as it scales US operations from Washington DC. Airis Labs, the defence-AI startup that has spent the past two and a half years operating in stealth, emerged publicly on Tuesday with $60m in total funding, […]
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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 insulation from mycelium and industrial farm waste, has raised €4.6m to scale its production. The round is roughly four times the size of the company’s previous […]
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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% stake and a board seat as part of the deal. Andrea D’Amico, the company’s chief executive […]
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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 Earlybird, pitching itself as a faster, AI-aware alternative to GitHub Actions for engineering teams that have started generating code faster than […]
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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 Lazorthes of Resilience, Manu Lecomte, and backers of the running-coach app Runna. The round arrives four months after the company’s $8.5m seed in […]
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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 quantum fund 55 North and Austrian industrial investor B&C Group, with full re-participation from existing backers Maki.vc, Crowberry Capital, QAI Ventures, […]
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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 that Uber has tabled a formal takeover offer for the Berlin-based food-delivery […]
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Uber goes after Delivery Hero in full, with an offer that sits below the close Read More »