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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 round. The deal would more than double SolarSquare’s valuation from 18 months ago. Lightspeed […]

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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 company last raised $36 million in July 2025. Moment builds infrastructure that allows wealth management firms to deploy […]

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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 the Super Heavy booster was destroyed after separation, failing to achieve a controlled descent. The […]

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London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise

The London-based beauty and wellness booking platform has joined the UK unicorn club at a $1bn-plus valuation, in a deal that lands while the broader SaaS complex is busy arguing about its own funeral. Fresha, the London-based booking and payments platform for salons and spas, has raised $80m from funds managed by KKR in a […]

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NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio

The Paris-based cat-qubit company adds NVentures to a cap table already backed by FFC, AVP and Bpifrance, and deepens its CUDA-Q tie-up with Nvidia. Alice & Bob, the Paris- and Boston-based quantum hardware company building fault-tolerant machines on its proprietary cat-qubit architecture, has added NVentures, Nvidia’s venture arm, to its cap table in an extension […]

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Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation

Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values it at $6bn, according to Bloomberg. […]

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ICEYE secures a €300M revolving credit facility from a seven-bank syndicate

The Helsinki-headquartered SAR-satellite operator has originated a 3-year committed RCF led by Citi and Danske Bank, calibrated to back customer-contract guarantees and underwrite continued global expansion after the company doubled in size in 2025. ICEYE, the Helsinki-headquartered synthetic-aperture-radar satellite operator, has originated a €300m three-year committed revolving credit facility, the company said on Thursday. The […]

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OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first

The AI industry’s most consequential race is no longer about building the best model. It is about getting to public markets first. OpenAI appears to have taken the lead. The company is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as soon as this week, according to CNBC, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan […]

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Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta engineers Peter Albert and Fryderyk Wiatrowski, has raised a $75m Series A led by Accel. Bek […]

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CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute

The Cambridge-rooted, Massachusetts-based automated electronics factory has delivered more than two million boards across 20,000 engineers. Plural’s bet is on the trillion-dollar reshoring tailwind behind it. CircuitHub, the automated-electronics-manufacturing company founded by Andrew Seddon, has raised $28m in funding led by Plural. The round is the largest CircuitHub has disclosed in its 15-year history, and […]

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