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Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories

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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 Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is closing a $2bn funding round at a […]

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Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round

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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 be similarly compressed. Corgi, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier built for startups, has raised a […]

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OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents

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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 from five days to fifteen minutes. OpsMill, the Paris-headquartered infrastructure data management company, has raised $14m […]

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Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations

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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 timelines of days to weeks. Pit, a Stockholm-based AI-native software platform for enterprise operations, has launched publicly with […]

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Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

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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 Catalyst, the seed lead, is back in. Generative AI has, in the space of about 30 months, […]

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LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence

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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-tech rounds, in 2026, are no longer being raised on a pure-defence […]

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Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026

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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-infrastructure trade. Ametek, the Pennsylvania-based scientific-and-industrial-instrumentation company, has agreed to acquire the test-and-measurement businesses of Indicor for […]

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Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round

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After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. There is a particular kind of European startup story that is not supposed to happen at this […]

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Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days

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The Paris-based AI-native real-estate company, founded by Entrepreneurs First alumni Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, has Heartcore and Balderton co-leading the round, an unusual cap-table for a pre-seed. The technical pitch is more interesting than the headline. There is a particular shape of European AI seed round that has, in 2026, become harder to land […]

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China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

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What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is, in venture-capital pricing, a particular kind of ascent that does not normally happen to […]

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