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OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation

Isara, a San Francisco startup that is building software to coordinate thousands of AI agents on complex analytical tasks, has raised $94 million at a $650 million valuation, with OpenAI among the investors. The company was founded nine months ago by two 23-year-olds. It has no product in market. The round was first reported by […]

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Ysios Capital launches €100M fund to build biotech companies from Spanish science

Spain’s largest life sciences VC is moving upstream with InceptionBio, its first fund dedicated to the riskiest stage of biotech: company creation from university and research centre spinouts. CDTI is an anchor LP. The target is at least three new companies in 2026. The hardest part of turning academic science into a biotech company is […]

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Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists

Blossom Health, a New York-based telepsychiatry startup founded in 2024, has raised $20 million in combined seed and Series A funding to scale an AI-powered platform that pairs psychiatrists with clinical copilots and automated administrative support. The round was led by Headline, whose co-founder and managing partner Mathias Schilling is joining the company’s board. Village […]

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Shield AI raises $2 billion to scale its autonomous combat pilot Hivemind

Shield AI, the San Diego defence technology company behind the autonomous pilot system Hivemind, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2 billion in combined funding at a $12.7 billion valuation. The company will use part of the proceeds to acquire Aechelon Technology, a simulation platform that supports the Pentagon’s Joint Simulation Environment. The raise […]

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London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure

Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The round values the company at $1.5 billion, a sixfold increase from its $250 million […]

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Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global

A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland in under two years, it apparently is. Halter, the New Zealand-born agtech company, announced on Monday that it has raised $220 million in Series E funding at […]

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Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders

The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora, with a six-partner team and a $1–5M typical cheque. Credo Ventures has closed Credo Stage 5, an $88 million fund raised in a single closing, continuing the Prague and […]

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360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime

The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this story that could have been told three years ago and would have raised eyebrows in polite European venture circles: a deeptech fund, backed by a major defence prime, raising tens […]

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Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise

For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The large teams, the committee structures, the distributed decision-making, these were treated not merely as operational choices but as a kind of institutional legitimacy. Nathan Benaich has spent the […]

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Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC pipeline. What the week of 16-22 March delivered was something different in texture rather than volume: smaller rounds, more specific theses, and a […]

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