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This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched this week, Wove bills itself as the first mobile app that scans everyday garments for PFAS, microplastic shedding potential, […]

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Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously. motif, an AI wealth advisory company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, is betting it can do better. […]

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Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI

Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup’s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Milan-based Lexroom, the legal AI startup focused on civil-law jurisdictions, has raised a $50m Series B led by Left Lane Capital. Base10 Partners, Eurazeo, […]

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Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing. LawX, the Berlin legal-tech startup founded by Dr Norman Koschmieder, has raised a €7.5M seed round led by […]

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Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production

Accel led the London chip startup’s round, with Pat Gelsinger joining as an angel investor, weeks after Anthropic was reported to be in early discussions to become a customer. Fractile, the London-based startup designing inference chips that put compute and memory on the same die, has raised $220 million to take its hardware to production, […]

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Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses

The Milan- and Chicago-based startup, backed by Azimut Libera Impresa’s IXC3 fund, plans to scale agentic AI for SMBs and pursue acquisitions in the US. Webidoo, an Italian-American AI company building software for small and medium-sized businesses, has closed a $25m funding round led by the IXC3 fund managed by Azimut Libera Impresa SGR. The […]

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A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.

  A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human […]

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Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations

Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that offers business-to-business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS), offering several products to hospitality businesses, to facilitate […]

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Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The list includes AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm drone defence, inference chips for space, lunar manufacturing […]

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Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system

The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart of the robotaxi industry. The vehicles driving themselves to pick up passengers […]

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