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Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD

Five months after a beta launch in Tirana, before some of the world’s leading architects, the Austrian-Albanian startup has 60,000 users, hundreds of paying customers, and Plug and Play on its cap table. In November 2025, Synaps, a Vienna-based AI design startup founded by three Albanian-born entrepreneurs, chose an unusual venue for its beta launch: […]

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AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most

Founded by a former Atomico talent adviser, Dex charges employers agency fees only on successful hires, and has gone from zero to $1.8 million ARR in under six months of charging. Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European startups on hiring at Atomico, one of Europe’s largest venture capital firms. […]

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All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software

The London-founded startup wants to replace the entire construction value chain, from architect’s brief to move-in-ready building, using AI and a purpose-built on-site robot called the Mantis. Construction is the world’s largest industry by value and one of its least automated. A typical building project today involves roughly the same sequence of hand-offs, on-site labour, […]

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True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense

True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles can manoeuvre near other satellites in orbit for inspection, space situational awareness, and, under Golden Dome, potential interception of ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Total funding now exceeds $1 billion. True Anomaly, the Colorado-based space defense startup that builds autonomous orbital vehicles and supporting software for US national security missions, […]

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Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices

3TS Capital Partners led the round with Grazia Equity and existing investors. 25,000 users, 85% daily wear rate, 500,000+ emergency calls handled. The company is building an AI companion for the watch to address loneliness in the hours when no family member is present. Patronus, the Berlin-based senior safety startup, has closed an €11 million […]

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Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. Competitors include Scale AI, Appen, and Defined.ai, all annotation-first; Redpine is API-native. Redpine, […]

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Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. What it has is a thesis, and a founder whose track record is worth a billion dollars to […]

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Copenhagen’s Atech raises pre-seed from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable to build ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware

The round amount is undisclosed. Backers include Nordic Makers, Emblem, the Lovable company itself, the Sequoia Scout Fund, and the Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund. Lovable CEO Anton Osika personally endorsed the team. Atech lets users describe a hardware concept in natural language and receive a working prototype. Atech, a Copenhagen-based AI hardware startup, has raised […]

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Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stacks, deploying pre-trained AI agents into air-gapped and compliance-restricted environments. One of its co-founders is Nick Pompeo, son of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Rilian, a McLean, Virginia-based startup building agentic AI systems integration for defence and national security […]

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French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

Founded in 2022 and formerly called Constellation Technologies & Operations, Univity is targeting a constellation of at least 1,600 satellites in very low Earth orbit, using telecom operators’ own 5G mmWave spectrum rather than competing with them. The Series A takes total financing to €68M across equity, debt, subsidies and contract revenues. Univity, the Paris-based […]

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