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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 It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries.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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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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