b2venture closes €150M Fund V at hard cap to support the next generation of European tech leaders
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - b2venturehas closed its Fund V at €150 million, reaching the hard cap and marking thefirm’s largest early-stage fund to date. The fund is supported by a mix oflong-standing and new limited partners, i...
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Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon
techspot - Microsoft recently announced Maia 200, a new AI accelerator specifically designed for inference workloads. According to Redmond, Maia 200 can deliver "dramatic" improvements for AI applications and is already deployed in select US data centers on the Azur…
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Brickanta closes $8M round to expand AI use in construction planning
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Stockholm-based Brickanta, an agentic AIplatform for the construction industry, has closed an $8 million seed fundinground led by Northzone. The round includes participation from global sportsfigures,...
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Ricursive Intelligence nabs $300M to speed up chip design with AI
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Ricursive Intelligence Inc., a startup that plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up chip development, has raised $300 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation. Lightspeed led the Series A investment. Recursive disclosed in its funding announc…
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Footprint Firm closes €76M Article 9 deeptech Fund for the green transition
Cate Lawrence / tech - The Footprint Firm has completed the final closing of Footprint Fund I, an Article 9 €76 million venture fund. The fund focuses on early-stage deeptech companies in the green transition in Northern Eu...
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Synthesia raises $200M at $4B valuation to build worker skills using AI avatars
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - London-based Synthesia Ltd., an artificial intelligence video avatar platform, today announced that it has raised $200 million in a late-stage funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $4 billion. Founded in 2017, Synthesia offers a platform that gener…
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2150 closes €210M Fund II, lifts assets to €500M to back urban and industrial climate tech
Cate Lawrence / tech - Venture firm 2150 today announced the final close of its €210 million second fund, bringing total assets under management to €500 million. The fund remains focused on backing technology companies se...
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Google Deepmind Hires Hume AI CEO and Engineers in Licensing Deal as Voice AI Race Heats Up
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google DeepMind has hired Hume AI CEO Alan Cowen and seven engineers through a licensing deal to integrate emotional intelligence into voice AI technology.The post Google Deepmind Hires Hume AI CEO and Engineers in Licensing Deal as Voice AI Race Heats Up…
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Leeds-based Optalysys raises €26.4 million to accelerate always-encrypted data technology using light
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - Leeds-based photonic computing company Optalysys today announced that it has raised €26.4 million (£23 million) in a Series A extension round to accelerate the commercialisation of its proprietary photonic chips and support US expansion. The round was led…
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Meta Ships Superintelligence. Calls It 'Very Good.'
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Meta ships first superintelligence models, calls them "very good." OpenAI profiles users for adult mode. Anthropic CEO likens chip exports to nukes.
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Energy Tech Startup Cloover Secures $1.2 Bn to Build AI Operating Systems for Europe
Smruthi Nadig / analyticsindiamag - Cloover aims to be a global, decentralised energy platform to deliver affordable, independent energy.The post Energy Tech Startup Cloover Secures $1.2 Bn to Build AI Operating Systems for Europe appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.
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Lausanne-based SWISSto12 secures €73 million to develop its compact satellite HummingSat ahead of planned 2027 launch
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - SWISSto12, a Lausanne-based aerospace company and manufacturer of satellite systems and radio frequency (RF) products, today announced that it has secured €73 million ($84.8 million) in financial support from European Space Agency (ESA) member states thro…
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Bolna nabs $6.3M from General Catalyst for its India-focused voice orchestration platform
Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Bolna said that 75% of its revenue is coming from self-serve customers.
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Raana Semiconductors Raises $3M in Seed Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Raana Semiconductors, a Tamil Nadu, India based-developer of Czochralski-based crystal growth systems, raised $3m in seed funding. The round was led by Equirus Innovatex Fund and Artha Venture Fund, with participation from IvyCap Ventures, PointOne Capita…
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GeneralMind, AI Startup Secures €10.2 Million Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Berlin-based GeneralMind, an AI startup developing its own “System of Action” an operational AI layer built on top of ERP systems has closed a €10.2 million ($12 million) equity financing round. The company completed this round less than six months after …
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Anzen Industries Secures $2.2M Funding In Pre-Seed Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-based deeptech startup Anzen Industries has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, led by LocalGlobe and Creator Fund, with support from strategic angel investors across the UK, EU and US, including Konstantin von Unger and early-stage investor Cory …
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Hamburg-based one.five raises €14 million to solve the product-market-fit problem in packaging
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - one.five, a Hamburg-based company building AI-powered solutions for packaging product development, has raised €14 million in Series A funding to scale its proprietary AI platform and data foundation. The round was led by Dr Hans Riegel Holding (shareholde…
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Vanagon Ventures Raises €20M To Support Europe’s Deep-Tech Pre-Seed Startups
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Vanagon Ventures, a Munich-based venture capital firm, has announced the final close of its €20 million Fund I, created specifically to support deep tech and AI startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. Vanagon intends to invest up to €500,000 per company…
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GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!
@gdb / x - GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!Neel Somani (@neelsomani)I've solved a second Erdos problem (#281) using only GPT 5.2 Pro - no prior solutions found.Terence Tao calls …
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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.2 klein AI models
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Black Forest Labs debuted FLUX.2 [Klein] 4B via Apache 2.0 and 9B via FLUX non commercial license with sub second inference on consumer GPUs;
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