Apptronik raises $520M to produce humanoid Apollo robot commercial deployments
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Apptronik Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, today announced it has raised $520 million more in early-stage funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to nearly $1 billion. The Series A-X extension round fol…
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Defence startup testing AI drones with Ukraine raises £2.6m
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Occam, a UK-based defence tech startup developing AI autonomous drones being tested with the Ukrainian military, has raised a £2.6m investment. Founded in 2025, Occam is one of many tech firms founded to meet the defence needs of modern geopolitcal confli…
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London-Based Mozart AI Raises $6M To Expand Music Creation Tools
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Mozart AI has secured $6 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Balderton Capital. The round also included participation from Mercuri, EWOR, Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, and Emery Wells, alongside existing investors and stra…
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Porters Raises €2.7M Pre-Seed Funding For Banking Back-Office Software
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Porters has raised €2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop AI-powered software for banking operations. The investment was led by Earlybird, with additional backing from Seedcamp, fintech founders, and industry professionals. Angel investors in…
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Tether Invests in Interoperability Protocol Firm LayerZero
PYMNTS / pymnts - Tether invested in LayerZero Labs, the development company behind an interoperability protocol. The move by Tether’s investment arm is a sign of its support for “the development of proven, production-grade interoperability infrastructure used across the g…
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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Raises Record $60M for New Startup Entire
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire with a record $60M seed round to build developer tools for managing AI coding agents. Includes exclusive interview.
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xAI Cofounder Tony Wu Resigns Days After $1.25 Trillion SpaceX Merger
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Tony Wu resigned from xAI on Monday, becoming at least the fifth cofounder to leave Musk's AI startup. His exit comes days after SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal.
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Matia Raises $21M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Matia, a Miami, FL-based provider of a unified data operations platform, raised $21M in Series A funding. The round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Leaders Fund, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, Caffei…
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Can Databricks IPO after $7B raise at $134B valuation?
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - San Francisco-based data and AI company, Databricks, has raised more than $7 billion in new funding, combining around $5…
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Allonic nabs $7.2M pre-seed to automate the ‘robot body’ supply chain
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Even though robotic intelligence has improved, manufacturing remains slow, costly, and constrained by outdated methods. Manually assembling parts…
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UK chip startup Fractile announces £100m expansion plans
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - British semiconductor startup Fractile has unveiled plans to boost its capabilities with a £100m expansion to its UK facilities. Fractile emerged from stealth in 2024 with a £12m seed investment led by Kindred Capital, the NATO Innovation Fund and Oxford …
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Digitising energy and water data for the energy transition underpins €40 million raise by Berlin’s metiundo
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - German utility and tech company metiundo has secured €40 million to scale the rollout of smart metering systems and expand its software platform – all with the aim of boosting the energy transition in the building sector. The funding round came from funds…
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London-Based Energy Transactions Scale-up Tem Raises €62.9 Million Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Tem, a London-based AI-native energy transactions scale-up, today announced that it has raised €62.9 million ($75 million) in an oversubscribed Series B round to accelerate UK and global rollout of its AI-native infrastructure, as it seeks to become the “…
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Sweden-Based Vesiro Raises €1.6M Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Gothenburg-based Vesiro, a spinout from Chalmers University, has secured €1.6 million in seed funding. The round was supported by Chalmers Ventures, Industrifonden, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg & Bohuslän, Yuncture, First Gate Invest, E14 Invest, Mach One, a…
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Paris-based EventTech Startup Naboo Secures €58.7 Million In Series B Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based EventTech startup Naboo has raised €58.7 million ($70 million) in a Series B funding round to expand its AI-powered procurement platform beyond events to include companies’ “tail spend” (Class C spending). The round was led by Lightspeed Ventu…
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MrBeast’s company buys Gen Z-focused fintech app Step
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.
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AI.com sells for $70 million in record-breaking domain deal
Wayne Williams / betanews - AI.com has been sold for $70 million, setting a new record for domain name transactions. The sale more than doubles the previous $30 million benchmark and reflects the growing value placed on short, category-defining internet addresses tied to artificial …
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SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says
EditorDavid / slashdot - "Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years."SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars withi…
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WtEnergy raises €10M to decarbonise Europe’s cement and chemicals
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Heavy industries in Europe, such as cement, paper, and chemicals, are under increasing pressure to reduce emissions and…
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AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks
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