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Kandou AI Secures $225M to Tackle AI Memory Wall

Swiss semiconductor firm Kandou AI secured a $225 million Series A investment, valuing it at $400 million, to advance its…

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Rivian, VW Complete Winter Test for New Zonal Tech

The RV Tech joint venture, formed after Volkswagen's $5.8 billion investment in Rivian last year, has completed a key winter…

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Volkswagen invests $1B more in Rivian

The successful winter testing of the VW ID.EVERY1, the first vehicle from the Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture, has unlocked an additional…

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Modular Crafting Machine Makes Custom Shirts & Cases

xTool has launched the WonderPress, a modular multi-function crafting device that serves as a finishing station to transform digital designs…

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PaperShell wins €40.3M EU grant for first full-scale factory

PaperShell, a Swedish deeptech firm, has secured a €40.3 million EU Innovation Fund grant to build its first full-scale factory…

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Keith secures £2M to automate UK legal services

A new AI-native law firm named Keith, founded by the creators of THIS, has raised £2 million to disrupt the…

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OpenAI Backs $650M AI Agent Swarm Startup Isara

Isara, a San Francisco startup founded in June 2025, has secured a $94 million investment at a $650 million valuation,…

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Ysios Capital launches €100M biotech fund

Ysios Capital, Spain's largest life sciences VC, is launching a new €100 million fund called InceptionBio to address the high-risk,…

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Laigo Bio Raises €17M Seed Funding for SureTAC Platform

Laigo Bio has secured €17 million in seed funding to advance its SureTACs platform, which uses bispecific antibodies to force…

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Email Metrics Marketers Often Misinterpret

Traditional email metrics like open rate and click-through rate (CTR) are unreliable primary KPIs, as they often fail to correlate…

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Blossom Health secures $20M for AI psychiatry copilots

Blossom Health, a telepsychiatry startup, has secured $20 million to expand its AI-augmented model, which uses AI agents to automate…

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Europe’s First Industrial Battery Recycling Plant Opens

A new industrial-scale battery recycling plant has launched in Bavaria, marking Europe's first operational facility of its kind to address…

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Planet of Lana Devs Join Nordic Game Speaker Lineup

The Nordic Game conference in Malmö (late May 2026) is introducing a new, dedicated "AI Track", featuring sessions on human-led…

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Mistral Launches Open Source Speech AI Model

Mistral AI has launched Voxtral TTS, a new open-source text-to-speech model for enterprise use that directly challenges established players like…

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Herbalife Buys Bioniq for Up to $150 Million

Herbalife is acquiring assets from Bioniq, a startup that uses blood biomarker data to create personalized supplement regimens, in a…

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Conntour secures $7M for AI security video search engine

The video surveillance industry is growing despite ethical debates, driven by advancements in AI-powered vision-language models that enable new security…

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SOUS secures €4M to fund culinary startups

SOUS, an Amsterdam startup, has raised €4 million to develop an AI platform that helps small, independent restaurants compete with…

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Arkadia Space secures €14.5M for eco-friendly rocket thrusters

Arkadia Space, a Spanish startup, has secured €14.5 million in funding, including support from the European Innovation Council Accelerator, to…

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EU-Startups Summit 2026: Malta Hosts in May

The EU-Startups Summit, returning to Valletta in May 2026, will focus on helping startups secure impactful media coverage, featuring a…

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Mastodon’s revamp simplifies its decentralized social network

Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify its interface and attract new users, aiming to address the complexity that has…

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