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Mirage secures $75M for AI video editing app Captions

Mirage (formerly Captions) secured $75 million in growth financing to expand from a single app into an AI lab, developing…

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Google DeepMind Partners with Agile Robots

Agile Robots and Google DeepMind have formed a strategic partnership to integrate Gemini Robotics AI models into industrial robots, using…

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Microbes Engineered as Continuous Assembly Lines

Cauldron Ferm was founded on a decades-long vision to combat global hunger by producing affordable microbial protein, requiring a shift…

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Lace Secures $40M for Helium-Based Chip Fabrication Tech

A Norwegian startup called Lace Lithography has raised $40 million to develop a novel semiconductor manufacturing technique that uses an…

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Swish food delivery startup secures $38M in third funding round

Swish, an Indian ultra-fast food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in Series B funding, doubling its valuation to $139…

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Kalshi, Polymarket CEOs invest $35M in predictions market fund

The CEOs of rival prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket are jointly investing in a new $35 million venture fund,…

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Air Street Raises $232M, Now Europe’s Largest Solo VC Fund

Air Street Capital has closed a $232 million third fund to invest in early-stage AI companies in Europe and North…

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Zipline Raises $200M for Drone Delivery Growth

Zipline has raised an additional $200 million, bringing its Series H funding round to $800 million and maintaining a $7.6…

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Helion in Talks to Sell Fusion Power to OpenAI

Sam Altman is stepping down as chairman of Helion Energy, a fusion startup he backs, a strategic move coinciding with…

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Munich’s Interloom secures $16.5M in funding

Enterprise AI agents often fail because they lack the nuanced, experiential judgment of seasoned employees, as a vast amount of…

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Why Martech Consolidation Plans Often Fail

Financial pressures are driving marketing teams to consolidate technology stacks, but vendor proposals often present incomplete ROI models that overlook…

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Europe’s Largest Solo GP Fund: Air Street Capital Raises $232M

Air Street Capital's $232 million fund, Europe's largest solo GP venture fund, challenges the traditional partnership model in European VC…

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Egide secures €8M seed funding to bridge Europe’s protection gap

Europe's air defense gap, highlighted by the war in Ukraine, is driving significant venture investment, with startups like Egide securing…

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360 Capital Secures €85M for Deeptech Fund

A new €85 million European venture capital fund, backed by a major defence contractor, is specifically targeting dual-use technologies at…

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Damaged Donut Lab Solid-State Battery Loses Charge Capacity

Donut Lab's damaged solid-state battery cell did not catch fire or experience thermal runaway during testing, which the company highlights…

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JAAQ secures $17M for clinical mental health content

JAAQ, a UK digital health platform, has raised $17 million in Series A funding to expand into the US market…

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Credo Ventures Raises $88M Fund for CEE Startup Founders

Credo Ventures has raised $88 million for its fifth fund, its largest to date, to continue its core strategy of…

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NASA Team Races to Save Falling Satellite

The 21-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a vital NASA satellite for detecting fleeting gamma-ray bursts, is descending from orbit and…

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Gimlet Labs’ AI Inference Solution Is Elegant and Efficient

Gimlet Labs raised $80 million to address the AI inference bottleneck with a multi-silicon cloud platform that orchestrates workloads across…

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Littlebird secures $11M for AI screen-reading recall tool

Littlebird is a new AI startup that captures and archives on-screen content as text to build a comprehensive, searchable digital…

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