Funding
HyImpulse Raises €50M+ to Scale Hybrid Rocket Launches in Europe
At HyImpulse, one question still follows the company into conversations with regulators: You really build rockets with paraffin wax? Launch Licensing Manager Vittorio Di Pietrantonio jokes that even after years of development, people still struggle to believe it. Yet the unusual fuel has already moved far beyond an experiment. HyImpulse has flown it, scaled the […]
AIR Raises $50M to Secure AI Agents, Skills and MCP Servers
AIR’s researchers started with something that looked harmless: a useful AI skill. They placed it inside a respected open-source ecosystem, where it inherited the credibility of roughly 37,000 GitHub stars, promoted it to ordinary users, and watched security scanners approve it. People installed it. Eventually, AIR says the experiment reached more than 26,000 AI agents. […]
Cloover Adds $100M to Scale AI-Powered Home Energy Across Europe
Europe’s energy transition is usually discussed in enormous numbers: gigawatts of solar, millions of heat pumps, national climate targets and billions of euros in infrastructure. For a homeowner, however, the decision can become much smaller and much more uncomfortable. A family can understand exactly why solar panels, a battery or a heat pump makes sense […]
Scan.com Raises $220M to Expand U.S. Medical Imaging Infrastructure
A medical scan can take less than an hour. Reaching the scanner can take weeks. That gap is what Scan.com has spent nearly a decade trying to remove. The company began in the UK in 2017, after clinicians Dr Khalid Latief and Jasper Nissim saw how slow and opaque diagnostic imaging could be for their […]
Apate.AI Raises $8.15M to Scale AI Scam Prevention Globally
Somewhere inside a scam operation, a fraudster can spend two hours persuading a victim to hand over money. For Apate.AI, the useful part is that the “victim” may never have existed. The Sydney-born company has built thousands of conversational AI agents designed to behave like believable scam targets. They answer calls and messages, keep fraudsters […]
Nexeon Raises £100M to Scale Silicon Anode Battery Technology
Silicon has always looked like the obvious answer. It can hold around 10 times more lithium by mass than graphite, which makes it extraordinarily attractive for lithium-ion batteries. The problem is what happens when it actually does the job. Silicon expands as it charges, contracts as it discharges, and can gradually destroy the electrode around […]
Permanent Capital Ventures Raises $200M to Scale Applied AI Companies
A startup can find product-market fit and still break on the way to becoming a company. The first customers may come through founder obsession, personal networks and a willingness to sit inside every deal. The next hundred customers require something less romantic: hiring, segmentation, forecasting, revenue operations and a sales process that still works when […]
a16z Raises $1.1B Machine Age Fund for AI Hardware and Infrastructure
For most of the software era, money could buy engineers, distribution and time. It could not instantly erase a two-year technical lead. AI infrastructure is beginning to change that equation. More compute, memory, networking and electricity can translate directly into more capability, which means physical capacity is becoming part of the competitive advantage again. Andreessen […]
Owner Raises $240M to Build an AI Operating Layer for Local Businesses
A restaurant can lose a customer before anyone tastes the food. The loss can happen in search, on a slow website, inside a confusing checkout flow or because the restaurant never brings that customer back. Owner has built a $2.3 billion company around reducing how many of those digital decisions a local-business owner has to […]
Voya Energy Raises $35M to Test Whether Electricity Can Travel as Metal
What if electricity did not always have to travel as electricity? Voya Energy is building around that question. Its system stores energy inside aluminum, moves that aluminum through conventional freight networks, and converts it into electricity where power is needed. A 10-foot fuel container is designed to hold roughly 100 MWh of stored energy, turning […]
Adaptyv Bio Raises $40M to Build the Experimental Layer for AI Biology
A protein model can propose a new sequence in seconds. Biology is less cooperative. Before anyone knows whether that sequence works, it has to become DNA, be expressed as a physical protein, survive quality control and then face an assay that measures what it actually does. In Adaptyv Bio’s current binding workflow, that journey can […]
Blackbird has raised A$1.05 billion and founder access remains the scarce asset
A few hours changed the way Samantha Wong thinks about venture capital. When Wong met Craig Piggott, the founder of Halter, he had already entered into a Series A term sheet with a US investor. Blackbird eventually invested in a later round and continued backing the company. But Wong still remembers that first miss for […]