Startup Funding
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Down the Stack Into Chips, Energy and the Physical World
AI is no longer attracting capital as a single technology category. It is starting to pull entire industries into its orbit. This week, investors backed everything from AI data infrastructure and photonic networking to physical-AI processors, energy systems, construction robotics, satellite computing, healthcare and fintech. The breadth matters because the funding is no longer clustering […]
NetApp Excellerator Accelerates Deep-Tech Innovation for the AI Era with Cohort 15
Bengaluru, India. – 16 October 2026 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the launch of the 15th cohort of its flagship startup accelerator program, NetApp Excellerator, welcoming five startups driving the next wave of AI innovation in the global deep tech ecosystem. The new cohort focuses on AI-powered software engineering, […]
Affinity Labs raises $2M to build software companies with creators
Building an app is becoming easier. Getting people to care about it is not. That is the problem London-based Affinity Labs is building around. The startup has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures alongside Antler, with the financing package also including a £497,787 Innovate UK grant. Angel participants include investors and […]
Clueso Raises $10M to Turn Business Video Into an Agent-Managed Workflow
Most AI video tools consider the job finished when a video is exported. Clueso is building around what happens afterward: the product changes, the screenshots become outdated, the training library falls behind and someone has to make the video again. The Bengaluru-founded company has raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Dharana Capital. […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Execution, Security and Physical AI
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
Klarent Raises $8M for Agentic Software Testing
AI can now generate software faster than many engineering teams can verify it. Klarent is building for the bottleneck that appears after the code is written: proving that it actually works. The Zurich-based startup has raised $8 million in Seed funding, led by Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire Ventures and angel investors including former […]
Autentic AI Raises €1.5M to Compress Market Research From Weeks to Days
Traditional qualitative research has a scaling problem: companies want the “why” behind customer behavior, but interviewing enough people can take weeks and require large agency budgets. Barcelona-based Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Baobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures and Masia VC to attack that bottleneck with AI. The company plans […]
Finches Raises €2M for AI Agricultural Sourcing Intelligence
Knowing that a growing region is getting hotter is not yet a procurement decision. A food manufacturer needs to know whether that heat threatens the specific crop variety it buys, which supplier and contract are exposed, whether quality specifications are likely to become harder to meet and whether there is still time to sample differently, […]
Rein Security Raises $25M Series A, Nine Months After an $8M Seed
The file looked routine: a PDF handed to an onboarding agent at a global enterprise. Buried in it was a prompt injection telling the agent to step outside its job. Rein Security says its software caught the out-of-role action and stopped it before any damage was done. That is the case behind Rein’s $25 million […]
Dutch MarTech startup turns festival fans into marketers as selling out gets harder
Amsterdam, 8 October 2026 – Innercrowd has raised €750,000 to expand internationally as festivals across Europe look for new ways to drive ticket sales. The platform helps festivals activate their existing fans earlier and turn that loyalty into ticket sales and wider reach. Innercrowd is responding to a market where festivalgoers are becoming more selective […]
Doris Labs raises $600k to make sure you never lose a deal you should have won.
Doris Labs has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Manchester Angels and a group of angels from across the B2B software industry. Doris has built the GTM AI semantic layer that captures everything a sales team learns across calls, emails and documents, and then their agents drive the deal […]
Cleavr Raises €8M to Turn Invoice Collection Into an Autonomous Finance Workflow
An overdue invoice rarely stays a simple overdue invoice. One customer promises to pay on Wednesday. Another says the amount is wrong. A third asks for three instalments. Someone else ignores email but answers the phone. Even after money arrives, the payment still has to be matched against the correct invoice and reflected in the […]