Venture Capital
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, […]
DTU-born PSV Tech closes Fund II, writing the next chapter in their 25 years historyof pre-seed investing
COPENHAGEN, 06. october 2026 – Twenty-five years ago, an investment organisation took shape in the halls of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with a simple idea: more of the technology and talent coming out of Denmark needed someone willing to back it early. A quarter of a century and close to 500 early-stage investments later, […]
British Business Bank backs Fuel Ventures the multi-fund VC built by entrepreneurs
The British Business Bank today announces a commitment of £10 million to the Fuel Ventures funds, made through the Bank’s Regional Angels Programme. A Programme launched in 2019 to address imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance, targeting angel networks and other early-stage investors to help enhance access to capital for businesses across diverse sectors. […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Builds the Full Stack From Agents to Physical AI
AI funding this week looked less like one market and more like an entire technology stack being financed simultaneously. At one end, investors wrote enormous checks for autonomous agents, cybersecurity, GPU infrastructure and physical AI. At the other, smaller rounds targeted sharply defined problems in compliance, construction, insurance, HR, industrial robotics, voice, energy and legal […]
Exclusive: DIG Ventures Closes $120M Fund III for European AI Infrastructure
When Ross Mason started MuleSoft in 2006, Europe was a very different place to build an enterprise infrastructure company. Early-stage capital for deeply technical software was limited, and Mason ultimately moved to Silicon Valley to build the business. MuleSoft went public and was later acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion. Two decades later, Mason is […]
Eureka! Venture €20M First Close for Deep Tech Lazio Fund
DeepTech companies rarely fail because the science is uninteresting. They often struggle in the expensive stretch between proving that a technology works and proving that industry can actually use it. Eureka! Venture’s new €20 million fund is designed to enter precisely at that point. The Italian investment firm has launched Eureka! Fund II – Deep […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
Project Ventures Wants to Turn Imperial’s Alumni Network Into Deeptech Investment Infrastructure
The London-based firm, Project Ventures has launched a £5 million debut fund for pre-seed and seed companies emerging from or connected to the Imperial College London ecosystem. Initial investments will typically range from £100,000 to £300,000, with Project Ventures targeting startups where AI converges with science and engineering across areas including robotics, healthcare, climate, energy […]
SEED Capital Closes €130M Fund V as Its Danish Seed Model Goes Nordic
The Copenhagen venture firm, SEED Capital has closed €130 million to back 15-17 startups across the Nordics, with initial checks of €3 million to €6 million. Sweden becomes a strategic priority, while cybersecurity and resilience join FinTech and AI-driven B2B as core investment areas. That makes the important change less about how much capital SEED […]
Molten Ventures Reaches £175M First Close to Back Europe’s Next Stage of Growth
Molten Ventures has spent two decades helping European technology companies move from early promise to global scale. The firm traces its roots to 2006, when Esprit Capital was founded. It later became Draper Esprit, listed publicly in 2016 and rebranded as Molten Ventures in 2021. Across that evolution, the firm has built around a simple […]
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 […]