Series B
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 […]
A 5-Month-Old Startup Just Raised $200M to Simulate All 8 Billion People on Earth
Simile, a simulation-AI company just five months old, has raised over $200 million at a $2 billion post-money valuation to build a foundation model for human behavior, one it says will eventually simulate all eight billion people on Earth. The round was led by Greenoaks, with Index Ventures doubling down and returning investors Hanabi, Bain […]