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futurepresent emerges from stealth with $300M Fund I to back AI across infrastructure and industry
After more than a year of quietly investing, German-US VC firm futurepresent is emerging from stealth with Fund I totalling $300 million. The firm is being built as a deliberately small partnership with a flexible mandate, arguing that founder relationships matter more than platform scale. The firm has already invested in 14 portfolio companies with read more
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OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage
Last month, researchers at Northeastern University invited a bunch of OpenClaw agents to join their lab. The result? Complete chaos. The viral AI assistant has been widely heralded as a transformative technology—as well as a potential security risk. Experts note that tools like OpenClaw, which work by giving AI models liberal access to a computer, read more
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Granola raises $125M at $1.5BN valuation
Granola, the AI note-taking app, has bagged a $125m funding round, elevating its valuation to $1.5bn, hitting unicorn status, it announced today. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, withparticipation from Kleiner Perkins withexisting investors Lightspeed, Spark and Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross also contributing to the Series C round. The latest funding round read more
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German fintech Solaris to axe 20 per cent of 400-strong workforce, as becomes “AI-native bank"
One of Germany’s most high-profile fintechs inrecent years is cutting 20 per cent of its workforce, as it looks to become an “AI-nativebank”, marking the latest restructure at Solaris. Solaris,which offers white-label banking services and is known as a BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) provider, is axing around 80 roles across its approximately 400-strong workforce, as it undertakes read more
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Weightless: The Paintings of Henrik Uldalen – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“It takes a lot of directing to get the photo right,” says Uldalen. He works mainly with people he knows personally simply because it tends to be easier to rope friends into modeling sessions. Uldalen doesn’t go into the photo shoots with a solid idea of what he wants. He spends a lot of time read more
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Y Combinator-backed Mandel AI raises $3.9M to automate global supply chains
Mandel AI has raised $3.9 million Seed funding to build coordination for global supply chains. The startup has developed an AI supply chain coordinator that helps manufacturers manage supplier coordination, detect disruptions, and automate procurement, replacing the spreadsheets and email chains that still run most industrial supply chains today. The platform sits on top of read more
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Entrix raises €43M as contracted battery storage portfolio reaches 3GW
Battery optimisation company Entrix today announced two critical milestones. It has raised €43 million in funding and reached 3 GW / 8.5 GWh of contracted battery storage capacity. Of the contracted portfolio, 2 GW will be live and operational during 2026. Entrix operates a large and growing portfolio of battery storage systems across Europe, with read more
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With $8M, Eunice brings institutional-grade AI to due diligence
Eunice, a London-based company building due diligence infrastructure for regulated markets, has raised $8 million in a combined seed and pre-seed funding round led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest, with participation from Openspace Ventures and several industry founders. The company develops institutional-grade infrastructure designed to standardise how complex investment decisions are assessed, documented and defended, read more
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With €30M Series A, Subbyx scales its subscription model across Europe
Italian-based Subbyx, a technology scaleup focused on infrastructure for the subscription economy, has closed a €30 million Series A financing round, bringing its total funding to €50 million across equity and debt. The round was led by Systemiq Capital, with participation fromexisting investor Azimut, while Flashpoint has provided venture debt to support the expansion of read more
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The European IoT surge: How Czech tech won Vilnius
Every day in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, consumption data is automatically collected from hundreds of thousands of residential utility meters. There are no technicians in the field, no paper forms, and no manual labour involved. For most residents, this system is invisible, yet it is fundamental to the city’s modern infrastructure. While many “smart read more
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PAVE Space secures $40M to fast-track satellite deployment
PAVE Space, a Swiss space infrastructure company, has raised $40 million in seed funding to develop a new generation of spacecraft designed to move satellites rapidly between orbits. The round was led by Visionaries Club and Creandum, with participation from Lombard Odier Investment Managers, Atlantic Labs, Sistafund, b2venture, ACE Investment Partners, Ilavaska Vuillermoz Capital, and read more
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Deeptech startup Renasens lands €10M to scale textile recycling in Europe
Renasens, a Stockholm-based deeptech company developing textile recycling technology, has raised €10 million in a seed funding round led by Extantia, with participation from Course Corrected VC and continued backing from Norrsken Launcher. Renasens is addressing a structural challenge in the textile industry, where more than 12 million tonnes of waste are generated annually in read more
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Origin raises $30M Series A+ to improve global benefits efficiency
Origin, an AI-native platform focused on managing global employee benefits, has raised $30 million in a Series A+ funding round, bringing its total funding to over $50 million within the past year. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Felix Capital, Acadian Ventures and existing investors, alongside additional growth financing from HSBC read more
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Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
The next time you’re scrolling your phone, take a moment to appreciate the feat: The seemingly mundane act is possible thanks to the coordination of 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments in your hand. Indeed, our hands are the most nimble parts of our bodies. Mimicking their many nuanced gestures has read more
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Galtea lands $3.2M to cut costly AI testing delays
Galtea, a provider of AI evaluation infrastructure, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to further develop its platform for generating high-quality, use case-specific test scenarios for generative AI agents. The round was led by 42CAP, with participation from Mozilla Ventures and existing investors including JME Ventures, Masia and ABAC Nest Ventures, bringing total funding read more
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German INCIRT secures €4.8M to power next-gen chip architecture in Europe
INCIRT, an Aachen-based deeptech company, has closed a €4.8 million funding round led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds. INCIRT is developing a new generation of data converters capable of delivering up to 100 times faster data conversion than conventional approaches. Instead of relying on increasingly smaller and more costly manufacturing nodes, the read more
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A former Thiel fellow's startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters | TechCrunch
When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now, largely empty) building offers the promise of a fast-growing company intent on conquering its particular read more
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Despite Uncertainty, Gulf Art World Projects Normalcy
As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week, neighboring Gulf states, a hub of much of the region’s contemporary art production, are projecting an image of normalcy, with many galleries and museums reopening. It’s a sharp contrast to the sheer scale of destruction in Iran and Lebanon, where American and Israeli strikes have read more
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ARM Silicon
While Arm primarily licenses CPU and GPU designs to other manufacturers, they also produce their own silicon for specific datacenter and AI infrastructure applications. ARM AGI CPU# Announced at the Arm Everywhere Keynote on March 24, 2026, the ARM AGI CPU is Arm’s first production silicon, designed for AI infrastructure at scale. It delivers a read more
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NanoZymeX secures €160K to advance lipid nanoparticle enzyme therapies for rare diseases
Biotech startup NanoZymeX has obtained €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance a new platform for enzyme replacement therapy using lipid nanoparticles. Spun out of research at the University of Basel, the technology aims to improve therapies for rare genetic conditions such as Pompe disease (a rare genetic disorder that affects how the body read more
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