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Bootstrapped to €500M: the story behind Kilo's quiet rise — and its next billion-dollar bet
As consumer health shifts toward longevity, quantified wellness and personalised nutrition, one of Europe’s fastest-growing health tech companies is repositioning itself for the next wave. Founded in 2013, Kilo Health — now rebranded simply as Kilo — rose to become the second-fastest-growing company in Europe in 2022. After building direct-to-consumer health brands used by over read more
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UK self-driving startup Oxa raises $103M to scale industrial deployments
British self-driving startup Oxa has raised $103 million from investors to expand autonomous vehicle operations at ports, airports, warehouses and other industrial sites. The company said $50 million of its Series D funding came from the UK’s National Wealth Fund, with additional investments from chipmaker Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures and BP’s bp Ventures. The round read more
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What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years
Initially, Gorham used his brain-computer interface for single clicks, Oxley says. Then he moved on to multi-clicks and eventually sliding control, which is akin to turning up a volume knob. Now he can move a computer cursor, an example of 2D control—horizontal and vertical movements within a two-dimensional plane. Over the years, Gorham has gotten read more
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Meet Maia Chao, the Art World Anthropologist Making Her Whitney Biennial Debut
Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where does the art in doctors’ offices come from? How do you make a living as an artist? Building on these inquiries, often through mimicry or replication, leads to works that can make the mundane feel absurd, beautiful, read more
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Dia Art Foundation to Stage Lee Ufan Exhibition During Venice Biennale
The Dia Art Foundation will mount a solo presentation dedicated to Lee Ufan as an official collateral event to the 2026 Venice Biennale. Opening May 9, the exhibition will be curated by Dia director Jessica Morgan and staged at the San Marco Art Centre. The exhibition in Venice, along with a display of Lee’s paintings read more
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EIF makes largest defence investment yet with €50M backing for Join Capital
The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the EIB Group, today announced a €50 million commitment to Join Capital’s third fund as Europe moves from defence spending announcements to rebuilding industrial capability. The commitment is the EIF’s largest to date in defence and is supported by the InvestEU Defence Equity Facility, which is designed to read more
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Diligent AI raises $2.5M to support KYC and AML teams with AI agents
London-based Diligent AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup developing autonomous AI analysts for financial crime compliance, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Speedinvest alongside fintech investor Shapers, with participation from strategic angel investors including the CEOs and founders of N26, Allica Bank, IDnow, Billie and Cybersource (acquired by Visa). KYC read more
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GHARAGE Ventures launches Fund I and opens global travel platform
GHARAGE Ventures has launched its €40 million Fund I, positioning itself as an independent venture capital platform focused on early-stage technologies shaping the future of global travel and retail. Anchored by Gebr. Heinemann, the firm plans to collaborate with additional strategic investors to support innovation across the travel and retail ecosystem. As air travel continues read more
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These Official ChromeOS Flex USB Sticks Can Give Your Old Mac or Windows PC a Second Life
“People want something that lasts them a long time, that is quality, that is useful,” says Google senior director Alexander Kuscher. “Eventually, when it breaks or when you lose it, you get a new one because you feel taken care of. So I think that builds trust, and the trust is important.” Flex started as read more
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Photoncycle raises €15M to scale seasonal energy storage in Europe
Norwegian energy storage scale-up Photoncycle has raised €15 million in Series A funding to address a key renewable energy challenge in Europe: enabling households to store surplus summer solar power for winter heating and electricity. The round was led by NordicNinja and Voima Ventures, with participation from existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Eviny Ventures, Luminar Ventures read more
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First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial bills itself as the pulse-check of what American art looks like now. This year’s edition, curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, with Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez, consists of the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives. It’s themeless, but spotlights ideas of “relationality,” including family, technology, and mythology. I appreciate read more
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Swivel to Merge with Lower East Side’s Marc Straus Gallery, as Founder Graham Wilson Joins as Partner
Marc Straus Gallery announced Tuesday that Graham Wilson, the founder of Tribeca’s Swivel Gallery, has joined the gallery as a partner and senior director. As part of the move, Swivel will close its Tribeca space and its artists will move over to Straus, which has locations in Tribeca and the Lower East Side. The latter, read more
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A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals | TechCrunch
Security researchers have identified a suite of powerful hacking tools capable of compromising iPhones running older software that they say has passed from a government customer into the hands of cybercriminals. Google said Tuesday that it first identified the exploit kit, dubbed Coruna, in February 2025 during a surveillance vendor’s attempt to hack into someone’s read more
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Alibaba's Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push | TechCrunch
Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models. Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba’s Qwen team, said in a post on X on Tuesday that he was “stepping down” from the project, read more
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Salvador Dalí’s Largest Ever Painting Heads to Auction
This month, Salvador Dalí’s largest ever painting, a monumental stage set measuring 65 by 100 feet, will head to auction in Paris. The work, which comes from a private collection, will lead Bonhams’s fourth annual sale dedicated to Surrealism on Thursday, March 26 and is estimated to bring $236,000–$350,000. Dalí conceived the 13-panel set for read more
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Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut's Warriors March Toward Belonging
“Warriorhood is an act of living an awakened life,” says Rupy C. Tut, referencing the continual battles that emerge from being a person in the world. Tut has long invoked her family’s history of migration and Punjabi heritage to consider kinship, a theme that has more recently evolved into a recurring warrior character. “The privilege read more
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Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Art Review Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness. Magdalena Abakanowicz, “Standing Mutants” (1992–94) (all photos Ela Bittencourt/Hyperallergic) PARIS — “The organicity of the human body we’re born inside of is encoded in us,” the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz once said in an interview. This read more
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AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid | TechCrunch
If you’ve seen the recent ads attacking New York assembly member Alex Bores, you’ll know he used to work for Palantir, the AI company that’s powering the controversial raids and high-volume deportation efforts from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ads even accuse Bores of having made hundreds of thousands of dollars building the tech read more
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70 Shows to See in NYC This Spring
New York Newsletter Our guide this season’s blockbuster shows and hidden gems in New York City is out. This is our offering, our paean, our plea to the spirits of spring: Hyperallergic’s long-awaited guide of more than 70 shows to see this season, should it ever deign to arrive. This year, we opted to sort read more
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Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?
New York City arts leaders are hopeful the new cultural affairs commissioner Diya Vij will tackle the industry’s affordability crisis at a time when the Trump administration slashed federal funding for arts organizations and New York’s artists are increasingly leaving the city due to its high cost of living. “I can’t think of anyone more read more
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