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Clean Food Group raises £4.5M to scale yeast-derived oils and fats from food waste
UK biotech manufacturer Clean Food Group (CFG) has raised £4.5 million in investment led by Clean Growth Fund and New Agrarian. CFG has also successfully secured a £700,000 non-dilutive grant from Innovate UK, which further improves the Company’s financial position. Clean Food Group enables a more sustainable and resilient global food system by producing essential read more
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Human-machine teaming dives underwater
The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver read more
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Helical secures $10M to advance virtual AI lab for pharma research
Helical, a biotechnology company developing a virtual AI lab for pharmaceutical research and development, has raised $10 million in seed funding. The round was led by redalpine, with participation from Gradient, BoxGroup, and Frst, alongside angel investors including Aidan Gomez (CEO of Cohere), Clement Delangue (CEO of Hugging Face), and Mario Götze. Founded in early read more
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10 Reasons to Wait for the iPhone 18 Pro
Apple’s iPhone development roadmap runs several years into the future and the company is continually working with suppliers on several successive iPhone models at the same time, which is why we often get rumored features months ahead of launch. The iPhone 18 series is no different, and we already have a good idea of what read more
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TraqCheck raises $8M to turn hiring into an AI-run workflow
London HRtech startup TraqCheck has raised $8 million in Series A funding, led by IvyCap Ventures, with participation from IIFL. Instead of recruiters manually sourcing candidates, screening resumes, and coordinating background checks across fragmented tools, TraqCheck’s agents execute those workflows end-to-end. This creates significant operational efficiencies and eliminates manual errors, which can be costly and read more
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StirLight raises £1.25M to bring real-time quality assurance to friction stir welding at scale
UK startup StirLight has secured £1.25 million to commercialise its technology and accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing processes at scale by major industrial original equipment manufacturers. The company combines friction stir welding expertise with StirSense, a proprietary real-time process-monitoring and quality-assurance platform. StirLight serves R&D engineers and production teams in the nuclear, aerospace, defence, read more
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Graftcode secures €2.1M to simplify AI-era software integration
Graftcode, a Warsaw-based developer platform focused on simplifying software integration, has raised €2.1 million in funding. The round was led by Hard2beat, with participation from DigitalOcean Ventures, Heartfelt Capital, and private investors, including company employees. The investment brings the company’s total funding to €6.5 million and coincides with the launch of the beta version of read more
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Stegra bags €1.4bn rescue funding package for giant European green-steel plant
Swedish green-tech startup Stegra has secured €1.4bn in rescue funding from a consortium led by the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family, as it looks to finish construction of the world’s largest green-steel plant. The funding follows months of negotiations between Stegra and its investors and lenders asthe Swedish startup looked to raise additional funding to support read more
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Locai Labs and Civo launch Project Mercury to end UK reliance on foreign AI
Today, Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury. The programme aims to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign LLMs, designed to reclaim British digital autonomy. For a decade, the UK has operated as a “digital tenant,” reliant read more
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Wamo closes €10M Series A to power European SMEs
Wamo, a financial operating platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round to support its expansion in Italy and the Nordic region, enhance product capabilities, and roll out AI-driven tools. The majority of the funding was provided by TCEE Fund IV, advised by 3TS Capital Partners, read more
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Peak Quantum reaches €5M in total funding for quantum chips
Peak Quantum, a Munich-based quantum computing startup, has raised €2.2 million in pre-seed funding to advance its superconducting quantum processor technology and establish a European pilot manufacturing line. The round was led by Cloudberry Ventures, with participation from United Founders, QAI Ventures, Golden Egg Check, and several business angels with industry experience. Including public support, read more
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Remote metre reading by 2027: Retrofit beats replacement
Across Europe, millions of heat and hot-water metres accurately measure consumption every day. Many have been in the field for a decade or more, performing their metrological function with high reliability. By 2027, a significant portion of this infrastructure will fail to meet a new regulatory requirement. Not because the sensing is wrong, but because read more
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Fine art logistics company Convelio secures Series C funding
Convelio, a technology-enabled fine art logistics and storage company, has secured a Series C investment to expand its AI-powered logistics and collections management services for the global art and antiques market. The round was led by a prominent French entrepreneurial dynasty with strong ties to the international art sector, with participation from existing investors Forestay, read more
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Kelluu raises €15M to scale autonomous airship intelligence platform
Kelluu, a Finnish deeptech company operating the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has raised €15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by the NATO Innovation Fund, marking its first investment in a Finnish company. Additional participation came from Keen Venture Partners, GungnirCapital, and Tesi. The funding follows Kelluu’s successful completion of two read more
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Hasan Piker Built His Twitch Empire With Shure Microphones, Lumix Cameras, and Lots of Zyns
Hasan Piker is 15 minutes late to our Zoom. He’s just gotten back from the gym, where he works out seven days a week, first thing in the morning, with no rest days. He’s been up since 5. In 45 minutes, he goes live for an eight-hour stream on Twitch. Everything is already set up, read more
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American Airlines Now Supports iOS 26's Revamped Wallet Boarding Passes
American Airlines is now supporting the enhanced boarding pass feature that Apple added in iOS 26. The app’s latest update says boarding passes in the Wallet app feature an updated look with Apple Maps integration, destination guides, and luggage tracking capabilities. Apple revamped boarding passes in iOS 26 to make them more useful to passengers read more
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Prehistoric Stone Altar with Human Remains Discovered in Central Mexico
Researchers working on an archaeological salvage project related to construction of a passenger train between Querétaro and Mexico City discovered a 1,000-year-old stone altar. The discovery was first reported in March, and was uncovered within the Tula Archaeological Monument Zone, a Toltec site in the central state of Hidalgo, according to Mexico’s INAH (the National read more
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Cinga Samson Conjures Mystery and the Sublime in Large-Scale Oil Paintings
Amid groves of trees, meadows, and aging infrastructure, Cinga Samson’s dreamlike tableaux are bathed in eerie light, as if spotlit or illuminated by the moon. The South African artist is known for his use of deep, dark pigments such as carbon black and Prussian blue, complemented by the occasional teal or purple and pops of read more
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East Africa: Uganda Hosts Chinese Investors for High-Level Trade, Tourism Investment Tour
Uganda is currently hosting a high-level delegation of Chinese investors and industry representatives as part of the ongoing Uganda-China Coffee Investment and Destination Tour, a strategic initiative aimed at strengthening trade, investment, and market linkages between the two countries. The tour, organized by Uganda’s Embassy in Beijing in collaboration with the Uganda Consulate in Guangzhou, read more
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Apple Maps Ads Move Closer to Launch With iOS 26.5 Beta 2
With the second beta of iOS 26.5, Apple is continuing to prepare for ads in the Apple Maps app. There’s a new splash screen in the app that says it will display ads based on approximate location, current search terms, or a view of the map when searching. Ads will also be shown in the read more
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