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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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Roberts Projects Takes On Esmaa Mohamoud, Cristin Tierney Adds Debbi Kenote, and More: Industry Moves for March 4, 2026
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Cristin Tierney Adds Debbi Kenote to Roster: The Brooklyn-based abstract painter will have her first solo exhibition with the read more
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Petzel to Rep Emma Webster, McNay Appoints New Head of Curatorial Affairs, and More: Industry Moves for February 18, 2026
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Petzel to Represent Emma Webster: The Los Angeles–based artist, known for digitally constructed dioramas that merge Baroque landscape traditions read more
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Bonhams’ New HQ Opens, Lubaina Himid Wins PAMM Prize, and More: Industry Moves for February 11, 2026
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Bonhams Opens New US Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan: The auction house’s official opening of its new 42,000-square-foot flagship at read more
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Seamflow raises $4.5M seed round to develop AI tools for the TIC industry
London-based Seamflow, an AI-focused software company serving the global testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) industry, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Northzone and Initialized Capital, with participation from Entrepreneur First, Nebular, and angel investors including Charlie Songhurst and Mario Götze. Before products can be commercialised, facilities can operate, or read more
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Ropac to Open New York Project Space, ADAA New Members, And More: Industry Moves for February 5, 2026
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Happy Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Thaddaeus Ropac to Open New York Project Space: The gallery also hired Emilio Steinberger as a senior director in read more
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Spark Cleantech closes €30M for heavy industry decarbonisation
Paris-based Spark Cleantech has closed a €30 million Series A funding round (including €17 million in equity). The round was led by 360 Capital and Taranis, with participation from the Île-de-France Reindustrialisation Fund (initiated by the Île-de-France Region and operated by Innovacom), alongside Asterion Ventures, the company’s long-standing investor. Founded in 2022 in the laboratories read more
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Hypercritical raises £2M to modernise software engineering for heavy industry
London-based Hypercritical has raised £2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of its foundation model and expand its engineering team. The round was led by Join Capital, with participation from Octopus Ventures, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (tiny.vc), and Plug and Play. Hypercritical is a deeptech company that develops machine learning models to generate fully read more
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Tyten raises £750K to bring AI-powered automation to the global facilities management industry
Tyten(formerly Fixo), an AI company for the next generation of facilities management, has secured £750,000 in an investment round co-led byFuel VenturesandConcrete Ventures, with follow-on participation fromAntler and several angel investors. Using artificial intelligence, Tyten aims to modernise and improve the global facilities management industry. Its platform combines intelligent workflow automation for help desks with read more
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