Tag: infrastructure
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SolvaPay raises €2.4M to build payment infrastructure for agentic commerce
SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based AI payments platform, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed funding to develop payment infrastructure for the emerging era of agentic commerce. The round was led by European fintech venture capital firm Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with additional participation from Antler and Greens Ventures. As digital services continue to evolve, existing read more
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Modern Relay raises $3M to build shared infrastructure layer for AI agents in the enterprise
Modern Relay today announced a $3 million funding round from Point Nine, Emerge, Amino Collective, Common Magic, and angels, including Charlie Songhurst (board member at Meta), Michael Boehler (former BioNTech executive), and Thomas Clozel (co-founder of OWKIN). Employees are already running multiple agents to draft research, ship code, and handle day-to-day operations. The moment those read more
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Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos
Known for his collaborative photography projects like Invisible Jumpers, Joseph Ford is interested in perception and intervention. His ongoing series, Impossible Street Art, invites artists such as Antonyo Marest, Alex Senna, and MadC to imagine their work in monumental landscapes via a bit of sleight of hand. The artists create trompe-l’œil interventions on Ford’s photographs, read more
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Brickken secures €3M to expand tokenisation infrastructure
Barcelona-based Brickken, a provider of tokenisation infrastructure for financial institutions, has raised €3 million in a pre-Series A funding round. The round included strategic investors from across Europe, including Marco Podini, founder and executive chairman of Dedagroup, who invested in a personal capacity, as well as GRX. The funding follows the company’s seed round, completed read more
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German deeplify raises €2M to modernise infrastructure inspections
German industrial AI startup deeplify has announced the successful closing of a €2 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by D11Z Ventures, with participation from Vanagon Ventures, EWOR, and a group of strategic business angels. The investment will support the company’s mission to modernise how critical infrastructure is inspected and managed. The company read more
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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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Rivia raises $15M to fix the broken data infrastructure behind clinical trials
Rivia, the Zurich-based data engine for clinical trial intelligence, today announced a $15 million Series A led by Earlybird, with participation from Defiant and existing investors Speedinvest, Amino Collective, and Nina Capital. Over the past three years, the company built what it calls the first reusable intelligence layer for clinical trials. Its data engine integrates read more
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Qdrant closes $50M Series B to expand vector search infrastructure
Qdrant, an open-source vector search engine, has closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by AVP, with participation from Bosch Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Spark Capital, and 42CAP. Vector search initially emerged as a technique for retrieving nearest neighbours from dense embeddings within relatively static datasets. However, modern AI systems operate under more dynamic read more
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Delfos Energy secures €3M Seed extension to scale AI “virtual engineer” for energy infrastructure
Delfos Energy, an AI company building “virtual engineer” technology for the energy industry, today announced that it now supports more than 1,000 energy sites across Europe, alongside the close of a €3 million Seed extension round. The round includes new investment from Vox Capital/COPEL, existing investors include Headline, Contrarian Ventures, DOMO VC and EDP Ventures. read more
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finperks raises $4M pre-seed to build prepaid payments infrastructure
Berlin-based finperks has closed a $4 million pre-seed funding round led by Motive Partners and seed+speed Ventures. The company is developing API infrastructure for the global prepaid market, including gift cards, eCash, and prepaid cards, a sector projected to reach $4.24 trillion by 2035. Demand for digital rewards, cashback, and employee benefits continues to grow, read more
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Wilbe opens White City lab in London to remove infrastructure bottlenecks for science startups
Wilbe, the venture fund and platform that trains and backs scientists to build companies from day one, today announces the launch of its first dedicated lab facility in White City, London. To date, Wilbe has trained more than 1,400 scientists, backed 22 companies, and helped create over $1.3 billion in value worldwide. However, through its read more
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Spain’s PLD Space raises €180M to scale satellite launch infrastructure
International space transportation company, PLD Space, has closed a €180 million Series C equity funding round led by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The round included the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, through the Centre for the Development of Technology and Innovation (CDTI) and its INNVIERTE fund, and the Spanish public funds management company COFIDES, read more
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Groundhawk raises €2M to digitise Europe’s underground infrastructure
Finnish infrastructure software technology company Groundhawk has raised €2 million in Seed funding to transform how underground utilities are mapped and documented. As Europe invests heavily in electricity grids, fibre networks, EV charging and renewable integration, a critical weakness remains: underground infrastructure is still documented using outdated, post-construction surveys and estimates. The result is over read more
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Tangled raises $4.5M to build Europe’s code infrastructure
GitHub alternative Tangled has raised a $4.5 million funding round. The code platform offers a primary European alternative to GitHub for developers, providing an open and extensible network built for the next generation of software creation. The funding round was led by byFounders, the community-powered VC firm, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and read more
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Callosum emerges to challenge AI Silicon Valley monoculture
A UK AI infrastructure startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists offering a counter view to the “monoculture” that believes superintelligence will come from a single “God-like” AI model running on identical chipshas come out of stealth, raising over $10m in funding. Called Callosum, the startup has raised $10.25m from European VC Plural and ARIA (the read more
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Pontiro secures £357,500 to expand healthcare AI infrastructure
Pontiro, a healthtech company focused on enabling the safe and compliant use of medical imaging data for research and AI, has raised £357,500 in a funding round led by SFC Capital, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and the British Business Bank. Founded by Evan Jenkins, Adam Shannon, and Lewis Bowen, Pontiro was created read more
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Daytona raises $24M Series A to build agent-native compute infrastructure
Croatian-founded Daytona has raised a $24M Series A to build infrastructure designed for large-scale agent workloads. The round was led by FirstMark Capital, with Matt Turck joining the board. Additional participation came from Pace Capital, Upfront Ventures, Darkmode, and E2VC, along with strategic investments from Datadog and Figma Ventures. The round also includes a group read more
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The rise of battery storage as an infrastructure asset
As renewable generation expands and conventional baseload plants retire, electricity supply has become more volatile — amplifying price swings and increasing pressure on grid stability. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) address this imbalance by absorbing excess power when generation is high and discharging it when demand peaks. In doing so, they stabilise the grid, reduce read more
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Spotlite closes €3.5M for satellite infrastructure monitoring
Portuguese Spotlite has closed a €3.5 million seed round to accelerate its global expansion. The round is co-led by Índico Capital Partners and Explorer Investments. Founded in 2017 by Ricardo Cabral and Martino Correia, Spotlite offers a platform that converts satellite data into actionable infrastructure insights, helping asset owners and operators reduce operational CapEx through read more
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Why expense infrastructure is becoming core tech for modern companies
For years, expense management sat in the administrative shadows – a necessary, vital but rather unremarkable process centred on receipts, reimbursements, and end-of-month corrections and scrambling. That model no longer fits the way modern companies operate. As European businesses scale faster, adopt cloud-heavy tech stacks, and expand across borders, spending has evolved from a back-office read more
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