Tag: infrastructure

  • AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI infrastructure for Africa and the Middle East

    AethexAI, a UK voice AI infrastructure company building for enterprises across emerging markets, today announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures and the launch of its platform. The round included participation from Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures, 26 Fund and strategic angel investors, including Stanford faculty, telecoms executives and AI read more

    AethexAI raises M to build voice AI infrastructure for Africa and the Middle East
  • Quantum Bridge Technologies bags $8M Series A to scale quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure

    Quantum Bridge Technologies has closed a $8 million Series A funding round led by Primo Capital SGR to accelerate the global transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure. Founded in 2019 by Mattia Montagna and Hoi-Kwong Lo, Quantum Bridge emerged from one of the world’s leading quantum security research groups to deliver quantum-safe security solutions. Quantum Bridge read more

    Quantum Bridge Technologies bags M Series A to scale quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure
  • Infrawatch secures $3M pre-seed for internet infrastructure intelligence

    London-based cybersecurity startup Infrawatch has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and a group of fintech and cybersecurity angel investors. Founded by Lloyd Davies and built by a team of former employees from CrowdStrike, Recorded Future and Intel 471, Infrawatch read more

    Infrawatch secures M pre-seed for internet infrastructure intelligence
  • Former Vercel executive says voice agents will be won on infrastructure, not models

    UK voice AI startup SLNG says the voice labs that have dominated the market have been systematically overcharging enterprises — and that the industry is heading for a price correction. “The market has been shaped by voice labs whose business model depends on maximising compute at every step of every call,” says Luke Miller, SLNG’s read more

    Former Vercel executive says voice agents will be won on infrastructure, not models
  • Iceotope raises $26M to advance cooling for next-generation AI infrastructure

    Iceotope Group, a provider of precision liquid cooling solutions for data centres and edge infrastructure, has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures, with participation from existing investors Edinv, ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, and British Business Bank. Founded in 2005 as a research-driven green read more

    Iceotope raises M to advance cooling for next-generation AI infrastructure
  • Zerops raises $2M seed to rebuild cloud infrastructure for the AI development era

    Zerops, a Platform-as-a-Service startup redesigning cloud architecture, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Gi21 Capital. Zeropsremoves the separation between development and production environments, a long-standing flaw in cloud architecture that causes deployment failures for developers and AI coding agents alike. It creates a unified environment where applications behave identically from development through read more

    Zerops raises M seed to rebuild cloud infrastructure for the AI development era
  • Keel unveils fintech infrastructure business after pivot from neobank

    Manchester-based Keel has emerged from stealth after reaching profitability and establishing a growing client base for its Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform across multiple fintech markets. Originally founded in 2019 as consumer neobank Frost, the company combined digital banking services with energy-switching tools and grew its user base to more than 18,000 customers. Following changes in market read more

    Keel unveils fintech infrastructure business after pivot from neobank
  • OpsMill raises $14M to address enterprise infrastructure data challenges

    OpsMill, a Paris-based infrastructure data management company, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by IRIS, with participation from BGV and existing investors Serena and Partech. OpsMill addresses a core challenge in enterprise IT: fragmented and unreliable infrastructure data. Its flagship product, Infrahub, is an open-source infrastructure data management platform built read more

    OpsMill raises M to address enterprise infrastructure data challenges
  • OpenTrade secures $17M in strategic funding to scale its stablecoin yield infrastructure

    OpenTrade, a stablecoin yield infrastructure platform used by fintechs and exchanges, has raised $17 million in a strategic funding round led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto, AlbionVC, and CMCC Global. The round brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million. The raise comes as the global stablecoin market read more

    OpenTrade secures M in strategic funding to scale its stablecoin yield infrastructure
  • Verda raises $117M to scale AI cloud infrastructure built on clean Nordic power

    Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company Verda (formerly DataCrunch ) has raised $117 million in new funding. The round comprises equity funding led by Lifeline Ventures with participation from byFounders, Tesi, Varma, and other investors, alongside debt financing from a group of Nordic financial institutions. Founded in 2020, Verda is building AI cloud infrastructure that allows developers read more

    Verda raises 7M to scale AI cloud infrastructure built on clean Nordic power
  • Rivan raises $34M to build synthetic gas infrastructure for Europe

    Rivan, a company developing synthetic fuel to strengthen Europe’s energy security, has raised $34 million in funding led by IQ Capital. Previous investor Plural participated, with new investor Fundomo and angels, including: Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Matt Clifford (Entrepreneur First), and Markus Villig (Bolt). This brings the company’s total raised to $46 million. Natural gas read more

    Rivan raises M to build synthetic gas infrastructure for Europe
  • 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

    SolvaPay raises €2.4M to build payment infrastructure for agentic commerce
  • 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

    Modern Relay raises M to build shared infrastructure layer for AI agents in the enterprise
  • 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

    Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos
  • 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

    Brickken secures €3M to expand tokenisation infrastructure
  • 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

    German deeplify raises €2M to modernise infrastructure inspections
  • 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

    futurepresent emerges from stealth with 0M Fund I to back AI across infrastructure and industry
  • 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

    Rivia raises M to fix the broken data infrastructure behind clinical trials
  • 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

    Qdrant closes M Series B to expand vector search infrastructure
  • 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

    Delfos Energy secures €3M Seed extension to scale AI “virtual engineer” for energy infrastructure