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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charging and renewable integration, a critical weakness remains: underground infrastructure is still documented using outdated, post-construction surveys and estimates.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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