Tag: Labs
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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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Pi Labs leads $7M round in VerbaFlo for AI real estate platform
VerbaFlo, a conversational AI platform for real estate, has raised $7 million in a seed round led by Pi Labs, with participation from Haatch, Navigate Ventures, Old College Capital, the University of Edinburgh’s venture arm, and a group of family offices. The round brings the company’s total funding to approximately $9 million. Founded in 2024, read more
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Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI partner to bring privacy-first, cloud-free AI to smart glasses
Startups Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI today announced a strategic partnership to enable frontier AI in wearable technology without the latency and privacy compromises of cloud computing. Currently, AI inference, such as audio or image analysis, relies on models hosted in the cloud, creating unnecessary latency and risking user data exposure. This partnership addresses read more
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From blood tests to orbital labs: Europe’s next generation of cancer tech
Today, February 4, is World Cancer Day. Cancer kills around 10 million people each year — more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. Fortunately, European startups are accelerating innovation across the cancer care pipeline, from early detection to post-treatment recovery. Here’s just some of the startups to watch: Aerion Bioscience (Luxembourg) Aerion Bioscience is developing read more
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Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation
Today Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B round at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation. Black Forest Labs was founded last year with a mission to build frontier models for pixels—systems capable of creating what cameras cannot capture. The team set out to develop models that understand intent rather than simply execute read more
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Gosta Labs completes €7.5M seed to scale its AI OS for oncology worldwide
Helsinki-based healthtech company Gosta Labs has closed a €7.5 million seed round to scale its AI operating system for complex medical specialities. The round was led by Voima Ventures, with participation from COR Group, the Aho family, and both existing and new investors, including Reaktor and a group of notable angel investors. This follows a read more
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