The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General Catalyst, the seed lead, is back in. Generative AI has, in the space of about 30 months, […]
The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most of the money funds the same product. The strategic shift is who else gets to buy it. European defence-tech rounds, in 2026, are no longer being raised on a pure-defence […]
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out of Roper Technologies. Ametek pays a full multiple for picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI-infrastructure trade. Ametek, the Pennsylvania-based scientific-and-industrial-instrumentation company, has agreed to acquire the test-and-measurement businesses of Indicor for […]
After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. There is a particular kind of European startup story that is not supposed to happen at this […]
The Paris-based AI-native real-estate company, founded by Entrepreneurs First alumni Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, has Heartcore and Balderton co-leading the round, an unusual cap-table for a pre-seed. The technical pitch is more interesting than the headline. There is a particular shape of European AI seed round that has, in 2026, become harder to land […]
What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is, in venture-capital pricing, a particular kind of ascent that does not normally happen to […]
The founders of IronSource spent a decade building tools that helped mobile app developers monetise their products through advertising. They sold that company to Unity for $4.4 billion in 2022, watched Unity dismantle the ad network they had built, left in 2024, and have now returned with a company whose premise is that the entire […]
ServiceNow has, in 2026, become one of the more carefully watched test cases for whether enterprise software companies can ride the AI wave or be displaced by it. On Monday, the company gave investors its strongest answer yet. Bloomberg reported that ServiceNow projected $30bn in subscription revenue by 2030, with chief financial officer Gina Mastantuono […]
The financing scaffolding around AI infrastructure keeps growing. Bloomberg reported on Sunday that Meta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase on a financing package of roughly $13bn for a single data centre in El Paso, Texas. If completed at the size discussed, it would be one of the largest single-site digital-infrastructure financings […]
Katie Haun has raised $1 billion for two new venture funds at Haun Ventures, split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles to be deployed over the next two to three years. The capital will go into crypto and blockchain companies, which have been the firm’s focus since Haun left Andreessen Horowitz in 2022 to […]
