Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert Gür are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely’s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC’s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Yazılım, the Istanbul-based mobile gaming studio behind Magic Sort and Car Match, has raised […]
The London company building silicon-CMOS spin qubits has been one of the cleaner technical credentials in European quantum hardware. The choice of investee for the EU’s first major late-stage venture commitment, announced post-Brexit, is itself the news. The European Union’s new Scaleup Europe Fund has made its first investment, leading a $160m round in UK-based […]
Meituan Dragon Ball is leading a $2bn round in the Beijing-based maker of the Kimi chatbot, with China Mobile and CITIC Private Equity Funds participating. The valuation is roughly seven times the figure Moonshot carried sixteen months ago. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is closing a $2bn funding round at a […]
The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, where the company says quoting and risk modelling can be similarly compressed. Corgi, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier built for startups, has raised a […]
IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup’s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company’s Infrahub platform is in production at TikTok and at one European cloud provider that says it has cut deployment times from five days to fifteen minutes. OpsMill, the Paris-headquartered infrastructure data management company, has raised $14m […]
The Voi co-founder, Adam Jafer, is the chief executive. Lakestar joined a16z on the round, with strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Early customers, including Voi, Tre, Stena Recycling, and Kry, are reporting deployment timelines of days to weeks. Pit, a Stockholm-based AI-native software platform for enterprise operations, has launched publicly with […]
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 […]
