Anchr has raised a $5.8 million pre-seed round to automate the back office of America’s food distribution industry, a sector still running on phone calls, spreadsheets, and manual order entry. On any given morning, the operations team at a mid-size food distributor might spend hours logging orders from restaurant clients, received by email, text, voicemail, […]
Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on the planet. IKEA is backing it. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a small beetle called Cyphochilus produces the whitest surface found in nature, not through pigment, but through the microscopic structure […]
The San Francisco firm has closed its third fund at $114 million, its largest to date, betting that AI and biology are now inseparable, and that the founders who understand both will build the companies that matter most. Lindy Fishburne started Breakout in a somewhat unusual place: inside the Thiel Foundation, running a grant programme […]
The Turing Award winner left Meta four months ago convinced that large language models are a dead end. Today he announced $1.03 billion in seed funding, Europe’s largest ever, to build something different. In November 2025, Yann LeCun walked into Mark Zuckerberg’s office and told his boss he was leaving. He had spent twelve years […]
A €2.06 million EU grant gives the Grenoble deep-tech startup non-dilutive runway to industrialise a four-component technology platform, and moves it one step closer to its first commercial drilling campaign. Fourteen months after closing a €3.4 million seed round backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Kiko Ventures, Mantle8 has secured a second source […]
The automaker has launched a pilot at its Leipzig plant using Hexagon Robotics’ AEON humanoid. The move follows a successful 11-month run in the US with Figure AI’s robots, and arrives just as the production chief who championed the programme prepares to take the top job. A new colleague has arrived on the shop floor […]
The timing is not coincidental. In October 2025, Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new that let non-developers build and ship apps by describing what they want in plain English. The results were stark: over 2,000 high-impact vulnerabilities, hundreds of […]
The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise agent platform launched just a month ago. When Ian Webster was leading the LLM engineering team at Discord, […]
A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical environment not yet governed by software. Mirai Robotics, a startup headquartered in Puglia, southern Italy, wants to change that. The company has closed […]
The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely a year old, and the world’s appetite for GPU compute had not yet tipped […]
