The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a […]
The Dutch startup, the only company offering a dedicated commercial solution for quantum chip testing, raised a €3M extension to its June 2025 seed round from the European Innovation Council Fund. The accompanying MAX Partnership Programme gives quantum chip makers a structured way to shape the next generation of OrangeQS’s high-throughput test equipment. OrangeQS, the […]
The Osnabrück startup’s camera-based self-checkout, which identifies food and drinks without barcodes in under 10 seconds, is already running at 43 points of sale inside the Orlando Magic’s NBA arena and across about a third of German university campuses. The Series A was led by eCAPITAL and Simon Capital. VisioLab, a German startup that makes […]
The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they work. It has reached multiple millions in revenue in under a year and is targeting 4x growth by end of 2026. Coral, the New […]
AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS™), has completed its €15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in 2026 and manufacturing deployment by 2027. AlixLabs, a deep-tech semiconductor startup based in Lund, Sweden, has closed its €15 million […]
X-energy is targeting a share price of $16–$19, which at the high end values the IPO at around $814M. Amazon led a $500M round and has committed to buying up to 5GW of nuclear power from the company by 2039. X-energy, an Amazon-backed nuclear reactor startup, has begun its investor roadshow and filed IPO documents […]
Stendr, a Norwegian counter-drone startup led by Aleksander Leonard Larsen, who co-founded blockchain gaming unicorn Sky Mavis, has raised a $5.4M oversubscribed pre-seed from RainFall, ACME, SkyFall, and a consortium of European defence and tech investors. Stendr, a Norwegian defence technology startup developing AI-driven systems to detect and track drones, has raised $5.4 million in […]
Half of enterprise software projects miss their deadlines. One in six exceeds budgets by more than 200%. The New York startup says the problem is not the software itself but the fragmented, knowledge-scattered process of implementing it, and it has Sequoia, Microsoft, HubSpot, and Workday convinced it can fix that. Auctor, a New York-based startup […]
The Bremen startup’s platform deploys teams of AI agents that autonomously execute engineering tasks across more than 75 existing tools, without replacing any of them. Revaia led the Series B; Capgemini joined through its ISAI Cap Venture vehicle. All Series A investors returned. Synera, the Bremen-based agentic AI platform for industrial engineering, has raised $40 […]
The Luxembourg-founded startup is already in production with multiple top-20 global pharma companies, including a public collaboration with Pfizer. Its $10M seed round is led by redalpine, with the CEOs of Cohere and HuggingFace among the angel investors. Helical, a London-based pharma AI startup founded by three Luxembourgish childhood friends, has raised $10 million in […]
