Startup Funding
Nettle Raises $4.8M to Scale the AI Workspace Behind Insurance Loss Control
For complex commercial risks, an underwriter can know the business, location and requested coverage and still lack the physical evidence needed to understand what could actually go wrong. Factories, warehouses and construction sites may require engineering surveys covering fire protection, machinery, operational controls and other hazards before an insurer can properly evaluate the risk. The […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Builds the Full Stack From Agents to Physical AI
AI funding this week looked less like one market and more like an entire technology stack being financed simultaneously. At one end, investors wrote enormous checks for autonomous agents, cybersecurity, GPU infrastructure and physical AI. At the other, smaller rounds targeted sharply defined problems in compliance, construction, insurance, HR, industrial robotics, voice, energy and legal […]
Falcon Raises €1.5M Pre-Seed to Build an AI-Native Law Firm
A founder receives a customer contract. Instead of finding a lawyer, requesting a quote, booking a call and waiting days for comments, the document gets dropped into Slack. Falcon checks it against that company’s own legal rules, explains what matters, proposes redlines and passes the work to a qualified lawyer for approval. The finished contract […]
Rubik Hub opens applications for the MVP Accelerator, dedicatedto startups from Romania and Italy
Rubik Hub announces the opening of applications for a new cohort of the MVP Accelerator, designed for startups with a functional MVP. The program is open to teams from Romania and Italy looking to reach their first customers, based on the premise that an early-stage startup should attract customers first, and capital next. Applications are […]
Zenithon Raises $10M to Make Extreme Physics Iterate at AI Speed
A fusion reactor, rocket engine or semiconductor process can take days to simulate properly, which means even the best engineering teams are forced to explore only a fraction of the designs they could theoretically build. Zenithon is betting that AI can turn that bottleneck into an advantage. The UK AI startup has raised $10 million […]
OuterSignal Raises $22M for Agentic Customer Intelligence
An ecommerce brand can know that you spent $186.40, opened three emails, bought twice in six months and used a discount code on your first order. It can still have no idea who you are. OuterSignal was built around that strange imbalance. Modern commerce software remembers transactions exceptionally well, yet the relationship behind those transactions […]
Kuro Raises €10M to Build AI for General Contractors
A multimillion-euro construction mistake can begin with something surprisingly small: one sentence in a specification that does not match a drawing, buried somewhere inside hundreds of pages nobody had enough time to cross-check. General contractors live with that problem on every major project. Sales teams, estimators, procurement specialists and site managers work across drawings, specifications, […]
Eureka! Venture €20M First Close for Deep Tech Lazio Fund
DeepTech companies rarely fail because the science is uninteresting. They often struggle in the expensive stretch between proving that a technology works and proving that industry can actually use it. Eureka! Venture’s new €20 million fund is designed to enter precisely at that point. The Italian investment firm has launched Eureka! Fund II – Deep […]
Bilt.me Raises $700K to Take AI App Building From Prompt to App Store
AI has made the first version of an app almost suspiciously easy to create. Describe an idea, wait a few minutes and a polished interface appears on screen. But for founders trying to build a mobile business, that impressive demo is often where the easy part ends. The app still has to work on a […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
50skills Raises $6M for AI HR Workflow Automation
The problem that eventually became 50skills did not begin with artificial intelligence. It appeared after a company had already found the right candidate. Once someone accepted an offer, HR teams still had to collect personal details, prepare documents, arrange signatures, request equipment and system access, notify managers, update payroll and make sure none of those […]
Kontext Raises $4M to Put a Security Check Between AI Agents and Real-World Actions
Imagine an AI coding agent asked to fix a production bug. It has authenticated correctly, received access to the repository and been given the tools it needs. Reading the relevant code is reasonable. Running tests is reasonable. But those same credentials may also let the agent inspect unrelated files, call an external service or perform […]