Startup Funding
Weekly Funding Round-Up Highlights the Global Startup Deals Shaping This Week
Global startup funding this week moved toward companies solving practical problems across business operations, manufacturing, healthcare, computing, cybersecurity and industrial technology. The rounds reveal a market becoming more specialized. Investors backed companies automating everyday workflows, teaching robots new physical skills, testing medical devices through virtual patients, expanding computing infrastructure and building new production capacity. The […]
Danish Cortas raises €1.47 million to put software development and property management under one roof
Danish proptech startup Cortas has raised approximately €1.47 million in a pre-seed round backed by PSV Tech, JRNY Capital, EIFO and experienced tech entrepreneurs, including founders of Flatpay and Spirii. Its two founders have moved from property investment at major Danish real estate investor Thylander Group into property management. Their vision is to build a […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves From Intelligence to Execution
AI funding crossed an important line this week: investors are no longer backing intelligence alone, they are backing AI that can act, operate and deliver results in the real world. The evidence runs across the market. A frontier AI lab raised $1 billion, legal AI attracted $550 million, enterprise planning secured $250 million, while fresh […]
Serial founder who’s raised £17m breaks a year of silence with an AI bet on construction
London, 21 October 2026. He turned £40 into a multimillion-pound retail tech business, who also built Britain’s first life insurance app, Bequest, backed by Aviva. He was in the early team at Zego, which became Britain’s first insurtech unicorn. Now, after a year of silence, James Buckley-Thorp is back, and he’s going after the £200bn […]
eVTOL pioneer Skyfly lands $10 million to bring personal vertical flight to market
Thorpe Mandeville, UK, 20 th October 2026: Skyfly Technologies, the British developer of electric and hybrid-electric vertically capable aircraft, has closed a $10 million seed round led by specialist growth equity investor, HICO Investment Group, with participation from Archangel, Europe’s only dedicated next-generation defence technology fund. The investment takes the Axe, Skyfly’s two-seat electric aircraft […]
Spanish VC Enzo Ventures Launches €20M Fund II for Southern Europe’s Next Generation of Founders
Enzo Ventures has today revealed more details around its second fund, Enzo Ventures II. It’s a €20 million fund focused on investing on pre-seed rounds with tickets between €250,000 and €600,000. It invests on B2B technology, AI and software companies, and has broadened its thesis to invest also on software companies with bridge to the […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Down the Stack Into Chips, Energy and the Physical World
AI is no longer attracting capital as a single technology category. It is starting to pull entire industries into its orbit. This week, investors backed everything from AI data infrastructure and photonic networking to physical-AI processors, energy systems, construction robotics, satellite computing, healthcare and fintech. The breadth matters because the funding is no longer clustering […]
Affinity Labs raises $2M to build software companies with creators
Building an app is becoming easier. Getting people to care about it is not. That is the problem London-based Affinity Labs is building around. The startup has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures alongside Antler, with the financing package also including a £497,787 Innovate UK grant. Angel participants include investors and […]
Mesa School Raises ₹110 Crore for AI-First Business Education
Most education funding rounds are bets on software. Mesa School of Business is a bet on the campus itself. The Bengaluru institution has raised ₹110 crore, comprising roughly ₹85 crore in Series A equity co-led by Dharana Capital and existing investor Elevation Capital, plus ₹25 crore in venture debt from InnoVen Capital and Alteria Capital. […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Execution, Security and Physical AI
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
Klarent Raises $8M for Agentic Software Testing
AI can now generate software faster than many engineering teams can verify it. Klarent is building for the bottleneck that appears after the code is written: proving that it actually works. The Zurich-based startup has raised $8 million in Seed funding, led by Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire Ventures and angel investors including former […]
Autentic AI Raises €1.5M to Compress Market Research From Weeks to Days
Traditional qualitative research has a scaling problem: companies want the “why” behind customer behavior, but interviewing enough people can take weeks and require large agency budgets. Barcelona-based Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Baobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures and Masia VC to attack that bottleneck with AI. The company plans […]