Venture Capital
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 […]
HumanX Amsterdam 2026 Impact Report Reveals 3,017 Attendees and 1,500+ Meetings
The inaugural European edition brought AI leaders from 69 countries together, with 67% holding director-level positions or above. HumanX Amsterdam 2026 brought together 3,017 attendees from 69 countries and recorded more than 1,500 confirmed meetings, according to the conference’s newly released impact report. The three-day event, held September 22-24 at RAI Amsterdam, connected AI technology […]
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 […]
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 […]
DTU-born PSV Tech closes Fund II, writing the next chapter in their 25 years historyof pre-seed investing
COPENHAGEN, 06. october 2026 – Twenty-five years ago, an investment organisation took shape in the halls of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with a simple idea: more of the technology and talent coming out of Denmark needed someone willing to back it early. A quarter of a century and close to 500 early-stage investments later, […]
British Business Bank backs Fuel Ventures the multi-fund VC built by entrepreneurs
The British Business Bank today announces a commitment of £10 million to the Fuel Ventures funds, made through the Bank’s Regional Angels Programme. A Programme launched in 2019 to address imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance, targeting angel networks and other early-stage investors to help enhance access to capital for businesses across diverse sectors. […]
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 […]
Exclusive: DIG Ventures Closes $120M Fund III for European AI Infrastructure
When Ross Mason started MuleSoft in 2006, Europe was a very different place to build an enterprise infrastructure company. Early-stage capital for deeply technical software was limited, and Mason ultimately moved to Silicon Valley to build the business. MuleSoft went public and was later acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion. Two decades later, Mason is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Project Ventures Wants to Turn Imperial’s Alumni Network Into Deeptech Investment Infrastructure
The London-based firm, Project Ventures has launched a £5 million debut fund for pre-seed and seed companies emerging from or connected to the Imperial College London ecosystem. Initial investments will typically range from £100,000 to £300,000, with Project Ventures targeting startups where AI converges with science and engineering across areas including robotics, healthcare, climate, energy […]