Venture Capital
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 […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Infrastructure and the Physical Economy
The largest technology checks this week reveal a market expanding outward. AI models remain important, but investors increasingly funded what surrounds them: compute, software reliability, robotics, physical-world security, construction intelligence, specialized finance, healthcare operations and energy infrastructure. Rather than another list of sectors, this week’s funding can be read as six shifts in where technology […]
This Week in Funding: AI Capital Spreads Into Chips, Space, Defense and Industry
This week’s largest checks still belonged to AI, but the broader funding map was far more physical. Capital moved into inference chips, spacecraft, laser defense, industrial manufacturing, climate infrastructure, wealth technology and freight execution. The pattern is becoming clearer: investors are backing not only intelligence, but the systems required to deploy it. 🤖 AI & […]
SEED Capital Closes €130M Fund V as Its Danish Seed Model Goes Nordic
The Copenhagen venture firm, SEED Capital has closed €130 million to back 15-17 startups across the Nordics, with initial checks of €3 million to €6 million. Sweden becomes a strategic priority, while cybersecurity and resilience join FinTech and AI-driven B2B as core investment areas. That makes the important change less about how much capital SEED […]
Clay Raises $115M at $7.1B to Build Self-Learning Revenue Engine
Most sales software waits for a human to decide what should happen next. Clay is raising $115 million to see whether the software itself can become better at making that decision. The New York-based company has closed a Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation, led by Wellington Management, with backing from Sequoia, StepStone, a16z […]
Molten Ventures Reaches £175M First Close to Back Europe’s Next Stage of Growth
Molten Ventures has spent two decades helping European technology companies move from early promise to global scale. The firm traces its roots to 2006, when Esprit Capital was founded. It later became Draper Esprit, listed publicly in 2016 and rebranded as Molten Ventures in 2021. Across that evolution, the firm has built around a simple […]
AI Beyond the Model: The Funding Deals Shaping Tech This Week
AI funding did not belong to one layer of the stack this week. Large checks went into enterprise agents, inference infrastructure and AI governance, while capital simultaneously moved into batteries, medical imaging, defense lasers, space launch systems, quantum computing and renewable-energy finance. The pattern is becoming harder to ignore: investors are financing not only better […]
Permanent Capital Ventures Raises $200M to Scale Applied AI Companies
A startup can find product-market fit and still break on the way to becoming a company. The first customers may come through founder obsession, personal networks and a willingness to sit inside every deal. The next hundred customers require something less romantic: hiring, segmentation, forecasting, revenue operations and a sales process that still works when […]
a16z Raises $1.1B Machine Age Fund for AI Hardware and Infrastructure
For most of the software era, money could buy engineers, distribution and time. It could not instantly erase a two-year technical lead. AI infrastructure is beginning to change that equation. More compute, memory, networking and electricity can translate directly into more capability, which means physical capacity is becoming part of the competitive advantage again. Andreessen […]
Blackbird has raised A$1.05 billion and founder access remains the scarce asset
A few hours changed the way Samantha Wong thinks about venture capital. When Wong met Craig Piggott, the founder of Halter, he had already entered into a Series A term sheet with a US investor. Blackbird eventually invested in a later round and continued backing the company. But Wong still remembers that first miss for […]
Biggest Tech Funding Rounds This Week: AI, Defense and DeepTech
From billion-dollar defense rounds to AI infrastructure, healthcare, robotics and fintech, capital moved across the technology stack this week. 🤖 AI & AI Infrastructure Neuromorphic Labs raises $5.1M for verifiable trust infrastructure across production AI systems. OpenRouter joins Stripe, combining AI model routing with global payments infrastructure. Wispr raises $280M to turn voice into a […]