Uber is acquiring Blacklane, the Berlin chauffeur platform backed by Sixt and Mercedes-Benz
UK fines Apple subsidiary for paying a sanctioned Russian streaming service through the App Store
Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
Mainland Chinese tech firms are flooding into Hong Kong as the West tightens the door
Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed
Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock
Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)
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Kandou AI raises $225 million to bet that copper can outlast the optical revolution
SoftBank secures $40B bridge loan to fund its OpenAI bet
OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation
Ysios Capital launches €100M fund to build biotech companies from Spanish science
Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists
Shield AI raises $2 billion to scale its autonomous combat pilot Hivemind
London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication
