PaperShell secures €40.3M EU grant to build its first full-scale factory
Keith raises £2M to become the UK’s most automated law firm
Ysios Capital launches €100M fund to build biotech companies from Spanish science
tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant
Lucyd captures 44% Amazon market share in smart safety glasses category, positions for major retail expansion in 2026
Meta grants executives up to $921 million in stock options on the same day it lays off 700 workers
SoftBank secures $40B bridge loan to fund its OpenAI bet
ActiveCampaign’s free trial lets you test AI-powered marketing automation before you commit
OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation
Laigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs
OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt
Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists
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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
Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global
Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders
360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime
Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise
Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication
Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues
