Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame

Revolut’s co-founder and first employee steps down as CTO ahead of the company’s march toward a $200 billion IPO

Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do

Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building

France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip

RogueDB introduces a simplified database platform designed to reduce infrastructure work for startups and IT teams

Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B for AI-designed data-centre hardware

France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure

Cognition just raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, and 90% of its own code is written by its AI

Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon

SPARQ opens $8.5M seed round for AI-native game engine, with a16z’s scout fund on the cap table

Avrea raises $4.7M to fix CI/CD before AI coding breaks it

Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed

Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI

Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system

Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD

AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most

All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software

True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense

Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices

Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training

Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cabless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution

VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide

Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office