Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries
Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries

The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major ente…

Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts
Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a los…

NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

  NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partn…

Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech
Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, de…

EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes
EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Par…

Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M
Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the target was €120 million. The final figure has come in hi…

AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027
AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027

The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based startup buildin…

Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent
Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent

At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its identity on a single claim: AI is the computer now. Two …

Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook
Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook

The company removed 159 million scam ads last year and took down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks. Now it wants to catch scammers before they get to you. Meta has announced a fresh wave of anti-scam tools across its platforms, WhatsApp…

Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents
Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents

Founded just months ago by two repeat Y Combinator founders and a retail veteran, Lemrock is betting that AI agents are becoming the new storefront,  and that brands are nowhere near ready for it. When you ask ChatGPT or Perplexity which running shoes …