
Cognition AI has raised more than $1 billion in new funding at a $26 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth since a September round that valued the company at $10.2 billion. The round was co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with …

SPARQ, a UAE-based startup building what it calls an AI-native game engine, has opened an $8.5m seed round with early participation from the a16z Scout Fund, the vehicle Andreessen Horowitz uses to back early-stage deals through external scouts. The ch…

The Helsinki startup, founded by Aiven’s Hannu Valtonen and Nosto’s Juha Valvanne, is betting that AI-generated code will overwhelm existing build pipelines. Helsinki startup Avrea emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $4.7m in pre-seed funding led by E…

Paris-based Lucis, a preventive-health platform that pairs blood biomarker testing with an AI-driven companion app, has raised a $20m Series A led by Singular, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator and angel investors including Céline …

The Tampere startup wants to rebuild physics simulation as the data engine for AI-driven hardware design. Tampere-based Quanscient has closed a €10 million Series A to scale its cloud-based multiphysics simulation platform, in a round led by Danish qua…

The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a …

Tyrol-based REPS has plugged its first “road power plant” into the Port of Hamburg. The next test is whether the economics survive contact with anywhere else. Tyrol-based REPS has raised $23.6m to scale a technology with an unusually literal premise: i…

The Paris and New York-based start-up, founded in 2023, will use the new capital to deepen ERP integrations and push its agentic procurement platform into more enterprise environments. DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix are already on the customer list; $3bn …

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more…