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iPronics raises $125M Series B to rewire AI data centres with light
Maverick Silicon and Light Street just led a $125M Series B into Valencia's iPronics, with Nvidia joining - betting optical switching becomes the backbone of AI data centres.
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INLEAP Photonics raises €20M seed to scale laser drone defence
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Arkadia Space Secures €14.5M EIC Backing for Green Propulsion Tech
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Theia Insights Raises $8M Series A to Map the Global Economy with AI
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Ivee Raises $1M Seed Round to Scale AI Upskilling Platform
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Vertical Compute Raises €37M to Tackle AI’s Memory Bottleneck
The race to build the infrastructure underpinning artificial intelligence has moved well beyond software and into the physical layer of computing itself. As AI models grow exponentially in size and…
Qevlar AI Raises €25.8M Series A to Put Agentic Intelligence at the Heart of Security Operations
Security operations centres are in crisis. Analysts at large enterprises and managed security providers routinely face hundreds of alerts per day, with the majority requiring manual investigation before a verdict…
Germany’s AIRMO Raises €5M Seed Round to Scale Methane Emissions Monitoring from Space
The race to monitor methane emissions from space is gaining serious momentum. As the European Union moves to enforce binding methane reduction obligations on the energy sector — with the…
OutPost Bio Raises €2.9M Pre-Seed to Make Human Microbiology Computable
The human microbiome — the vast community of microorganisms colonising the gut, skin, and other organs — has long been recognised as a critical but poorly understood variable in human…
Reson8 Raises €5M Pre-Seed to Build Europe’s First Customisable Speech AI Infrastructure
Europe’s artificial intelligence ecosystem has long struggled with a persistent blind spot: while English-language speech recognition has reached near-human accuracy, the continent’s rich linguistic diversity has been poorly served by…