Tech Fund 20.04.2026
Revolut targets 2028 IPO with $150B valuation in sight

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says an IPO is "at least two years away," giving the fintech time to secure its US bank charter and aim for a $150 billion valuation, likely on Nasdaq rather than in London....

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
A four-month-old AI lab just raised $500M from GV, Nvidia: report

Founded by researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI and Salesforce, AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has raised at least $500M from GV and Nvidia at a $4 billion valuation to build self-improving AI....

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
DeepSeek seeks outside funding for the first time at a $10B valuation: report

DeepSeek is raising at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, marking the Chinese AI lab's first external funding round since it was founded in 2023 on a self-funded, research-first model....

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
DeepSeek seeks outside funding for the first time at a $10B valuation

DeepSeek is raising at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, marking the Chinese AI lab's first external funding round since it was founded in 2023 on a self-funded, research-first model....

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
Cursor to raise $2B from Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital at a $50B

AI coding startup Cursor is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, as it hits a record-breaking $2 billion ARR...

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
Uber deepens Delivery Hero stake in €270M deal

Uber has bought another 4.5% of Berlin-based Delivery Hero from Prosus for €270 million, lifting its stake to about 7% as Europe’s food delivery market consolidates...

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
Cerebras files for IPO with $510M revenue and a $23B valuation

Cerebras has filed to go public on Nasdaq after 2025 revenue rose 76% to $510 million, highlighting rising demand for AI infrastructure beyond GPUs....

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
Startups turn to precision medicine to better fight cancer and dementia 

Most people remember the COVID-19, Swine Flu, and AIDS pandemics. Kinled, a family office founded in 1924, has a much longer perspective — one that Companies are betting on advances in technology to improve healthcare and move it from trial-and-error to precision....

Tech Fund 20.04.2026
German startup brainjo raises €2M from HTGF to build prescribable VR therapy for children with ADHD

German healthtech startup Brainjo has raised €2 million led by HTGF to develop a VR-based digital health app for children with ADHD, targeting DiGA approval and insurance reimbursement by 2028....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Exhibition stand design that works: What top brands do differently at trade shows

While they have been around for decades, trade shows are still a popular marketing channel, where brands can interact face-to-face with their audiences as...

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
ASML alum’s Euclyd eyes €100M raise to build AI chip systems: report

Dutch chip startup Euclyd, founded by former ASML director Bernardo Kastrup, is seeking at least €100 million to scale its AI inference system and win early customers....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
AI coding startup Factory raises $150M from Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital at $1.5B valuation

Factory AI has raised $150 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Khosla Ventures, to expand its Droids platform that automates software development from coding to deployment....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
UK’s £500m Sovereign AI Fund promises cash, compute, visas – but will it deliver?

Founders and investors are cautiously optimistic of the UK Government’s AI ambitions, they tell Tech Funding News on the launch of the £500m Sovereign AI Alex Kendall, the CEO of Wayve, said the Sovereign AI Fund would have made a “meaningful impact” on his company in its early days....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
InsightFinder raises $15M from Yu Galaxy to fix AI failures

InsightFinder is expanding its AI-powered IT reliability platform with new funding, adding autonomous incident response capabilities to compete with Datadog, Dynatrace, and Grafana Labs....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
STORM Therapeutics raises $56M from M Ventures, Pfizer Ventures to start Phase 2 trial for cancer drug

Cambridge spin-out STORM Therapeutics has closed a $56 million Series C and started Phase 2 trials of STC-15, the world's first METTL3 inhibitor to reach this stage, targeting rare sarcoma cancers....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
British Business Bank commits £100M to Apposite to close UK life sciences scale-up gap

British Business Bank has committed £100 million to Apposite Healthcare Growth I to support UK healthcare and life sciences scaleups and address the country’s late-stage funding gap....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
How Anthropic’s Mythos model prompts security concerns and quantum investment

Anthropic’s new AI model has been deemed too dangerous to release to the public, raising urgent questions about how quickly AI capabilities are outpacing The quantum industry is on the edge of an investment boom, fuelled by AI-led security risks, according to one investor....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Allbirds drops shoes, pivots to AI, soars over 600% in value to $148M: Report

Allbirds is exiting the shoe business and rebranding as NewBird AI, a GPU-as-a-service provider. Shares surged 582% on the announcement before falling sharply the next day....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
YC-backed Slash nabs $100M from Khosla Ventures for business banking platform

Fintech startup Slash Financial has reached a $1.4 billion valuation with a $100M Series C led by Ribbit Capital. Here is how it survived an 80% revenue drop to become a highly profitable vertical bank....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Tiger Global-backed Upscale AI eyes $200M raise at $2B valuation: report

Upscale AI has raised a $200 million Series A to scale its networking platform for AI data centres, aiming to reduce bottlenecks across GPUs, memory, storage and accelerators....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Sequoia Capital raises $7B expansion fund to back AI startups

Sequoia Capital has raised about $7 billion for a new expansion fund focused on mature companies in the US and Europe, giving the firm more firepower to back AI leaders such as OpenAI and Anthropic....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Urfuture secures £1.7M from River Capital to improve entry-level hiring using AI

Manchester startup urfuture raised £1.7M in seed funding to replace CV-based hiring with behavioural matching for Gen Z candidates and employers....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Startups removing fossil fuels from supply chains become way to hedge risk amid energy crisis

The energy crisis is strengthening the case for sustainable materials and fossil-free chemicals. Plastics, chemicals, and fertilisers rely on fossil Plastics, chemicals, and fertilisers rely on fossil fuel-derived products, forcing supply chains to turn to sustainable alternatives amid supply chain disruption....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
spektr bags $20M from NEA to replace manual KYC with AI agents for banks

Copenhagen-based spektr raised a $20M Series A led by NEA to automate manual KYC and KYB compliance work for financial institutions using AI agents....