Tech Fund 02.06.2026
Why did Mistral's co-founders back a €6M funding round in AI simulation startup days after acquiring its competitor

Paris-based NP Company has raised €6M in pre-seed funding led by Partech, with backing from the co-founders of Mistral AI, Dataiku, and Artefact....

Tech Fund 02.06.2026
Exclusive: The maths teacher who bootstrapped an AI startup to £1.6M before taking a penny of VC just raised £2M to fix AI's broken data pipeline

Poindexter Labs has raised a £2 million seed round led by Episode 1. The London-based company aims to fix what it calls the “broken” data supply chain...

Tech Fund 02.06.2026
Phia's $35.5M round just got a lot more interesting – Sydney Sweeney, Paris Hilton and 30 A-listers revealed as investors

Phia, the AI shopping app TFN covered when it raised $35.5M in January, has now revealed the full angel cohort behind its oversubscribed Series A....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Ex-Monzo team's Gradient Labs doubles Series A to $26M as AI agents take over financial operations

Gradient Labs has expanded its Series A to $26 million – $13 million in new funding on top of its initial raise – with new investors....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Meta is building an AI Pendant and this time it has a working wearables business behind it

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant and plans to begin testing it within the next year, according to an internal memo....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Sam Altman's OpenAI just made robotics its next frontier and it's hiring to prove it

Sam Altman spent years making AI useful for people who sit at desks. Now he wants to make it useful for people who build things....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Former Meta CTO closes $250M fund to back deeptech founders making clean energy cheaper

Former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer has closed Gigascale Capital's first institutional fund at $250 million, backing more than 25 early-stage companies....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
The world's first fluid circuit board just raised $12 million. It rewires itself faster than your coffee gets cold

San Francisco-based Itera has emerged from stealth with a $12 million seed round and a prototype of what it claims is the world's first fluid circuit board....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
GV makes its first-ever French startup bet in MokN with $15M to stop identity theft before it happens

Paris-based MokN raises $15 million Series A led by GV, marking Google Ventures’ first investment in a French startup....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Balderton just put European tech on billboards in five cities. The real question is why a VC firm had to

Balderton Capital has launched ‘Built in Europe,’ a pan-European advertising campaign backed by 100+ founders including Revolut, Mistral AI, and Wayve....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Finland backs ICEYE with €28M R&D grant as the satellite maker races to one launch per week

Finland's Business Finland has approved a €28.3 million continuation grant for ICEYE's R&D programme....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
SoftBank commits up to €75B to build AI data centres in France, but only €45B is firm

SoftBank Group has committed up to €75 billion to build 5 GW of AI data centre capacity in France....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
Spain’s PLD Space invests €35M in Kourou launch complex as MIURA 5 targets late 2026 debut

PLD Space is committing €35 million to build its launch complex at Europe's only operational spaceport....

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
How Laura Modiano is making sure no founder is too far from OpenAI

OpenAI's new Founder Experience team promises to support founders from day one, but what does OpenAI stand to gain from getting there first?...

Tech Fund 01.06.2026
ASML alumni secure €20M seed led by Hitachi Ventures to use soft x-rays to spot semiconductor manufacturing errors 

Dutch semiconductor startup Invisix, founded by ASML alumni, has closed a €20 million seed round. The cash injection was led by Hitachi Ventures and will...

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
Bayshore raises $8M to train AI agents on law in Earlybird-led round that took just two weeks

Legal tech startup Bayshore has emerged from stealth with an $8 million seed round. The round is led by Earlybird Venture Capital and took roughly two...

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
German defence unicorn Stark seeks €300M raise as Peter Thiel doubles down on Europe's drone arms race

Germany’s Stark is reportedly seeking at least €300 million in fresh funding at a valuation of around €2.5 billion....

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
Female-founded Atheni, backed by Zoopla's founder, lands £350K to help businesses actually use AI

Female-founded Atheni raises £350K backed by angel investors including Alex Chesterman OBE and support from Innovate UK....

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
YC unicorn Corgi doubles valuation to $2.6B in three weeks with $106M raise to modernise commercial insurance

Corgi raises $106M Series B1 led by TCV, doubling its valuation to $2.6B just three weeks after becoming a unicorn....

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
AI's $800B problem: why the GPU race is leaving startups behind

The AI compute race is tightening. io.net CEO Gaurav Sharma explains why expensive GPU infrastructure is leaving early-stage AI startups behind....

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
Native Teams CMO on the future of global hiring and why getting it wrong costs €500,000

Hiring across borders? One mistake in global hiring can cost you €500,000. Here's what an employer of record actually does....

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI for the first time

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H round led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, valuing it at $965 billion, making it the most...

Tech Fund 29.05.2026
Samsung has a ring. Apple is rumoured to have one. Finland's Oura just filed for IPO and made its smart ring 40% smaller

Finnish healthtech Oura has launched Ring 5, the world's smallest smart ring, 40% smaller than its predecessor backed by $1.5B+ in total funding and a...

Tech Fund 28.05.2026
Ex-a16z partner Michele Griffin joins Lightning Capital to spearhead $100M ‘AI ripple effects’ fund with hands-on approach 

Former Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, partner Michele Griffin has joined Lightning Capital. She will spearhead a new $100 million ‘AI ripple effects’ fund,...