Tech Fund 14.05.2026
European LPs are negotiating follow-on investment rights with VCs to double-down on winning startups

As the European startup ecosystem matures, its limited partners, known as LPs, are looking for a bigger stake in winning companies. Co-investment rights Lightrock has facilitated LP co-investment in a number of its European and international portfolio companies, green hydrogen company Sunfire....

Tech Fund 14.05.2026
Kleiner Perkins backs Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s Mind Robotics with $400M to bring AI robots into factories

Mind Robotics has raised $400 million in a new funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with support from several new and existing investors. Founded in 2025...

Tech Fund 14.05.2026
Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Bpifrance invest €31M in French startup Mantle8 to find hydrogen underground

French Mantle8 has secured €31M in Series A funding to scale its natural hydrogen exploration technology and drilling operations....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
British AI chipmaker Fractile secures $220M to challenge Nvidia, gets funding from Accel and Founders Fund

Fractile has raised $220 million in a funding round led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
UK AI startup Recursive hits $4.65B valuation with $650M raise from Nvidia and GV

Recursive Superintelligence has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation in a funding round led by GV and Greycroft....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
IPO: OpenAI-backed Cerebras seeks $4.8B in Nasdaq listing

Cerebras has lifted its IPO price range to $150–$160 per share, up from $115–$125, targeting up to $4.8B in proceeds on Nasdaq. The AI chipmaker reported...

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
BlackRock, Apollo back Circle’s $222M round to bring blockchain to banks, raising its valuation to $3B

Circle has raised $222M from BlackRock, Apollo and other investors at a $3B valuation to expand blockchain infrastructure for banks and deepen institutional adoption....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
Wise, notching $2.5B in annual revenue, goes public in the US while UK fintech resurges 

Wise has made its NASDAQ debut, shifting its primary listing from London to New York, reports Reuters.  Its main public-market home will now be the US,...

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
National Wealth Fund invests £25M in Rowden to deploy technology for national security and resilience

The UK government is doubling down on homegrown defence technology with a £25 million investment in Rowden....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs closes $2.1B from Thrive Capital, GV, Alphabet for AI drug discovery

Isomorphic Labs has secured $2.1 billion in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, with backing from Alphabet, GV, MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
One Peak leads $120M in crypto compliance startup Elliptic, with Deutsche Bank and Nasdaq joining

Elliptic has raised $120M in a Series D led by One Peak, with Deutsche Bank and Nasdaq joining as institutions double down on digital asset compliance infrastructure....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
Menlo Ventures to back Wispr AI in $260M raise for voice-to-text platform used by Nvidia and Amazon

Wispr AI is in talks to raise around $260 million led by Menlo Ventures. The deal could more than double Wispr’s valuation to nearly $2 billion, up from...

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
Anduril’s valuation soars to $61B in $5B round from Thrive Capital and a16z amid defence boom

Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion in a new funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, doubling its valuation to $61 billion....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
Anthropic eyes $30B round at $900B valuation just months after closing record Series G

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $30B at a valuation above $900B, less than three months after its last mega-round, as enterprise AI demand surges....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
SAP backs n8n at $5.2B valuation to automate complex, data-heavy enterprise workflows with AI

Workflow automation startup n8n has secured a strategic investment from SAP, taking its valuation to $5.2 billion....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
⁠AirBnb and Ramp investor A-Star raises $450M as it looks to replicate previous success

Early-stage venture capital firm A-Star closed $450 million for its third fund, doubling down on selective startups....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
Scoop: LemFi set to raise €30M Series B extension

LemFi, a fintech app built for immigrants and global citizens, is reportedly raising a €30M Series B extension as it crosses $1B in monthly transactions....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
BioInnovation Institute just got €7M to fix Denmark's AI commercialisation gap. Here's how it plans to spend it

Denmark has launched AI Lab run by the BioInnovation Institute with DKK 60M in backing to help AI startups commercialise faster through non-dilutive funding, proprietary data, compute access and customer networks....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
SoftBank hands Graphcore $450M as the chipmaker, once considered a British Nvidia rival, rebuilds its business

SoftBank has injected more than $450 million into British chipmaker Graphcore....

Tech Fund 13.05.2026
An electrician shortage is hindering Europe’s energy security. Gyver lands €1.4M to fix that

Brescia-based startup Gyver has raised a €1.4M pre-seed led by Brighteye to build an AI-powered hiring and productivity platform for skilled electricians....

Tech Fund 12.05.2026
S2G Investments closes $1B fund to back the companies fixing food, energy and oceans

Chicago-based S2G Investments has closed a $1B growth-stage fund to plug the financing gap for scaling companies across the food, energy, and ocean sectors....

Tech Fund 12.05.2026
8 best global HR software providers to manage international workforces in 2026

It’s 2026 and the HR manager of a modern global company has to ensure multiple operations, and a workforce spread out all over the world, all coalesce...

Tech Fund 12.05.2026
French startup White Circle secures $11M from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind leaders to monitor and secure enterprise AI

White Circle has raised $11M in seed funding from operators and investors across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, Mistral, Datadog, and Sentry....

Tech Fund 12.05.2026
Former Meta and Salesforce leaders raise $20M from Accel and a16z for AI workflow startup

Ciridae has raised $20M in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and Backcountry Ventures....