Plume raises €3.3M to cut years from renewable energy development timelines

Plume, a Franco-American startup specialising in geospatial AI for renewable energies, has raised a €3.3M funding round led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture,…

The missing layer in Europe’s AI strategy: data ownership

As France and Germany push digital sovereignty up the policy agenda, a more practical question is emerging: who actually owns the data driving Europe’s AI systems? As models become increasingly com…

Climatetech platform Zevero raises $7M amid growing global demand for carbon data

Zevero,a carbon management platform, has secured $7 million in newfunding, bringing its total capital raised to $14 million. The round includesparticipation from Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital, and D…

Tower secures €5.5M to support data engineers in the AI era

Berlin-basedTower has raised €5.5 million across pre-seed and seed funding rounds todevelop its approach to data engineering in the AI era. DIG Ventures led thepre-seed round, while Speedinvest led th…

Watson grows up: IBM’s AI platform strategy comes of age

There was a time when Watson felt like a quiz show champion in search of a business model. When IBM’s AI first dazzled the world on Jeopardy! back in 2011, it became shorthand for machine intelligence…

The tech gender gap in the UK will not be equal until 2060

The UK loves to congratulate itself on innovation. We have world-class universities, globally admired research and a spinout ecosystem that, compared to many other countries, does a respectable job of…

Levellr raises $2.5M to turn discord and gaming user voice data into brand intelligence

Levellr, the AI insights platform helping brands and game studios understand and monitor Discord, next-generation communities, and user voice data, has secured $2.5 million in a round led by Fuel Vent…

Dataroid raises $6.6M to scale its analytics platform worldwide

Istanbul-basedDataroid has closed a $6.6 million pre-Series A funding round led by the FinAI Venture Capital Fund of Tacirler Asset Management, with participation from theTacirler Asset Management Fut…