Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mytho…

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.
Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuati…

Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels
Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels

The Bristol-and-Lisbon climate-tech firm is scaling MykoFoam, a carbon-negative mycelium insulation panel grown from industrial residues at its Portuguese pilot plant. Mykor, the Bristol-headquartered climate-tech firm growing carbon-negative building …

This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.
This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.

Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a four-armed robot designed to work inside space stations. In microgravity, legs are useless. Helios replaces them with two extra arms that serve as both mobility aids and working hands. The …

Berlin’s Peec AI more than doubled revenue to $10M ARR in six months. Its product helps brands show up in ChatGPT.
Berlin’s Peec AI more than doubled revenue to $10M ARR in six months. Its product helps brands show up in ChatGPT.

Peec AI, a Berlin-based startup that helps brands track and improve their visibility in AI-generated search results, has crossed $10 million in annualised revenue, according to internal dashboard data seen and verified by TechCrunch. The milestone come…

The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from genetically engineered trees
The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from genetically engineered trees

Octopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a San Francisco biotech company that plants trees on degraded land to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The deal, announced on 30 April, will fund reforestation projects ac…

Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage
Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage

The Spanish solar developer is betting that co-locating renewable generation with battery storage adjacent to data centres is the answer to AI’s power hunger, and investors are oversubscribed at 6.7x. Europe has a data centre problem. Electricity grids…

How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets
How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets

Arpit Agrawal’s career has been shaped by a single, consistent focus: expanding access. For more than a decade, he has worked at the intersection of global brands and emerging markets, building distribution and retail ecosystems that connect products w…

NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway
NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway

Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company. His 46.4 million multiple-voting shares were worth approximately $1.5 billion…

AppDirect buys PartnerStack to complete its ‘everything store’ for B2B software distribution
AppDirect buys PartnerStack to complete its ‘everything store’ for B2B software distribution

In short: AppDirect has acquired Toronto-based PartnerStack, the partner relationship management platform with 138,000+ B2B partners and ~50% market share in the PRM category. Terms were not disclosed. The deal is AppDirect’s sixth acquisition in 12 mo…