Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands
Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands

In short: Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and Ghost Robotics. The deal extends Accenture’s physica…

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in Wayve, completing the silicon side of its autonomous driving stack
AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in Wayve, completing the silicon side of its autonomous driving stack

The extension to Wayve’s $1.2B Series D gives the London startup coverage across virtually every compute architecture in automotive use today, from chips already in millions of vehicles to the platforms powering the next generation. Robotaxi pilots wit…

FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation
FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation

Jane Street and Situational Awareness are in discussions to co-lead the round, Bloomberg reports. The Oxford-founded neocloud, which relocated from the UK to the US after landing a $50 billion data centre partnership with Anthropic, has grown its reven…

Hexagon acquires Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion
Hexagon acquires Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion

Waygate generates approximately $630 million in annual revenue with around 1,500 employees across 25 locations. The deal gives Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division computed tomography, radiography, and remote visual inspection technology with …

The Wallenberg family rescues Europe’s flagship green steel project with a €1.4 billion financing round
The Wallenberg family rescues Europe’s flagship green steel project with a €1.4 billion financing round

Stegra,  formerly H2 Green Steel,  has agreed in principle on new financing led by a Wallenberg Investments consortium including Temasek and IMAS. Construction at its Boden plant had slowed during months of fundraising. The Wallenbergs will become the …

OpenAI acquires Hiro, an AI personal finance startup
OpenAI acquires Hiro, an AI personal finance startup

Hiro is shutting down on 20 April and deleting all user data by 13 May. Founder Ethan Bloch previously sold Digit to Oportun for more than $200M. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OpenAI, the San Francisco AI lab behind ChatGPT, has acquired Hiro F…

Kelluu raises €15M to build a persistent aerial intelligence layer for Europe
Kelluu raises €15M to build a persistent aerial intelligence layer for Europe

The Finnish deep tech company, which operates the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has closed a Series A led by the NATO Innovation Fund, the Fund’s first investment in a Finnish company. Its airships can cover 30,000 square kilometres from a …

Nesto raises €11m from Expedition to scale AI workforce management for restaurant groups
Nesto raises €11m from Expedition to scale AI workforce management for restaurant groups

In short: Nesto Software GmbH, a Karlsruhe-based workforce management platform for restaurant groups, has raised €11 million in growth equity from Expedition Growth Capital, a London and Boston-based fund that targets bootstrapped European software bus…

UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M
UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M

When Eka Ventures held the final close of its first fund at £68 million in 2021, the London-based firm staked a claim that few UK VCs were willing to make at the time: that impact investing and venture-scale returns were not a trade-off but a thesis. F…

SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO
SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 2026, at a valuation of $3.65 billion. The round was led…