Upvest raises $125M at €640M valuation as European retail investing accelerates
Upvest raises $125M at €640M valuation as European retail investing accelerates

The Berlin startup, now valued at €640M, counts Revolut, N26 and Santander’s Openbank among its clients after processing more than 100 million investment orders last year. Twelve months after its last fundraise, Upvest has done it again, and at a price…

Steward raises $5M to automate AML compliance for the $100B investment management market
Steward raises $5M to automate AML compliance for the $100B investment management market

Compliance is the part of financial services that nobody likes to talk about, and nobody can afford to get wrong. For investment managers, the obligation to know your client, verify their business, and monitor them continuously has historically meant a…

Blify secures $2.1M to bring AI-native training to Slack and Teams
Blify secures $2.1M to bring AI-native training to Slack and Teams

Corporate training has a staging problem. Companies spend billions on learning management systems that employees log into once, skip half the modules, and forget about until HR sends a reminder. Blify thinks the fix is simpler than a new platform: put …

Partech closes its first impact fund at €300M to back Europe’s next generation of industrial and climate tech scaleups
Partech closes its first impact fund at €300M to back Europe’s next generation of industrial and climate tech scaleups

The Paris-based VC is targeting 15 B2B companies with revenues above €10M in clean manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, green construction, and digital health, with carry tied to impact performance for the first time. Europe has no shortage of early…

Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships
Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships

The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailabl…

Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw
Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw

A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in rou…

Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw
Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw

A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in rou…

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer
Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Trainer,…

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer
Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Trainer,…

Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs
Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs

Announced at GTC 2026, the deal covers around 430,000 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs, is backed by a Caterpillar natural gas power deal, and is built on a site described as the US’s first state-certified AI microgrid, with an 8GW potential footprint. Nsca…