French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation
French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation

A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-bas…

Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II
Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II

Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into water technology innovation. Water scarcity is not a future problem. It is a present one, already cons…

Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers
Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers

Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened i…

Finperks raises $4M to become the API layer for prepaid payments in Europe
Finperks raises $4M to become the API layer for prepaid payments in Europe

The Berlin startup, founded by the team behind viafintech, is building a single integration that lets banks, fintechs, and HR platforms offer gift cards, cashback, and tax-free employee benefits, without touching the underlying infrastructure themselve…

Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist
Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist

The AI company filed two federal lawsuits on Monday, arguing the Trump administration’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation is unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech. There is a phrase in Anthropic’s court filing that sets the tone for everythin…

Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’
Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’

Do you remember the name? Moltbook, the vibe-coded platform, famous for an unsecured database that let humans impersonate AI agents, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. Moltbook was, in many ways, a product of chaos. Its code was written almost ent…

Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features
Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features

A wave of Workspace updates puts Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, with a benchmark result Google is happy to shout about. The blinking cursor is Google’s enemy. Every time a Workspace user stares at an empty document, spreadsheet, or slid…

Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation
Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation

The Stockholm-born company has gone from zero to $5.55 billion in under two years, and it is not slowing down. There is a standard piece of mythology in the legal profession: that lawyers are resistant to technology, constitutionally sceptical of chang…

Anchr raises $5.8m to automate food distribution’s manual back office
Anchr raises $5.8m to automate food distribution’s manual back office

Anchr has raised a $5.8 million pre-seed round to automate the back office of America’s food distribution industry, a sector still running on phone calls, spreadsheets, and manual order entry. On any given morning, the operations team at a mid-size foo…

Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose
Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose

Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on the planet. IKEA is backing it. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a small beetle called Cy…