Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence
Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stacks, deploying pre-trained AI agents into air-gapped and compliance-restricted environments. One of its co-founders is Nick Pompeo, son of former US Secr…

French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

Founded in 2022 and formerly called Constellation Technologies & Operations, Univity is targeting a constellation of at least 1,600 satellites in very low Earth orbit, using telecom operators’ own 5G mmWave spectrum rather than competing with them….

NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training
NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training

The Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they oper…

Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock
Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather t…

OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution
OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution

The Dutch startup, the only company offering a dedicated commercial solution for quantum chip testing, raised a €3M extension to its June 2025 seed round from the European Innovation Council Fund. The accompanying MAX Partnership Programme gives quantu…

VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide
VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide

The Osnabrück startup’s camera-based self-checkout, which identifies food and drinks without barcodes in under 10 seconds, is already running at 43 points of sale inside the Orlando Magic’s NBA arena and across about a third of German university campus…

Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office
Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office

The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they work. It has reached multiple millions in revenue i…

AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology
AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology

AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS™), has completed its €15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in …

Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-energy files for an IPO that could raise up to $814M
Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-energy files for an IPO that could raise up to $814M

X-energy is targeting a share price of $16–$19, which at the high end values the IPO at around $814M. Amazon led a $500M round and has committed to buying up to 5GW of nuclear power from the company by 2039.  X-energy, an Amazon-backed nuclear reactor …

The Axie Infinity co-founder who survived a $620M North Korean hack is now building AI drone detection for Europe’s defence
The Axie Infinity co-founder who survived a $620M North Korean hack is now building AI drone detection for Europe’s defence

Stendr, a Norwegian counter-drone startup led by Aleksander Leonard Larsen, who co-founded blockchain gaming unicorn Sky Mavis, has raised a $5.4M oversubscribed pre-seed from RainFall, ACME, SkyFall, and a consortium of European defence and tech inves…