Moonshot AI hits $20B after $2B raise, becoming China’s top-funded LLM startup — TFN
Moonshot AI has raised $2B in a round led by Long-Z Investments, the venture arm of Meituan, China’s dominant food…
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Ex-Nvidia architect’s AI coding startup Blitzy raises $200M led by Northzone at $1.4B valuation — TFN
Blitzy, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that uses AI to autonomously complete large-scale software development projects for major enterprises, has raised…
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund raises record $6B to back late-stage AI startups: report — TFN
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has raised $6 billion for a new fund focused on later-stage tech startups, marking the biggest…
SAP bets €1B on German AI startup Prior Labs, which raised only €9M pre-seed — TFN
SAP has agreed to acquire Prior Labs, a two-year-old German AI startup, committing more than €1 billion over four years…
Three structural forces that holding back VC’s next generation, and AI isn’t one of them — TFN
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Earlybird closes its largest fund yet at €360M to back AI, infrastructure, and deeptech startups — TFN
Earlybird VC has closed Fund VIII at €360 million, making it the largest fund in the Berlin-based firm’s nearly 30-year…
Cambridge healthtech startup auryx lands $2M led by Celero Ventures to turn earbuds into heart and lung monitors — TFN
auryx, a Cambridge-based healthtech startup founded by an all-female team of scientists, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to…
Nvidia and Atlassian back legal AI startup Legora’s $600M Series D at a $5.6B valuation — TFN
Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $600 million and valuing the company…
Tether leads $14M Series A in Argentine crypto fintech belo to scale stablecoins across LatAm — TFN
Latin American fintech belo has secured $14 million in Series A funding as it looks to scale its cross-border money…
What European crypto fintech needs in 2026: Not another exchange, but a clear, regulated UX for the mass market — TFN
Europe does not need another crypto exchange with more buttons, more charts, and more noise. It needs products that feel…
China blocks Meta’s $2B acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus: report — TFN
China has stopped Meta from buying Manus, an agentic AI startup, for $2 billion and told both sides to cancel…
Meet Crescendo, the latest Silicon Valley AI startup making the UK its next big bet — TFN
General Catalyst-backed Crescendo, an AI-native customer experience platform, has officially launched in the UK. It marks the San Francisco-based company’s European…
Coding startup Cognition AI eyes $25B valuation after Windsurf acquisition: report — TFN
Cognition AI is in early discussions to raise funding at a valuation of around $25 billion, which is more than…
OpenAI in talks to fund DeployCo with $1.5B to make AI easier for companies to use: report — TFN
OpenAI is close to forming a $10 billion joint venture with several private equity firms, FT reports. This new venture,…
London’s talent lures OpenAI to the UK. But energy costs keep sovereign AI at bay — TFN
OpenAI is giving the UK mixed signals. Ink had barely dried on its pause during Stargate UK’s data centre project with Nvidia…
Project A backs Linexa with €2M to make production lines AI-ready — TFN
Linexa secured a €2 million pre-seed round led by Project A, with angel investments from Thomas Böck, Bastian Nominacher, and…
Ex-Stripe execs scoop €7.5M to automate the financial back office for early-stage startups — TFN
Seapoint has raised €7.5 million in seed funding, led by London-based fintech VC 13books. More than 40 angel investors joined,…
BlackRock and JPMorgan back Bezos’ AI lab in a $10B raise at $38B valuation: report — TFN
Jeff Bezos is close to finishing a $10 billion funding round for his AI lab, Project Prometheus, which would value…