The Dublin and London-based fintech, founded by ex-Stripe and ex-Tide engineers, has processed over 100,000 transactions and 40,000 invoices across 80+ early customers. Its €7.5M seed round, led by 13books, brings total…
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SpaceX’s public IPO filing confirms Musk and insiders retain dominant voting control
The now-public S-1 prospectus shows Musk controls roughly 79% of SpaceX’s votes despite owning approximately 42% of its equity, a gap created by a dual-class share structure. The company is targeting a…
Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The…
John Ternus built Apple’s hardware for 24 years and now he has to figure out AI
Summary: John Ternus, Apple’s incoming CEO effective 1 September, is a 50-year-old mechanical engineer who reversed a period of declining product quality, personally lobbied for the creation of iPadOS, oversaw the Apple…
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…
DeepWay closes $310M in pre-IPO financing as it seeks to take Baidu-backed autonomous electric trucks global
The Hefei-based company, which has delivered 6,400 intelligent electric heavy-duty trucks in China and is targeting a Hong Kong stock market listing, has attracted an Australian superannuation fund among its latest investors,…
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…
Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation
Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has…
Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them
The AI company received the photos from OkCupid in 2014 without users’ knowledge, in a data transfer that breached OkCupid’s own privacy policy. The FTC’s late March settlement with OkCupid and Match…
Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return
The deal is Amazon’s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic’s annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement…