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…
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Breakout Ventures closes $114m Fund III to back AI-powered science startups
The San Francisco firm has closed its third fund at $114 million, its largest to date, betting that AI and biology are now inseparable, and that the founders who understand both will…
Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong
The Turing Award winner left Meta four months ago convinced that large language models are a dead end. Today he announced $1.03 billion in seed funding, Europe’s largest ever, to build something…
Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech
A €2.06 million EU grant gives the Grenoble deep-tech startup non-dilutive runway to industrialise a four-component technology platform, and moves it one step closer to its first commercial drilling campaign. Fourteen months…
BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany
The automaker has launched a pilot at its Leipzig plant using Hexagon Robotics’ AEON humanoid. The move follows a successful 11-month run in the US with Figure AI’s robots, and arrives just…
The Oberlo veterans taking on Europe’s restaurant supply chain raise €20M
Lithuanian food marketplace Saltz pulls in a €20M Series A backed by the EBRD, Inovo, Lifeline, and a roster of Baltic tech founders, to digitalise how restaurants across Europe source their ingredients….
Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents
The timing is not coincidental. In October 2025, Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new that let…
The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go…
Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy
A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical…
Nscale raises $2bn Series C at $14.6bn valuation
The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny….