Transport data specialist Alchera raises £2.7M

A Cambridge-founded startup that leverages AI to help cities manage roads and public transport more efficiently has raised £2.7m in seed funding, it said today.Alchera Technologies has raised the fund…

Spanish Autentic AI raises €1.5M to accelerate AI-powered market research

Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding from venture capital firmsBaobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures andMasia VC.Foundedby Dani Diestre, Aniol Carreras and Jacob Bamio, A…

Hiasynth raises angel funding to build a queryable synthetic model of Europe’s population

AI startup Hiasynth has raised an angel funding round led by Further Than Capital. The company has built a synthetic model of Europe’s population at 1:1 scale, designed to be queried by AI. With it, a…

July funding: European startups secure €8.6B as exit activity accelerates
July funding: European startups secure €8.6B as exit activity accelerates

European tech funding in July reflected a market where capital remained resilient despite a slowdown in deal activity.A total of 267 funding deals were announced, down from 293 in June, representing a…

StirlingX secures $20M Series A to expand sovereign intelligence platform

British data intelligence company StirlingX has raised a $20 million Series A round from Ventura Capital and RCM Private Markets Master Fund managed by Rokos Capital Management US (LP). The funding co…

Plume raises €3.3M to cut years from renewable energy development timelines

Plume, a Franco-American startup specialising in geospatial AI for renewable energies, has raised a €3.3M funding round led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture,…

The missing layer in Europe’s AI strategy: data ownership

As France and Germany push digital sovereignty up the policy agenda, a more practical question is emerging: who actually owns the data driving Europe’s AI systems? As models become increasingly com…

Climatetech platform Zevero raises $7M amid growing global demand for carbon data

Zevero,a carbon management platform, has secured $7 million in newfunding, bringing its total capital raised to $14 million. The round includesparticipation from Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital, and D…

Tower secures €5.5M to support data engineers in the AI era

Berlin-basedTower has raised €5.5 million across pre-seed and seed funding rounds todevelop its approach to data engineering in the AI era. DIG Ventures led thepre-seed round, while Speedinvest led th…

Watson grows up: IBM’s AI platform strategy comes of age

There was a time when Watson felt like a quiz show champion in search of a business model. When IBM’s AI first dazzled the world on Jeopardy! back in 2011, it became shorthand for machine intelligence…