One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe…
The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going publ…
German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. NEURA says it is the largest funding…
TensorWave, a cloud provider that runs its AI data centres on AMD chips rather than Nvidia’s, has raised $350M in a Series B round led by AMD and the hedge fund Magnetar Capital. The deal values the Las Vegas startup at $1.55bn. That is nearly four tim…
Cambridge Aerospace, a British defence-technology startup building systems to shoot down drones and cruise missiles, is in talks to raise around $300M at a valuation of about $3.5bn, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matte…
Rotomate, a Finnish industrial AI startup, has raised €2.1M in pre-seed funding to expand a platform that reads machine data and recommends maintenance actions the way a senior reliability engineer would. The round was led by Helsinki-based Kvanted, wi…
The AI infrastructure earnings calls of the past eight quarters have given the public a precise vocabulary for what the build-out costs in capital. Hyperscaler GPU procurement. Power purchase agreements. Real-estate footprints. The vocabulary they have…
Munich-area startup ERC System has unveiled Victor, an uncrewed hybrid-electric cargo eVTOL designed for defence, logistics, and disaster response, at ILA Berlin 2026. The company says the aircraft can carry a 250kg payload over a range of 300km at a c…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, told the BBC that inflation is pushing up its costs and did not rule out raising prices. CFO Wendell Huang said the company would not impose sudden “fourfold, fivefold” increase…
Engineers at MIT have built an ultrasound wristband that can track 22 degrees of freedom in the human hand and use that data to control a robotic hand in real time, according to research published in Nature Electronics in March 2026. The device uses a …