Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise
Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise

Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch re…

Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data
Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data

The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised £7m (€8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Fundi…

Finland’s CurifyLabs raises $14M to 3D-print personalised medicine in the US
Finland’s CurifyLabs raises $14M to 3D-print personalised medicine in the US

Your prescription, printed to order. A Finnish startup wants to turn the back room of your pharmacy into a tiny, automated drug factory, and it just raised $14m to do it in America. CurifyLabs has closed a $14m (€12m) Series A, the company announced. T…

Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data
Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported. The Spanish company …

Thought Machine crosses $100M revenue and delays its London IPO to 2028
Thought Machine crosses $100M revenue and delays its London IPO to 2028

Most tech founders chase a bigger valuation. Thought Machine’s boss would rather talk about revenue, and he has just crossed a milestone worth boasting about. The London core-banking company has passed $100m in annual revenue for the first time, tech.e…

Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers
Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers

Unimicron Technology is looking to raise as much as $1.4bn from a sale of global depositary shares, joining the long line of companies cashing in on investors’ appetite for anything tied to artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese firm is selling 50 mill…

The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun
The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun

The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wedn…

Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank eyes an $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple
Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank eyes an $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple

A bank that barely existed a year ago is now chasing a valuation most European lenders can only dream of. Erebor was founded by Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel. It is in talks to raise at a valuation of at least $8bn, and its deposits…

IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange
IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange

Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a Finnish maker of quantum machines, started trading on Nasdaq this week. The debut was equal parts landmark and reality ch…

Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation
Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation

Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited people familiar with the matter.  Crusoe did not respond to a request for co…