Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system
Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system

Happl, the London- and New York-based provider of an AI-native employee-benefits platform for multinational employers, has raised $11m in a Series A round. The round was led by Portage Ventures, with participation from F Capital and continued backing f…

Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build
Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build

Mizuho, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have the mandate. Pricing is expected this month. The trade follows Alphabet’s record CHF, sterling and euro issuances in February and last week’s $17bn euro-Canadian-dollar combination, all targeted at the $…

Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn
Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn

The geothermal developer increased its share count by 26% and its top-of-range price by about 8% in an SEC filing on Monday. The revision points to the demand for clean baseload power that AI data-centre buyers have been ready to pay for. Fervo Energy …

Dutch eyeo raises €40m to commercialise NCOS color-splitting image sensors
Dutch eyeo raises €40m to commercialise NCOS color-splitting image sensors

Innovation Industries leads the Series A. imec.xpand, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, QBIC, HTGF, and BOM return. Total funding now stands at €55m. The money funds in-house chip design and a push toward volume sensors built on the company’s NCOS color-splitt…

Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline
Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline

Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert Gür are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely’s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC’s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Yazı…

Quantum Motion lands $160m in EU’s first major late-stage commitment

The London company building silicon-CMOS spin qubits has been one of the cleaner technical credentials in European quantum hardware. The choice of investee for the EU’s first major late-stage venture commitment, announced post-Brexit, is itself the new…

Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories
Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories

Meituan Dragon Ball is leading a $2bn round in the Beijing-based maker of the Kimi chatbot, with China Mobile and CITIC Private Equity Funds participating. The valuation is roughly seven times the figure Moonshot carried sixteen months ago. Moonshot AI…

Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round
Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round

The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, where the company says quoting and risk modelling can …

Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations
Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations

The Voi co-founder, Adam Jafer, is the chief executive. Lakestar joined a16z on the round, with strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Early customers, including Voi, Tre, Stena Recycling, and Kry, are reporting deployment …

OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents
OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents

IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup’s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company’s Infrahub platform is in production at TikTok and at one European cloud provider that says it has cut deployment times …