Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europe’s fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the busin…
Trust in social media is slowly eroding, even as global engagement continues to rise. Platforms have become deeply embedded in everyday life, yet the quality of interaction they facilitate is under increasing scrutiny. For Booker Loud, founder and CEO …
PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figu…
Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The un…
The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation a…
Lovable is worth $13.3bn and its revenue is tripling. The interesting name on the cheque is the European Union. Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and…
HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it …
VinSpace, a Vietnamese space startup that did not exist a year ago, has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its first home-built satellites into orbit in 2027. The company, a subsidiary of the sprawling Vingroup conglomerate, will hitch a ride on one…
Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since…
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…