Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion
Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. What i…

Copenhagen’s Atech raises pre-seed from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable to build ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware
Copenhagen’s Atech raises pre-seed from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable to build ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware

The round amount is undisclosed. Backers include Nordic Makers, Emblem, the Lovable company itself, the Sequoia Scout Fund, and the Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund. Lovable CEO Anton Osika personally endorsed the team. Atech lets users describe a hardwa…

Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence
Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stacks, deploying pre-trained AI agents into air-gapped and compliance-restricted environments. One of its co-founders is Nick Pompeo, son of former US Secr…

French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

Founded in 2022 and formerly called Constellation Technologies & Operations, Univity is targeting a constellation of at least 1,600 satellites in very low Earth orbit, using telecom operators’ own 5G mmWave spectrum rather than competing with them….

NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training
NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training

The Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they oper…

Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock
Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather t…

OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution
OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution

The Dutch startup, the only company offering a dedicated commercial solution for quantum chip testing, raised a €3M extension to its June 2025 seed round from the European Innovation Council Fund. The accompanying MAX Partnership Programme gives quantu…

VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide
VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide

The Osnabrück startup’s camera-based self-checkout, which identifies food and drinks without barcodes in under 10 seconds, is already running at 43 points of sale inside the Orlando Magic’s NBA arena and across about a third of German university campus…

Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office
Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office

The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they work. It has reached multiple millions in revenue i…

AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology
AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology

AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS™), has completed its €15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in …