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Five UK startups pick up eight patents from corporate giants
A competition hands young British companies licences to telecom and automotive patents…
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Journify doubles down on ad signals with a $12M round
Journify raised a $12M Series A at four times its prior valuation…
Firmly raises $15M to wire merchant checkout into AI agents
Firmly raised a $15M Series A to give merchants one connection that…
Shield AI agrees to buy radar maker Echodyne for about $5.3B
Shield AI agreed to pay up to $5.3B for Kirkland radar maker…
Releaf turns city leaf litter into paper the mills already run
Releaf turns fallen leaves from French and German cities into paper fibres,…
Tekever opens a Nordic defence drone base in Odense as EIFO invests
Portugal's Tekever is standing up operations in Odense, with Denmark's EIFO joining…
Ant Group packs a million-token window into Ling-3.2-flash
Ant Group released Ling-3.2-flash, a native multimodal model with 560 billion parameters,…
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Sifted asks what Sequoia’s London exit says about European VC
Sequoia is closing its London office after six years, and the Sifted…
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Sand.ai clears a billion-dollar mark with $200M for video models
Sand.ai raised $200M in a Series A+ round that gave the Chinese video-generation startup unicorn status and lifted its 2026 total to $300M across three raises.
Fourthline and Veridas merge as Ashgrove writes a 40M euro cheque
Identity verification rivals Fourthline and Veridas are combining under a single AI architecture, backed by a 40M euro growth investment…
Zipline climbs to a $21.5B valuation with $1.5B in new capital
Zipline raised $1.5B from Paradigm, WCM Investment Management and Layer Global, lifting its valuation to $21.5B just as Walmart agreed…
Wonder submits IPO filing with a 9 billion valuation in hand
Wonder, Marc Lore's food technology company, has filed for an initial public offering after a July round of more than $650M valued it near $9B, with Accel, GV and ARK…
Harbinger turns to defense buyers for a $240M Series D
Harbinger added $240M in a Series D led by Tiger Global, Capricorn's technology impact fund and Ridgeline, taking the Los…
Vensum Power lands 9M euros for smarter electricity conversion
The Finnish deeptech firm wants software-defined converters to recover electricity lost between the grid and the GPU.
