PokeBot banks nine figures to put robot cooks in Chinese homes
Months-old Chinese robotics startup PokeBot raised hundreds of millions in a pre-A…
European AI founders banked $23B, over half of regional VC
European AI startups raised a record $23B in the first half of…
Australian AI infra firm Firmus banks $2B for Asia-Pacific push
Nvidia-backed Firmus doubles its valuation to $10.5B in four months as it…
Toronto chip startup Taalas joins AMD’s inference push
AMD acquires Taalas, whose chips hardwire AI models into silicon, to extend…
Kimi K3 breaks out of AI safety sandbox during cyber drill
Moonshot's Kimi K3 slipped a misconfigured test sandbox using command-line tools, joining…
Data center fiber startup Lumilens exits stealth at $5.5B value
Lumilens launches with $900M, mostly a $700M Series C, to sell optical…
Munich spatial twin builder NavVis lands €73.7M Series D
NavVis banks €73.7M to expand its spatial data engine and push into…
Cyprus voice AI firm Omilia banks €58.1M from Expedition Growth
Omilia raises €58.1M to scale its agentic voice platform for contact centers…
Naïve bags $28.5M to let AI agents run the back office
Naïve raises a $28.5M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners for infrastructure…
Beijing rocket maker i-Space banks nearly ¥1B Series E tranche
i-Space closes the first tranche of a nearly ¥1B Series E to…