15+ hour, 8+ min ago  (632+ words) Today, France's finance ministry announced it has raised another "13 billion in institutional capital for the tech sector, reports Reuters. This marks the third phase of Tibi, a program that encourages French insurers, pension funds, and now state-owned companies to invest…...

15+ hour, 27+ min ago  (555+ words) Most stories about satellite funding focus on getting payloads into orbit. GATE Space's recent funding, however, is about what happens after satellites arrive: detecting radio interference that adversaries use to jam and spoof GPS and Galileo signals from far above…...

16+ hour, 58+ min ago  (283+ words) The reported buyback effort involves some of Manus" earliest supporters, including the Chinese investment firms HSG and Zhen Fund, as well as Tencent. HSG and Zhen Fund are reportedly considering raising fresh capital specifically to acquire Meta"s stake. Benchmark,…...

17+ hour, 31+ min ago  (486+ words) Houdini Bio just raised about "1. 5 million by combining non-dilutive grants, which do not require giving up equity, with an oversubscribed pre-seed round. SCVC, the venture arm of Science Creates, led the round, while Deep Science Ventures and Cambridge Enterprise VC…...

17+ hour, 42+ min ago  (960+ words) Adam French founded Scalable Capital just over a decade ago, grew it into what is now one of Europe's fastest-growing online investment platforms, and then swapped seats to become a partner at Antler." That history " from builder to investor " shapes…...

18+ hour, 43+ min ago  (131+ words) Tech Funding News After Trump, Musk, and bans, European founders race to build sovereign social media Space X buys Cursor-maker Anysphere for $60 B in enterprise AI push: report The man who backed Spotify and Revolut is now betting on European…...

21+ hour, 44+ min ago  (620+ words) Instead, more than 70 UK investors backed us because they believed in what we're building " not because a VC brand told them to. And there are two hard truths here." The first is that most VCs have never built or successfully…...

22+ hour, 44+ min ago  (483+ words) Every major AI company is racing to build new data centres, but most are stuck waiting for the electricity they need. At major hubs, grid interconnection queues now last five to seven years, and the wait keeps growing. Verse, based…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (800+ words) Max Hui, the founder and CEO of Lookbook, is amongst the attendees. "I heard someone say this was the best-dressed room in SF. They're not wrong," he jokes. "One thing that's really hard to substitute is the startup environment. It's…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (601+ words) The AI boom faces a power challenge. Data centers need constant electricity, but solar and wind, which make up over 90% of new global power capacity, can't always deliver. Fossil fuels still supplied 82% of U. S. energy in 2023, and that number isn't dropping…...