Belgian techbio Sightera raises €3M for patient-first AI drug discovery
The Antwerp spin-off is using resistant patient tissue to train its models before designing small molecules, starting with oncolog...
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ENGO raises €5.1 million for lightweight AR sports glasses
The Grenoble startup will hire 20 people and fund display miniaturization as Meta and other smart-glasses rivals push into heads-u...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Popsa says on-device AI helped push revenue to $58 million
The London startup uses AI to sort camera rolls into printed albums, with profitability since 2022 and a projected $70 million to...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Sapphire’s Ranum says AI startups face a proof gap
The Sapphire Ventures partner says investors are testing AI startups on cash flow, defensibility and enterprise adoption, not AI b...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Abacum founder pushes revenue-based bonuses beyond sales teams
Julio Martinez says Abacum links all employees’ quarterly bonuses to shared revenue targets, with ARR as the companywide metric.
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Sightera Biosciences raises €3M pre-seed for AI drug discovery platform
The Belgian techbio spin-off will use the pre-seed round to build its patient-derived data platform and advance an oncology progra...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Hyundai buys SoftBank’s remaining Boston Dynamics stake
Hyundai will take full control of Boston Dynamics in a roughly $325 million deal as it prepares to put Atlas robots into its own f...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
SuperCharger Ventures launches first fund for edtech and work startups
The Malta-based investor will write up to €250,000 initial checks for pre-seed and seed startups, with larger follow-ons planned.
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Cybersecurity startups raised $10.6 billion in first half of 2026
Crunchbase data shows security and privacy startup funding held near recent highs despite a slower second quarter and AI's pull on...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Aramco in talks to back London robotics startup Humanoid at $1 billion value
Sifted reported that Humanoid is seeking $200 million as it develops robots for industrial and home use, with no final deal disclo...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Neko Health raises $700 million to take preventive scans to the US
The Spotify co-founder’s health-scan company has now raised two large rounds in 2025, but did not disclose valuation, revenue or h...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Applied Computing raises $20 million for refinery AI from KBR and Databricks
The London startup says its Orbital model is already used at a major refinery, with KBR embedding the technology in its INSITE 3.0...
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