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...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months agoSection
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HTGF’s Family Day turns Germany revival talk into startup meetings
High-Tech Gründerfonds’ Berlin event put life sciences, chemistry and deep-tech founders in front of corporates and investors for...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Fireworks AI raises $1.5B at $17.5B valuation for open model infrastructure
The Meta PyTorch veteran’s company says it has topped $1 billion in annualized revenue as enterprises customize open-source AI mod...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
Tyred raises £2.5 million for AI bike maintenance platform
Raw Ventures and Ada Ventures backed the London startup, which says it services Lime bikes and is building predictive maintenance...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
EverSettled raises $5 million seed round for AI probate platform
Emergence Capital led the round for EverSettled, which sells AI and human support for families settling estates across the U.S.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
Asia startup funding hit $42.8 billion in Q2 as AI rounds clustered in China
Crunchbase data shows Asia venture funding reached a multiyear high in Q2 2026, led by AI companies and a sharp rebound in China-b...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
Uber raises Delivery Hero offer to $14.8 billion
Uber’s cash bid would give it control of Delivery Hero after divestitures meant to ease EU review, extending U.S. ownership in Eur...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
Fintech funding rose in H1 as investors wrote fewer, larger checks
Crunchbase data shows global fintech startups raised $28.6 billion in H1 2026, even as deal count dropped sharply from a year earl...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Juno Bio raises $3.8 million for vaginal microbiome diagnostics
Ada Ventures, Artesian, Entrepreneur First and Illumina Accelerator backed the Oakland startup as it brings sequencing in-house.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
Crunchbase counts at least 2,115 U.S. tech layoffs in early July
Thomson Reuters, Samsung SDS Americas and Coursera were among the latest additions to Crunchbase News’ tech layoff tracker.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago
Bison Ventures analysis questions the billion-dollar AI seed round
Ellie McDonald says a study of roughly 200 mega-seed financings shows big first rounds have rarely produced venture-scale returns.
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Stripe and Advent reportedly bid more than $53B for PayPal
Reuters says Stripe and Advent made an offer for PayPal, a deal that would dwarf the fintech’s prior acquisitions and test private...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago