Volve Raises $3M Seed to Bring AI to Construction Tendering
Skyfall Ventures leads a NOK 30 million round in a two-year-old startup betting that construction margins are won or lost before a single brick is laid.
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Amsterdam Neno Raises an $8M Seed to Put the Accountant Inside the Software
AlleyCorp leads the first institutional round for a seven-month-old Dutch startup bundling bookkeeping, tax and banking data into one agentic ledger.
GoWish Raises an Undisclosed Sum at a Valuation Above $200M
The Copenhagen wishlist app has confirmed neither the size of the round nor a single investor, leaving the reported valuation as the deal only firm number.
PayRewards Launches in the US on a $28M Series E, and the Round Has a Backstory
Melbourne fintech Pay.com.au is selling business rewards points to American SMBs from a Dallas base, but the funding figure attached to the launch does not match the record.
Quintessent Raises $40M to Put UCSB Quantum Dot Lasers Inside AI Datacenters
The Santa Barbara spinout closed an oversubscribed Series A led by Cycle Capital on the same day it began sampling its first commercial comb laser.
Third Wave Coffee Raises $43M as WestBridge Doubles Down on India Cafe Race
The Bengaluru specialty coffee chain has raised Rs 408 crore to take its network from 240 outlets to 320 by the end of the fiscal year.
Boldr Raises $5M to Turn HVAC Contractors Into a Grid Channel
The London startup is betting that the route to a distributed power plant runs through installers rather than consumers.
Genba Hub Raises $440K to Put AI Agents on Japan Job Sites
A small follow-on seed for the Tokyo construction software maker funds AI agents and MCP server work, with the new corporate backer left unnamed.
Nvidia Weighs a Perplexity Stake at More Than $30B
Reports describe talks over an equity round, not a closed deal, and no amount or lead investor has been confirmed.
BOOKR Raises $7.2M Series A to Take Its Literacy Platform Global
The Budapest platform, already selling into more than 30 countries, is funding a push into Asia and the Middle East and a product line for older students.
Seedcamp Backs Embedd's $2.7M Pre-Seed to Automate the Worst Job in Embedded Software
The London startup turns chip documentation into machine-readable models, cutting integration work that normally takes months down to weeks.
XPeng’s Robotics Unit Raises $900M at a $6.3B Valuation
IDG Capital led the Series A into newly carved-out Dogotix, with Alibaba and Tencent joining ahead of mass production of the IRON humanoid at the end of 2026.
Hugging Face's $13B Number Is a Sale Price, Not a Series D
The deal feed conflates a 2023 round of $235 million with a 2026 report that the AI model hub is testing buyer interest at roughly triple that valuation.
Eyedentity Raises $1.5M to Catch Eye Cancer in Routine Optician Scans
A one-year-old Karolinska spinout wants the eye photo you already get at the optician to detect uveal melanoma before it spreads.
FSH Technologies Raises $20M to Sell Cities Software Instead of Billable Hours
The Philadelphia govtech startup's Series A, led by Lachy Groom, funds an attempt to displace the hourly consulting firms that run much of American municipal IT.
Helcim Raises $38M as Canada's Banks Retreat From Small-Business Payments
The Calgary processor's Series C values it at C$250 million, more than double its 2024 mark, as incumbent acquirers sell off or shut down.
Be Clinical Raises $2.2 million as Sauce Bets on Clinical Anti-Ageing
The 15-month-old skincare brand's third raise since launch lands as a seed extension, not a Series A - and the distinction is the story.
WATER Raises $2.5M Seed to Build an AI Model That Reads the Human Body
The Hyderabad startup wants its VORTEX model to become the intelligence layer under chairs, beds and eventually car and aircraft seats.
Asaya Raises $9.2 million Series A as Skincare Brand Triples Valuation in Under a Year
RPSG Capital leads a Rs 88 crore ($9.2 million) round in the Bengaluru pigmentation-focused skincare brand, which says it has reached a Rs 100 crore annualised run rate.
Kazimi Raises $2.5M to Prove Mobile Users Are Human
The Berlin startup, founded by former Adjust security engineers, wants to verify app signals at the moment they are created rather than filter out fraud after the fact.
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