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Volta Emerges from Stealth at €2.07B and Signs €8.6B Anthropic Compute Deal
When a company that "didn't exist six months ago" signs a compute…
Wordsmith AI Lands $14M as Companies Replace Law Firms with AI Agents
Edinburgh-based legal-tech startup Wordsmith AI has closed a $14M extension to its…
European AI Startups Raised $23B in H1 2026 — but the US Raised 14 Times More
In the first six months of 2026, artificial intelligence finally stopped being…
OLIX Raises €270.5M at €2.8B: Britain’s Boldest Challenge to Nvidia
The Optical Bet: Inside OLIX's €270.5M Raise Two years is not a…
Omen AI Raises $31M to Prevent Data-Center Downtime
Water Against Downtime: How $31M-Backed Omen AI Wants to Be the "Blood…
Sequoia Leads $1 Billion Round in Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics
The High-School Dropout, the Helium Reactor, and the $1 Billion Bet on…
Amazon Veterans Launch Primitive Labs
An Agent in the Empty Chair: Amazon Veterans Bet That Synthetic Customers…
Travis Kalanick Is Back: Atoms Raises $1.7B from a16z
Inside the $1.7 Billion a16z Bet That Reunites Him With Uber The…
German fintech Moss Becomes a Unicorn After €30M Round at €1B Valuation
Berlin-based Moss, a developer of corporate spend-management software, has raised €30 million…