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Europe’s Largest Defense Fund for Startups Set for €500 Million

Christina Kyriasoglou / bloomberg - German investor Digital Transformation Capital Partners GmbH is on track to raise Europe’s largest-ever dedicated venture capital fund for defense startups, signing its first big backers for a fund targeting €500 million ($580 million).

#startups #cybersecurity #innovation #digitaltransformation #defensetech #privateequity #finance #deeptech #europe #eu

German growth investor DTCP raises €300m for new defence fund — which it hopes will be Europe’s largest

7 wks / sifted

With their new €500 million fund, Germany’s DTCP raises the bar for European defense and resilience capital

7 wks / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

DTCP expands into defence with €20M-per-deal Fund for security and dual-use startups

7 wks / tech / Cate Lawrence

Europe’s Largest Defense Fund for Startups Set for €500 Million

7 wks / bloomberg / Christina Kyriasoglou

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises $252 million for brain computer interface venture — but Merge Labs is still in an early research phase

tomshardware - OpenAI has signaled its intentions to become a major player in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) with a $252 million investment in Merge Labs.

#ai #startups #vc #innovation #digitalhealth #openai #aiethics #neuroscience #deeptech

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises $252 million for brain computer interface venture — but Merge Labs is still in an early research phase

7 wks / tomshardware

Neuralink rival Merge Labs bags $252M, led by OpenAI, to link brains and computers

7 wks / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

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Amsterdam’s Optics11 Raises €25M EIB Loan To Boost Europe’s Subsea And Energy Security

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €25 million venture debt agreement with Amsterdam-based Optics11, a DeepTech scale-up developing advanced fibre optic sensing solutions. The Dutch company will use the funding to advance research and develop…

#startups #innovation #banking #energy #business #finance #deeptech #europe #technology #eu

Amsterdam’s Optics11 Raises €25M EIB Loan To Boost Europe’s Subsea And Energy Security

7 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Amsterdam-based Optics11 secures €25 million EIB loan to strengthen Europe’s subsea and energy security

7 wks / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

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Dutch VC PureTerra launches €150M water tech fund, lands €10M from Invest-NL

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - As droughts intensify and regulations tighten, companies are discovering that access to clean, reusable water directly affects their…

#climate #startups #innovation #investment #privateequity #business #deeptech #environment #europe #regulation

PureTerra Ventures launches €150M WaterTech Fund II With €10M Support From Invest-NL

7 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Dutch VC PureTerra launches €150M water tech fund, lands €10M from Invest-NL

7 wks / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Amsterdam’s PureTerra Ventures launches €150 million WaterTech Fund II with €10 million backing from Invest-NL

7 wks / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

Back to Top / Friday, January 16, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 17994 / 3 stories in 7 wks


Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Two co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, are heading back to OpenAI, alongside Sam Schoenholz, another former OpenAI staffer who had joined the startup.The post Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #startups #ml #openai #genai #business #deeptech #jobs #technology #research

Thinking Machines Exodus Deepens: The Founders Never Agreed on What to Build

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Murati's co-founders return to OpenAI

7 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI

7 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I walk you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bubble can’t survive the death of OpenAI. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=10007453

7 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

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