Nuclear energy startup X-energy raises $700M in funding
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - X-energy Reactor Co., a startup developing miniature nuclear reactors, today announced that it has raised $700 million in funding. Jane Street led the oversubscribed Series D investment with participation from more than ten other institutional investors. …
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OpenAI Launches ‘Research-First’ Shopping Agent Powered by GPT-5 Mini, Pauses Instant Checkout
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has launched a GPT-5 mini shopping agent with 64% accuracy, but has paused instant checkout capabilities amid a fierce agentic commerce war.The post OpenAI Launches ‘Research-First’ Shopping Agent Powered by GPT-5 Mini, Pauses Instant Checkout appe…
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Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - AI testing startup Momentic has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Dropbox Ventures. Existing investors at Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform and Karman Ventures also participated.
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5 Free Apps You Should Install ASAP On A New MacBook
slashgear - New Mac, new setup. If you want to skip the trial and error, these free apps cover everyday gaps and makes the whole system feel more capable.
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UK FashionTech Startup Ponda Secures €2M To Advance Sustainable Fashion Innovation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Ponda, the Bristol-based biomaterials company developing regenerative material supply chains, has closed a €2.09 million Seed round to commercialise its flagship insulation, BioPuff. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Faber (Lisbon) and Counteract (Lo…
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Bootstrapped And Profitable Hello Klean Raises €1.3M Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Hello Klean, a water-focused beauty brand, has secured £1.5M (around €1.3M) in debt financing from re:cap to fuel its next stage of growth. re:cap, founded in Berlin in 2021 by Paul Becker and Jonas Tebbe, provides debt capital and automated …
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Fintech Revolut valued at $75 billion following fundraising share sale
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Revolut, the London-based fintech, has completed a fundraising process which values the company at $75 billion. The fundraising involved a share sale which saw NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, investing in the company. Employees of Revolut were ab…
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Onstage launches new early-stage venture fund
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Onstage, an organiser of standalone demo events in Europe, announced the launch of its first venture fund, with an initial close of £10 million. The fund is intended to support European founders at t...
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DOGE Disbands With 8 Months Remaining in Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was supposed to last until next summer. Instead, the agency has essentially disbanded, Reuters reported Sunday (Nov. 23), bringing a close to a program that was designed to shrink the siz…
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NexDash launches Europe’s AI-driven electric trucking platform
Berlin-based logistics startup NexDash has secured €5 million in seed funding to launch Europe’s first fully AI-driven, all-electric trucking platform. Aiming to revolutionize freight transport with sustainable technology and intelligent operations, the initiative represents a significant shift in addressing environmental and operational challenges in the region’s aging diesel-dependent fleet.
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Numeric Secures $51M In Series B Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Numeric, a San Franciscoand London, UK-based-based AI accounting automation platform founded in 2020, has raised $51M in a Series B round to accelerate its evolution from close management software to a full-scale finance operations platform. The funding w…
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Yann LeCun leaves Meta to launch new AI startup
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - After twelve years at Meta, Yann LeCun announces his departure. The Turing Award winner wants to overcome the limits of today's AI models with a new start-up - and Meta remains involved as a partner.The article Yann LeCun leaves Meta to launch new AI star…
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NcodiN Raises €16M In Seed Funding Led by MIG Capital
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - French deeptech startup NcodiN has raised €16 million in a seed funding round led by MIG Capital AG via its MIG Fonds 17 and 18. The round also saw participation from Maverick Silicon, PhotonVentures, and Verve Ventures, alongside continued backing from e…
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Paris’ Rift raises €4.6 million to build Europe’s first on-demand aerial reconnaissance network
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Rift, a French DeepTech company specialising in on-demand aerial intelligence, announces a funding round of €4.6 million to accelerate the deployment of the first European on-demand aerial intelligence network, entirely operated from the company’s headqua…
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Meta's Chief AI Scientist is leaving the company after 12 years
engadget - One of Meta's top AI researchers, Yann LeCun, is leaving after 12 years with the company to found his own AI startup, he announced. LeCun, who is also a professor at New York University, joined the company in 2013 to lead Meta's Fundamental AI Research (F…
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Berlin’s Integral boosts total funding to €12 million and strengthens capabilities with cleverlohn acquisition
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Integral, a Berlin-based AI-powered services company innovating accounting, taxation, and payroll for SMEs, today announced the acquisition of cleverlohn, a digital payroll and HR provider in Germany. Additionally, the company announced new funding from G…
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Agentic AI startup Kaaj secures $3.8M to expand credit intelligence platform
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Credit intelligence platform startup Kaaj Technologies Inc. revealed today that it has raised $3.8 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its agentic artificial intelligence-powered platform across the U.S. small-business and equi…
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Dost Expands To UK Following £6M Series A Led by Octopus Ventures
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Dost, an AI-driven financial automation platform, has raised £6 million in a Series A round led by Octopus Ventures and officially launched in the UK. The funding also saw participation from new investor TQ Ventures, alongside continued backi…
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Deblock Raises €30M Series A To Grow On-Chain Banking Across Europe
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - French crypto-banking startup Deblock has raised €30 million in a Series A round led by Speedinvest, with participation from CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors including 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures and Kraken Ventures also joined the ro…
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Bristol FemTech startup Emm raises €7.7 million for connected menstrual cup and app
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Today, Emm, the British-based innovator in biowearable technology, announces it has raised €7.7 million ($9 million) in an oversubscribed Seed funding round, to bring the world’s first smart menstrual cup and connected app to market. The round was led by …
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