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Milan-based Pillar raised €12 million in seed funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Base10 Partners, bringing total capital to €15.2 million in under eight months. The construction operating system startup plans European and Latin American expansion during 2026–2027.
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Vapi has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV, with Kleiner Perkins, M12, and Bessemer Venture Partners participating, bringing total funding to $72 million. The voice AI platform has powered over 1 billion calls for enterprise customers including Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life.
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Tolemy Bio has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding led by Norrsken Evolve to build a cell therapy data integration platform described as the 'Google Maps for cells.' The UK startup enters a growing market where ATMP developers spend 30–40% of development budgets on data management.
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Meta becomes an Official Partner of the Festival de Cannes in a multi-year deal starting May 2026, deploying Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, AI-powered real-time translation across nine languages, and a curated creator delegation to produce first-person content for 3.5 billion daily active users.
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Munich-based Regulate has raised €1.4 million in seed funding backed by Personio CEO Hanno Renner and Forto co-founder Mike Wax, bringing breathwork-based workplace performance tools to European enterprises after delivering 50,000+ sessions in under a year.
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London fintech Adfin closed an $18 million Series A led by Index Ventures on 12 May 2026, bringing total funding past $30 million. The platform reports only 9% of customer invoices are paid late, compared to the UK SME average of 63%.
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Enterprise genetics is undergoing a fundamental infrastructure transition — from bespoke laboratory workflows to industrialised, software-defined platforms. Illumina, CRISPR Therapeutics, and a new cohort of computational biology firms are driving this shift, with implications that reach well beyond pharma.
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Front Ventures closed a 278%-oversubscribed €5 million rights issue to fund defence startups in Ukraine and Sweden. The Stockholm-based firm targets battlefield-proven technologies from companies like SkyHunter, Aeromotors, and Black Forest Systems, investing €200,000 to €2.5 million per deal.
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Grand Games, the Istanbul-based mobile gaming studio, has raised $70 million in Series B funding led by Balderton Capital, bringing its total capital to $103 million. With 50 million downloads and two US iOS #1 chart titles, the hybrid casual studio is approaching unicorn status just two years after founding.
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Munich-based Helsing is closing a $1.2 billion funding round led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at an $18 billion valuation, making it one of Europe's most valuable private technology companies. The defence AI firm holds an active €1.46 billion German military drone contract and remains approximately 80% European-owned.
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Sustainable aviation fuel mandates, digital twin deployments, and AI-driven maintenance are converging in 2026 — but the gap between airline ambition and operational delivery is widening. A close look at where the industry actually stands.
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Dutch imaging startup eyeo has raised €40 million in Series A funding led by Innovation Industries, bringing total capital to €55 million. The company's nanophotonic colour-splitting chips claim to recover 70% of light that conventional image sensors discard, delivering 3× sensitivity in a $30 billion market.
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Google launched its AI-powered Finance experience across Europe on 11 May 2026, supporting 24+ languages and intensifying competition with Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg in a retail investing market exceeding 60 million accounts.
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Global agrifoodtech funding held at $16.2 billion in 2025, but investors are writing fewer, larger cheques — concentrating capital on European startups with proven traction. Business20Channel.tv analyses what this structural shift means for founders, LPs, and the wider food system.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Carnegie Mellon University's Class of 2026 on May 10 that AI is creating 'a new industrial era,' calling it a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialise America. Business20Channel.tv analyses the competitive, regulatory, and workforce implications of his remarks for an AI hardware market where NVIDIA holds an estimated 80% share.
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Kalshi closed a $1 billion Series F at a $22 billion valuation in May 2026, doubling its worth in five months as institutional trading volume surged 800 per cent. The CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange now claims over 90 per cent of US market activity and annualised revenue exceeding $1.5 billion.
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As the AI in Defence sector continues its rapid expansion, understanding market dynamics and leveraging AI automation strategies is critical for startups aiming to thrive in 2026. Companies like Shield AI and WitnessAI demonstrate the potential for innovation in autonomous systems and AI governance.
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Ars Technica's 6 May 2026 feature on terminal culture highlights a growing enterprise trend: CLI tools are gaining ground over GUIs among developers, with 67% of professionals using a terminal daily according to JetBrains' 2025 survey.
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Corporate buyers and sovereign funds are redirecting climate tech capital toward durable carbon removal and grid-scale storage, but the gap between leaders and laggards keeps widening. Here is where the money is going — and where it is not.
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Creative Fabrica selected Google Cloud on 7 May 2026 to deploy Gemini, Veo, Lyria, and Imagen across its Studio AI suite, serving 20 million creators with 250,000 new customers joining monthly. This analysis examines the competitive dynamics, creator-attribution implications, and risks of single-provider multimodal AI deployment.
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Reddit blocked mobile web users from accessing the platform without installing its app in May 2026, deploying an unskippable overlay with no bypass option. The move raises questions about platform monetisation, dark-pattern regulation, and the future of the open web.
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Ramp is reportedly raising $750 million at a pre-money valuation exceeding $40 billion from GIC and Iconiq Capital, marking a 150% valuation increase in under 12 months for the corporate spend management platform that crossed $1 billion in annualised revenue in 2025.
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NVIDIA and the U.S. Department of Energy are building a 100,000-GPU supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory projected to deliver 5,000 exaflops — five times the entire TOP500 list combined — as part of the Genesis Mission announced at the SCSP AI+ Expo on 8 May 2026.
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Mozilla disclosed on 7 May 2026 that Anthropic's Mythos AI model identified 271 Firefox security vulnerabilities in two months with 'almost no false positives,' crediting a custom-built harness and improved model reasoning for eliminating the hallucinated bug reports that plagued earlier AI security tools.
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