Former Spotify Executive Launches AI Platform to Help VCs Assess Startup Potential
An ex-Spotify executive is using AI to help venture capitalists evaluate startups and determine which ones are likely to succeed.
Artificial Intelligence
Barcelona-based Mafer AI Secures €2 Million in Pre-Seed Funding to Digitize R&D for Formulation Industries
Mafer AI, a Barcelona-based startup, has raised €2 million in pre-Seed funding to build an AI operating system for R&D teams in formulation industries.
Figma Make Bridges Design and Engineering With Two-Way GitHub Integration
Figma Make’s new integration allows designers to work directly with production codebases, while maintaining enterprise governance and security standards.
DataHub Launches Context Intelligence Layer to Reduce AI Hallucinations in Enterprise Data Queries
DataHub releases Context Intelligence, a layer that mines existing SQL query history to build a semantic index, helping AI agents provide more accurate answers.
Italian Fintech Startup Deeptree Raises €2 Million in Seed Funding to Expand AI Platform for Private Markets
Deeptree, an Italian fintech startup, raised 2 million euros in funding to expand its AI-based platform for private markets
Berlin AI Startup Peec AI Hits 10 Million USD Annual Revenue Just 16 Months After Launch
Peec AI, a Berlin-based AI startup, has reached 10 million USD in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just 16 months after its product launch. The company offers an analysis platform for businesses and marketing teams to understand their visibility in AI search engines and response systems like ChatGPT.
London-based Orbital Industries Secures €43 Million Series B to Scale AI-Driven Industrial Hardware
Orbital Industries, a UK-based startup building industrial hardware from the atoms up using AI, has raised €43 million in Series B funding to scale its data centre products and develop its platform for industrial applications beyond data centres.
Lithuanian AI Startup Kopa.ai Secures €2 Million Seed Funding to Expand E-Commerce Automation Platform
Kopa.ai raises €2 million to scale its agentic AI co-pilot for e-commerce teams
Swedish AI Startup Sana Takes Unconventional Approach to Employee Onboarding With Desert Island Ritual
Sana, a Swedish AI company, has a unique onboarding ritual where new joiners spend a week on a deserted island with no running water to build character and bond with colleagues
Chinese AI Startup MiniMax Pursues Major Speed Gains with Sparse Attention Mechanism for M3 Model
MiniMax, a Chinese AI company, is developing a new sparse attention mechanism for its upcoming M3 model, which yields up to 15.6 times faster decoding speed. The company has released a technical report on its M2 series of language models, which achieved top benchmarks in open source AI performance.