- Clemens Wessendorff's ARC Intelligence raises EUR4M for its AI finance OS
42CAP led the Berlin company's seed as it tries to sit above ERP systems rather than replace them.
- Auxilius raises EUR 1.3M to turn enterprise compliance into code
Christian Hoppe and James Barnes are pitching continuous controls to banks and industrial companies still buried in audit evidence work.
- Panora raises $5M to keep insurance brokers in control of AI workflows
Diane du Paty and Fabian Langlet are building broker software for Europe's messy carrier portals, starting in France, Belgium and the UK.
- Bespoke Labs raises $40M for AI agent training environments
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy and Alex Dimakis are betting that agent reliability will be won in simulated workplaces before live deployment.
- Andra Keay's June robotics ledger turns funding into physical AI's scorecard
Robots & Startups counted 136 June rounds worth $6.57 billion, with defense dollars and late-stage checks distorting the readout.
- Duke Yan's Bidbus raises $15M to make dealers compete for used cars
Ibex Investors led the Series A as the Los Angeles marketplace expands beyond California and Texas.
- Dario Amodei's $65B Anthropic round reveals how narrow the AI funding boom is
Crunchbase says North American startups raised $392B in H1, with Anthropic, OpenAI and a few AI leaders carrying the market.
- Proxima Fusion raises EUR411 million as Francesco Sciortino turns stellarators into Europe's industrial fusion bet
Google and RWE joined the round as Proxima pushes Alpha, its Munich-area net-energy demonstrator, toward the early 2030s.
- Porelio raises EUR 2.4 million to take lab-born water treatment materials into factories
The Berlin spin-out says its FOMS adsorbents can recover palladium faster and remove persistent PFAS where activated carbon struggles.
- Gyre Energy raises over $1.3M as Oxford founders take AI cooling into cold-chain warehouses
The pre-seed, led by Speedinvest, backs a 2024 startup using thermal storage to cut power bills without replacing cooling systems.
- CurifyLabs raises $14 million Series A to push automated compounding into more U.S. pharmacies
Sandwater and HealthCap co-led the round as the Helsinki company spends on U.S. operations, supply chain and product development.
- Ornn's $33M seed puts two 20-something founders in the middle of Wall Street's compute trade
Kush Bavaria and Wayne Nelms are building pricing and hedging tools for GPU compute as ICE and CME race toward futures contracts.
- Dawnguard raises $3.3M as secure-by-design cloud security gets funded
Co-founders Mahdi Abdulrazak and Kim van Lavieren launch Dawnguard's platform publicly, add a New York office, and pass $6.3M raised.
- Pilot Photonics wins EIC approval for up to EUR10.4 million
The Dublin photonics company says the support will fund product qualification, manufacturing scale-up and hiring in Ireland and abroad.
- Kuaishou's Kling AI Raises $2 Billion as Cheng Yixiao Carves Out Its Video Bet
The video unit's first outside financing follows a May restructuring review and comes after Kling reached about $500 million in ARR in March.
- Together AI raises $800M as Vipul Ved Prakash tests the open-model cloud thesis
The Series C values Together AI at $8.3 billion and gives it capital to buy the compute behind cheaper open-model inference.
- Twelve Labs raises $100 million as Amazon turns video search into an AWS bet
Jae Lee's video intelligence company is raising a Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, with AWS tied to the compute and distribution strategy.
- MGX's $49 Billion AI Fund Turns Abu Dhabi Into a Whole-Stack AI Backer
The two-year-old state-backed investor beat its $45 billion target, but it has not named the limited partners behind Fund I.
- Wayve opens $85 million employee tender as Alex Kendall turns autonomy hype into a talent fight
The secondary sale gives staff liquidity at an $8.5 billion valuation while Wayve pushes toward Uber pilots and Nissan integrations.
- Omnea founder Ben Freeman wants to turn employee churn into a $250K seed check
The London procurement AI company will let five-year employees pitch for $250,000, even though no one is eligible yet.
- Sazabi raises $8M seed to make observability self-healing
Sherwood Callaway is turning his Brex infrastructure scars into an AI-native reliability layer for teams shipping agent-written code.
- Apptronik's $520M extension puts Apollo's factory bet on the clock
The Austin humanoid robotics company has raised nearly $1B, but Mercedes-Benz remains a pilot proof point, not a scaled deployment.
- General Intuition raises $320M for Pim de Witte's gamer-data bet on real-world AI agents
The $2.3B figure is valuation, not cash, as the Medal spinout tries to turn action-labeled gameplay into robotics and simulation agents.
- Probook raises $40 million by putting AI at the dispatch board
George Eliadis started with missed pressure-washing calls. Sequoia and a16z are betting that dispatch is the control point in home services.