| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.07.2026 | Terra Quantum and Apex.AI Demonstrate Quantum-Safe Security for Long-Lived, Cloud-Connected, Software-Defined Systems | Successful implementation demonstrates secure edge-to-cloud communication using NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography while preserving existing application architectures and software investments.
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland and PALO ALTO,... |
| 15.07.2026 | Starlight Engine Raises JPY 6.06 Billion To Advance Fusion Power Project | Starlight Engine has raised JPY 6.06 billion, approximately $37.4 million, in its first external financing round to accelerate development of its Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak project.
Global Brain led the financing through mul... |
| 10.05.2026 | Featherless Leads $20M AI Funding Surge Across Asia | Featherless, a Singapore-based open-source AI infrastructure platform, raised a $20 million Series A round. AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures led this key investment. The company aims to democratize AI, providing neutral, efficient compute f... |
| 05.05.2026 | Deals in brief: Vertex Ventures backs ReN3 and Formas.ai; Featherless and SiamDL raise Series A funding; latest China investments, and more | ReN3 raises seed funding to scale agentic AI for enterprises
ReN3, a Singapore-based work productivity startup, has raised USD 5 million in a seed funding round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (SEAI).
The company builds arti... |
| 04.05.2026 | Featherless Raises $20M in Series A Funding | Featherless, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform for running open-source AI, raised $20m in Series A funding.
The round was led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures with participation from BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Pan... |
| 01.05.2026 | Featherless: $20 Million Raised To Scale Open-Source AI Infrastructure Platform | Featherless, a neutral infrastructure platform for open-source AI models, has raised a $20 million Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures, with significant participation from BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures... |
| 04.03.2026 | The New Mexico House Returns to SXSW® in 2026 Showcasing the State's Innovation Economy and Enchanted Culture | The New Mexico House will return to South by Southwest® (SXSW®) on March 16th, 2026, as an official SXSW activation, positioning New Mexico as one of the country's leading hubs for company-building, innovation, arts and culture, film, and s... |
| 03.02.2026 | CesiumAstro Secures $470M for AI-Enabled Space and Defense Expansion | CesiumAstro, an Austin-based leader in space and defense communications, closed a $470M Series C. This capital infusion fuels expanded manufacturing and AI-enabled communications. It scales Element LEO satellite production and grows global ... |
| 03.02.2026 | CesiumAstro: $470 Million Series C Closed To Scale AI-Enabled Space And Defense Communications | CesiumAstro announced it has secured $470 million in Series C growth capital to accelerate U.S. expansion and global deployment of its software-defined, AI-enabled space communications platforms. The Austin, Texas-based space and defense co... |
| 02.02.2026 | Satellite maker CesiumAstro raises $470M to grow its manufacturing capacity
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More than half the sum was provided in the form of an equity funding round led by Trousdale Ven... |
| 02.02.2026 | CesiumAstro Closes $470M in Series C Funding | CesiumAstro, an Austin, TX-based company developing connectivity solutions for space and defense, raised $470M in Series C funding.
The round consisted of a $270M in equity, led by Trousdale Ventures, with participation from Woven Capital, ... |
| 16.12.2025 | Vatn Systems Secures $60 Million to Dominate Underwater Drone Market | Vatn Systems, a Rhode Island-based defense tech firm, just landed $60 million in Series A funding. This investment fuels expansion of its autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology. Demand for these systems is surging. The company aims ... |
| 10.12.2025 | Vatn Systems: $60 Million Series A To Advance Expansion In Autonomous Underwater Defense Technology | Vatn Systems has closed a $60 million Series A funding round that strengthens its position as one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of autonomous underwater vehicles in the United States. The round was led by BVVC, with additional partic... |
| 10.12.2025 | Vatn Systems Raises $60M in Series A Funding | Vatn Systems, a Portsmouth, RI-based defense technology company, raised $60M in Series A funding.
The round was led by BVVC, with participation from new investors such as Hanwha, Geodesic Capital, Airbus Ventures, Dauntless Ventures, Trousd... |
| 23.10.2025 | Venus Aerospace Receives Strategic Investment From Lockheed Martin | Venus Aerospace, a Houston, TX-based next-generation rocket engine propulsion startup, received a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin through their investment arm, Lockheed Martin Ventures.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Fo... |
| 15.10.2025 | Former NASA astronaut, official joins Venus Aerospace board | Retired Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy, who previously served as deputy administrator of NASA, recently joined the board of directors at Houston-based Venus Aerospace.
Venus Aerospace, a startup founded in 2020, d... |
| 12.09.2025 | +++ Mats Hummels +++ PadelCity +++ Born +++ 0TO9 +++ DefenseTech +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 12. September). #STARTUPLAND
SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. ... |
| 22.07.2025 | Top Executives from Airbus Ventures and Bullhound Capital Join Q-CTRL's Board of Directors | Nicole Conner, Partner at Airbus Ventures
Per Roman, Managing Partner and Founder of Bullhound Capital
Nicole Conner of Airbus Ventures and Per Roman of Bullhound Capital bring valuable legal and global tech investment experience and proven... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Farm Robotics: A New Era in Agriculture**
** | ** The agricultural landscape is changing. Like a field awakening at dawn, the farm robotics sector is blossoming, even amid economic challenges. In 2024, the sector has raised nearly $399 million, a drop from the previous year but still a ... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Farm Robotics: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in 2024**
** | ** The agricultural landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Farm robotics is at the forefront of this transformation. In 2024, the sector is grappling with funding challenges but is also witnessing a surge in innovation. As labor costs ris... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Farm Robotics: Navigating a New Era in Agriculture**
** | ** The agricultural landscape is changing. Like a field being tilled for the first time, the farm robotics sector is breaking new ground. In 2024, despite a challenging fundraising environment, this sector is showing resilience and innovati... |
| 24.07.2024 | The 7 biggest farm robotics deals of 2024 so far | The farm robotics sector has shown some resilience in 2024 and continues to bring innovative products to market, despite the challenging year for fundraising.
In the first half of 2024, the AgFunder-defined Farm Robotics, Mechanization, and... |
| 16.04.2024 | Bcomp raises CHF 36 million to decarbonise mobility |
Originally developed to lighten and reinforce backcountry skis, Bcomp’s bio-based composites have been adapted and field-tested in motorsports to deliver performance benefits and positive sustainable impacts. OEMs are already using powerRi... |
| 25.10.2023 | Germany’s AI-powered drone-robotics firm Quantum Systems secures €63.6M | Read this article in:
Bayern-based Quantum Systems, a company that develops, manufactures and sells AI-powered drone-robotics, announced on Tuesday, October 24, that it has raised €63.6M in a Series B round of funding. This brings the compa... |
| 24.10.2023 | Quantum Systems raises €63.6M Series B becoming the first European company to raise over €100M on dual-use tech | Today Munich AI-powered drone robotics company Quantum Systems announced the successful completion of its €63.6 million Series B funding round.
This brings the total funding for the Munich-based drone manufacturer to over €100 million.
HV C... |
| 21.06.2023 | Houston maintains a leader in annual life science report | Houston is a rising star when it comes to developing homegrown talent in life sciences research.
From 2016 to 2021, the Houston area saw the third largest jump in students earning degrees in biology and biomedicine among 25 major life scien... |
| 21.06.2023 | Life science investment firm announces expansion into Houston | A Chicago-based life science investment firm has announced its expansion into Houston.
Portal Innovations released the news today that it will move into 30,000 square feet of lab and office space in Texas Medical Center's new Helix Park compl... |
| 21.06.2023 | Longtime innovator shares why she's optimistic about Houston's future as a hub for startups, tech | As she describes, Emily Keeton's strength and her curse is that she lacks patience. For this reason, her career, launched originally in investment banking, has taken her from the startup world to media and beyond.
"I'm a person of acti... |
| 20.06.2023 | Web3 technology has the potential to bring communities together, say Houston innovators | Houston innovators dispelled some of the misconceptions about the decentralized web and Web3 technology at a recent panel, which highlighted the technology’s ability to bring communities together.
DivInc, a Texas-based accelerator focused o... |
| 20.06.2023 | Rice Alliance names 15 startups to its cleantech accelerator | A clean energy program has announced its third cohort and named the 15 startups that were accepted into to the accelerator.
The Rice Alliance's Clean Energy Accelerator revealed its 2023 cohort that will be in the 10-week program that kicks... |
| 16.06.2023 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included a new autonomous truck route, three Houston innovators to kno... |
| 16.06.2023 | Airbus Ventures Invests in Venus Aerospace | Airbus Ventures announces its investment in Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based hypersonic startup enabling cost-effective one-hour global transport. Joining Venus’ team of investors, Airbus Ventures will support the team in their next phase o... |
| 14.06.2023 | Houston startup with hypersonic engine tech adds new investor | A Houston-based company that's developing an engine that'll enable one-hour global transportation has announced its latest investor.
Venus Aerospace released the news that Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Airbus Ventures, has joined its... |
| 17.04.2023 | Airbus Ventures Congratulates Qunnect on its GothamQ Network Research Hub and Facilities | Airbus Ventures congratulates Qunnect, the industry leader in quantum-secure networking technology, on its newly constructed R&D facility and Network Research Hub expressly designed to scale quantum-secure deployment on existing telecom... |
| 11.10.2022 | Solestial, Solar Energy Company for Space, Closes Oversubscribed $10M Seed Round | Solestial scientists develop solar panels at 90 percent lower cost
Financing to Accelerate Delivery of Breakthrough Scalable Solar Technology for Space at One-Tenth Cost of Conventional Technology
We’re on a mission to become the solar ener... |
| 06.04.2022 | Bcomp raises CHF 32m in Series B round with leading investors | |
| 05.04.2022 | Using natural fibres to make the world around us all the bit lighter, Bcomp closes $35 million round | Fribourg, Switzerland-based Bcomp has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round. The Swiss maker of all things light will use the capital to further scale the team size as well as commercial footprint via increased global and domestic ... |
| 18.11.2021 | ClimateTech — hot response to hot weather | ClimateTech — hot response to hot weather |
| 18.11.2021 | ClimateTech — жаркий ответ жаркой погоде | ClimateTech — жаркий ответ жаркой погоде |
| 16.09.2020 | Dendra and its ‘forest-patrolling drones’ close $10m Series A from Airbus, others | Dendra Systems, a UK-Australian startup using a variety of technologies to rehabilitate damaged environmental ecosystems and capture carbon, has raised $10 million in funding.
The Series A round was co-led by Airbus Ventures, the VC arm of ... |
| 13.02.2019 | Corporate-Startup partnering workshops on high demand | |
| 07.01.2019 | Humatics Raises $28M Round to Advance Spatial Intelligence Platform | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Humatics, the Waltham, MA-based startup working on microlocation technology for use in robots and autonomous vehicles, today announced that it has raised $28 million in a Seri... |
| 06.06.2018 | $18 million to expand indoor drones in live events | |
| 22.03.2018 | Bestmile raises $11 million to fuel growth in autonomous mobility | |
| 14.12.2017 | Astrocast closes oversubscribed seed financing round | |
| 20.09.2017 | Humatics, $18M Richer, Aims to Equip Robots with Microlocation Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A Boston-area robotics firm is starting to make its first big moves. Cambridge, MA-based “microlocation” startup Humatics announced this week it has completed an $18 million S... |
| 19.09.2017 | Humatics Corporation Raises $18 Million Series A | Humatics Corporation, the company developing breakthrough "microlocation" products, today announced the completion of its $18 Million Series A financing. Fontinalis Partners, a venture capital firm focused on next-generation mobil... |
| 19.09.2017 | Lockheed Martin Joins $18M Series A for Humatics Corporation | Humatics Corporation, the company developing breakthrough "microlocation" products, today announced the completion of its $18 Million Series A financing. Fontinalis Partners, a venture capital firm focused on next-generation mobil... |
| 11.08.2017 | ELSE raises $3 million for Internet of Things nanosatellite constellation | |
| 15.04.2017 | Airbus Venture, Partech Venture & Serena Capital invest in BestMile | |
| 23.02.2017 | AirMap raises $26 million to manage air traffic as drone use surges | Lower airspace isn’t crowded with drones quite yet. But as drones become more pervasive, a startup called AirMap is building software and systems to help drone operators fly only where it’s safe and legal to do so.
The task will prove compl... |
| - | Mobility and autonomous driving applications software maker Apex.ai raises $56.5 million | Munich-based Apex.ai has raised $56.5 million in a Series B funding round. The software maker provides solutions for mobility and autonomous applications, essentially uniting a variety of interdependent systems. The company intends to use t... |
| - | Airbus Ventures Partners With Airbus Bizlab To Set Up Startup Fund In India | Image Credits
Airbus Ventures has announced plans to set up a fund for aerospace and non-aerospace tech startups in India. As part of the initiative, Airbus Ventures has joined hands with Bengaluru-based Airbus Bizlab.
As per reports, the V... |
| - | Using natural fibres to make the world around us all the bit lighter, Bcomp closes $35 million round | Fribourg, Switzerland-based Bcomp has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round. The Swiss maker of all things light will use the capital to further scale the team size as well as commercial footprint via increased global and domestic ... |
