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| 15.09.2026 | Jack & Jill Raises $40 Million To Put AI Agents on Both Sides of Hiring | Hiring today is more difficult than it has ever been. If you post a job on LinkedIn, you get 1,000 applications in 6 hours. Most are spam. Many are from AI bots applying everywhere.
On the other hand, candidates send hundreds of application... |
| 16.08.2026 | Finn Accelerates: €140M Funding Fuels Unicorn Rise in Mobility Sector | Munich's Finn, a dominant car subscription platform, recently raised €140 million in Series D funding. This investment elevates Finn to unicorn status, exceeding a $1 billion valuation. The fresh capital targets profitable expansion across ... |
| 20.07.2026 | Zalando joins Sereact's $116M Series B to accelerate AI-powered warehouse automation | Sereact, a provider of physical AI for warehouse robotics, today announced that Zalando, Europe’s leading technology platform for fashion and lifestyle, has joined its ongoing Series B round as a strategic investor. The total Series B fundi... |
| 30.06.2026 | European Tech Secures Billions: Defense Giant Stark Valued at €3.5 Billion | European tech firms secured major capital. Berlin's Stark, a defense tech pioneer, landed €500M. Its valuation soared to €3.5B. This reflects surging demand for defense solutions. Auto-subscription service FINN also became a unicorn with €1... |
| 29.06.2026 | Robotics has a data problem. Macrodata Labs wants to solve it | The AI industry has spent the past several years learning a critical lesson: better data often matters as much as better models. While advances in large language models have been powered by increasingly sophisticated datasets and data pipel... |
| 29.06.2026 | STARK Raises €500 Million To Expand European Defense Capabilities | STARK announced that it has secured €500 million to expand European defense capabilities.
The funding includes continued support from Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and the NATO Innovation Fund, which have doubled down on their commitment ... |
| 29.06.2026 | Stark Closes €500M Funding Round at €3 Billion Valuation | Stark, a Berlin, Germany-based developer of autonomous defense systems, air and surface attack drones, and command-and-control software, closed a €500m ($570m) funding round at a valuation reportedly approaching €3 billion.
Backers included... |
| 25.06.2026 | Stark Defence Reportedly Raises €500 Million At €3.5 Billion Valuation | Stark Defence reportedly raised €500 million in new funding, valuing the German drone startup at about €3.5 billion, according to Bloomberg. The round was backed by Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by P... |
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| 24.06.2026 | Stark erhält 500 Millionen – Finn sammelt 140 Millionen ein | Im #DealMonitor für den 24. Juni werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arc... |
| 15.06.2026 | European tech weekly recap: €2.8B in deals and May's highlights | Last week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €2.8 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
📊 In May, European tech startups raised €10.5 billion across 258 funding... |
| 11.06.2026 | Alta Ares Raises €50 Million To Expand Air Defense Platform And International Operations | Alta Ares announced a €50 million funding round led by Air Street Capital, with participation from Cherry Ventures, OTB Ventures, and Harpoon Ventures. The financing comes as the defense technology company experiences strong commercial mome... |
| 28.05.2026 | Perceptic: $12 Million Raised For AI Operating System For Drug Development | Perceptic, an AI-first operating system for biopharma, officially emerged from stealth and announced $12 million in funding backed by investors including Accel, Air Street Capital, and Elder Gull, as reported by Fortune.
The company said it... |
| 23.03.2026 | Air Street Capital closes $232M AI fund as solo VC model challenges traditional venture firms | A single investor just raised one of Europe’s largest AI-focused venture funds—and it’s forcing a rethink of how venture capital works. On Monday, Air Street Capital announced the close of its third fund at $232 million, making it the large... |
| 23.03.2026 | Nathan Benaich's Air Street raises $232M Fund III, becoming Europe’s largest solo GP venture firm | Air Street Capital, founded by Nathan Benaich, has raised $232M for Fund III — making it the largest solo GP venture fund in Europe.
The fund invests in AI-first companies in North America and Europe. The firm will lead early-stage rounds w... |
| 23.03.2026 | Interloom raises $16.5M to develop enterprise memory for AI agents | Interloom, an enterprise operations platform that captures expert knowledge and converts it into a persistent memory layer for AI agents, has closed a $16.5 million seed funding round. The round was led by DN Capital, with participation fro... |
| 02.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs Raises $300M to Advance Visual AI | Black Forest Labs secured $300M in Series B funding. The company, valued at $3.25B, will accelerate visual AI research and development. Adobe, Canva, and Meta use its FLUX models. The funding round was led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures. Bl... |
| 02.12.2025 | Немецкий стартап по генерации изображений с ИИ Black Forest Labs оценен в $3,25 млрд | Финансирование возглавили Salesforce Ventures и Anjney Midha (AMP), а также в него участвовали другие крупные инвесторы, включая Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Temasek Holdings, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Can... |
| 01.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation | Today Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B round at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation.
Black Forest Labs was founded last year with a mission to build frontier models for pixels—systems capable of creating what cameras... |
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| 01.12.2025 | Used by Adobe, Canva and Meta, Germany’s Black Forest Labs lands €258 million to scale its visual-AI platform | Freigburg-based Black Forest Labs, the visual intelligence company behind FLUX, today announced a €258 million ($300 million) Series B in order to accelerate research and development, hiring, and infrastructure efforts as the team advances ... |
| 01.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs erhält 300 Millionen (Bewertung: 3,25 Milliarden) | Im #DealMonitor für den 1. Dezember werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-... |
| 20.11.2025 | Profluent Bio raises $106M from Jeff Bezos and others to accelerate protein design with AI
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| 16.10.2025 | Clove raises $14 million | London-based Clove Clove
Founded: 2025
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
Total Funding: $14M
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| 14.10.2025 | Clove exits stealth with $14M pre-seed led by Accel | London-based Clove, a new challenger in personal finance and wealth management, has emerged from stealth with a $14 million pre-seed round led by Accel. The round also saw participation from Kindred Capital, Air Street Capital, and angels, ... |
| 19.09.2025 | Nvidia to invest £2BN in UK AI startups | Nvidia is to invest £2bn in the UK AI startup ecosystem. Nvidia said: “The new capital will be used to foster economic growth, develop more innovative AI technologies, create new companies and jobs, and empower the UK to compete in the AI m... |
| 14.08.2025 | Studio Atelico Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Studio Atelico, a San Francisco, CA-based game studio building new AI-first gaming experiences, raised $5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Air Street Capital and angel investors including Chris Ré (Factory), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face)... |
| 29.07.2025 | Greek defence tech startup founded by Apple roboticist raises $14M | A Greek defence tech startup founded by a former Apple roboticist has raised $14m in a Series A funding round. Athens-based Delian Alliance Industries is developing autonomous weapons, including drones and surveillance towers equipped with ... |
| 11.09.2023 | Air Street Capital: New $121 Million Fund Closed To Invest In AI Companies | Air Street Capital is a VC firm investing in AI-first technology and life science companies. The firm recently announced that it closed a new $121 million fund.
In a blog post, Air Street Capital founder and general partner Nathan Benaich s... |
| 06.09.2023 | Air Street Capital's $121M Fund II backed by Spotify founder and Google DeepMind scientist | London-based VC Air Street Capital has announced its $121 million Fund II to back AI-first early-stage start-ups. In a statement from Nathan Benaich, founder and General Partner at Air Street Capital, he thanked angels from OpenAI, Google (... |
| 06.09.2023 | Nou fond european de 121 milioane dolari pentru startup-uri AI, de la investitori care au finanțat și un antreprenor de origine română | Startup-urile de inteligență artificială, din Europa și America de Nord, vor putea obține finanțări de capital de risc dintr-un nou fond de venture capital, de 121 de milioane de dolari, lansat recent de o firmă de investiții loondoneză, ca... |
| 29.08.2023 | University of Oxford, Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge led the UK in filing patents and startup spin outs | Research released this week by intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire shows that patents are rising as universities seek to commercialise the output of their research programs.
The UK's 50 largest universities — in terms of stud... |
| 09.08.2023 | Germany’s Sereact raises €4.5M to provide AI robotics solutions for autonomous warehouses | Read this article in:
Stuttgart-based Sereact, a provider of AI-powered robotics solutions for autonomous warehouses, announced on Tuesday, August 8, that it has secured $5M (approximately €4.55M) in a Seed round of funding.
Sereact says it... |
| 05.10.2022 | Gourmey Raises $47.7 Million Series A, On A Mission For Europe’s Largest Cultivated Meat Lab | Cruelty free fois gras produced by the Paris based cultivated meat company Gourmey.Gourmey |
| 21.09.2022 | Hedera Dx raises €14 million in seed funding to accelerate global adoption of liquid biopsies | Hedera Dx raises €14 million in seed funding to accelerate global adoption of liquid biopsies
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| 15.11.2021 | Что было в мире искусственного интеллекта в 2021 году | Пару недель назад вышел новый отчет «State of AI Report 2021». Уже несколько лет подряд такой отчет ежегодно выпускает венчурный фонд «Air Street Capital». Он инвестирует в компании в области искусственного интеллекта (ИИ) и наук о жизни (Н... |
| 21.03.2021 | Aldea Ventures creates ‘hybrid’ European €100M fund to invest both in Micro VCs, plus follow-on | The historical trajectory of venture capital has been to move to earlier and earlier finding rounds in order to capture the greatest potential multiple on exit. In the US, we’ve seen an explosion of Pre-series A funds, and similarly in Euro... |
| 02.11.2020 | This London-based VC raises €14.6M to fund early-stage AI startups | The integration of Artificial Intelligence and deep sector-specific knowledge is believed to accelerate the success of next-generation companies. Notably, there are several companies that deploy the use of AI across industries. The AI-focus... |
| 30.10.2020 | Fond de 17 milioane dolari pentru finanțarea startup-urilor de inteligență artificială | Startup-urile de inteligență artificială, aflate în stadiu incipient, vor putea obține finanțări de capital de risc de la un nou fond, în valoare totală de 17 milioane de dolari, lansat vineri de o firmă de investiții din Londra.
Air Street... |
| 30.10.2020 | London-based Air Street Capital announces $17 million fund for early-stage AI startups | AI-focussed venture capital firm Air Street Capital announced the close of a $17 million fund, targeting early-stage founders in Europe and the US who combine AI expertise with sector-specific knowledge.
The VC brings its own AI expertise t... |
| 30.10.2020 | Air Street Capital closes new €14.6 million fund to back early-stage AI startups in Europe and the US | The AI-focussed venture capital firm Air Street Capital today announced the closing of a €14.6 million fund, targeting early-stage founders in Europe and the US who combine AI expertise with deep sector-specific knowledge. Led by Air Street... |
| 01.10.2020 | Air Street Capital: AI industry remains strong despite academic brain drain, tech nationalization | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
London-based venture capital firm Air Street Capi... |
| 01.10.2020 | Air Street Capital: AI industry remains strong despite academic brain drain, tech nationalization | London-based venture capital firm Air Street Capital today published the State of AI Report 2020, its third annual survey canvassing research, talent, industrial, and political trends in the field of AI. Coauthored by University College Lon... |
| 23.10.2019 | LabGenius: London-based startup gets €11.5M for discovering next-gen drugs using AI | The growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proliferated into various sectors. A lot of startups across the world are creating new approaches and seeking after the inventive business models in a bid to alter the pharmaceutical businesses... |
| - | Turkey’s workplace health and safety platform Intenseye raises $25 million | Turkish-founded employee health and safety platform Intenseye has raised $25 million in a Series A round. The startup uses computer vision to monitor the workplace and workforce for procedure violations, culminating in the reduction of work... |
