Female-led Dutch startup ShanX Medtech secures €24M to accelerate novel diagnostics and treatments tackling the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
Author: Aden Erickson
London AgTech startup Biographica raises €8M to tackle global food security, using biological data and AI to boost crop resilience and sustainable agriculture.
Former Apple Face ID engineers secure $107M in funding to build a powerful “visual brain” for industrial robots, aiming to transform automation and human-machine collaboration.
Tectonic Metals appoints industry veteran Eira Thomas as Board Chair, leveraging her billion-dollar discovery track record to accelerate its Alaska gold exploration strategies.
Palo Alto Networks is reportedly closing in on a $400M acquisition of Israeli startup Koi, marking its first Israel deal since the Zuk era and a renewed bet on cloud cybersecurity.
Global VC firm Antler secures $510M, earmarking half for US founders, while portfolio startups Airalo and Lovable join the unicorn ranks, signaling a strong vote of confidence in early-stage tech.
Dutch startups have raised €1.3B in just 10 deals, signalling a powerful scale-up wave as the Netherlands positions itself as a leading European tech hub for 2026.
UK-based Octopus Energy is carving out its Kraken platform as a standalone, $1B-valued technology company, reshaping the global energy software landscape.
Investors say 28 months is no longer enough. Here’s why 2026 startup founders must rethink runway, milestones and survival in a harsher funding climate.
As capital floods back into startups, operator‑led, vertical specialist VCs are set to outcompete generalists. Here’s how they’ll win the 2026 funding cycle.