Tech Fund 17.04.2026
How Anthropic’s Mythos model prompts security concerns and quantum investment

Anthropic’s new AI model has been deemed too dangerous to release to the public, raising urgent questions about how quickly AI capabilities are outpacing The quantum industry is on the edge of an investment boom, fuelled by AI-led security risks, according to one investor....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Allbirds drops shoes, pivots to AI, soars over 600% in value to $148M: Report

Allbirds is exiting the shoe business and rebranding as NewBird AI, a GPU-as-a-service provider. Shares surged 582% on the announcement before falling sharply the next day....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
YC-backed Slash nabs $100M from Khosla Ventures for business banking platform

Fintech startup Slash Financial has reached a $1.4 billion valuation with a $100M Series C led by Ribbit Capital. Here is how it survived an 80% revenue drop to become a highly profitable vertical bank....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Tiger Global-backed Upscale AI eyes $200M raise at $2B valuation: report

Upscale AI has raised a $200 million Series A to scale its networking platform for AI data centres, aiming to reduce bottlenecks across GPUs, memory, storage and accelerators....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Sequoia Capital raises $7B expansion fund to back AI startups

Sequoia Capital has raised about $7 billion for a new expansion fund focused on mature companies in the US and Europe, giving the firm more firepower to back AI leaders such as OpenAI and Anthropic....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Urfuture secures £1.7M from River Capital to improve entry-level hiring using AI

Manchester startup urfuture raised £1.7M in seed funding to replace CV-based hiring with behavioural matching for Gen Z candidates and employers....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
Startups removing fossil fuels from supply chains become way to hedge risk amid energy crisis

The energy crisis is strengthening the case for sustainable materials and fossil-free chemicals. Plastics, chemicals, and fertilisers rely on fossil Plastics, chemicals, and fertilisers rely on fossil fuel-derived products, forcing supply chains to turn to sustainable alternatives amid supply chain disruption....

Tech Fund 17.04.2026
spektr bags $20M from NEA to replace manual KYC with AI agents for banks

Copenhagen-based spektr raised a $20M Series A led by NEA to automate manual KYC and KYB compliance work for financial institutions using AI agents....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
UK’s Sovereign AI Fund names 7 startups it’s supporting in its first batch. Here are the details

The UK Government just announced the first batch of companies it is supporting. They span biological foundation models, physical AI, sovereign AI and more....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
YC alum Solidroad snaps $25M from Hedosophia to fix the AI quality blind spot in customer support

Backed by Y Combinator and First Round Capital, Solidroad raised a $25M Series A to replace manual QA with an AI platform that evaluates all support interactions....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
CoreWeave secures $6B cloud deal and $1B equity from Jane Street

Global trading firm Jane Street has agreed to spend around $6 billion on AI cloud services from CoreWeave, while also investing $1 billion in the...

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
eToro acquires crypto wallet startup Zengo for $70M

eToro has agreed to acquire crypto wallet startup Zengo in a deal worth around $70 million, marking its first acquisition since going public last year....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
Exclusive: ⁠a16z, Accel and Kleiner Perkins’ scout funds back sisters in $3M round for kid-safe messaging app after seeing this pitch deck

A Tennessee-based startup building a safer messaging app for children has just closed a $3 million in pre-seed round funding. The round was led by Anamika The idea came from a painful experience, when a teen family member was cyber bullied and endured a mental health crisis....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
Anthropic, Spotify backer Accel closes $5B fund to scale late-stage AI investments

VC firm Accel has secured $5 billion in fresh capital as it ramps up investments in fast-growing artificial intelligence startups, reports Bloomberg. The...

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
How the post-boom correction reshaped venture capital firms, now disrupted by AI

Artificial intelligence has breathed a new lease of life into an otherwise sluggish venture capital market, and investors are back to cutting cheques. UK firms have shed headcount, reflecting a post-boom correction, as the industry more broadly turns to AI to aid investing....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
Alphabet could make over $100B from SpaceX IPO: report

An early investment in SpaceX could turn into a massive payday for Alphabet Inc. as the rocket company prepares to go public. According to a regulatory...

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
X-energy targets IPO up to $814M to deploy Amazon-backed nuclear reactors

Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy has launched its IPO roadshow, targeting up to $814M to commercialise its small modular reactors (SMRs)....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
Peek inside pitch deck Proteins.1 used to raise €4.7M from Lifeline Ventures to build the ‘PCR for proteins’

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Tech Fund 16.04.2026
Practica Capital backs Outcraft AI with €2M for revenue agents

Vilnius-based Outcraft AI raised a €2M pre-seed round led by Practica Capital to build autonomous revenue agents that instantly act on sales opportunities....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
Shine Capital backs Gizmo in $22M raise to prove studying can be as addictive as TikTok

Backed by Shine Capital and NFX, Gizmo raised $22M to expand its AI learning app, which uses gamification to help 13 million students study without distraction....

Tech Fund 16.04.2026
AI infrastructure startup Fluidstack to raise $1B at $18B valuation from Jane Street: reports

AI infrastructure startup Fluidstack is reportedly in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation, led by Jane Street, to scale its custom data centres....

Tech Fund 15.04.2026
A Cambridge spin-out secures €211M from EU to build graphene tech for faster AI data transfer

CamGraPhIC has secured €211M in Italian state aid to industrialise graphene-based optical interconnects designed to cut AI chip energy use and data bottlenecks....

Tech Fund 15.04.2026
Sygaldry Technologies raises $139M from Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures to build quantum AI servers

Sygaldry Technologies raised $139M across seed and Series A rounds led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Initialized Capital to build quantum hardware for AI....

Tech Fund 15.04.2026
Why lending infrastructure is becoming a core focus for fintech startups

Over the past decade, fintech innovation has largely centered on payments, neobanking, and user-facing financial tools. These segments attracted...