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A week bookended by Mistral’s $830 million debt raise and a €1.1 million workpod pre-seed is a useful reminder of how wide the band of European ambition now runs. The dominant theme is not a single technology but a single instinct: build the infrastructure layer first, whether that means sovereign A
Startup investors kept up the busy dealmaking pace this week with a number of big rounds. Top among them was a $1.75 billion Series D for Austin-based Saronic, developer of autonomous vessels.
The fall in venture capital funding for the first week of April was largely due to the absence of high value transactions.
As of March 31, foundational AI startups had raised $178 billion across 24 deals, compared with $88.9 billion across 66 deals in all of 2025 in a 100% increase. That’s also significantly higher — 466.9% higher to be exact — than the $31.4 billion raised across 52 deals in 2024.
Hello, India is officially counting its people. Census 2027 kicked off in the country on Wednesday. The 16th population count in India—8th since independence—will be held in two phases. The world’s largest exercise of its kind takes a digital-first approach involving a self-enumeration portal, a
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured $300 billion into 6,000 startups globally in the quarter, up over 150% quarter over quarter and year over year, marking an a
The rise in venture capital funding in Indian startups for the first quarter of 2026 was largely due to the steady inflow of deals in the $30 million-90 million range.
NowPurchase has raised funds to expand scrap recycling, branded products and its AI platform MetalCloud for digitising and optimising metal manufacturing and procurement.
Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.
The record quarterly fundraise largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also indicates a generally hot market.
Savings and wealth platform Bachatt will utilise this capital to expand its user base and come out with newer products.
A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant thread is not a single sector but a single instinct: back the infrastructure layer, wh
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.
The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went to startups and growth-stage companies in sectors including defense tech, enterprise AI, autonomy and even laundry.
Bellatrix Aerospace will use this funding round to expand its manufacturing facilities and other business related activities.
Venture capital funding into Indian startups held steady at a higher level in the last week of March and this is a welcome sign for the ecosystem.
Among U.S. seed funding deals, it’s only the upper bands of larger and outlier seed rounds — those $10 million and above — that grew in 2025, Crunchbase data shows.
Burma Burma will use this capital for expansion into new cities and strengthen its presence in existing locations.
The slowdown is almost entirely due to fewer giant AI megarounds closing this month.
