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Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-28 Europe Startup London Paris

As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, startups on the continent are pivoting to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local VC firms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-28 Startup AI Africa

AI coding startup Cognition AI raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, and says its revenue run rate has increased to $492M from $37M in May 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-28 Startup AI

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-27 Startup Airbnb

Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (www.axios.com)
2026-5-27 Startup AI

How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (www.wired.com)
2026-5-26 Startup AI chatbot

Zero2IPO Research: Chinese AI startups raised $16.2B in Q1 2026, up 185% YoY, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai, and MiniMax (www.scmp.com)
2026-5-22 China Startup AI

Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU (tech.eu)
2026-5-22 Startup AI

Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-22 Microsoft Startup AI

Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-21 Startup

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-20 Startup Equity

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 Startup AI

On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised $110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at $1B (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-20 Startup Manufacturing

Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-19 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Quebec-based telecom software startup Gaiia raised a CA$54.8M Series B led by JMI Equity, bringing its total funding to ~CA$90M from backers including YC (betakit.com)
2026-5-18 Startup Quebec Equity

AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 Startup AI

Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-18 Startup AI

Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised $30M at a $1.4B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
2026-5-16 Startup Quantum

A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-16 Startup AI

Microsoft Edge to stop loading cleartext passwords in memory on startup (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16 Microsoft Startup

Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-15 Israel Startup AI Browser

London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15 Startup AI London

Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-15 Startup AI

Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 Energy Startup

UK chip startup Fractile raised a $220M Series B led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Founders Fund to make specialized logic and memory chips for inference (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-14 Startup

German quantum MRI imaging startup NVision raised a $55M Series B led by Abbott at a $250M to $300M valuation, and plans a $100M+ Series C later in 2026 (www.axios.com)
2026-5-13 Germany Startup Quantum

Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional $70M after a $130M raise announced in January, giving it a $2B post-money valuation (betakit.com)
2026-5-13 Startup Quantum

AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation, after Amazon chose Vapi to handle 100% of Ring calls (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-12 Amazon Startup AI

Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 Startup

Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups (www.axios.com)
2026-5-12 Startup

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