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Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)

Kandou AI raises $225 million to bet that copper can outlast the optical revolution

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EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta in May with 2,500 attendees, and 80+ speakers

A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room

Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global

Energy Vault acquires 175 MW battery project in Texas as it bets on AI-driven power demand

Foodtech Swish closes $38M Series B at $139M valuation

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders

IRONSCALES brings AI email agents and threat intelligence series to RSAC 2026

Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video

360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime

Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

The dummy server and the chip war

WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates

Reson8 raises €5M pre-seed funding to scale Europe’s first customisable speech AI

Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn

Ofiniti raises $6.8M to push its maritime fuel software into global shipping hubs

AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes

Restaurant tech startup Choice closes $7.1M Series A

Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care

Gateway Global AI and the vision behind a voice-first infrastructure platform designed to simplify enterprise AI integration

WhiteBridge AI raises $3M seed round

NVIDIA GTC 2026 opens today

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)

Rise of model context protocol in the agentic era

Uber founder Travis Kalanick launches robotics company Atoms

Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

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Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent

Moz Pro free trial: professional AI SEO tools from $39/month

AgentMail raises $6M to give AI agents their own email inboxes

Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI

Clarity as strategy

NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform

BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany

Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents

Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence

How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility

TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform