German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic
An extension to the company’s Series A brings total funding to €23 million and clears the path for the first human trial of KUP101, a dual TLR agonist targeting solid tumours and drug-resistant infections. Most immunotherapy research in oncology has concentrated on the adaptive immune system, the le
Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale
The San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with Mayfield backing and a pitch that treats ad creative as a continuous learning loop, not a quarterly deliverable. Every B2B marketing team knows the problem. A campaign launches, the creative is fresh, the targeting feels right, and then, slowly, it
Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail
The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin Lautier says he got the idea for Homaio on the Eurostar. He was reading a Financial Ti
GlobalComix raises $13M, acquires INKR, and appoints new CEO to build the infrastructure for global comics distribution
The New York digital comics platform is combining its 300,000-title library with INKR’s AI localisation engine, and bringing in new leadership to execute the expansion. The problem with getting manga into the hands of readers outside Japan is not demand. Manga is the fastest-growing category in Amer
Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform
Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 2025. Facebook has a creator problem that three billion monthly users cannot solve. The platform is enor
Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)
From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billio
NVIDIA GTC 2026 opens today
NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 opens in San Jose today with 30,000 attendees, a keynote at the SAP Center, and announcements that could reshape the next two years of AI infrastructure, from Vera Rubin deep-dives to an enterprise agent platform and a gigawatt deal with Mira Murati’s startup. San Jose goes green e
WhiteBridge AI raises $3M seed round
WhiteBridge AI, the Vilnius-based people-search and digital identity platform, has raised a $3 million seed round, equivalent to roughly €2.6 million, led by FIRSTPICK VC. The round also includes participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, BADideas.fund, Nectolabs, Plug and Play, and a gr
Most marketing agencies are held together by duct tape. GoHighLevel wants to fix that.
The average marketing agency juggles between six and 12 different software tools to manage clients: one for email, another for CRM, a third for funnels, something else for scheduling, a separate platform for reputation management, and probably a spreadsheet holding the whole thing together. Every ne
Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record
The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-term AI infrastructure agreement with Dutch neoclo
Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing
The London-based healthtech company, which lets clinicians practise emergencies and difficult conversations in virtual reality, will use the capital to deepen its US footprint and accelerate AI-driven product development. Oxford Medical Simulation has raised £5 million in growth financing from Salic
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles
Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexity on nearly identical grounds. Encyclopedia Brit
Gateway Global AI and the vision behind a voice-first infrastructure platform designed to simplify enterprise AI integration
Artificial intelligence has become a central topic in business strategy discussions, yet many organizations continue to struggle with how to integrate it into everyday operations. Gateway Global AI, a technology company developing voice-first infrastructure, is approaching that challenge from a diff
The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play
We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. Spend five minutes scrolling, and you can feel the machinery of social media outrage at work: the pulse of outrage, the
Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care
In the ubiquitous age of artificial intelligence, the technology appears as if it is largely earmarked for optimizing the mechanics of work. Buzzwords like speed, automation, efficiency, and productivity often dominate conversations that are shaping the digital era. Today, AI’s capability has expand