Growth
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Pirkx acquisition becomes an AI integration test
Pri0r1ty is buying Pirkx to automate a labour-heavy benefits platform.
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Strolll wins £4.3m backing for neurorehab
Innovate UK is backing Strolll’s augmented reality neurorehabilitation development with about £4.3m.
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iPremom raises €15m for pregnancy risk testing
Spanish healthtech iPremom has raised €15m to validate early pregnancy risk testing.
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Atira raises $15m to automate industrial bidding
Atira has raised $15m to automate complex manufacturing sales engineering workflows.
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Laser defence startup moves towards production
INLEAP Photonics has raised €20m to industrialise laser-based counter drone systems.
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3i deal deepens Nordic data centre capital rush
3i Infrastructure has completed a €263m investment in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter.
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Optical switching draws $125m AI infrastructure bet
Spanish photonics company iPronics has raised $125m for AI networking infrastructure.
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Pistachio turns failed startup IP into compliance play
Norwegian cybersecurity company Pistachio has bought Hugin.io’s technology from its bankruptcy estate, using the intellectual property to build compliance software for smaller businesses facing expanding European security obligations.
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Wonderful raises $550m for enterprise AI push
Amsterdam-based Wonderful has raised $550 million at a $5 billion valuation as it expands from individual AI agents into a broader enterprise platform spanning workflows, applications, integrations, and governance.
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UK scale-up fund draws M&G and Schroders
Britain’s scale-up fund is moving from policy into manager selection.











