Europe’s robotics and physical AI ecosystem is expanding beyond traditional industrial automation to include humanoid robots, autonomous defence and security systems, software-defined manufacturing, and AI models designed to understand and act in the physical world. This list highlights some of Europe’s most promising robotics startups founded between 2024 and 2026. Together, they demonstrate…
Summary published by EU-Startups · 18 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reported numbers do not agree. The New York Times said $7.5 billion, citing a person with knowledge of the terms. Axios put it above […]
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Raghu Bala , CEO of Synergetics.ai, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? The total addressable market (TAM) for …
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Ilya Kravtsov, CEO of PillarLab.ai, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? The total addressable market (TAM) is $1 …
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Suhail Manocha, Founder & CEO at Butter Money, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? So, we are in …
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The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes. Silicon Data
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Ștefan Vâju, CEO at TelePaws, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Our TAM is close to $275B, …
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Rotem Abeles, Chief Product Officer at Airis Labs, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We define our …
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Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating…
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So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors included robotics, AI labs, healthcare and biotech, financial services, AI infrastructure, and AI deployment, among others. But which investors are winning the 2026 funding surge? We take a look.
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Graph database startup Graphwise said today it has secured a significant, though unspecified, investment from the European private equity firm Oakley Capital as it looks to beef up its go-to-market strategy and expand globally. It will also use the funds to pursue strategic acquisitions, it said. Oakley has acquired a majority stake in the Bulgarian startup […]
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The rise of neoclouds — AI-first cloud providers — is transforming enterprise infrastructure. The unique requirements of AI models and agents have paved the way for new collaborations between hardware companies, data platforms and neoclouds. As the industry moves from training to inference, these partners are striving to meet the demands for compute power and […]
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In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up dramatically — almost 4x — compared to the second half of 2025 when startups in the sector raised $12 billion across 470 deals.
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The vendor is part of a wave of native-AI startups that are attracting strong funding.
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Massive AI spending has helped push earnings and valuations for semiconductor industry leaders to record levels, prompting the sector's giants to invest record sums in artificial intelligence and robotics startups.
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