Market Moves edition

Market Moves · 15 Oct 2026

15 Oct 2026 · 15 articles

What investors really want to know about IP

European startups raised €21.45 billion ($24 billion) in the second quarter of this year, the region’s strongest quarter for venture funding in four years, according to Crunchbase. On the surface, capital is back. Look one level down and the picture changes. 65% of that money went to 42 companies raising rounds of €90 million ($100 […]

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 2

Day 2 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, full of all themes across AI, as well as an investor-only session, more roundtables, Side Events, and more. Register to save 50% on your pass.

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New unicorn alert! Skeleton Technologies lands multi-million funding to expand AI infrastructure in the US

Tallinn-based Skeleton Technologies, a developer high-power systems for AI infrastructure, today announced a “9-digit investment” from Siemens, bringing Skeleton’s valuation to more than €899 million ($1 billion). The investment will primarily accelerate the expansion of Skeleton’s US manufacturing footprint and R&D activities in Silicon Valley to meet growing demand from hyperscalers…

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Salience Labs raises $125M after showcasing world’s most advanced, fully optical circuit-switching tech

A startup called Salience Labs Inc. wants to play a bigger role in speeding up artificial intelligence workloads after raising $125 million in a Series B funding. Today’s round was led by Bullhound Capital and saw the two of the chipmaking industry’s most iconic names participate via their investment arms, Intel Capital AMD Ventures. SBI Group, […]

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Uvi raises $7.5M to help AI agents learn business context and run at eight times lower cost

Agentic artificial intelligence startup Uvi said today it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to tackle an expensive problem around business context that’s draining millions of dollars annually from the coffers of enterprises using autonomous AI agents. It’s backed by CT Innovations, which led the round, alongside Cardumen, Mana VC and 91 Ventures, which […]

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Evos bags $9M to build autonomous workers that learn from companies’ most experienced humans

A startup called Evos said today it has raised $9 million in pre-seed funding to spearhead the adoption of artificial intelligence-based automation within smaller businesses by learning from their most valuable assets – the people they employ. Today’s round was led by Uncork Capital and Field Ventures and was joined by Crosslink Capital, Utopia Capital […]

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Offensive security startup CodeWall launches with $4M for AI agents that attack enterprises

London-based offensive security startup CodeWall Ltd. officially launched today with $4 million in new funding to give enterprises such as banks autonomous artificial intelligence agents that attack them the way an outside hacker would. CodeWall begins each engagement with no credentials or inside knowledge of the target. Several agents, each built for a different kind […]

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Forgepoint raises $9.8M to automate custom price quotes for manufacturing firms

One of President Donald Trump’s main priorities is to revive America’s manufacturing industry in order to reduce its reliance on foreign imports and create more jobs, and a startup called Forgepoint Inc. shares the same goal after raising $9.8 million in seed funding today. The round was co-led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z Speedrun, […]

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NVIDIA plans minority investments in four French startups as European tech commitment nears €9 billion

NVIDIA, the US-based chipmaker behind the AI infrastructure buildout, has announced planned minority investments in four French startups: Doctolib, Entalpic, Genesis AI and Pigment.  These startups are striving to solve challenges across healthcare, materials discovery, physical AI and business planning. The US chipmaker has been deepening its commitment to building Europe’s artificial…

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CEO Interview: S3 Markets

Saman Baghestani, CEO of S3 Markets, 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 market as …

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Executive Interview: Raspberry AI

Deepika Pradeep, Chief of Staff of Raspberry 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? Raspberry AI operates …

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Executive Interview: Chalk

Elliot Marx, Co-Founder of Chalk, 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? Every new class of workload creates …

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Pluto Security nabs $42M to help enterprises secure their AI agents

Pluto Security Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence security software, today announced that it has raised $42 million in funding. The company raised about a fifth of the sum through a seed round led by TLV Partners. The rest arrived in the form of a Series A investment led by Jump Capital. The latter deal […]

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