Good noise for fusion, bad uproar for YC
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The noise can be good or bad. We have seen this week emerging companies on both sides of this fence – and we are on the good side justifying large financing rounds.
The most interesting startup stories of the week
As the week approaches its end, it is time to determine the advantages and defects.
Glorious pointsLacares Review Magazine Distinctive plans from the start of the German Proxima FusionLending new credibility of its concept and determination to the Tolidge integration station that can work reliably and continuously.
Sorry: Y combinator Delete its posts About the illustration of the YC W25 Optifye.ai after it became viral, not in a good way. It claims startup that she adopts “performance monitoring of factory workers”, but others And invite her “Swefshops-A-A-Service.”
Hurry points: It claims to start starting up to Palu Alto that it has evolved A large language model based on spread (DLM). The prevalence models are used mainly to create images, videos and sound, while they hope for compete with LLMS.
The most interesting VC news and funding news this week
This week, many startups have received funding rounds that were significantly large for their stages, and there are new funds ready to publish in the growth phase.
Register tourIsraeli emerging quantum machines, got one of the largest financing rounds, which is the computing company that has been raised so far with Series of 170 million dollars c Under the PSG Equity with Intel Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners and current investors.
Full circleThe shopping department, which manufactures a set of applications for e -commerce, is raised A tour a $ 60 million b It has also funded the Aiden acquisition, a “sales” manufacturing company that works for Amnesty International.
Magic weaponsPolish startup, making automatic weapons for logistics operations, I collected a series of $ 44 million Leading the EBRD (EBRD) VC arm. It plans to use some financing to access customers in North America.
Magic touchTaktile, a New York -based emerging company helps to create a workflow for automatic decisions, I closed a series of $ 54 million Under Balderton Capital, with the participation of Index Ventures, Tiger Global, YC, Prosus Ventures and Complairs Club.
Follow ideas: Atheer, Atheer Series tour of $ 35 million Under the leadership of London -based VC Plural to bring the “asset -free” parcel delivery model from Asia to Europe, in an approach also reduces energy consumption and depends on electronic bicycles.
lovable: Mahboub, a fast -based artificial intelligence organization platform that comes out of Sweden, He received 15 million dollars in the pre -chain tour Leaded by Creandum. She also said that she had reached $ 17 million of repeated annual revenues after reaching 30,000 customers paying with only $ 2 million.
European growthThe private stock company, Thuma Bravo, closed the opening European fund worth $ 1.9 billion To deepen its presence in the region and take fresh stock classes in medium software companies throughout the continent.
Cambridge growthCambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a British fund that invests exclusively in the ecosystem throughout the University of Cambridge, launched Fund for $ 126 million.
Last but not least
This week celebrated the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This motivated a wave of emerging companies with Ukrainian double use and defense technology innovation inside and outside the battlefield, and techcrunch Many of them approximated here.
Last week, the newsletter included an error; Augury achieved for the first time a unicorn position in 2021.
