Venture Dispatch

Ecosystems

  1. Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
  2. Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
  3. SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
  4. UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
  5. US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
  6. OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt
  7. Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists
  8. Shield AI raises $2 billion to scale its autonomous combat pilot Hivemind
  9. Automate ISO 27001, SOC 2, and DORA compliance with expert CISO support, starting at -2,999/year
  10. Herbalife acquires Bioniq in a deal worth up to $150M
  11. Uber, Pony.ai, and Rimac’s Verne announce Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service
  12. OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform
  13. Giraffe360 raises $10M Series B to expand AI property media platform
  14. SOUS raises €4M to power culinary entrepreneurs
  15. Arkadia Space raises €14.5M for green propulsion system
  16. EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta in May with 2,500 attendees, and 80+ speakers
  17. Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues