Romanian startup Kyndred has closed a €500,000 pre-seed round from Early Game Ventures to build AI companions with persistent memory, voice and facial animation. Its first companion, Maya, passed 150 paying users within three months.
Paris-based Rayon, which makes browser-based drawing software for interior designers, has raised a €10 million Series A led by Partech. Customers include Virgin Atlantic, which uses Rayon to design airport lounges.
Marble, a Paris startup building a no-code, open-source platform for fraud and anti-money-laundering compliance, has raised a €6.5 million Series A led by Smartfin. It runs in more than 100 institutions across 25-plus countries.
Munich-area climate-tech company Reverion has raised $175 million in a Series B led by Kembara to build a new factory and increase production of its reversible fuel-cell power plants roughly tenfold, creating about 800 jobs.
SiMa.ai, the physical AI chip and software company founded by Krishna Rangasayee, has raised $150 million in a Series C co-led by Fidelity and Amplify Partners, valuing it at $1.45 billion and taking total funding to $500 million.
A draft IPO prospectus for Anthropic, reviewed by Reuters and the Financial Times, shows 2025 revenue of about $4.6 billion, a $42 billion net loss driven largely by accounting charges, and plans to spend $518 billion on computing, alongside 80 pages of risk factors.
Secured-lending platform Bharat Housing Network has raised $5 million in green bonds from Symbiotics, part of a $75 million green basket bond programme with British International Investment, to fund rooftop solar, electric vehicles and clean-tech loans.
The Centre has told the Supreme Court it will amend India's IT intermediary rules to make it a statutory obligation for platforms to stop minors from opening social media accounts, a move that could reshape how global tech firms operate in their largest user market.
IBM and Yotta Data Services have launched a Sovereign Agentic AI Platform that lets Indian organisations build and run AI agents while keeping data, operations and governance within India, combining IBM watsonx Orchestrate with Yotta's Shakti Cloud.
Arivihan, an Indore-based edtech startup that uses AI to tutor school students without human teachers, has raised $10.2 million in a Series A co-led by Accel and Prosus Ventures. About 80% of its subscribers come from tier-3 towns and rural areas.