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Talent investor that forms and funds startup teams from individual founders.
Peripheral Labs, a Toronto startup with an $8.7 million seed round, made former Meta Reality Labs product head Shaun Carrigan its first chief product officer. The hire puts a broadcast-tech veteran in charge of taking the company's 3D sports video to broadcasters as replay clips.
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Cardiff University researchers built an 8-channel landslide-mapping model they say matches systems fed up to 30 data layers while running significantly faster. The team says the trimmed inputs let it run on cheaper hardware and make its maps easier to audit.
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Air Street Capital led the $40 million Series A for a hiring marketplace where a voice agent debriefs candidates and a second agent debriefs employers. The company says the pair have arranged 25,000 interviews.
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The Harwell company says five profitable years and more than $370M of signed contracts back the round, and the concrete gain it can show is Earth observation intelligence arriving in 30 minutes, down from up to 48 hours.
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The round is one of several nine-figure European space raises this year. It goes to a manufacturer that says it has been profitable for five years and had not taken outside money since a 50 million dollar Series B in 2023.
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The London GRC startup has raised $7.3m in seed funding for agents that assess third-party risk and show a citation and a confidence score for every conclusion. The part that audits other companies' AI agents is still being built.
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