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July 10, 2026

UK's firm Marker lands $13M to build an AI writing tool for the creative process

The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from LocalGlobe.

July 9, 2026

QuantumDiamonds secures €91M to revolutionize chip inspection with quantum sensing

The €91 million round was led by World Fund and supported by Bayern Kapital, IQ Capital, and Earlybird Venture Capital.

July 9, 2026

German firm Finto lands $3.4M to bring AI agents to enterprise accounting

The seed round was backed by Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

July 9, 2026

Pixel-Flo raises £5.25M to solve the critical bottleneck in MicroLED manufacturing

The seed round was led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from SCVC and Parkwalk.

July 9, 2026

Kraken, a maritime defence company, raises $1.75M at $1B valuation

Following the round, Kraken Technology Group became one of the UK's newest defence unicorns.

July 9, 2026

Trinity Robotics raises over €500k to scale combat-proven ground robots

Trinity Robotics manufactures Konyk ONE, an unmanned ground platform for military logistics, casualty evacuation, and mine-cleaning operations.

July 8, 2026

Polysense secures $10.7M seed to reduce food waste in manufacturing

Polysense develops an AI-native platform that automates in-line quality control for food manufacturers using real-time imaging and synthetic data.

July 7, 2026

Berlin-based ARC Intelligence raises €4M to build an AI-native finance operating system

In the near term, ARC plans to grow into the Netherlands and the UK, while scaling its team from eight to around 25 employees over the next year.