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Global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 that backs pre-seed and seed founders through day-zero residency programs in many countries.
CodeWall, a London startup, launched with $4 million for AI agents that attack enterprises, pitched as a replacement for the once- or twice-yearly pen test. A buyer weighing the annual test against it has the company's own runs against consulting firms to go on.
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Andreessen Horowitz, Insight and Sequoia were among at least 22 investors in 10 or more Q3 venture rounds, most of them doing more deals as funding fell. Crunchbase ties the lower total to the absence of new record AI megarounds, while its lead-investor dollar rankings turn on a few multi-billion checks.
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Air Street Capital led $40 million into a hiring marketplace where an agent for the candidate and an agent for the employer must both agree before an introduction happens. The two have arranged 25,000 interviews so far.
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The British Business Bank's £46m works out at £575,000 of public money for each of Zinc's 80 planned companies. That sum pays for a formation step, not a science company. The gap between the two is the bet.
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Volve's seed is small next to the Dutch rival already buying up the category, and its moat claim rests on knowledge that has to be re-earned in every new procurement regime.
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Late-stage rounds tripled to $4.7 billion last year, more than half of all European defence funding. The fastest-growing early slice, counter-UAS and air defence, went from $5.1 million to nearly $250 million.
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