Year: 2025

Estonian-founded Starship Technologies secures $50M funding to expand autonomous delivery robots in US cities Starship Technologies, an Estonian-founded company building a network of autonomous delivery robots, announced the successful completion of a $50 million funding. The round was led by Plural to replicate its success in European cities and US

German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems is preparing for an investment round that could triple its value German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems is nearing the completion of a €150 million (approximately $175 million) funding round that could triple the company’s market valuation to €3 billion. This was reported by Reuters, citing

Defence tech Stark hires Project A investor Uwe Horstmann as CEO Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/stark-hire-project-a-defence/

Open-source startup powering Spotify and JP Morgan’s AI raises €13m seed Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/probabl-open-source-13m-seed/

Anthropic and Lovable angels back AI recruitment startup Jack & Jill in $20m round Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/jack-and-jill-funding-round-lovable-nico-rosberg/

BlackRock-backed Scalable Capital eyes European listing after securing banking licence Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/scalable-capital-banking-licence/

Mistral plots new AI-powered science research unit Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-for-science-ai-powered-science-research-unit/

Defunct electric aircraft startup Lilium’s tech lives on over at Archer Archer prevailed in a competitive bidding process that included Ambitious Air Mobility Group and U.S. based Joby Aviation. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/defunct-electric-aircraft-startup-liliums-tech-lives-on-over-at-archer/

VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff’s National Guard comments Ron Conway has been on the board of the Salesforce’s philanthropic organization for 10 years. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/vc-legend-ron-conway-quits-salesforce-foundation-after-benioffs-national-guard-comments/

Waymo dips its wheels back into delivery, this time with DoorDash Waymo has spent the past several years scaling up its robotaxi business. The partnership with DoorDash could mark a return to delivery. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/waymo-dips-its-wheels-back-into-delivery-this-time-with-doordash/