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Bending Spoons' playbook is reshaping how we think about legacy tech in an AI-dominated world. Founded in 2013 by a trio of ex-McKinsey consultants with just $40,000 in seed capital, the company bootstrapped to profitability before unleashing this M&A machine. Today, at an $11 billion valuation, it's Italy's first decacorn and Europe's boldest bet on software consolidation. https://www.newnex.io/blogs/venture-capital/bending-spoons-45-billion-acquisition-spree-efficiency-driven-europes-stealthiest-tech-conglomerate
6 days ago|by Team S
Ireland’s life sciences and digital health startups posted their strongest year in a decade, drawing €491.3 million across 89 venture rounds in 2024, per PitchBook-powered analysis. Growth-stage and later financings expanded to 46% of activity- more than twice 2014’s share- underscoring a system shifting from seed-heavy to scale-oriented.Enterprise Ireland emerged as the year’s most active investor globally in the sector, joining 60 transactions and accelerating deployment from the €500 million Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund. Of that, €454 million has been allocated to date, including €298 million to 68 health and wellbeing projects.Momentum carried into 2025 with a €115 million late-stage raise for Dublin medtech FIRE1, among Europe’s largest health tech rounds this year. FIRE1’s Norm platform embeds a sensor in the IVC to track fluid status in heart failure, pairs with a daily wearable belt, and streams readings to clinicians via cloud and app—aimed at reducing hospital reliance and improving patient decision-making.Ireland now ranks second in Europe for MedTech exports behind Switzerland, with €16 billion in annual shipments representing 14% of national exports. The country hosts more than 700 sector companies, including over 400 domestic ventures and nine of the top 10 multinational MedTech players.On the public side, digital patient access advanced: since September 2025, users at 31 hospitals can view appointments and health information through the HSE Health App, with rollouts continuing across the remaining hospitals.
6 days ago|by Team S
KKR & Co. delivered another standout quarter, underscoring its strength across asset management and insurance. The firm raised $43bn in new capital, set a record for fee-related earnings at $1bn, and continued to scale its platform with double-digit growth across strategies.Adjusted net income reached $1.3bn in the third quarter of 2025, up 8% year-on-year, while total operating earnings climbed 12% to $1.4bn. Assets under management (AUM) rose 16% YoY to $723bn, with fee-paying AUM at $585bn. KKR’s dry powder stood at $126bn, providing ample capacity to execute on new opportunities.Deployment remained brisk. The firm invested $26bn during the quarter - its most active period on record - and $85bn over the past twelve months, reflecting strong conviction across private equity, credit, infrastructure, and asset-based strategies.Insurance continues to be a growth engine. Global Atlantic contributed $305m in operating earnings and expanded its AUM to $212bn. The segment was further bolstered by a $2bn strategic investment from Japan Post Insurance, enhancing KKR’s footprint in retirement and reinsurance markets.KKR also advanced its sector reach with recent acquisitions. The purchase of HealthCare Royalty Partners added roughly $3bn to AUM and broadened exposure to biopharma royalty streams, complementing existing healthcare investments and income-oriented strategies.Across segments, momentum remained broad-based: private equity AUM climbed 17% YoY to $222bn, supported by fundraising for North America Fund XIV and K-Series vehicles; real assets rose 14% to $186bn; and credit and liquid strategies expanded 16% to $315bn, driven by CLO issuance and inflows to asset-based finance.The Strategic Holdings segment, focused on long-duration equity investments, delivered $58m in operating earnings and is projected to exceed $1bn annually by 2030, signaling a growing contribution from permanent capital-style positions.KKR declared a quarterly dividend of $0.185 per share, maintaining consistent returns to shareholders as the firm scales fee-based revenues and diversifies its earnings mix.
6 days ago|by Team S
Thrivory, a healthcare AI and fintech company, secures $3.5 million in equity funding and access to up to $25 million in credit. The equity round was led by Redesign Health, with the credit facility anchored by Trinity Capital to support scaling real-time, non-recourse claims payments for healthcare providers.Thrivory has launched ThriveNow API that embeds same-day claim payments directly into electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system (PMS) workflows, enabling providers to “get paid today” without taking on debt, personal guarantees, or workflow disruption. Thrivory’s platform combines healthcare-specific AI underwriting and real-time payments, predicting claim outcomes with around 96% accuracy, advancing up to 80% of expected claim value within hours, and absorbing the loss if a claim is denied.Thrivory addresses one of healthcare’s biggest financial pain points: slow, unpredictable insurer reimbursement that strains cash flow and limits practice growth. Early customers using the embedded instant-payment model report growth acceleration of up to 200%, with Thrivory so far reporting zero losses and zero write-offs on its portfolio.
20 days ago|by Team S
Medicxi, a life sciences venture capital firm based in London and Geneva, has raised €500 million (approximately $581.6 million) for its sixth fund The fund will support innovative biotech companies with product visions to transform patient care, targeting asset-focused biotechs across all stages of development.Since its last fundraising, Medicxi created 16 new companies and realized more than $1 billion in returns from its portfolio, including notable exits such as Sanofi’s $1.15 billion acquisition of Vicebio and Eli Lilly’s purchase of Versanis Bio.Over the past decade, Medicxi has closed six funds, managing more than €2 billion in total commitments. Recent investments include backing Curevo Vaccine’s $110 million Series B to challenge GSK’s shingles vaccine, Shingrix. Medicxi’s portfolio also features prominent vaccine ventures like Vaxcyte and Vicebio. Co-founder and partner Giovanni Mariggi emphasized the firm’s capital-efficient and rapidly scaling investment strategy.
21 days ago|by Team S
Sofinnova Partners, a leading European venture capital firm, has raised €650 million ($750 million) for a new fund dedicated to life sciences. Most of the fund will support biotechnology startups developing new drugs, while 20-30% will go toward medical device makers, according to partner Maina Bhaman. The firm has already invested in five companies from this fund, including radiopharmaceuticals startup Actithera and inflammatory disease specialist Elevara Medicines.This latest fundraising comes during a rebound in life sciences investment, with global biotech funds raising $6.1 billion between July and September 2025 after a slow start earlier in the year. Sofinnova, founded over 55 years ago and managing over €4 billion in assets, focuses on being the first investor in young life sciences companies and also supports spinouts from large pharmaceutical firms, particularly those built around a single asset.Despite the influx of capital, early-stage companies have faced difficulties securing funding due to heightened investor caution and regulatory uncertainty. Challenges include changes at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and evolving rules around pharmaceuticals, particularly for gene therapies and rare diseases. Sofinnova has announced seven investments in 2025 in startups such as Hemab Therapeutics, GlycoEra, and T-Therapeutics, and earlier launched its Biovelocita II fund, backed by Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer Ventures.
21 days ago|by Team S
London-based FinTech startup Clove has secured $14m (£10m) in pre-seed funding to democratise access to financial advice. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Kindred, Air Street, and a group of angel investors.Founded earlier this year by Alex and a co-founder, Clove is building a hybrid model that blends human expertise with AI to deliver personalised guidance at scale. The company argues that much of today’s advisory work is administrative rather than advisory; by automating repetitive tasks, Clove aims to free advisers to focus on higher‑value decision-making for clients.
a month ago|by Team S
Fabra, a Sydney startup founded in 2023 by Luke Grana, Gloria Yu, and ex-Canva engineer Nick Manks, has secured $2.8 million in pre-seed funding from January Capital, Side Stage Ventures, Concept Ventures, and Li & Fung. The company debuted a browser-based 3D design platform aimed at democratizing product creation, starting with fashion categories like streetwear, merchandise, athleisure, and sportswear. The tool integrates high-fidelity 3D design, real-time collaboration, remixable templates, materials, and exports manufacturer-ready tech packs—targeting solo creators and small brands without CAD expertise. Fabra plans general availability early next year with expanded capabilities and verticals, and is preparing a seed round. Investors highlight its role in lowering the barrier from idea to execution and building a collaborative, generative, browser-based workflow aligned with a more distributed creative supply chain.
a month ago|by Team S
Conduct, a London startup founded in 2024 by three former Palantir engineers, has emerged from 18 months of stealth with a $12m round led by Creandum, joined by Lucid Capital, Booom, and angels from Palantir, Google DeepMind, and Workday. Its agentic platform lets enterprises interact directly with their systems to reveal and manage complex codebases, launching first for SAP environments used by 90% of Fortune 500. Early customers include Daimler Truck and Rittal. The raise follows a surge in European workflow AI investing—recently N8n saw Series C valuations jump to nearly $3bn, and Lovable received offers up to $4bn—as AI-native startups have secured €6.6bn in 2025 to date, far outpacing €3.9bn in 2024. Creandum’s Peter Specht says Conduct is positioned to reshape management of complex enterprise systems with a focus on customer value.
a month ago|by Team S
Harvey, the San Francisco-based legal AI startup, has raised $150 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at over $8 billion. The three-year-old company, founded in 2022 by CEO Winston Weinberg and former DeepMind researcher Gabe Pereyra, provides AI tools to major clients including A&O Shearman, Ashurst, KKR, and Bridgewater. Its valuation has more than doubled over the past year, following raises at $3B (February 2025) and $5B (June 2025). Harvey has now raised over $1 billion in total.The company reported $100M+ ARR in August, double its revenue earlier in 2025. Harvey is backed by RELX (owner of LexisNexis) and signed a deal with LexisNexis in June, positioning it against rivals such as Casetext (acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650M), Legora (raising at $1.8B), and established legal tech players like Luminace, Clio, and Ironclad, alongside niche-focused startups like EvenUp and Finch. Forbes has recognized Harvey on its AI 50 and Next Billion-Dollar Startups lists since 2023. a
a month ago|by Team S
Gradient Labs, founded by ex‑Monzo leaders Dimitri Masin, Danai Antoniou, and Neal Lathia, secured a $13 million Series A led by Redpoint Ventures with backing from Exceptional Capital, Liquid 2, LocalGlobe, and Puzzle Ventures. The company launched Otto in November, an AI agent for complex customer support that identifies vulnerable customers, detects complaints, and avoids pitfalls like unauthorized financial advice or tipping off. Early customers include Plum, Zego, Lendable, Yonder, Nala, Sling, and a “first live autonomous AI customer support for a large regulated bank.” Gradient claims 40–60% auto‑resolution within days without custom integrations and higher CSAT than top human agents. New funding will train agents for money‑laundering investigations, technical troubleshooting, and nuanced compliance, and support US expansion.
a month ago|by Team S
 London-based Archestra, founded by Matvey Kukuy (CEO), Ildar Iskhakov (CTO), and Joey Orlando, raised £2.44m led by Concept Ventures with Zero Prime Ventures, Celero Ventures, RTP Global, Aloniq, and angels. The trio moved from Singapore, Israel, and Canada and previously built Amixr (exited to Grafana in 2021). Archestra’s open‑source platform adds security layers for safely connecting AI agents to internal data sources, leveraging Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) while addressing MCP’s current enterprise unsuitability. The company targets the iPaaS market projected to exceed $17bn by 2028, aiming to help both engineers and non-technical teams integrate AI into workflows securely and at scale. Investors cite MCPs as emerging “connective tissue” for enterprise AI context, positioning Archestra as the needed infrastructure layer.
a month ago|by Team S
Source.ag, the Amsterdam-based AI platform for Controlled Environment Agriculture, closed a €15.2 million Series B led by Astanor, with strategic participation from Enza Zaden and Harvest House, bringing total funding to €52 million in five years. Founded in 2020 by Rien Kamman and Ernst van Bruggen, the company delivers applied AI for greenhouse management-precise forecasting, autonomous crop control, and data centralisation-now powering 300+ greenhouses over 2,500 hectares in 18 countries, supplying tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers to an estimated 40 million people. The round underscores AI’s role in climate-resilient food production within CEA, a sector constrained by human capacity but optimised through digitised grower knowledge and data. Strategic partners highlight benefits including improved yield prediction, automated irrigation, quality gains, efficiency across the value chain, and enhanced seed breeding via integrated data layers. Funds will accelerate global scaling and expand Source.ag’s AI product suite, positioning it as a sector leader amid relatively few 2025 AI-CEA funding rounds; adjacent activity includes SugaROx’s €1.1M raise, while European AgriTech investment remains strong.
a month ago|by Team S
1mind, co-founded by Amanda Kahlow (ex-6sense CEO), raised $30 million in a Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $40 million. Its AI agent, Mindy, focuses on inbound sales rather than outbound, aiming to “replicate the human experience” across self‑serve sites and live calls, from technical sales engineering to onboarding, and even closing deals. The company uses a mix of LLMs (OpenAI, Google Gemini) with “deterministic AI” guardrails to curb hallucinations; Mindy is trained to admit uncertainty when needed.1mind reports over 30 customers including HubSpot, LinkedIn, and New Relic, all on annual, non‑experimental contracts with an average six‑figure value. Kahlow also deploys an avatar of herself for VC diligence and public Q&A via her LinkedIn; Battery’s Neeraj Agrawal praised its nuanced conversation design and noted customers often forget they’re speaking to AI.Kahlow envisions agents eventually reshaping or replacing parts of AE roles, though trust remains a barrier for very large enterprise deals. She anticipates future agent‑to‑agent transactions will be information transfers rather than human‑like avatars. For now, 1mind still employs 44 people and is hiring with 71 openings, including AEs. The round included Primary Ventures, Wing VC, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners, Success Venture Partners, and angels from companies like Monday.com, ZoomInfo, Databricks, Box, Gong, Braze, and Verkada.
a month ago|by Team S
Revolut is nearing a $3B fundraise at a $75B valuation, combining new capital with a secondary sale to provide liquidity for early investors and employees. This follows an August tender offer at $45B, with some repurchased shares resold to new investors at the higher price. Founded in 2015 by Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko, the London fintech now serves about 65 million customers, adding roughly 1 million every 17 days, across a “financial superapp” spanning banking, trading, payments, budgeting, and international transfers. The fresh capital backs entry into 30 new markets and approximately $13B in investment to reach 100 million users, prioritizing full banking licenses or bank acquisitions to accelerate regulated expansion. Revolut’s valuation is up nearly two-thirds year-over-year, with industry projections pointing toward $150B, positioning it just behind HSBC among Europe’s largest banks.
a month ago|by Team S
CoMind, a UK startup founded by James Dacombe (age 25, founded at 17), has secured $102.5m total funding, including a $60m Series A led by Plural with backing from Angelini Ventures, LocalGlobe, Octopus Ventures, Crane, Backed VC, and Entrepreneurs First. The company claims a breakthrough in non-invasive brain monitoring that measures core indicators like cerebral blood flow without drilling into the skull—addressing current methods that are either invasive with a 15% complication rate or inaccurate. In the US, about 3 million TBI patients annually are affected, with only 5% receiving intracranial pressure tests; CoMind targets FDA approval within two years to access the ICU market and will expand with an AI platform to turn sensor data into predictive insights, enabling earlier complication detection and personalised treatment. Investors describe CoMind as a pioneering photonics company with potential for global impact and a safer, more affordable alternative to existing solutions.
a month ago|by Team S
Wonderful raised $100 million Series A led by Index Ventures just four months after a $34 million Seed, signaling strong investor confidence amid the AI agent boom. Founded in early 2025, the company is already operating in 10 countries and plans expansions into Germany, Austria, the Nordics, Portugal in 2026 and Asia-Pacific thereafter. Wonderful’s enterprise AI agents automate customer-facing interactions across voice, chat, and email, reporting 80%+ resolution rates on tasks like billing disputes and scheduling, and are tailored to local language, culture, and regulations with deep integrations into client systems. CEO Bar Winkler stresses efficiency gains over layoffs, noting roles will evolve rather than disappear. The company has 120 employees (with 40 engineers in Israel) and serves global clients in sales optimization, training, procurement, and call transcription. Backers include Insight Partners, IVP, Bessemer, and Vine Ventures. Co-founders: Bar Winkler (ex-Approve.com, sold to Tipalti) and Roey Lalzar (ex-Kaps).
a month ago|by Team S
Tenzai, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, emerged from stealth with a $75 million seed at a $330 million valuation, aiming to use AI agents (fine-tuned on Anthropic and OpenAI models) to autonomously find and exploit application vulnerabilities, then propose fixes for human review. Cofounders Pavel Gurvich and Ariel Zeitlin previously sold Guardicore to Akamai for $600 million; cofounders Ofri Ziv, Itamar Tal, and Aner Mazur (ex-Snyk) round out the team. Backers include Greylock, Lux, and Battery, with Greylock’s Asheem Chandna pegging the AI security testing market at $5 billion. Tenzai targets bespoke, critical apps for enterprises—competing more with consultancies like Deloitte and PwC than commodity tools—and enters a field with rivals like Terra Security and XBOW. Gurvich argues AI can uncover serious issues at scale; Anthropic reported its Sonnet 4.5 found new vulnerabilities in 33% of tested open-source tools.
a month ago|by Team S
London-based Spectral Compute secured $6 million led by Costanoa with Crucible and angels to advance SCALE, a software framework that lets applications written for Nvidia CUDA run on competing GPUs. The approach is “source-by-code,” preserving ownership of original CUDA code and complying with licensing, unlike projects like ZLUDA. Today, compatibility covers select AMD architectures, with plans to expand to Intel and startups. SCALE is free for non-commercial use; commercial licensing varies by deployment, including cloud providers and bespoke on‑prem enterprise models. Founded in 2018 by Michael Søndergaard, Chris Kitching, Nicholas Tomlinson, and Francois Souchay, the 19‑person team will use funds for product development, go‑to‑market acceleration, and hiring. 
a month ago|by Team S
Vay, a Berlin-based “teledriving” startup founded in 2018, has secured an initial $60m investment from Grab, with a further $350m contingent on performance milestones over the next year, totaling up to $410m. Vay remotely navigates rental cars to customers before handover and launched its first commercial service in Las Vegas last year; it also debuted Europe’s first commercial remote driving service in Belgium in January. Grab’s backing aims to accelerate Vay’s tech development, create synergies with Grab’s mobility strategy, and support US expansion targeting non-car owners seeking flexible, affordable options. Vay previously obtained a €34m EIB loan to scale in Europe, and plans to deploy “tens of thousands” of shared, electric, driverless vehicles in the coming years.
a month ago|by Team S
Majestic Labs, led by former Meta and Google silicon executives Ofer Shacham (CEO), Sha Rabii (President), and Masumi Reynders (COO), has raised $100 million, including a $71 million Series A in September led by Bow Wave Capital with Lux Capital among investors. The startup is building patent‑pending server architecture with up to 1,000× the memory of typical enterprise servers, aiming to collapse multiple racks into a single server that cuts power, cooling, and footprint. They develop the full chip system “much like Nvidia,” but focus on memory‑intensive AI workloads where fixed compute‑to‑memory ratios constrain performance, targeting hyperscalers and data‑heavy sectors like finance and pharmaceuticals. Each server may replace up to 10 leading racks.Prototypes of Majestic’s box servers are slated for 2027, with pre‑order talks underway; clients were not disclosed. The company has fewer than 50 employees, split between Tel Aviv and Los Altos, plans to grow both sites and seek additional funding in the coming year, and expects hiring to ramp in 2026. The founders previously stood up Google’s TPU efforts and Meta’s FAST team; Rabii led Google’s Argos video chip used in YouTube data centers, and Shacham’s Chip Genesis tech contributed to Pixel AI accelerators. Their launch coincides with rising capex across Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, collectively projected to exceed $380 billion this year.
a month ago|by Team S
Berlin-based CERPRO, an AI SaaS for manufacturing quality assurance, raised around €2 million in a pre-Seed round to expand product development, sales, and European market presence. The company’s first product, QualiSpec, automates inspection and documentation from technical drawings and is used by 100+ companies across aerospace, medical devices, and mechanical engineering. 
a month ago|by Team S
Swedish textile recycler Syre will seek $500–700 million within a year to fund a new Vietnam plant, leveraging a “bankable” multi-year offtake with Nike for recycled polyester. Backed by investors including TPG Rise Climate, Volvo Cars, IMAS Foundation, Giant Ventures, and Norrsken VC, Syre aims to expand its circular polyester production near major apparel hubs. The Vietnam facility follows a $100 million-financed first U.S. plant in 2024, as the company scales supply to brands like H&M, Gap, Target, and Houdini to accelerate traceable, low-carbon textiles.
a month ago|by Team S
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The British Business Bank (BBB) is increasing co-investments directly into U.K. scaleups, aiming to plug funding gaps-especially between Seed and Series A and at growth stage-while crowding in private capital.Under the Modern Industrial Strategy, the BBB has been allocated £4 billion for priority sectors and £2.6 billion for broader startups. Since shifting its approach in 2021, it has passed £250 million in direct co-investments across 33 tech and life sciences companies, with plans for a higher share-potentially up to 25% of Industrial Strategy capital-done via co-investment.Selection follows two lenses: topping up existing fund-backed breakout companies guided by power law dynamics, and backing research-intensive deep-tech and life sciences (including many university spinouts) that need time and capital to reach market. The BBB is expanding its team and launching the British Growth Partnership to invest directly in growth-stage companies on behalf of institutional investors (e.g., NatWest Cushion, Aegon, London CIV), helping pension funds-per the Mansion House direction-engage with VC via curated products. Supporting policy includes pooling local government pensions by 2026, with at least one £100 billion pool, as outlined by Pensions Minister Torsten Bell, to enable larger schemes to bear VC risk and increase investment in innovation. Overall, the strategy uses public funds to crowd in private capital, easing access to growth funding for U.K. scaleups.
a month ago|by Team S
Billionaire Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is expanding beyond its traditional focus on liquid markets, initiating early talks with investors to launch a private credit fund in 2026. According to people familiar, the firm aims to raise at least $1 billion from external investors, bolstering its $41.5 billion investment platform. The move aligns with a broader industry shift as hedge funds and asset managers deepen exposure to the private credit boom amid demand for non-bank lending. The story underscores Point72’s strategic diversification and timing as major players defend the asset class’s performance while corporates increasingly tap private lenders.
a month ago|by Team S
Midlands-founded Rem3dy Health secured £1.4 million in fresh funding, with £900k from Borski Fund and £500k from Future Planet Capital Regional, announced at Birmingham Tech Week’s Scale-Up Summit. The round underscores rising investor confidence in the West Midlands and the impact of cross-border capital, backing CEO Melissa Snover’s push to expand globally and accelerate R&D for Nourished, its 3D-printed personalised nutrition brand. The deal also highlights regional initiatives like the West Midlands Co-Investment Fund and the Inclusive Innovation Catalyst, aimed at narrowing the funding gap for high-growth, women-led ventures.
a month ago|by Team S
Ventures Platform, a Lagos-based early-stage African investor, has raised $64 million for its second fund, targeting a final close of $75 million. Notably, the Nigerian government invested through its iDICE program, marking its first investment in a VC fund. Other limited partners include IFC, British International Investment, Proparco, Standard Bank, MSMEDA, AfricaGrow, European family offices like Alder Tree Investment, and former Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel.Founded in 2016, Ventures Platform previously launched a $46 million fund in 2022 focused on pre-seed and seed rounds. The current fund will also target Series A investments with larger ownership stakes. The firm has invested in over 90 startups, including Visa-backed Moniepoint and Stripe-owned Paystack.Despite a slowdown in African tech funding from $5 billion in 2021 to $2 billion in 2024, Ventures Platform has attracted local and global LPs, recycling capital and showing strong fund performance. The firm is expanding in Francophone West and North Africa and views Africa as a high-upside opportunity with significant long-term growth potential.
a month ago|by Team S
Lasso has raised US $6.5 million in a fresh seed round to launch its revolutionary food-manufacturing platform. The company’s proprietary system, dubbed Lasso SpinTech, was developed at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and uses fibre-spinning physics to weave protein and fibre into clean-label food products - without the high heat, additives or energy intensity of traditional processing. Based in Boston and evolving from its precursor brand Tender Food, Lasso is expanding beyond plant-based meat into broader categories such as snacks, pet food and other high-growth segments. The funding round was led by Rhapsody Venture Partners with participation from Safar Partners, Claridge Venture Partners and others.
a month ago|by Team S
Nvidia has become a founding member of the India Deep Tech Alliance (IDTA), a $2 billion investment group focused on nurturing deep tech startups in India across sectors such as AI, semiconductors, biotech, space, robotics, and energy. As part of its commitment, Nvidia will provide technical training and mentorship through its Deep Learning Institute, supporting emerging Indian startups in AI systems, developer enablement, and responsible implementation. This initiative aligns with India's strong government backing for deep tech innovation, including multi-billion dollar funding programs and the upcoming AI Impact Summit in 2026. Nvidia’s involvement strengthens its presence in India’s growing tech ecosystem as the country emerges as a global player in AI and related technologies, alongside other major investments from tech giants like Google.
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