The Wedding Company Nets $2.8 Mn To Bolster Its Wedding Services
The Wedding Company, a three‑year‑old matrimony startup, closed a $2.75 million seed round led by Wellingdon Advisors, with existing backers LVX and Tremis Capital reinvesting and new investors Synergy Capital, Vivek Mathur and Rahul Garg joining. The funding will fuel expansion of its vendor network, strengthen category management, and broaden its wedding‑services catalogue across India’s $130 billion market. The startup now boasts a network of over 30,000 venues and 2,000 vendors, having executed more than 1,000 weddings to date. It projects FY26 revenue of roughly $42 million, a 225% jump from the prior year, and aims to deliver 1,500 weddings this fiscal year.
UK-Based Creator Fund Closes €48.6 Million Fund to Back Europe’s Scientific Founders Before Pitch Deck Stage
Creator Fund, a Kensington‑based pre‑seed VC, closed its inaugural European fund at €48.8 million (approximately $56 million). The round was led by Germany’s KfW Capital, with 71 limited partners from 21 countries, making it the largest student‑sourced fund globally. The fund will...
Travel Tech’s Initiative to Accelerate and Support the Next Generation of Travel Technology
Travel Technology Association hosted its latest Start‑Up & Investor Connect Webinar, where five early‑stage founders presented AI‑powered solutions aimed at modernizing travel planning, sales, and experiences. Companies such as Nappr, Pintours, Solutionz, Drifter AI and FleetFare showcased products ranging from micro‑stay...
Exclusive: Aadyah Aerospace Raises Fresh Funds in Series A Round
Aadyah Aerospace, an Indian aerospace and defense startup, raised Rs 31.5 crore ($3.3 million) in a Series A round led by Helios Holdings, with angel investor Meenu Sharma contributing Rs 1 crore. The financing increased the company’s valuation by roughly 26% to Rs 206 crore ($21.6 million). Proceeds will...
Opereit Raises $2.5m to Fix Logistics’ €1 Trillion Blind Spot
Opereit secured $2.5 million seed funding to tackle the logistics industry’s roughly $1.09 trillion annual loss from billing errors and claims mishandling. The platform leverages generative AI agents to automatically detect invoice mistakes, locate lost or damaged shipments, and file carrier claims...
Archestra.AI Raises $10M to Unlock Next-Gen Agentic Use Case
London‑based Archestra.AI announced a $10 million seed round led by 20VC, with participation from Visible Ventures, Tenacity Capital, and angels including Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel. The startup, founded in 2025 by Grafana Labs alumni, has raised $13.5 million total and offers an open‑source...
Swedish Oplane Raises €4.5M Seed to Automate Threat Modeling for AI Coding Teams
Swedish AI security startup Oplane secured €4.5 million (about $4.9 million) in a seed round led by Seed Capital, with participation from Icebreaker.vc and several angels. The company offers an agentic platform that automatically generates threat models and remediation suggestions for code...
Socceroos Legend Tim Cahill Backs Sports Swag Design Platform Nardo in $1 Million Pre-Seed Raise
Australian startup Nardo, a software platform that streamlines apparel design, ordering and delivery for amateur sports clubs, raised a $1 million pre‑seed round with former Socceroo Tim Cahill as an investor and strategic partner. The platform consolidates over 130 manual supply‑chain steps...
Everyday^ Closes €2.5 Million in a Pre-Seed Round to Develop Intelligent Home Infrastructure Across Europe
Everyday^, a European cleantech startup, closed a €2.5 million (~$2.7 million) pre‑seed round to build integrated home infrastructure that coordinates air quality, energy use and water management. The round brings together Generation Investment Management, the IKEA founding family via Ikano, Meta design...
Antler India Leads $1 Mn Pre-Seed Round in Wealthtech Platform Rovia
Rovia, a Bengaluru‑based wealth platform for equity‑compensation employees, secured a $1 million pre‑seed round led by Antler India, with participation from CDM Capital, AC Ventures, Operators Studio and angels in the US and India. The capital will expand engineering, product, brokerage integrations...
Snap Alums Unveil Ghost Angels Fund
A group of 20 former Snap executives and employees has launched Ghost Angels, a venture fund aimed at backing the next generation of social‑media and consumer AI startups. While the total capital raised remains undisclosed, the fund has already backed...
Pramatra Space Secures Pre-Seed Capital to Advance Space-Based Quantum Key Distribution Hardware
Pramatra Space Technology, a Bengaluru‑based quantum security startup, closed an undisclosed pre‑seed round led by Seafund Ventures, with participation from Rebalance, Magnivia Ventures, the Peaceful Progress Fund and several angels. The capital will fund the flight‑qualification of its proprietary photonic...
Vitrify Raises $1M Round From SVN and Plug and Play
Vitrify, a Brazilian capital‑markets data startup, closed a $1 million pre‑seed round led by SVN and Plug and Play. The funding follows an earlier angel round and will be used to hire AI specialists, expand cloud infrastructure, and broaden data coverage....
Barcelona’s Mafer AI Raises €2 Million to Build an AI Operating System for R&D Teams in Formulation Industries
Barcelona‑based Mafer AI closed a €2 million (≈$2.2 million) pre‑seed round led by Kfund, 4Founders Capital and others to build MaferOS, an AI operating system for R&D teams in formulation sectors such as cosmetics, food, beverages, and specialty chemicals. The platform trains...
Lithuania’s Kopa.ai Raises €2 Million to Scale Its Agentic AI Co-Pilot for E-Commerce Teams
Lithuanian AI startup Kopa.ai announced a €2 million (≈$2.2 million) seed round led by XTX Ventures and Practica Capital. The Vilnius‑based platform, which bills itself as an operating system for e‑commerce teams, already serves more than 2,000 merchants and posted €2 million in...