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London's Callosum has closed a $100m seed round led by Atomico, six months after a $10.25m pre-seed. It is also the UK Sovereign AI Fund's first investment, and Cerebras is its flagship chip partner.
Emergence Capital leads an oversubscribed Series B in the Finnish AI cloud, which plans to multiply its compute capacity within a year and build out inference as annualised revenue hits $165m.
The Paris fintech behind on-chain money market funds has raised $90m from NEA, Index and others, about 15 months after its Series A. It now plans local teams from Germany to the Nordics.
The bootstrapped Houston IT firm, whose staff sit in the US, Europe and Asia, says it switched a long-established healthcare client to new infrastructure with no outage and gave it cloud access to its old records.
The Paris-founded unicorn has redesigned its experience analytics tool to monitor chatbots and AI agents alongside human visitors, as it bets that brands will soon need to optimise for both.
Monzo has named Diana Layfield, who spent nine years at Google and ran Standard Chartered in Africa, as Group CEO. TS Anil, who led the bank for over five years, moves to an advisory role as listing talk grows.
N26 has named veteran German banker Marc Hess as chief financial officer from 15 October, filling the last open seat on its management board as the Berlin bank reports its first full year of profit.
Revolut outlines plans to invest $13 billion to pursue 100 million customers globally, with roughly 30 new markets targeted by 2030 and new banking licences in regions such as Mexico, Colombia, India and South Africa.
Qonto has launched Qonto Insights, a free monthly data platform built from anonymised transaction activity across its 750,000 SME customers in four markets, covering cash buffers, late payments, AI spend and cross-border trade.
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