Megadeals: Late-Stage AI and Robotics
The largest raises of the day came from well-capitalized bets on AI infrastructure and physical AI.
- Wonderful, the Netherlands-based enterprise AI productivity platform, raised $550M in a Series C at a $5B valuation. No lead investor was named in available reports.
- Lyte, a physical AI startup building sensing and perception technology for robots, raised $165M in a Series C led by Maverick Silicon, at a $1.6B post-money valuation. The company was co-founded by former Apple engineers.
- iPronics, a Spanish photonics spinout, raised $125M in a Series B backed by Nvidia, signaling continued semiconductor and photonics interest from major technology players.
Growth-Stage Raises: Consumer Intelligence and Space
A handful of Series A and extension rounds filled out the middle of the market.
- Conveo, a consumer research and intelligence platform, raised $50M in a Series A to expand into the US and build out enterprise infrastructure.
- HyImpulse, a German spacetech company developing suborbital and orbital launch systems, closed a Series A Extension of more than $50M, co-led by JOIN Capital and Ace Capital Partners.
Seed and Pre-Seed: Food, Pharma, Climate, and More
Earlier-stage deals spanned a wide range of verticals, with AI threading through nearly all of them.
- iPremom, a Spanish molecular diagnostics company focused on early detection of pregnancy complications, raised $15M in seed funding led by Amadeus Capital Partners.
- Backbone, a food industry compliance and quality software startup, raised $4M in pre-seed funding. No lead investor was named in available reports.
- MIRAVA, a smart recreational boat startup, raised $4M in angel funding to move from product development into small-batch production.
- Ki 13, a UK cleantech company building biomass electrolysis technology for synthetic fuels, raised $5M in seed funding led by HICO Investment Group.
- Pharosyn, a London-based AI platform for pharma competitive intelligence, raised $3M in a round led by Moonfire, with participation from Entrepreneurs First and others.
- Souk, a UK B2B partner management platform, raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by Sure Valley Ventures.
- Hiasynth, an AI startup building a synthetic model of Europe's population, raised an undisclosed angel round led by Further Than Capital.
Fund Launches and Institutional Commitments
Two fund announcements added to the week's capital formation picture.
- Uplift Ventures, the Hamburg and Berlin-based venture platform backed by industrial group Jungheinrich, launched an inaugural $100M deeptech fund targeting up to 20 startups and selected funds across Europe.
- Zinc Capital Management secured a commitment of up to $54M from the British Business Bank for its Science-for-Impact Fund, which backs science-driven founders from the earliest stages of company creation.
Trends and Editorial Perspective
The day's deal flow reinforces a pattern that has defined 2026: capital is concentrating at the extremes. Megafunds are writing ever-larger checks into AI infrastructure, while a long tail of pre-seed rounds continues to form in verticals where regulatory complexity creates a moat, food compliance, pharma intelligence, and synthetic fuels being three examples from this single day. The Nvidia-backed iPronics raise is a reminder that the semiconductor and photonics layer underneath AI is attracting strategic dollars, not just financial investors. Meanwhile, the twin deeptech fund launches from Uplift Ventures and Zinc, combined with the British Business Bank commitment, suggest that European institutional capital is beginning to close the structural gap that has historically forced deeptech founders across the Atlantic for late-stage checks.