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Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora, with a six-partner team and a $1–5M typical cheque. Credo Ventures has closed Credo St…

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IRONSCALES brings AI email agents and threat intelligence series to RSAC 2026

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The inbox has long been the softest entry point in enterprise security. As phishing campaigns grow more convincing, more personalised, and increasingly powered by generative AI, the tools designed to stop them have been locked in a reactive cycle: w…

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The passwordless future is years away. Here is what businesses should do now

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Every year since roughly 2018, the cybersecurity industry has declared that passwords are dying. Passkeys, biometrics, and FIDO2 hardware tokens would replace them. The promise was elegant: no more breached vaults, no more credential stuffing, no mo…

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OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from Helion

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Axios reports that OpenAI could secure 5 gigawatts of electricity from Helion Energy by 2030, scaling to 50 gigawatts by 2035. Altman has stepped down as Helion’s board chair and recused himself from the deal talks, an echo of the same move he made …

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Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Munich startup is building what it calls a ‘context graph’, a continuously updated map of how operational decisions actually get made inside an enterprise, drawn from millions of real cases rather than documentation that may never have been writ…

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Meta’s CEO is developing a personal AI assistant to handle executive duties

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent designed to assist him with his duties as chief executive of Meta. According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the system remains in development but already functions as an on-demand information tool th…

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Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video

maandag 23 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct challenge to the architectural limits…

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The dummy server and the chip war

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. …

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WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human app…

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BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind BBLeap is disarmin…

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Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intellige…

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Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the y…

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VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

vrijdag 20 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Ca…

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Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There…

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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ago, Microsoft was generating images for Bing and…

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Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what exactly your inbox knows about you. The answer, it turns out, is everything. And the companies running the mos…

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Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing robotaxi deals at a pace that can make any single an…

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eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumu…

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Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

donderdag 19 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone …

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Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 2025. Facebook has a creator problem that three billi…

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Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

woensdag 18 maart 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin Lautier says he got the idea for Ho…

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