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The Astute founder on her dad's snail money and the habit Fluidstack gave her
"You have a chip on your shoulder"
Feather sells a $30,000 humanoid and invites developers to build on it
The startup is not chasing a general-purpose robot brain. It is selling modular hardware at half the price of its nearest Chinese rival and leaving the applications to other people.
Imperial alumni fund opens with £100k-£300k cheques
Project Ventures has launched a £5m debut fund for pre-seed and seed deeptech founders connected to Imperial College London. Three companies are already in.
Big Picture Bio leaves stealth with £2.2m, £700k of it non-dilutive
The London biotech split its pre-seed between two co-leads and an Innovate UK programme, keeping roughly a third of the money off the cap table.
British Business Bank puts £46m into Zinc's £70m science fund
The state-backed lender is committing up to £46m through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme to a pre-seed fund that intends to help start 80 deeptech companies. What it will not yet say is how founders get in.
Embedd raises €2.3m to write chip drivers with AI agents
The London startup sells semiconductor firms an automated route into software ecosystems. Seedcamp led the pre-seed; the founders started it after chip shortages wrecked their last company.
Sydney peanut butter reaches 490 Sprouts stores in nine months
Drizzy put natural peanut butter in a squeeze bottle in November. On Monday it went on shelf across virtually the whole Sprouts chain, having skipped Coles and Woolworths entirely.