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The Founder Gazette
Startup news, held to newspaper standards

Filed under: seed funding

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Startup news

Two-month-old nuclear startup raises $50m after $10m pre-seed

Bluecore Energy closed an oversubscribed seed round in eight weeks. What investors are buying is two barges, a reactor and a regulatory review that has barely started.

218 · 10 September 2026
Startup news

AI Score raises €4.6m seed to police companies' AI agents

The London company sells a control layer for businesses putting agentic AI into their workflows. Fuel Ventures led the round.

195 · 7 September 2026
Startup news

Pharosyn raises €2.5m to read pharma's competition for it

The London company, founded last year, sells AI competitive intelligence to drug makers' commercial teams. Moonfire led the round.

181 · 3 September 2026
Startup news

Blue Voice raises $6m to put police rulebooks on officers' phones

A Harvard Law dropout has taken $6m in seed funding for an AI trained on department policies that general models cannot read. The moat is the data nobody has published.

168 · 1 September 2026
Startup news

HexSeed raises £600,000 for diamond coatings to cool AI chips

The Scottish semiconductor materials startup has closed an early-stage round led by climate-tech venture builder Carbon13, with money going towards scaling a low-temperature diamond coating for power chips.

134 · 24 August 2026
Startup news

EcoNomad raises £400,000 for farm-scale anaerobic digester

The Harpenden company sells a shrunken version of a technology normally built for industrial sites. Its target buyers are livestock farms too small to justify one.

126 · 23 August 2026
Startup news

Sisters raise £660,500 for dressing brand TOSS

Grace and Sophie Devlin have pulled in SFC Capital, SyndicateRoom's angel fund and a row of food founders. The money goes on awareness, shelf space and new formats.

124 · 23 August 2026
Startup news

FuVeX raises €3m to put Spanish drones on power lines and borders

The Pamplona-founded firm says it has inspected more than 36,000 kilometres of power line. It now wants 70% of Spain's distribution grid by 2027, and a defence business alongside it.

39 · 9 August 2026
Startup data

YC data: 454 repeat founders, and no proof second time is better

Y Combinator gave Crunchbase News records on 454 founders who went through the accelerator more than once. The numbers describe who comes back and when — not whether their second companies win.

22 · 8 August 2026