Backbone’s €4M Pre-Seed: AI Quality Brain for Food Producers
Ex-Henchman founders raised €4M led by Pitchdrive — with Agristo and Darta on the cap table — to automate food quality ops still stuck in spreadsheets and email.
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Octave.energy’s €10M Series A: Profitable Batteries Meet Grid Congestion
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iPronics’ $125M Series B: Optical Circuit Switching for AI Clusters
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Wonderful’s $550M Series C at $5B: Enterprise AI OS Doubles Again
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