Fundraising & Startups

#SpaceX × Cursor

SpaceX adopted Cursor across engineering. A meaningful enterprise win for Cursor and a signal that frontier hardware shops are betting their dev productivity on AI-native IDEs.

Sources: tweet

#Meta × Manus Dropped

The rumored Meta acquisition of Manus fell through. Manus stays independent for now; Meta keeps shopping.

#Ineffable Intelligence — Europe's Largest Seed Round

Sequoia and Lightspeed co-led Europe's largest seed funding round: $1.1B at $5.1B post-money for ex-DeepMind David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence. Silver was the lead behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero — investors are clearly paying for the pedigree as much as the product.

Sources: funding tweet, Ineffable Labs, [website](ineffable.ai]

#LIDL Data Centers Go Brrr

Yes, the supermarket chain. Lidl is leaning into data center buildouts in Europe — a reminder that capex is flowing from every corner of the continent that has cheap power and spare land.

Sources: DealMaker, context

• AI in Agriculture
• Company Brain & AI-native services
• Counter-Swarm Defense
• GPU in Space
  ... Sources: Y Combinator