Recent Funding Rounds Across AI, Robotics and Agri‑Biotech: Seed to Unicorn
The cycle saw €12 m seed for a German reasoning‑first AI lab, $8 m seed for a Korean‑US drug‑discovery AI, $152 m Series A unicorn for a UK humanoid robot maker, $100 m raise for a Chinese embodied‑AI startup, and €25.9 m Series C for a UK agri‑biotech firm.
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Artificial Intelligence
German AI lab kausable closed a €12 million seed round to develop its reasoning‑first ‘world model’ that can adapt without further retraining. The round was led by UVC Partners and Entourage, with participation from HTGF and Mätch VC and a roster of angels from Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, DeepMind and other institutions. Proceeds will be used to enlarge the nine‑person team and accelerate the frontier model and its zero‑shot forecasting system TipPFN for dynamic domains such as energy and medicine. The funding reflects growing European interest in sovereign AI infrastructure. [1][3]
South Korean AI drug‑discovery venture Phoenix Lab, created through SK Networks’ Cheiron incubator with Stanford talent, raised $8 million in a seed round. Menlo Ventures acted as lead investor under its Cheiron vehicle, while participants included Josh Meyer, Laxman Narasimhan and former Apple AI chief John Giannandrea. The capital will be directed to extend the company’s Life Sciences Knowledge Graph, improve the Retrieval‑Augmented Generation platform and expand engineering and product teams. Existing users such as Boryung and Hanmi already employ the platform for clinical and regulatory queries, underscoring early commercial traction. [5]
Chinese embodied‑AI start‑up PsiBot, also known as Lingchu Intelligence, announced a financing round of close to $100 million at a $1.48 billion post‑money valuation. The round is being led by automobile manufacturer Chery Automobile with participation from sensor maker Lens Technology and other investors. PsiBot builds world‑model systems from real‑world data collected with custom hardware such as gloves and humanoid robots, targeting robots and self‑driving cars. The new funds will support data collection – aiming for one million hours this year – and further development of its generalised world‑action model, which the founder expects to reach a breakthrough comparable to GPT‑2 within two years. [8]
Robotics
London‑based Humanoid secured a $152 million Series A, valuing the company at $1.35 billion and making it Europe’s first pure‑play humanoid‑robotics unicorn. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab and included strategic investors Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial’s venture arm and Aglaé Ventures. Capital will fund the next‑generation wheeled humanoid platform, mass‑manufacturing through Bosch, and large‑scale deployments such as the multi‑thousand‑unit agreement with Schaeffler. The company also plans to roll out beta robots to customer sites in Q4 2026 and to advance its proprietary AI brain KinetIQ toward a general‑purpose industrial robot. The financing underscores growing investor confidence in physical AI and industrial‑scale robotics. [2][4][6]
Genetic Engineering
Oxford‑originated Moa Technology raised €25.9 million (£22.2 million) in a Series C round co‑led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Supernova Invest. New investors included the Agri Investment Fund, GrainInnovate, Infinity Investment Partners and Magdalen College, while existing backers such as Lansdowne Partners and Oxford University Innovation also participated. The funding will accelerate the commercialisation of Moa’s three most advanced herbicide programmes, expand its pipeline of novel mode‑of‑action compounds and develop the Moa Amplifiers platform that reduces required herbicide doses. The round is complemented by upfront and milestone payments from industry partners, reflecting the company’s growing role as an innovation partner for major crop‑protection firms. [7][9]