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Pliant Crosses $100M in Annual Recurring Revenue
Sifted reports Pliant reached $100M in annual recurring revenue after a well-timed US expansion, a milestone that sets the payments infrastructure company apart from slower-moving fintech peers.
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ZuriQ raises a $25.5M Seed Round to scale Quantum Computing Chips
Sifted reports on ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ's $25.5M seed round, the latest sign of momentum behind Europe's quantum hardware race.
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ZuriQ Aims to Power the World's Quantum Revolution
Forbes covers ZuriQ's $25.5M seed round and its 2D ion-trap architecture, the design bet that could take quantum chips from tens of qubits to thousands.
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Maximilian Ochs
ZuriQ is building quantum computers that scale in two dimensions
First Momentum backs ZuriQ's $25.5M seed round to commercialize Penning trap quantum computing, the most promising path to thousands of high-fidelity ion qubits.
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QTAS Is Searching for the One Cell That Matters
Munich Startup profiles QTAS, whose quantum sensing technology shrinks the blood volume needed to detect a single rare cancer cell by roughly a million times.
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Lena Späth
Three Things that Would Move Europe's Deep Tech Most
At Festival der Zukunft, First Momentum's Lena Späth drew a shared answer from four investors: capital, conviction, and a market willing to buy early.
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Andreas Fischer
How First Momentum built one of Europe's hottest energy startups
Impact Loop VC featured the story of a VC that couldn't find a geothermal company worth backing, so the firm built one: Telura, now backed by a $5M pre-seed round.
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QuantumDiamonds Raises €91M Series A to Speed Up Chip Manufacturing
Backed by €76M in EU Chips Act funding, TUM spinout QuantumDiamonds is building high-throughput inspection for chip fabs across three continents.
