News archive — May 2026
Funding🇺🇸May 27, 2026
Fields Good launches cookies-with-benefits with $1.8M from Female Founders Fund
🇺🇸May 27, 2026
Factory backs Patti's Good Life with strategic investment alongside Lafayette Square and Innovate Capital
Funding🇺🇸May 27, 2026
Native American Pride Constructors secures $20M line of credit for Navy and Air Force IDIQ contracts
FundingHealth🇬🇧May 27, 2026
Palantir alumni raise $12M for AI platform targeting the full drug development lifecycle
Funding🇨🇦May 27, 2026
Bird Construction expands revolver to US$366.7M, launches senior notes placement
Funding🇺🇸May 27, 2026
Booz Allen Hamilton makes strategic investment in PDW to scale domestic drone production
Funding🇺🇸May 27, 2026
Aptevo + Niowave: 50/50 radiopharma collaboration with strategic equity investment
Semiconductors🇮🇹May 27, 2026
Itera exits stealth with $12M to bring real-time prototyping to electronics
Funding🇺🇸May 27, 2026
Abacus Global takes $53M minority stake in Manning & Napier, launches strategic alliance
FundingReal Estate🇺🇸May 27, 2026
LightTable raises $22M Series A to accelerate AI-native workflows for design and construction
Funding🇬🇧May 27, 2026
PlayerData raises $12M Series A as it expands from wearables to connected balls and AI cameras
Funding🇬🇧May 27, 2026
UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory backs Rivelin Robotics' microfactories for 3D-printed parts
Funding🇨🇳May 27, 2026
viaim Closes US$13.8M Series A+ With Transsion to Accelerate Proactive AI Agent Hardware
Funding🇩🇪May 27, 2026
Nulegal raises €1.3M Seed led by Caesar Ventures to bring AI + lawyers to German SMEs
Funding🇬🇧May 27, 2026
Pure DC raises $2.7B in debt financing to fuel European and Middle East AI infrastructure push
Investors🇬🇧May 27, 2026
British Business Bank anchors Longwall Ventures' £100M deeptech fund with £50M
Funding🇩🇪May 27, 2026
Focused Energy raises $240M Series A led by RWE for Germany's first laser fusion plant
Funding🇬🇧May 27, 2026
Mykor raises £4M Series A to scale low-carbon construction materials grown from waste
Funding🇪🇪May 27, 2026
Iute Group taps EUR 140M onto 2030 senior secured bonds, hits EUR 300M benchmark
Investors🇮🇳May 27, 2026
AlmaBetter partners with NASSCOM to skill 200K AI professionals; secures US$271.6K strategic funding