🌊⚡$140M for AI at Sea

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As May begins, physical AI commands attention as ROBOTERA secures over $200M in its second major round in under two months, and Scout AI raises $100M — the largest defense-tech Series A in U.S. history — to build the AI brain coordinating autonomous drone and ground vehicle fleets. Data centers push deeper into new territories, with Pantheon Atlas unveiling a €50B ($58B) gigawatt AI campus in Croatia and Hut 8 pricing $3.25B in investment-grade bonds for its Google-backed Louisiana facility.

Mobility signals a maturing autonomous stack, with Aurora and Hirschbach committing to 500 self-driving trucks and Rocsys raising $13M to solve robotaxi charging at scale. In energy transition, Panthalassa closes $140M to power AI inference at sea via wave energy, while CMBlu crosses the €1B ($1.2B) unicorn threshold on a $50M organic battery round backed by Samsung Ventures.

Stay sharp,

SF Group Leads $200M+ Round for ROBOTERA Humanoid Platform
Beijing's ROBOTERA closed its second major funding round in under two months, cementing its status as one of China's best-capitalized full-stack humanoid robotics companies. (Read more)

Scout AI's $100M Series A Targets Autonomous Unmanned Systems
Scout AI raised the largest defense-tech Series A in U.S. history to build Fury, a foundation model coordinating autonomous drone and ground vehicle fleets.
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Firestorm Labs Bags $82M for Containerized Combat Drone Manufacturing
San Diego's Firestorm Labs will scale xCell, a shipping container drone factory that 3D-prints mission-ready drones in under 24 hours near the front lines. (Read more)

All3 Raises $25M to Automate the Entire Construction Chain
London's All3 is building the first end-to-end construction robotics platform — from AI design to robotic assembly — launching commercially in Germany. (Read more)

Bpifrance Leads SquareMind's $18M Raise for Dermatology Robot
Paris-based SquareMind raised $18 million to commercialize Swan, an autonomous robotic platform that maps a patient's full body dermoscopically in minutes. (Read more)

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Pantheon Atlas Unveils €50B ($58B) Gigawatt AI Campus in Croatia
Pantheon Atlas announced a one-gigawatt hyperscale AI campus in Topusko, Croatia — the largest private U.S. investment in European digital infrastructure to date. (Read more)

Hut 8 Prices $3.25B Bonds for Google-Backed Louisiana Campus
Hut 8 priced $3.25 billion in investment-grade bonds to fund its 245MW River Bend campus, backstopped by a fifteen-year Google lease. (Read more)

I Squared Acquires Brazilian Data Center Giant Elea
I Squared Capital acquired Elea Data Centers, Brazil's largest carrier-neutral platform, with over one gigawatt in development across nine campuses, in a deal reportedly worth ~$500 million. (Read more)

MARA Holdings Buys $1.5B Ohio Gas Plant for AI Campus
Bitcoin miner MARA acquired a 505MW Ohio gas plant for $1.5 billion, planning to deliver AI infrastructure capacity by mid-2028. (Read more)

London E-Bike Startup Forest Closes £40M ($51M) Series B Round
London's largest shared e-bike operator raised £40 million, with hardware maker OKAI taking a strategic stake to co-develop Forest's next-generation fleet. (Read more)

Rocsys Raises $13M to Automate Multi-Bay Robotaxi Charging
Dutch-American startup Rocsys raised $13 million and launched the M1, the world's first overhead-rail system charging up to ten robotaxi bays hands-free. (Read more)

Aurora and Hirschbach Sign 500-Truck Autonomous Freight MOU
Aurora Innovation and Hirschbach Motor Lines signed a non-binding deal for 500 autonomous trucks via Driver-as-a-Service, the largest public fleet commitment in autonomous trucking. (Read more)

Shift Transit Lands $40M PE Recap for Bikeshare Fleet Growth
Main Street Capital invested $40 million in Chicago's Shift Transit, which operates over 85,000 docked bikeshare and e-scooter assets across North American cities. (Read more)

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Panthalassa Raises $140M for Wave-Powered Ocean AI
Portland's Panthalassa closed $140 million led by Peter Thiel to power AI inference at sea using autonomous wave-energy ocean nodes. (Read more)

CMBlu Becomes €1B ($1.2B) Unicorn on €50M ($58M) Organic Battery Round
German startup CMBlu crossed €1 billion in valuation after closing €50 million backed by Samsung Ventures, alongside a 5 GWh deal with utility Uniper. (Read more)

DISA Technologies $33M Accelerates Domestic Uranium Recovery
Wyoming's DISA Technologies closed $33 million backed by BHP Ventures and Constellation Energy to scale domestic uranium processing and nuclear fuel supply chain resilience. (Read more)

VREY Raises €3.3M ($3.8M) Seed to Unlock German Tenant-Solar Market
Berlin's VREY raised three point €3 million to scale EnergyOS, a billing platform letting German landlords supply rooftop solar power directly to tenants. (Read more)