News & updates
Fund updates, portfolio news, and key milestones from across the Aspire11 platform.
Rick Hao launched Ruya Ventures, a $50m solo GP fund backing deeptech founders globally with a focus on Europe and the UK — from batteries and semiconductors to robotics, AI and novel compute.
The AI inference platform tripled its valuation as model-serving demand compounds — a $13bn mark just months after its prior round.
The Copenhagen firm and early Lovable backer closed an oversubscribed Fund III to invest at pre-seed and seed across the Nordics and Baltics — deliberately staying small to protect ownership while peers super-size.
The AI data layer closed ~$1bn at a $30bn valuation, underscoring how capital-intensive the data foundation for AI has become.
Europe's category-defining recommerce platform crossed an €8bn valuation as early backers and employees realised liquidity.
The Prague- and Krakow-based first-cheque investor behind UiPath and ElevenLabs will deploy $1–5m into ~30 pre-seed companies from Central and Eastern Europe and its diaspora.
The Munich firm reached a final close on its €50m Fund I, investing at pre-seed and seed in the "picks and shovels" beneath modern software, AI and hardware — from developer tooling and security to novel compute and semiconductors.
The voice-AI leader raised $500m at $11bn, extending its lead in generative audio across enterprise and consumer.
The data and AI platform raised over $4bn at a $134bn valuation, with a $4.8bn revenue run-rate growing 55% YoY ahead of an expected IPO.
Revolut's secondary established a $75bn valuation, cementing its status as Europe's most valuable fintech.