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Air Street’s $232M solo GP fund makes fast, high-conviction capital the new baseline for European AI

Air Street Capital’s newly closed $232 million Fund III is Europe’s largest solo-GP venture vehicle focused on AI-first startups. The fund rewrites a familiar distribution of power in European VC: faster, single-decision bets across software, science, physical AI and defense rather than committee-led, generalist rounds. What the fund can do fast and why that matters […]

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Atoms 2026: Google and Accel reject 70% “AI wrappers” and fund five startups that aim to rework workflows

Google and Accel’s Atoms accelerator received more than 4,000 applications for its 2026 cohort and turned down roughly 70% as “AI wrappers” — startups that bolt AI features onto existing products without rethinking the underlying workflow. Instead, the program selected five companies that promise deeper, workflow-level change and committed up to $2 million each plus […]

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