company
Atomico is a European venture capital firm investing in technology startups across stages, founded by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström.
Bloomberg reports the London startup raised $100 million in seed money to route each task to the cheapest workable model-chip pairing. The wager is that heterogeneity outlasts convenience.
Reality
CADDi raised $114 million at a $1.2 billion valuation and is opening its platform in the US, where the people who can name a saving sit in purchasing and the drawings they need to search are often still on paper.
Reality
CADDi raised $114 million from eight investors, among them Toyota's Woven Capital and Recruit's HR Tech Fund, at a valuation 2.55 times its March 2025 mark and set against sales its chief executive says are more than doubling each year.
Reality
The Tokyo and Chicago manufacturing software company was valued at $470 million in March 2025 and is now valued at $1.2 billion, with headcount up from 600 to about 900 and more than a hundred of those people employed to get customers to change how they work.
Reality
PhysicsX's $135m Series B, led by Atomico, drew Siemens in as a strategic investor even as Siemens sells its own Simcenter solvers, and those two European rounds carry the whole case for simulation as a growth sector.
Reality
CAM Assist already runs in more than 1,000 machine shops, where a machinist checks its work before anything is cut. The new money funds Quote Agent, whose output nobody inspects until the invoice.
Reality
The Cambridge company says routing agentic work across Nvidia, AMD and Google chips doubles accuracy at a quarter of the cost. No customer has confirmed those numbers.
Reality
Atomico led a $100m seed into a London compute-routing startup that raised $10.25m in February. The UK's Sovereign AI Fund made its first-ever investment here, in April.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishersReality