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Burbidge is back, as UK veteran VC launches £20m NFG fund

London

Europe

Podcast

Burbidge is back, as UK veteran VC launches £20m NFG fund

After co-founding one of the UK's first early-stage VCs and a period working as an angel, executive and government advisor, the battle-hardened VC is back as a Solo GP and plans to mix it up with the new wave of AI-powered early-stage founders.

Mike Butcher

Sep 17, 2026

Newsletter

Pathfounders Newsletter: We're feeling >10% fine!

Pathfounders: Code, Capital, Consequences.

Mike Butcher

Sep 11, 2026

France’s Arlequin AI raises €28m to build alternative AI architecture for very large data sets

Cybersecurity

Defence

France

France’s Arlequin AI raises €28m to build alternative AI architecture for very large data sets

The Paris startup is betting that the next wave of AI will require architectures beyond LLMs, with models designed to analyse complex relationships across large datasets for defence, security and other high-stakes applications.

Mike Butcher

Sep 10, 2026

Exclusive: Mistral’s first investor says it is “uniquely positioned” as a Western counterpart to Chinese AI

Former Lightspeed partner, Paul Murphy, tells Pathfounders that Mistral is playing a different game to Anthropic and OpenAI.

Mike Butcher

Sep 9, 2026

Space

Europe

Opinion: Stop calling Isar Aerospace Europe’s SpaceX

Isar will be Europe's 'space saviour' when it starts getting real about reusable rockets.

Mike Butcher

Sep 8, 2026

Germany

Defence

Hardware

Germany’s Ground A raises €9.1m pre-seed to scale its low-energy counter-drone laser

The German defence-tech startup’s system uses drastically less energy, is designed to be manufactured at scale, and will be offered to Ukraine.

Mike Butcher

Sep 8, 2026

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