Amazon in talks to buy Decart for $7B

• ID FinanceBarcelona$600M Late VC

  Digital Finance & Online Lending Technology.

• InfiniGence AIBeijing$316M Series C

  Heterogeneous AI infra and Agentic MaaS for efficient model deployment. Backed by Baidu and Bohuiyuan Venture Capital.

• MujinTokyo$252M Series D

  Develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory automation and increase worldwide manufacturing productivity. Backed by TGC Square.

$63B across 461 rounds in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• AlleyBloomLos Angeles

  Connecting local businesses with content creators.

  YZWWYigan Zhang & Wenwei Wu founded it. Zhang worked at Addepar and Amazon.

• HundredSan Francisco$125K raised

  Automated cosmetic inspection for consumer electronics parts.

  IGILEDImani Gosserand, Iris Liao & Erica Diaz founded it. Gosserand worked at Twitch. Liao worked at Citadel.

• LIMTOR DefencePalma

  Autonomous multi-domain systems for asymmetric defense advantage.

  PMIKPedro Miguel López Zamora & Ivan K founded it. Zamora studied at Valencia Polytechnic University.

• Amazon in talks to buy AI chip startup Decart for $7B

  Amazon is in talks to acquire San Francisco AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• Ex-Google engineers' Discovery Loop eyes $50B valuation a month after launch

  Discovery Loop, an AI startup founded by four former top Google engineers, is raising capital at a valuation of around $50 billion, Business Insider reports.

• Musk: only 3 companies had enough coding data to build a "compelling SI"

  SpaceX has acquired AI coding startup Cursor, maker Anysphere, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion.

• HoneSan Francisco$60M Seed

  Agent orchestration platform for AI that owns outcomes. Led by Benchmark and Index Ventures.

• SkyloMountain View$23.1M Late VC

  Skylo is a startup that connects any machine or device through satellite. Backed by Phitrust Impact Investors and Seraphim Space.

• Hello HavenPark City$15M Pre-seed

  Private personal AI digital twin with memory graph. Led by Mayfield.

$56B across 163 rounds in the US in October so far, by city and by sector.

• AlleyBloomLos Angeles

  Connecting local businesses with content creators.

  YZWWYigan Zhang & Wenwei Wu founded it. Zhang worked at Addepar and Amazon.

• HundredSan Francisco$125K raised

  Automated cosmetic inspection for consumer electronics parts.

  IGILEDImani Gosserand, Iris Liao & Erica Diaz founded it. Gosserand worked at Twitch. Liao worked at Citadel.

• Rootline RoboticsSan Francisco

  Autonomous electric weeding robots for orchards and vineyards.

  AMAJNKAlan Munschy, Andrew James & Natalia Kurz founded it. Munschy studied at Cornell University. James worked at PGIM and Vivid Machines.

• Amazon in talks to buy AI chip startup Decart for $7B

  Amazon is in talks to acquire San Francisco AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• Ex-Google engineers' Discovery Loop eyes $50B valuation a month after launch

  Discovery Loop, an AI startup founded by four former top Google engineers, is raising capital at a valuation of around $50 billion, Business Insider reports.

• Musk: only 3 companies had enough coding data to build a "compelling SI"

  SpaceX has acquired AI coding startup Cursor, maker Anysphere, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion.

• ID FinanceBarcelona$600M Late VC

  Digital Finance & Online Lending Technology.

• ScarletLondon$50M Series B

  EU & UK certification for AI medical devices. Led by Headline.

• DesentumEspoo$30.8M Late VC

  Biopharma company in Finland developing allergy vaccines that change the way the immune system reacts to allergens. Backed by Springvest.

$2.3B across 140 rounds in Europe in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• LIMTOR DefencePalma

  Autonomous multi-domain systems for asymmetric defense advantage.

  PMIKPedro Miguel López Zamora & Ivan K founded it. Zamora studied at Valencia Polytechnic University.

• SpaceSafetyGermany

  AI-powered space safety and traffic management technologies.

  CLClaus Linder

• serum.shTallinn

  Unified observability platform for modern technology stacks.

  EGAWEren Güven & Agnes Wasikowska founded it. Güven previously founded fabrik5. Wasikowska worked at Alunafi and Bayes Esports.

• Amazon in talks to buy AI chip startup Decart for $7B

  Amazon is in talks to acquire San Francisco AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• EU approves €115M AGILE programme to back defence startups

  The Council of the European Union approved a €115 million programme, called AGILE, to help defence startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) develop technologies in AI, drones, and quantum computing.

• InfiniGence AIBeijing$316M Series C

  Heterogeneous AI infra and Agentic MaaS for efficient model deployment. Backed by Baidu and Bohuiyuan Venture Capital.

• MujinTokyo$252M Series D

  Develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory automation and increase worldwide manufacturing productivity. Backed by TGC Square.

• Stardust Intelligence (Shenzhen)Shenzhen$138M Late VC

  Intelligent universal robots transforming industries with advanced AI and robotics technology. Backed by Shenzhen Investment Holdings.

$5B across 158 rounds outside the US and Europe in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• Amazon in talks to buy AI chip startup Decart for $7B

  Amazon is in talks to acquire San Francisco AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• CanSemi jumps 270% in Shenzhen IPO, hitting $19.4B market cap

  CanSemi listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's ChiNext board on October 13 at 12.01 yuan per share, then surged more than 270% at the open.