Anthropic buys confidential-AI startup Opaque

• RampNew York$1.9B Growth

  All-in-one corporate card, spend management & finance automation platform for businesses. Backed by Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital.

• ICON TechnologyAustin$200M Series D

  Shifting the paradigm of homebuilding using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials. Led by BlackRock and Baillie Gifford.

• Soufflé TherapeuticsWatertown$135M Series B

  Targeted siRNA medicines for genetic and autoimmune diseases. Led by Juvia Group.

$66B across 545 rounds in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• CoreDriftMinneapolis

  Freight rate intelligence for flatbed heavy haul.

  VSVinnie Schleper founded it after working at Volta Logistics and Access America Transport.

• CorroblyLondon

  A live AI copilot for expert calls and diligence meetings, checking each claim against every source.

  CTChouaib Tahlouli founded it after working at Cinven and Morgan Stanley.

• TurkeyoraTürkiye

  A sourced travel guide to 3,000+ places across all 81 provinces of Türkiye, in six languages, with audio guides.

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• Anthropic buys confidential-AI startup Opaque to court enterprises

  Anthropic has agreed to acquire Opaque Systems, a startup specialising in confidential computing and AI.

• Revolut backer Sprints closes €725M fifth fund

  Sprints, the venture firm that backed Revolut early, has closed its fifth fund at €725 million ($810 million).

• NATO launches €1B fund for counter-drone and surveillance tech

  The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has launched a €1 billion venture fund to speed up the development and adoption of dual-use defence technologies.

• RampNew York$1.9B Growth

  All-in-one corporate card, spend management & finance automation platform for businesses. Backed by Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital.

• ICON TechnologyAustin$200M Series D

  Shifting the paradigm of homebuilding using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials. Led by BlackRock and Baillie Gifford.

• Soufflé TherapeuticsWatertown$135M Series B

  Targeted siRNA medicines for genetic and autoimmune diseases. Led by Juvia Group.

$58B across 191 rounds in the US in October so far, by city and by sector.

• CoreDriftMinneapolis

  Freight rate intelligence for flatbed heavy haul.

  VSVinnie Schleper founded it after working at Volta Logistics and Access America Transport.

• LatentSan Francisco$125K raised

  Runtime hallucination detection for production LLMs.

  VGVedant Gaur founded it after working at Amazon.

• LunaRouteSan Francisco

  Fixed-price AI capacity for agentic workflows.

  GBESGur Brosh & Eran Sandler previously co-founded Peach Finance.

• Anthropic buys confidential-AI startup Opaque to court enterprises

  Anthropic has agreed to acquire Opaque Systems, a startup specialising in confidential computing and AI.

• Exa hits $100M in annualized revenue, growing 10x a year

  Exa, which builds a search engine for AI agents, has passed $100 million in annualized revenue, CEO and co-founder Will Bryk said in a LinkedIn post.

• IonQ to buy Elisity for up to $1.3B to expand cyber unit

• TavionStockholms kommun$58M

  Utility-scale battery parks for European grid stabilization.

• Qilimanjaro Quantum TechBarcelona$21.6M

  Qilimanjaro builds analog quantum computers and hybrid data centers to fast-track quantum advantage and unlock global access.

• Causa PrimaMunich$20M Seed

  Agent-to-agent network automating B2B invoices, disputes and payment terms. Backed by QED Investors, FJ Labs and Kfund.

$2.4B across 161 rounds in Europe in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• CorroblyLondon

  A live AI copilot for expert calls and diligence meetings, checking each claim against every source.

  CTChouaib Tahlouli founded it after working at Cinven and Morgan Stanley.

• Anthropic buys confidential-AI startup Opaque to court enterprises

  Anthropic has agreed to acquire Opaque Systems, a startup specialising in confidential computing and AI.

• Revolut backer Sprints closes €725M fifth fund

  Sprints, the venture firm that backed Revolut early, has closed its fifth fund at €725 million ($810 million).

• NATO launches €1B fund for counter-drone and surveillance tech

  The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has launched a €1 billion venture fund to speed up the development and adoption of dual-use defence technologies.

• KrinwaveChina$55M Series B

  Developing ultrasound imaging equipment. Backed by HSG and Sherpa Venture Partners.

• Kunlunyuan Artificial IntelligenceChina$27.5M

  Full-stack AGI technology for intelligent enterprise services. Backed by Beijing Industrial Investment and E-Town Capital.

• Undecimal BioTel Aviv-Yafo$18M Seed

  DNA-encoded library platform for RNA delivery molecules. Led by 4BIO Capital and IQ Capital.

$5.2B across 193 rounds outside the US and Europe in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• TurkeyoraTürkiye

  A sourced travel guide to 3,000+ places across all 81 provinces of Türkiye, in six languages, with audio guides.

  OAOZAN ALATLI

• Anthropic buys confidential-AI startup Opaque to court enterprises

  Anthropic has agreed to acquire Opaque Systems, a startup specialising in confidential computing and AI.