UK's £2B Energy Wealth Fund reopens the debate over North Sea drilling

• TruAgentsNew York$3.4M Seed

  AI multi-channel outbound agents. Led by ManchesterStory.

• FundbotNice$1.1M Seed

  Supply chain financing solutions, including Buy-Now-Pay-Later, revenue-based financing, and virtual cards. Led by Salica Investment.

$126B across 1,099 rounds in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• Warp SciencesSouth San Francisco$215M raised

  AI- and robotics-driven chemistry labs providing drug discovery services to biotech and pharma.

  KWDPKevin Weil & DJ Patil founded it. Weil worked at OpenAI and Planet Labs. Patil worked at GreatPoint Ventures and buildbackbetter.gov.

• WarhoundUS$200M raised

  Gene-edited and cloned working dogs for military, police and first responders.

  BLBen Lamm previously founded Astromech and Breaking and worked at Arch Mission and Adweek.

• OntoBengaluru$1M raised

  Travel platform refunding hotel booking price drops.

  JSSGJagdeep Singh & Shubham Goyal founded it. Singh worked at Groww and Wipro Technologies. Goyal worked at Highbeam and Groww.

• UK's £2B Energy Wealth Fund reopens the debate over North Sea drilling

  The UK is putting an initial £2B of North Sea tax revenue into a new Energy Wealth Fund for clean power — and the plan has reopened the fight over whether to drill more oil and gas to fill a sovereign wealth fund, with arguments on both sides.

• Anthropic backs its first European AI consultancy with buyout group Hg

  Anthropic has agreed to back a new European consultancy with London-based private equity firm Hg, its first move to create an independent business selling AI expertise to companies on the continent.

• Berkshire hits record high as $360B cash pile draws investors fleeing AI stocks

  Berkshire Hathaway shares hit a record intraday high of $823,750 on October 22, 2026, as investors rotated into cash-rich, old-economy names amid a broad sell-off in AI stocks.

• TruAgentsNew York$3.4M Seed

  AI multi-channel outbound agents. Led by ManchesterStory.

$98B across 395 rounds in the US in October so far, by city and by sector.

• Warp SciencesSouth San Francisco$215M raised

  AI- and robotics-driven chemistry labs providing drug discovery services to biotech and pharma.

  KWDPKevin Weil & DJ Patil founded it. Weil worked at OpenAI and Planet Labs. Patil worked at GreatPoint Ventures and buildbackbetter.gov.

• WarhoundUS$200M raised

  Gene-edited and cloned working dogs for military, police and first responders.

  BLBen Lamm previously founded Astromech and Breaking and worked at Arch Mission and Adweek.

• InjesterSan Francisco

  See how AI shopping agents see your store.

  BSBenjamin Shyong founded it after working at Meta and SerComm.

• UK's £2B Energy Wealth Fund reopens the debate over North Sea drilling

  The UK is putting an initial £2B of North Sea tax revenue into a new Energy Wealth Fund for clean power — and the plan has reopened the fight over whether to drill more oil and gas to fill a sovereign wealth fund, with arguments on both sides.

• Anthropic backs its first European AI consultancy with buyout group Hg

  Anthropic has agreed to back a new European consultancy with London-based private equity firm Hg, its first move to create an independent business selling AI expertise to companies on the continent.

• Berkshire hits record high as $360B cash pile draws investors fleeing AI stocks

  Berkshire Hathaway shares hit a record intraday high of $823,750 on October 22, 2026, as investors rotated into cash-rich, old-economy names amid a broad sell-off in AI stocks.

• FundbotNice$1.1M Seed

  Supply chain financing solutions, including Buy-Now-Pay-Later, revenue-based financing, and virtual cards. Led by Salica Investment.

$4.4B across 321 rounds in Europe in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• Where TomorrowAmsterdam

  Operational strategy consulting for organizational transformation.

  QSQuintin Schevernels previously founded Yearn and worked at HirePort and Funda.

• AerSynxTallinn

  Modular software for aircraft lease, CAMO, MRO, supply and records management.

  OHOnur Hazar ALTINDAG founded it after studying at Gazi University.

• UK's £2B Energy Wealth Fund reopens the debate over North Sea drilling

  The UK is putting an initial £2B of North Sea tax revenue into a new Energy Wealth Fund for clean power — and the plan has reopened the fight over whether to drill more oil and gas to fill a sovereign wealth fund, with arguments on both sides.

• EQT leads €46.50-a-share buyout of Qiagen in €10.8B take-private

  Crown NL Bidco, a holding company controlled by EQT Private Equity, has announced an all-cash voluntary takeover offer for all shares of Dutch life-sciences group Qiagen at €46.50 each.

• Mercedes-Benz bets $560M on AI to cut car development by 17 months

  Mercedes-Benz is investing around €500 million ($560 million) in PLM.AI, an AI-based product lifecycle management system it says could cut vehicle development time by up to 30%, or about 17 months.

No venture round outside the US and Europe was announced yesterday.

$24B across 383 rounds outside the US and Europe in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.

• OntoBengaluru$1M raised

  Travel platform refunding hotel booking price drops.

  JSSGJagdeep Singh & Shubham Goyal founded it. Singh worked at Groww and Wipro Technologies. Goyal worked at Highbeam and Groww.

• UK's £2B Energy Wealth Fund reopens the debate over North Sea drilling

  The UK is putting an initial £2B of North Sea tax revenue into a new Energy Wealth Fund for clean power — and the plan has reopened the fight over whether to drill more oil and gas to fill a sovereign wealth fund, with arguments on both sides.