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Nvidia's Huang resigns; Trump backs Tim Cook as successor, Kress named interim CEO
The board hires Wachtell to probe Huang's ties to a suspected Chinese spy as shares fall 10% days before earnings, with no designated successor in place.
Anthropic IPO six times oversubscribed as it targets $64.4B raise
Anthropic PBC 's initial public offering has drawn roughly six times the orders for available shares, according to people familiar with the matter. The Claude AI maker is seeking to raise up to $64.4 billion in the…
Analysis: More investors are backing VC rounds again, but a third of the new money goes to 10 funds
Unique investors in VC rounds of $5M or more since 2010, by type from VC firms and corporate VCs to angels and crossover funds, and new VC funds raised per year with the share taken by the 10 largest.
OpenAI raises $15B at a $1.25T valuation, half its original target, as it bridges to a 2027 IPO
OpenAI has raised $15 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, CNBC's David Faber reported on Thursday, citing sources. People familiar with the matter described it as an opportunistic raise to bridge the company to an…
Ukrainian-founded drone maker UFORCE raises $700M at a $6B valuation, with Britain's wealth fund as co-lead
London-headquartered UFORCE, a defence-technology company founded in Ukraine, has raised a $700 million Series A at a $6 billion valuation, the company said on 12 November. Valor Equity Partners and the UK's National…
Nebius jumps 571% but spending plans spook investors
Nebius shares fell as much as 23% after the neocloud company reported third-quarter revenue up 571% year-on-year to about $981 million, but disappointed investors with its outlook. It cut full-year 2026 revenue guidance…
LangChain raises $300M at a $3B valuation, 2.4x its 2025 mark, as CapitalG bets on AI agent tooling
LangChain, which makes a platform that helps developers build AI applications and agents, has raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation. CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, led the round, joined by…
SoftBank and Nvidia back Munich's Agile Robots at an $8.5B valuation in a $500M Series F
Munich-based Agile Robots has closed a $500 million Series F at an $8.5 billion valuation, the company said on 12 November. SoftBank Group led the round, with Nvidia, Hitachi Group (Hitachi and Hitachi Ventures) and…
Q-CTRL becomes quantum unicorn as Salesforce Ventures leads $290M round
Q-CTRL, a quantum infrastructure-software company, has raised $290 million in a Series C round led by Salesforce Ventures, with Bullhound Capital and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners also taking large stakes. The round…
DeepMind AI proves Signal's encryption secure in four weeks
Google DeepMind said it used a new AI system called AlphaProof Code to mathematically prove key security guarantees of the Signal protocol, the encryption behind billions of private messages in apps like Signal and…
Norwest raises $4B fund for early-stage AI and overlooked sectors
Norwest Venture Partners has raised $4 billion for its 18th fund, targeting early-stage AI startups alongside sectors the broader market has overlooked. The Wells Fargo-backed firm plans to announce the raise this week,…
IBM buys AuthMind to watch what AI agents do after they log in
IBM has acquired AuthMind, an identity security company specialising in identity observability and threat detection, to expand HashiCorp Vault 's protections across the AI agent lifecycle. The acquisition was announced…
Alphabet's Wing to build $125M drone factory in Fort Worth
Alphabet 's Wing plans to invest up to $125 million over two years in a drone manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, the Wall Street Journal reported on November 9. The roughly 15,000-square-foot factory could…
Western Union scraps $500M Intermex deal; target vows to fight
Western Union has terminated its agreement to acquire money-transfer rival Intermex, and Intermex is rejecting the move. Western Union agreed last year to buy the Miami-based firm for $16 a share in cash, valuing it at…
Mount Thor raises $45M to run AI agents on Apple hardware
Mount Thor has raised $45 million across Seed and Series A financings to build cloud infrastructure that runs AI agents on Apple silicon. CRV and Conviction co-led the Series A; Chad Byers and Offline Ventures co-led…
Argentina's Cocos raises $34M, hits $508M valuation in first outside round
Argentine fintech Cocos Capital raised $34 million in its first outside funding round, reaching a valuation of $508 million. Kaszek led the round, with Spice Expeditions and spice ventures participating.
Kry acquires Swedish telehealth rival Min Doktor
Kry has agreed to acquire Min Doktor, a Swedish digital healthcare rival, the companies announced in November. Terms were not disclosed. Both firms offer digital primary healthcare to Swedish patients.
Nigeria's Raenest buys UK payments firm Remitise for an FCA foothold
Nigerian fintech Raenest has acquired Remitise, a UK payments company registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, for an undisclosed sum. Raenest took full ownership of the firm, which it now operates under its own…
WhiteMatter raises $20M to govern enterprise AI agents
WhiteMatter, a San Francisco- and Austin-based AI security startup formerly known as QuilrAI, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Blumberg Capital. Existing investors Crew Capital and Sprout & Oak also…
Ares pulls in $3.6B for one of private credit's biggest secondaries funds
Ares Management has raised $3.6 billion (€3.3 billion) for its newest credit secondaries fund, one of the largest-ever transactions in the market for second-hand credit stakes, Bloomberg reported. Coller EQT led the…
Analysis: AI-mogged: the AI-native startups now worth more than listed rivals
Six AI startups set against the listed rival a customer would weigh them against: Mercor is worth 8.7 times Upwork, Sierra 5.8 times Five9, Clay 5.6 times ZoomInfo, Lovable 4.1 times Wix, Cyera 1.9 times Varonis (at its…
Analysis: How stocks moved after the 2026 US midterms
Share price moves on 4 November 2026, the day after Democrats won Congress: SpaceX fell 4% and Tesla 3%, drone makers Kratos and Red Cat 10–12%, CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN 7–11%, Comfort Systems and Vistra 14–15%, while…
Analysis: Five venture hubs compared
The SF Bay Area, New York, London, Tel Aviv and Europe's New Palo Alto supercluster compared on share of global VC funding since 2015, new and total unicorns, thoroughbreds, $1B+ rounds in 2026, enterprise value, $10B+…
Four Taiwan banks hand EDOM a $100M loan as AI sales surge
Four Taiwanese banks — Cathay United Bank, Bank SinoPac, Taiwan Cooperative Bank, and Shin Kong Bank — jointly extended a US$95.5M (roughly $100 million) syndicated loan to semiconductor distributor EDOM Technology. The…
San Antonio investors buy 113-year-old Citizens State Bank
A San Antonio investor group has acquired Luling-based Citizens State Bank and named Jeffrey Landers president and CEO. The deal, completed in May, brings new ownership to the 113-year-old community bank, which runs…
SentinelOne secures $400M revolving credit line, maturing in 2031
SentinelOne, the cybersecurity company, entered a $400 million senior secured revolving credit facility on November 12, 2026, arranged with Bank of America and other lenders. The agreement includes a $60 million…
Enhanced raises $15M PIPE to fund its push into European live events
Enhanced Group (NYSE: ENHA) has raised a $15 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) tied to its proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Berlin-based DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG. The financing comes…
MedHaul raises $4.1M to expand medical transport for high-needs patients
MedHaul, a platform for coordinating medical transport, has raised $4.1 million in an early-stage round led by Black Ops VC. The strategic round brings MedHaul's total raised to $7 million.
Indonesia's ASSA lands $16.5M CIMB Niaga loan to grow rental fleet
Indonesian transport and logistics firm PT Adi Sarana Armada (ASSA) has secured a US$19.5M credit facility from PT Bank CIMB Niaga. The loan agreement, a Fixed Loan Facility 2, was signed on November 11.
Acciona lends €500M to renewables unit to shore up credit rating
Acciona Energía has agreed a €500 million ($554.7 million) perpetual subordinated loan from its parent company, Acciona, to strengthen its capital structure and defend its credit ratings. The company filed the…
Auckland Airport raises $205M in oversubscribed Australian bond sale
Auckland Airport has completed a US$194.1M (≈$205 million) issue of six-year fixed-rate bonds due November 19, 2032, under its wholesale Australian medium-term notes programme. Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Mizuho…
Baylor launches philanthropy-backed biomed fund, first check to Nemea
Baylor College of Medicine has launched BCM Legacy Fund I, an early-stage life sciences fund backed by philanthropic capital, and made its first investment in Houston biotech startup Nemea Therapeutics. The fund, run by…
Dell family office buys $406M SK Inc stake to fund chairman's divorce
DFO Management, the family investment office of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell, has agreed to buy a 1.34% stake in SK Inc, the holding company of South Korea's SK Group, for US$456.1M. The seller is SK Group…
Creditas raises $280M in follow-on for its Auto XII receivables fund
Creditas raised US$358.1M in a follow-on offering of quotas in its FIDC Creditas Auto XII, a Brazilian receivables investment fund. The offering covered senior, mezzanine A, and mezzanine B quotas.
Birmarcker family tightens grip on Brazil's Profarma in $62.7M buyout
US drug distributor Cencora has agreed to sell its 38.18% stake in Brazilian pharmaceutical group Profarma to BTC Participações, an affiliate of BMK Participações, the holding company controlled by the founding…
Hyogo picks 10 firms to anchor its Open Innovation X startup programme
Hyogo Prefecture has selected 10 companies to take part in its Hyogo Open Innovation X programme, which pairs established firms with startups for collaboration. The cohort includes Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Furuno…
BioWraptor raises $1.5M to kill the vaccine cold chain
BioWraptor, a New York biotech stabilizing fragile biomolecules at room temperature, has closed a $1.5 million pre-seed round. Backers include Anima x Alpha Star, SNOCAP, and NY Ventures, plus angel investors Pascal and…
ANOME raises $5M to take wealth-culture IP business global
ANOME has raised $5 million in an early-stage strategic round to expand its wealth-culture intellectual property business internationally and deepen trading liquidity for its token on major exchanges. MH Ventures,…
CSI Companies buys Nashville's HCTec to add managed services
CSI Companies has acquired HCTec, a Nashville-based provider of healthcare IT managed services, for an undisclosed sum. HCTec will keep its brand as HCTec, A CSI Company, and retain its service model and client…
Ex-Alpian CEO's Light Frame raises $5.1M to replace legacy private banking tech
Light Frame, a Lausanne-based developer of core banking and portfolio management software for the wealth industry, has raised an oversubscribed $5.1 million seed round led by Fortino Ventures. Sidekick Partners, Tenity,…
China chip-test maker Truth Instruments closes Series B
Truth Instruments, a Chinese developer of high-end integrated-circuit test equipment, has closed a Series B round. Jiantou Investment led, with Zhiwei Capital and SMIC Capital participating. The company did not disclose…
Cremmjoy raises $1.68M to push soft-serve machine toward market
Baton Rouge startup Cremmjoy has raised $1.681 million from 31 investors as it prepares to debut its patented soft-serve ice cream machine at a national industry convention this week. The sum is part of a $3 million…
KPS Capital to buy 70% of MM's packaging arm in $2.7B deal
Austria's Mayr-Melnhof Karton, known as MM Group, is selling a 70% stake in its packaging business to US private equity firm KPS Capital Partners. The deal values the business at €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion), including…
Squeez lands $1M from Qentelli to build loyalty commerce layer
Squeez, a Tampa-based platform connecting loyalty, access, and experiences, has raised $1 million in an early VC round led by digital engineering firm Qentelli. The financing combines a corporate investment from…
AtkinsRéalis prices $281M debenture offering to repay debt
AtkinsRéalis (TSX: ATRL) has priced US$293.3M (roughly $281 million) of 4.062% Series 11 unsecured debentures due November 12, 2029. The Montreal-based engineering and nuclear services company announced the private…
AMP takes 32% stake in NZ's Retirement Income Group
AMP New Zealand has acquired a 32% stake in Retirement Income Group (RIG), the firm founded by Ralph Stewart that sells Lifetime Retirement Income products. The purchase makes AMP RIG's largest shareholder. Terms were…
Meituan's Wang Huiwen backs AI iOS builder AirBuild in angel round
AirBuild, an AI platform for building native iOS apps, has raised several million yuan in an angel round. Meituan co-founder Wang Huiwen is among the backers.
Conexus closes Saskatchewan-focused Fund II at $28.7M
Regina-based Conexus Venture Capital has added US$3.67M to its Fund II, bringing the vehicle's total close to US$25.7M. The firm, the venture arm of Conexus Credit Union, announced the close on November 12 after…
HIRAC backs Japan's AI hip-surgery startup Precision Imaging
HIRAC FUND, the venture arm run by Money Forward Venture Partners, has invested in Precision Imaging, a Tokyo startup building an AI navigation system for total hip replacement surgery. The investment comes from HIRAC's…
Asset Based Lending closes $200M securitization, its biggest to date
Asset Based Lending (ABL), a national private lender, closed a $200 million unrated securitization, its largest ever. The deal, ABL 2026 RTL-1, priced on October 15 and closed on October 26, bringing cumulative issuance…
Harbert affiliate buys 65% of Georgia gas plant from BlackRock's GIP
Gulf Pacific Power, an affiliate of alternative asset manager Harbert Management Corporation (HMC), has acquired a 65% indirect equity stake in Tenaska Georgia Partners from Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), part of…
Amyris to acquire sweet-protein maker Oobli for undisclosed sum
Amyris, a vertically integrated biomanufacturing company, said it will acquire Oobli, a maker of fermentation-based sweet proteins that help brands cut sugar without losing taste. The companies did not disclose terms.…
Vodafone Idea raises $427M in fresh debt as Q2 loss widens
Vodafone Idea secured an additional US$543.2M in bank funding during the July–September quarter, even as its consolidated net loss widened to US$811.4M from US$750.2M a year earlier. The raise takes the carrier's total…
PAI Pharma buys Nexus to grow hospital injectables portfolio
PAI Pharma has acquired Nexus Pharmaceuticals, a US company that develops and commercialises injectable medicines for critical care, oncology, and other hospital settings. The deal, announced November 12, 2026, has…
Vodafone Idea raises $427M as Q2 loss widens to US$811.4M
Vodafone Idea secured US$543.2M in bank funding during the quarter ended September, taking its total raised in the first half of 2026-27 to around US$1.43B. The financing came as India's third-largest carrier reported a…
Xenon FIDEC buys Italian cyber firm DEAS in €85M defence deal
Xenon FIDEC, a private equity fund managed by Xenon AIFM, has acquired a majority stake in Italian cybersecurity company DEAS — Difesa e Analisi Sistemi for €85 million. Seller DEAS Holding, the vehicle of founder…
CourtReserve buys RacquetPass to add pro shops to its club software
CourtReserve has acquired RacquetPass, the pro shop management system for racquet and paddle sports, for undisclosed terms. The deal brings inventory, point-of-sale, and racquet-stringing tools into CourtReserve's…
Wafa Assurance to buy near-total stake in Morocco's La Marocaine Vie
Wafa Assurance has signed an agreement with Saham Group to acquire 99.98% of La Marocaine Vie, a Moroccan personal-insurance company active since 1978. The price was not disclosed. The deal pairs with a long-term…
East Star raises £203K via warrant exercise to fund Kazakhstan mining JVs
East Star Resources, a gold and copper explorer focused on Kazakhstan, has raised £203,391 in gross proceeds through the exercise of warrants. The company issued 4,067,824 new ordinary shares at £0.05 each, with trading…
Attentive.ai buys Takeoff Monkey in first deal as Beam AI tops $500B in bids
Attentive.ai has acquired Takeoff Monkey, a landscaping takeoff and estimating specialist, in its first-ever acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. The San Jose company builds AI workflow automation for construction and…
Nuveen opens nature fund with $100M anchor from TIAA
Nuveen Natural Capital, the land-focused platform of asset manager Nuveen, has launched a global nature-based solutions strategy backed by a $100 million anchor investment from parent company TIAA. The fund is the first…
HUK-Coburg doubles Aukera anchor to €100M in second close of €500M debt fund
HUK-Coburg Asset Management (HAM) has doubled its commitment to Aukera Real Estate Debt Fund I to €100 million, adding €50 million to anchor the fund's second close. The vehicle, run by Essen-based Aukera Real Estate,…
Wildberries & Russ to buy tour operator Biblio-Globus in ~$481M deal
The board of Sheremetyevo International Airport approved the sale of its 75% stake in tour operator Biblio-Globus to entities linked to Wildberries & Russ (RWB), RBC reported, citing three sources. The transaction is…
Immersive Gamebox lands Harlan debt to scale staff-free gaming units
Immersive Gamebox has secured additional debt financing from Harlan Capital Partners to accelerate the rollout of its new Plug & Play model, a compact self-serve version of its interactive gaming product. The amount was…
TYK Medicines raises $37M from Qilu, CVG to fund cancer drug trials
Zhejiang Tongyuankang (TYK Medicines) will raise about US$35.1M (roughly $37 million) by issuing 76,000,000 new H shares under a general mandate. Qilu Pharmaceutical is subscribing for 57,000,000 shares and CVG Global…
Austria's MACO buys majority of fingerprint access firm ekey
MACO Beschläge, the Salzburg-based maker of window and door fittings, is taking a majority stake in ekey biometric systems, the Linz company that builds fingerprint access systems for homes and businesses. The two…
cylib lands first bank loan from Sparkasse Aachen to scale battery recycling
German battery recycling startup cylib has secured its first bank financing, a loan from Sparkasse Aachen to support the ramp-up of its newly commissioned recycling plant in Wernberg-Köblitz, Bavaria. The amount and…
Axiom Biosciences opens Wefunder round to fund Phase 2 push
Axiom Biosciences, a San Diego clinical-stage biotech, opened a Regulation Crowdfunding offering on Wefunder, letting eligible retail investors back its therapeutics pipeline. The company — formerly Cytonus Therapeutics…
Genesys Works lands $4M Ballmer Group grant for AI-era career training
Genesys Works, a national nonprofit that places high school students in paid internships, has received a $4 million grant from Ballmer Group. The money will fund its growth through 2030 as it prepares students for a…
Better Collective's Mindway AI bet pays off as player monitoring hits 16.5M
Better Collective says its 2021 acquisition of Mindway AI is paying off, with the safer gambling software company now monitoring 16.5 million players monthly across 73 jurisdictions. That marks a 79% jump since May…
Metso raises €300M bond to refinance notes due 2027 and 2028
Metso has issued a €300 million senior unsecured bond, the Finnish industrial technology group announced on November 12, 2026. The bond matures in November 2033 and carries a fixed 4.500% coupon, and will be listed on…
Veeam founder backs Worker.ai, which buys voice AI startup DeltaGen
Worker.ai has acquired DeltaGen, a Prague-based startup that builds real-time voice AI, for an undisclosed sum. The deal was announced on November 12, 2026, alongside Worker's launch of its company operating system for…
Telia buys Telavox's Nordic customer base for $381M
Telia Company AB has agreed to acquire the Nordic enterprise customer base of MVNO Telavox for US$459.3M, plus a potential earn-out of US$24.2M. The deal adds roughly 24,000 small and medium-size businesses across…
Spain backs Gore Street's EU battery fund at second close, €147M committed
Gore Street Capital has completed the second close of GS EU Fund SCSp, its vehicle for acquiring and running battery energy storage systems across EU member states. The Spanish government joined as a new investor,…
Smart Organic raises €14,200 in employee share offering
Bulgarian food company Smart Organic AD raised €14,179.53 through a public offering of new shares, completed on November 11, 2026. The sale was open to employees of the company and its subsidiary under Bulgaria's Public…
PATEO deepens home-tech bet with $120M stake in Seagull Kitchen & Bath
PATEO CONNECT Technology (Shanghai) has signed a supplementary agreement advancing its US$110M (around $120 million) acquisition of a 20% stake in Guangzhou Seagull Kitchen and Bath Products. The deal would make PATEO,…
AI influencer startup Distribution Demon raises $200K pre-seed
Ukrainian startup Distribution Demon has raised $200,000 in a pre-seed round from five Ukrainian entrepreneurs, founder Ruslan Lynnyk told AIN. The round closed in January 2026, when the product was still an idea.
Wollemi, Rest take majority stake in US solar operator Redball
Growth investor Wollemi Capital and Australian superannuation fund Rest have acquired a majority stake in Redball Energy, a Washington, DC-based owner and operator of distributed solar assets. Terms were not disclosed.…
Phrontline raises $40M Series A for bispecific ADC cancer drugs
Phrontline Biopharma has raised a $40 million Series A round to advance its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) programs for cancer. Yuanhe Origin and TCGX co-led the round, with Highlight Capital, C&D Emerging Industry…
Field Packaging buys 1948-founded Buckeye to add extrusion, printing
Field Packaging Solutions (FPS) has acquired Buckeye Packaging Co., a vertically integrated flexible packaging manufacturer in Alliance, Ohio. The transaction closed on November 2, 2026. Terms were not disclosed.
BluWave-ai raises $5.68M to ride data-centre power strain
Ottawa-based BluWave-ai has closed US$5.94M (roughly $5.68 million) in a Series A round combining equity, non-dilutive federal project funding, and credit from Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal. Investors…
Northside launches $30M fund for Canadian pre-seed founders
Toronto-based Northside Ventures has launched its second fund, targeting $30 million to back Canadian technology founders at the earliest stages of company formation. The firm has secured $17 million in commitments to…
E-waste gold recycler Modern Mining raises $40M in NYSE American IPO
Modern Mining Technology Corp. has closed a $40 million initial public offering, selling 9,411,764 common shares at $4.25 each. Its shares are expected to begin trading on the NYSE American under the ticker "MDRN" on…
smartTrade buys Celoxica to add listed-market execution speed
France-based smartTrade Technologies has acquired Celoxica, a specialist in ultra-low latency execution infrastructure for listed equities, futures, fixed income, and options. The deal value was undisclosed. Celoxica is…
M2i Global strikes $100M deal for Graphex's US graphite anode assets
M2i Global has exercised an option and signed a definitive agreement to acquire the US graphite anode assets of Hong Kong-listed Graphex Group. The deal, valued at $100 million in cash and shares, covers all 100 units…
Rowan lands $1.5B in corporate debt for 5.5 GW data center pipeline
Rowan Digital Infrastructure has raised more than $1.5 billion in corporate-level debt financing to fund its hyperscale data center development pipeline. The package combines a $600 million upsize of its holding company…
Branford Castle buys turf-nutrition maker Floratine for first Fund III deal
Branford Castle Partners has acquired Floratine Products Group, a formulator of specialty plant-nutrition products for golf courses, sports turf, and agriculture. Terms were undisclosed. The deal, announced November 12,…
Duet raises $15M to scale nurse practitioner-owned clinics
Duet, a US network of nurse practitioner-owned primary care practices, raised a $15 million Series A led by Kairos, with participation from Lerer Hippeau. That brings its total raised to $22.5 million.
Bit Digital raises $203M in convertible notes due 2032
Bit Digital (NASDAQ: BTBT) disclosed in its Form 10-Q, filed on November 12, 2026, that it issued $203.2 million of convertible senior notes due 2032. The crypto-and-compute company issued the notes on August 21, 2026,…
Zoom Ventures backs Medaica to bring physical exams into virtual care
Medaica, a medical intelligence company, has raised a strategic corporate investment led by Zoom Ventures, the investment arm of Zoom Communications. The round, announced in November 2026, will fund development of…
CytoDyn raises $5M to push leronlimab deeper into solid tumors
CytoDyn (OTCQB: CYDY) has raised an additional $5 million from an anonymous private investor to fund clinical development of leronlimab, its lead monoclonal antibody targeting the CCR5 receptor. The shares were sold at…
MBB buys Pure Branding to bet on nutrition expertise
Marketing agency MBB has acquired Pure Branding, a Massachusetts consultancy specialising in nutrition-sector research and strategy. Terms were not disclosed. The deal, announced in November 2026, brings Pure Branding's…
Backswing Ventures backs Ukrainian counter-drone startup Vigilant Works
Backswing Ventures has led an early-stage investment in Vigilant Works, a Ukrainian defense technology company developing autonomous counter-unmanned aerial systems. The US defense venture firm announced the backing in…
Microsoft data-center veteran joins JDC Power Systems board
Madison River Capital has appointed digital infrastructure executive Jennifer Weitzel to the board of JDC Power Systems, an electrical systems integrator serving data-center and advanced manufacturing markets that the…
FREY, GIC launch €400M retail park venture with €176M seed portfolio
FREY, a listed European operator of premium shopping destinations, has teamed up with Singapore's GIC on a €400 million equity partnership to buy premium retail parks across Western Europe and Poland. GIC takes an 80%…
NeuralSat raises €2.9M to build 72-satellite orbital data relay
German startup NeuralSat has raised €2.9 million ($3.2 million) in a pre-seed round to build a 72-satellite network for relaying and processing data in orbit. Capnamic Ventures and Bayern Kapital co-led, with…
ORIX unit launches $40.7M tender offer to take IBC private
ORIX Corporation 's subsidiary, OPI IT Holdings, has launched a tender offer for all shares of Internetworking & Broadband Consulting (IBC) at US$11.5 each, valuing the deal at US$50M. The offer runs from November 12 to…
Trusted Space buys Falcon ExoDynamics to pair autonomy with hardware
Trusted Space, a space software company, has acquired Falcon ExoDynamics, a California firm that builds technology for maneuverable satellites. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was guided by Washington Harbour…
NarrativeOS raises angel round, signs up 700 users in first month
NarrativeOS, a startup that turns teaching materials into interactive digital games, has raised an undisclosed angel round, its first publicly disclosed financing. The company reported more than 700 registered users in…
deepinvoice raises €700,000 seed to automate medical billing
Münster-based startup deepinvoice has raised €700,000 (≈$776,601) in a seed round led by BDOC Plus AG. Other backers include the NRW.BANK, through its NRW.SeedCon programme, the Augenzentrum am Blauen Wunder Dresden,…
Viaemilia raises €50M to back Motor Valley's smaller suppliers
Viaemilia Investments, a private equity holding company set up by Cherry Bay Capital and Dallara, has raised €50 million to invest in small and medium-sized suppliers across Italy's Motor Valley. It aims to exceed €100…
Komatsu to buy Astec's Roadtec road-building unit for $75M
Komatsu has agreed to acquire the road construction equipment division of US manufacturer Astec Industries for an enterprise value of $75 million. The deal brings the Roadtec and Carlson brands — makers of asphalt…
Forj Medical's Jung steers global expansion after merger
Nicole Jung, chief financial officer of Forj Medical, has been named CFO of the Year by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal after orchestrating the merger of Minnetronix Medical and Intricon. She is now guiding…
Fidelity closes $760M second venture growth fund in two months
Fidelity Investments has raised nearly $760 million for Fidelity Venture Growth Fund II, closing the vehicle on November 2. The money came from high-net-worth individuals, family offices, registered investment advisors,…
VulcanForms lands $500M debt to build three new US factories
VulcanForms, a Boston-based digital manufacturing company, has secured $500 million in debt financing led by J.P. Morgan and funds managed by Apollo. The capital will fund three new factories and deepen the company's…
BrknPar leads strategic investment in golf brand Alma Mater Footwear
BrknPar has made a strategic early-stage investment in Alma Mater Footwear, an emerging golf footwear brand, the firms announced in November 2026. Jimmy Dunne, co-founder of Sandler O'Neill + Partners and vice chairman…
FW Capital lands extra £40M to lend across North West England
FW Capital has secured an additional £40 million from the British Business Bank 's Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), timed with its 100th business backed in North West England. The boost lifts FW…
SA's Alignd lands Knife Capital funding to expand care programmes
Alignd, a women-led South African healthcare startup, has secured an undisclosed early-stage investment led by Knife Capital. The Cape Town company will use the money to extend its value-based care model into maternity…
Swedfund backs Lightrock's Africa fund with $15M amid funding drought
Swedfund, Sweden's development finance institution, has committed US$15 million to Lightrock Africa Growth Fund II, a growth equity fund backing technology-enabled companies across the continent. The fund targets…
Caledonia returns £100M to shareholders after £290M Stonehage Fleming exit
Caledonia Investments, the £3 billion London-listed investment company controlled by the Cayzer family, will pay a special dividend of 20p per share — about £100 million — after selling its minority stake in wealth…
India backs Astrome's AI spy-satellite plan with $6.84M
India's Technology Development Board (TDB) has signed an agreement to give Bengaluru-based Astrome Technologies US$8.7M (roughly $6.84 million) in optionally convertible debt to build a sovereign AI-enabled electronic…
Serial founder Radu Georgescu joins $43M-backed FlowX.AI board
FlowX.AI has appointed entrepreneur and investor Radu Georgescu to its board of directors. The New York-headquartered company, which runs its engineering center in Bucharest, is adding the serial founder as it expands…
Canada's Volaris buys Swiss wealthtech firm Allocare
Canada's Volaris Group has acquired Allocare, a Swiss provider of asset and wealth management software, for an undisclosed sum. The deal closed on October 1, 2026, and was announced in November. Allocare, founded in…
Union Bank adds $35.9M to insurance JV, lifting stake to 26.24%
Union Bank of India has invested an additional US$45.7M in Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance (SUD Life), its joint-venture life insurer. The capital infusion raises the bank's holding from 25.10% to 26.24%.
Addentax books third $1.5M raise at $4.80 since September
Addentax Group Corp. (Nasdaq: ATXG) agreed to sell 312,500 common shares at $4.80 each for roughly $1.5 million in a private placement with a single non-US investor, Chan Kai Fung. The company disclosed the deal in a…
Ardee deploys $26M of IPO proceeds into working capital
Ardee Industries has deployed US$29.8M of its US$38.9M net IPO proceeds by September 30, 2026, according to a November 12 filing. The bulk — US$27.1M — went to incremental working capital, with US$2.72M fully used to…
Dilip Buildcon sets $1.1B terms to exit solar, transmission assets to Alpha
Dilip Buildcon (DBL) has agreed definitive terms for Alpha Alternatives Fund Advisors to acquire its residual stakes in two infrastructure assets, valued together at US$1.32B in enterprise value. The package, disclosed…
Vietnam's MB to raise $118M in private share placement for tech upgrade
Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB) plans to issue 200 million shares in a private placement to six professional securities investors, raising VND3,018 billion (roughly $118 million). The board set the price at…
Kansas City housing fund targets $100M to finance 5,000 affordable homes
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation has launched the Kansas City Regional Housing Fund, aiming to raise $100 million to help finance the construction or preservation of up to 5,000 affordable homes. Managed by…
Jensen Huang on Bloomberg's The Circuit: 'Just as I can be fired, the next CEO has to be hired'
The film: Emily Chang 's Bloomberg Originals series The Circuit released "The Rise and Reckoning of Jensen Huang" on 12 November 2026. In October, Chang followed Jensen Huang across Paris, London, Stockholm and Berlin…
WeRoad buys Switzerland's TravelTribe in first M&A deal after $58M round
Italian group-travel scaleup WeRoad has acquired TravelTribe, a Swiss travel brand and community, for an undisclosed sum. TravelTribe's brand, platform, and community will fold into WeRoad, which is strengthening its…
Marico buys spices brand 4700BC to fuel US$2.72B revenue goal
Indian FMCG major Marico has acquired premium snacks and spices brand 4700BC, adding to a digital-first portfolio that already includes men's grooming label Beardo and wellness brand Plix. The deal value was undisclosed.
XFrame doubles revenue with 118% jump, opens Canada office
Adelaide-based XFrame grew revenue 118% in the 2026 financial year, landing second on BDO 's Fast Movers list of South Australia's fastest-growing small and medium companies. The company makes a modular wall system used…
UK bank Griffin raises $20M Series B for cards and stablecoins
UK embedded bank Griffin has closed a $20 million Series B round led by Octagon Partners, at a post-money valuation above $100 million. Existing investors Notion Capital, A+ Ventures, NordicNinja VC, and Breega joined…
Ooni lands £10M debt facility backed by UK Export Finance
Edinburgh-based cooking-products company Ooni has secured £10 million in financing from HSBC UK, guaranteed by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the government's export credit agency. The facility gives Ooni working capital to…
CleanTech Lithium raises £63,400 via warrant exercise
CleanTech Lithium (AIM: CTL), a lithium exploration and development company with projects in Chile and Argentina, has raised £63,438 (about $84,220) through the exercise of warrants. Warrant holders took up 1,057,300…
MiniMax ships open-weight image model, bars US, EU, UK and South Korea
Chinese AI firm MiniMax has released the weights of H3-Image, a 33.1-billion-parameter image model, but its community licence excludes users in the US, EU, UK and South Korea by default. The files are published on…
StellarFix raises €50,000 to prototype star-based GPS alternative
Estonian startup StellarFix has raised €50,000 (≈$55,471) in a pre-seed investment from TooEarly Ventures, the venture studio at Estonian Business School. The money will fund a first prototype of its star-based…
Armenia moves toward EU supercomputing network, 5G security pact
Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry and Artificial Intelligence and the European Commission exchanged two statements of intent — one on joining the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC…
Palantir lobbied UK minister to pull GP records into £330M NHS platform
Palantir lobbied a former UK health minister to extend its artificial intelligence technology into GP records, according to WhatsApp messages obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The messages, spanning July…
Al Gore's Just Climate closes $540M fund, eyes first Brazil deals
Just Climate, the climate investment arm of Al Gore's Generation Investment Management, has closed its first natural climate solutions fund, NCS I, at $540 million. The vehicle, which began raising in 2024, drew more…
Elligint buys Israel's Laguna to embed care-team AI for health plans
US healthcare technology company Elligint Health has acquired Israeli digital health startup Laguna Health, which builds conversational AI for insurers' care management teams. The price was not disclosed, though Israeli…
Relic's Toyama fund backs Second Heart in bid to end diabetic amputations
Japan's Second Heart has raised an undisclosed seed extension led by the Toyama Co-Accel Fund (T-CAF), the deep-tech vehicle managed by business-creation company Relic. The Kyoto-based healthtech startup is working to…
Aptus Pharma raises $4.77M in private placement
Aptus Pharma raised US$6.07M on November 12, 2026 through a private placement, allotting 15,97,470 equity shares at US$3.8 each to 188 investors. The Indian pharmaceutical company priced the shares at a US$3.67 premium…
Cantabria's Tera cluster launches AI catalogue to lift 21% adoption rate
Cantabria's ICT cluster Tera is launching a catalogue of its members' AI solutions to spur adoption among companies in the northern Spanish region. The cluster announced the move on November 11, 2026, following an…
Ethiopia opens Pan-African AI residency for 51 founders from 12 countries
The Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute (EAII) launched the Pan-African AI Ventures Residency in Addis Ababa on November 9, bringing together 51 AI founders from 12 African countries. The 10-day programme runs…
AI tools win Andorra's ACTINN Awards, sharing €7,000 in prizes
Two AI startups won the seventh edition of Andorra's ACTINN Awards, announced November 11 by the country's technology and innovation cluster. Minervaly, a document-automation platform, took first place and €5,000;…
Franklin Templeton opens first GIFT City outbound fund, $5K minimum
Franklin Templeton has launched the Franklin US Equity IFSC Fund, its first outbound retail fund domiciled at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City). The open-ended feeder fund channels capital into the FTGF…
OpenAI, Anthropic sign Macron's Paris Call, but US and Google stay away
Ten AI labs — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft, Hugging Face, Cohere, Black Forest Labs, Synthesia and Sakana — signed the European-led Paris Call on AI safety on November 9. Signatories promise shutdown…
Tianyin Holdings raises $256M in share placement for channel push
Shenzhen-listed Tianyin Holdings has raised US$235.1M in a private share placement, issuing 219 million new A-shares at US$1.07 each. The shares began trading on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on November 12.
Google backs India's Rigi with $1.07M at $71.7M valuation
Creator economy startup Rigi has raised US$1.36M in late-stage venture funding from Google, according to regulatory filings reviewed by Entrackr. The company's board approved an allotment of 1,543 preference shares at…
ByteDance plans Muse-style AI agent, eyes $70B AI spend
ByteDance plans to release an AI assistant in the coming weeks to rival Meta 's Muse, Bloomberg reports. Co-founder Zhang Yiming outlined the plan at an all-hands meeting of the company's AI team, framing it as a way to…
Vytas lands $2.26M grant for silicon battery-material pilot plant
Vytas has secured a US$2.14M (≈$2.26 million) grant from the Government of Western Australia to build a nanoporous silicon pilot plant in Henderson. The award came through Round 2 of the Cook Labor government's…
Fresenius raises €523M from FMC share sale to fund growth
Fresenius placed about 13.4 million Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) shares at €39 each, raising just under €523 million and trimming its stake from roughly 25% to 20%. The accelerated bookbuilding, aimed at institutional…
Thailand's Horizon Group raises $12.5M to expand beyond sleep
Thailand's Horizon Group has raised $12.5 million in a Series A round from Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. The Bangkok-based consumer wellness company will use the money to expand its flagship brand, Lunio,…
Orvian buys Italian digital marketing firm WMR Group in platform roll-up
Orvian, a digital innovation group backed by Xenon Private Equity Small Cap, has acquired WMR Group, an Italian digital marketing business. Terms were undisclosed. OC&C Strategy Consultants provided buy-side commercial…
Iwan Books lands angel round to build AI self-publishing platform for Gen Z
Egyptian self-publishing startup Iwan Books has closed its first investment round, an angel round backed by Ahmed Sami, founder and chief executive officer of Eye Advertising Group. The capital will fund an AI-driven…
Israel's Tzomtech buys fintech Easify to build all-in-one MCA platform
Israeli technology company Tzomtech has acquired Easify, a New York fintech serving the merchant cash advance (MCA) industry, the companies announced on September 18, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. Easify's founder,…
Belgium's Altum Capital raises €32M for SME fund, backed by PMV
Ghent-based Altum Capital has raised €32 million for a new venture capital fund targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Belgian public investment company PMV is among the backers.
B3 and Leto invest $7.19M in private-credit data firm Idex
B3, Brazil's main exchange, and Leto Asset Management are investing roughly US$10.2M in Idex Analytics, a firm specialising in fixed-income indices, data, and pricing. The deal gives B3 up to 40% of the company, with an…
Merak Capital leads $1.3M round in Saudi studio Lambda
Merak Capital has led a $1.3 million round in Lambda Studios, a Saudi game developer that began on Roblox and is now moving onto new platforms, including Steam.
Echelon turns a year-old partnership into a stake in CREATE. Payments
Echelon Payments has made a strategic investment in CREATE., a payments company focused on the nonprofit sector. The move builds on a partnership that began in September 2025, when CREATE. joined Echelon's Strategic…
Rongqi Technology to buy semiconductor parts maker Deqishun in $84.2M deal
Chinese smart-inspection equipment maker Rongqi Technology (301360) will acquire a 60% stake in Shanghai-based Deqishun Precision Machinery for US$77.2M (about $84.2 million, FX-converted) in cash. After the deal…
Samsung lifts Chungcheong chip plan to $98B as HBM race heats up
Samsung will invest a combined US$120.7B in South Korea's Chungcheong region to build production bases for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), OLED panels, AI chip package substrates, and next-generation batteries. The group…
HOSIN raises $137M in Hong Kong IPO with razor-thin 1.77% free float
HOSIN Electronics, a Shenzhen-based memory chipmaker, priced its Hong Kong IPO at US$8.8 per share, raising gross proceeds of US$129.3M. The stock (ticker 2681) began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November…
Zydus closes $166M Assertio buyout for US oncology foothold
Zydus Lifesciences has completed its acquisition of US-based Assertio Holdings through a cash tender offer, executed via wholly owned subsidiary Zara Merger Sub Inc. The $166.4 million deal, at $23.50 per share, makes…
Robot-chip maker Amicro raises $90.5M in below-range Hong Kong IPO
Zhuhai-based Amicro Technology priced its Hong Kong IPO at US$1.2 per H share, raising US$85.8M in gross proceeds. The maker of navigation chips and modules for cleaning and service robots began trading on November 12,…
Terra Drone's Unifly wins $940K EU defence grant for counter-drone work
Unifly, the Belgium-based drone traffic management subsidiary of Japan's Terra Drone, has secured a grant worth €849,769 (about ¥150 million, or roughly $940,000) from the European Defence Fund. The money backs SPECTRE,…
Harwood hits £120M first close as British Business Bank adds £40M for SMEs
The British Business Bank has committed an additional £40 million to London-based Harwood Private Capital, backing the first close of its second fund, Harwood Private Capital UK Fund II. The commitment brings total…
Lila Bio wins $3.65M NIH grant for AI-designed lung disease drug
Lila Bio, a Seattle startup spun out of Nobel laureate David Baker's lab at the University of Washington, has won a $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a treatment for pulmonary…
Octave buys stealthy Cerebre to fuel industrial AI push
Octave Intelligence has acquired Cerebre, a US software company that turns fragmented engineering schematics and plant data into a connected, real-time plant model. The deal was announced on November 11, 2026. Financial…
LOA Carbon wins $15K grant after relocating to Mississippi
LOA Carbon, a manufacturer that relocated from New York to Mississippi this year, won a $15,000 grant at Innovate Mississippi 's annual conference, beating nine other startups in a pitch competition before investors.
Munters bets $37M on data-center cooling supply chain
Cooling technology provider Munters Group will invest $9.5 million in a US joint venture with heat-exchanger producer Lordan and around €25 million (about $27.73 million) to expand its chiller plant in northern Italy.…
Aquaterra Energy's leaders buy the company, backed by HSBC
Aquaterra Energy's management team has bought the UK offshore engineering company, backed by financing from HSBC. The Norwich-based firm did not disclose the deal's terms or its previous owners.
Goldman, HSBC, and Fortress back $150M Saudi private credit deal
Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and Fortress Investment Group are backing $150 million in financing for United Saudi Company, alongside regional fund managers Ruya Partners and Amwal Capital Partners, according to Bloomberg. The…
Dubai's Cequire allocates $100M to early-stage blockchain startups
Cequire, a Dubai-based firm, has launched a $100 million venture capital fund targeting pre-seed and seed blockchain startups. Founded in the UAE in 2024 by Salman Parsi, the firm says it has already invested over $50…
Chapel Hill lists Nigeria's first gender bond at $5.57M
Chapel Hill Denham has issued Nigeria's first gender bond, a 7,500,000,000 NGN (about $5.57 million) five-year fixed-rate debt instrument to finance women-owned and women-led businesses. FSD Africa (Financial Sector…
HiLITE Group launches debut $21M real estate fund in India
HiLITE Group, a Kerala-based real estate developer, has launched a $21 million (US$27.2M) real estate fund, its first vehicle as it enters investment management through a new vertical, HiLITE Investment Management. The…
Oaktree buys Guascor Energy from Mutares for €74M
German investor Mutares has agreed to sell its power business Guascor Energy to Oaktree Capital Management for an equity value of €74 million. The deal, announced November 11, covers 100% of Guascor Energy and its…
Decentraland opens $30K beta fund to pay indie game creators
Decentraland has launched the beta season of its Creator Fund, a $30,000 rewards pool shared among developers based on how players engage with their games. Creators can opt in through the platform's Creator Hub from…
Arifpay, KLIK deal targets 1,500 Addis Ababa vendors with POS, QR payments
Arifpay Financial Technologies and KLIK Investment signed a partnership on October 19, 2026 in Addis Ababa to bring POS terminals and QR code payments to restaurants across the Ethiopian capital. The deal is commercial,…
Coreshell raises $30M to swap Chinese graphite for US silicon
Coreshell, a California-based battery startup, has raised a $30 million Series B to scale up manufacturing of its silicon-anode lithium-ion cells. Ferroglobe and investment firm Access Industries led the round, with…
Seattle's Ascend closes $17M fund for 'Third Act' hardware startups
Seattle venture firm Ascend has closed a $17 million third fund to back early-stage startups building robots, energy systems, defense technology, and other products that combine software and hardware. The firm also…
Trampay builds $44.8M FIDC to lend to Brazil's delivery workers
Trampay, a Brazilian fintech serving app-based delivery workers, launched a credit fund with the capacity to lend up to US$64M (≈$44.8 million) to drivers who often struggle to get bank credit. The personal loan line is…
Theo the humanoid takes the supermarket night shift
Key takeaways from the launch video of Theseus Robotics (November 2026):
Ardian raises €1B for Europe's first chip-focused private equity fund
Ardian has raised €1 billion (about $1.1 billion) for Ardian Semiconductor, a private equity platform dedicated to Europe's semiconductor value chain. The total comprises close to €700 million in fund commitments, with…
Zimmer Biomet raises $500M in debt as it funds a 2026 buying spree
Medical device maker Zimmer Biomet has raised $500 million through a senior unsecured bond due 2036, part of a broader offering it priced on November 5, 2026. The dollar notes carry a 5.85% coupon and sold at 99.993% of…
Genetec exits loss-making battery JV with Citaglobal for US$0.24
Genetec Technology Bhd has agreed to sell its entire 50% stake in Citaglobal Genetec BESS Sdn Bhd (CG BESS) to Citaglobal New Energy Sdn Bhd for a nominal US$0.24 (≈$0). The deal, signed November 6, 2026, also transfers…
The 81 Collection raises $82M to fund businesses VC overlooks
Chicago-based venture firm The 81 Collection has raised $82 million for Fund II, doubling its 2021 debut fund and pushing total assets under management above $145 million. Rather than chase software and AI startups, it…
Bahrain's Bapco backs Kimmeridge energy fund nearing $1.5B target
Bapco Energies, Bahrain's integrated energy group, has invested in Kimmeridge Fund VII, the flagship private equity fund of US energy-focused asset manager Kimmeridge. The commitment, made through Bapco's corporate…
CalPERS books a 100% gain on its Grain investment after SpaceX spectrum deal
SpaceX agreed in October 2026 to acquire nationwide 800MHz spectrum from private equity firm Grain Management for $8 billion, Bloomberg reported on 10 November 2026; the deal still requires approval from the Federal…
Goldman, Citi lead 21-bank group backing stablecoin with $270M
A 21-bank consortium including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Banco Santander, and Deutsche Bank has committed about $270 million to a joint stablecoin venture, according to people familiar with the matter. The funding will…
QSTP, TotalEnergies bring 11 water-tech startups to Doha showcase
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation, and TotalEnergies have hosted the Final Showcase of their WaterTech Accelerator in Doha. The event closed a Doha Immersion Week that brought a cohort…
China pumps $11.5B into ETFs to revive its AI stock rally
China's state-backed "national team" of banks and funds poured a net $11.5bn into nine exchange traded funds on Tuesday, the second-highest daily total on record, according to Bloomberg data. An unusually large share…
Palomma raises $10M Series A to grow Colombia rent-payment business
Palomma, a Medellín-based startup that handles rent payments and lending for landlords, tenants and property managers, has raised a $10 million Series A led by Mexican venture firm Cometa. Co-founder and chief executive…
Vine Ventures closes $236M third fund, doubling its AUM
US-Israeli venture firm Vine Ventures has closed its third fund at $236 million. The raise lifts the firm's total assets under management above $500 million, five years after its 2020 founding.
Torus raises $500M Series C for modular AI data centers
Torus, a Salt Lake City energy-storage startup, raised $500 million in a Series C round to launch Foundry, a shipping container-sized product that combines batteries with AI computing. Magnetar led the round, with…
Nova raises $24M to link credit cards to Brazil's Pix network
Nova, a Brazilian fintech that lets consumers use existing credit cards for instant payments and bills, raised $24 million in a Series A led by Canaan, chief executive officer Rafael Matos told Axios Pro.
Student-led proptech Soolok lands US$93.6K DOST grant
Soolok Properties, a Philippine proptech startup, has won a US$93.6K grant from the Startup Grant Fund of the DOST Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD).…
Devia exits stealth with agentic AI and a new leadership team for pharma quality
Devia, a Zurich-based spinout from AI firm Visium, emerged from stealth on November 11, 2026, with an agentic AI that manages GxP deviation investigations in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The tool is now available to…
Warner Bros-Paramount merger brings games layoffs amid $6B savings push
Skydance Games has laid off staff across its video game division, just over a month after the merger of Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount combined their gaming operations. At least 25 people have lost their jobs,…
Palo Alto's CyberArk deal: $25B on paper, $21B at close, $37B now
Palo Alto Networks ' acquisition of CyberArk, announced in July 2025 as a roughly $25 billion cash-and-stock deal, was booked at $21.1 billion when it closed on February 11, 2026. The gap reflects a drop in Palo Alto's…
Banks insure AI data-centre loans to lend past their limits
Banks are buying credit insurance on their AI data-centre loans to lay off risk and lend more into the AI boom. Barclays recently bought cover for its AI infrastructure exposure, HSBC has explored the product, and…
Invest Qatar launches bootcamp to prep startups for Web Summit 2027
Invest Qatar has launched Road to Web Summit Qatar 2027, a programme to ready high-potential startups for investor and commercial engagement ahead of the event. Announced November 10 on the sidelines of Web Summit…
Databricks commits about $3B to Europe and the Middle East, its biggest bet outside North America
Databricks announced on 11 November that it plans to invest about $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over the next three years, its largest regional investment outside North America. It will grow its EMEA team…
SpaceX taps Germany's Singulus for €60M solar-cell line to power orbital AI
SpaceX has signed a supply contract worth more than €60 million with German equipment maker SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES for a turnkey heterojunction (HJT) solar-cell production line. The first line is due in the first half of…
Anthropic IPO could mint 4,250 millionaires as Wall Street circles
Anthropic 's planned initial public offering could turn roughly 4,250 of its 5,300 employees into millionaires, according to a forecast from private-market tracker Hill reported by The Observer. The estimate includes…
Course Corrected closes $91.1M second fund for Nordic climate tech
Stockholm's Course Corrected has reached a final close on Fund II at US$108.8M, a venture vehicle targeting Nordic early-stage climate technology. The firm, founded in 2021 by Kerstin Cooley and Katja Bergman, backs…
Nvidia's Israeli-built BlueField-4 chip becomes 'Sentry' watchdog for AI agents
Nvidia 's Israeli engineers are developing BlueField-4, a processor designed to provide an external layer of control over autonomous AI agents. It sits outside the CPU as a hardware-level safeguard that monitors agents…
Scottish state bank launches first fund, up to £65M for university spinouts
The Scottish National Investment Bank is launching its first-ever fund, the Scottish Universities Fund, committing up to £65m of cornerstone capital to businesses spun out of Scotland's universities. Investments begin…
Newcastle founder lands Start Up Loan to launch Bass Turtle device
Nick Tyler, founder of Newcastle-based Pisces Devices, has secured five-figure debt funding to bring his Bass Turtle sensory device to market. The Start Up Loan came through the British Business Bank, with support from…
Hong Kong meatball maker Tai Lung Fung lands £75,000 to double its range
Tai Lung Fung, a Whickham food factory founded by Hong Kong immigrant Gary Yeung, has secured £75,000 in debt funding to expand its premises and double its frozen meatball range for UK supermarkets. The money comes from…
North Dakota's FIBT buys Dallas' Dominion Bank to enter Texas
North Dakota-based First International Bank & Trust (FIBT) has agreed to acquire Dallas' Dominion Bank, which holds $650 million in assets and three branches. The deal, announced in November 2026, gives FIBT its first…
Coal trader Javelin buys its way into cobalt and molybdenum
Javelin Global Commodities has acquired Derek Raphael & Co., a family-owned merchant that trades cobalt and molybdenum, Bloomberg reported. The deal, announced in November 2026, gives the coal trader a foothold in…
NZ agtech Aimer Farming raises $1.69M to turn grass data into beef profits
New Zealand agtech startup Aimer Farming has raised US$1.94M (≈$1.69 million) in an early-stage round to help beef farmers calculate how much grass they have to feed their cattle. The round was co-led by Cultivate…
Helsing launches Clarity, an AI-agent intelligence platform for armed forces, taking on Palantir
What happened? Helsing, the German defence AI company, unveiled Clarity in Berlin on 11 November: an agentic intelligence platform that helps armed forces process sensor feeds, satellite imagery, drone video, open…
Electra AI raises $5M bridge as SPAC merger clears SEC comments
Electra AI has raised roughly $5 million in bridge financing, the company said Tuesday, as it and Iron Horse Acquisition II Corp. (Nasdaq: IRHO) filed Amendment No. 1 to the Form S-4 registration statement for their…
Samsung Biologics rights offering hits 96.83% as $1.98B M&A nears
Samsung BioLogics has secured most of a US$2.23B rights offering, with its employee and existing-shareholder round reaching a 96.83% subscription rate. Major shareholders Samsung C&T and Samsung Electronics took their…
Vanna Health adds three executives after $17M Series B
Vanna Health has named three executives after closing its Series B round, the company announced November 10, 2026, in San Francisco. Todd Yu joins as chief financial officer, Julie Barbiere as vice president of…
Cade clears France's Loxam to buy control of Brazil's Mills
Brazil's antitrust regulator, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), approved without restrictions the acquisition of control of Mills by France's Loxam SAS, the company said on November 10. Loxam is…
RIVM may have to close outdated Bilthoven virus labs after park manager flags outbreak risk
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) may have to close its laboratories for research on highly contagious pathogens at Utrecht Science Park Bilthoven.
Botswana Tech Fund backs seven Southern African startups with up to £100,000 each
The Botswana Tech Fund has selected seven startups from Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe for the first cohort of its pre-seed accelerator, committing up to £100,000 per company. The three-month…
OpenAI buys travel agent Odessia, hires ex-Sonder founder Davidson
OpenAI has acquired Odessia, an AI travel concierge that books complete trips, and hired its founder, Francis Davidson. Terms were undisclosed; the deal was announced on November 10, 2026.
Cetus Maritime lands $175M backing for Oslo listing
Hong Kong dry bulk company Cetus Maritime has secured $175 million in a private placement as it prepares to list on Euronext Growth Oslo later this month. Eastern Pacific Shipping, Songa Capital, the Albemarle Shipping…
Anthropic rolls out AI office suite as it eyes $64.4B IPO
Anthropic has launched a set of workplace tools — Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, Meetings and Data — pushing its AI assistant into everyday office work. The rollout, announced at a San Francisco event on Tuesday, targets…
OpenAI opens ChatGPT to businesses with claimable profiles, analytics and sponsored Business Agents
What's new? OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta on 10 November. Through a new Business Hub, any eligible business in a market where ChatGPT is available can claim and verify its listing, update its details and…
Broadwing launches distribution platform with Supply Side buy
Dallas-based private equity firm Broadwing Capital has acquired Supply Side, a Cleveland distributor of packaging materials and hardware, as the first investment in its new specialty distribution platform. Terms were…
Conta Azul buys PlayBPO as it targets one million customers
Conta Azul, a Joinville-based financial management platform for small and medium businesses, has acquired PlayBPO, a Florianópolis startup that builds technology for outsourced finance providers. Terms were not…
Brazil's finaya lands growth round from Crescera and GS1 for embedded finance push
Finaya, a Brazilian embedded finance platform, has raised an undisclosed growth equity round from Crescera Capital and GS1 Brasil Ventures. The company lets retailers and large firms offer banking services under their…
RWAI raises $8M to merge AI apparel manufacturing with tokenized goods
RWAI has completed an $8 million financing for a platform that applies artificial intelligence across apparel production and ties physical products to NFTs. Backers included Amber Group, UOB Venture Management,…
IP Lab lands $56M for Czech deep-tech fund spun out of universities
IP Lab has raised 1,200,000,000 CZK (roughly $56 million) for the IP Lab Ventures Fund, a venture capital vehicle backed by the European Investment Fund (EIF) with support from the Czech ministry of industry and trade.…
Wix paid $80M for Israel's Base44. It's now nearing $250M in ARR
Base44, the Israeli AI app-building platform Wix bought in June 2025 for about $80 million upfront, is now nearing $250 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), Calcalist reports. That is up from roughly $200 million…
PortX lands non-dilutive growth capital from CIBC for bank integration platform
PortX, a Seattle-based AI-native data integration platform for community banks and credit unions, has secured growth capital financing from CIBC Innovation Banking. The debt facility is non-dilutive, and its amount and…
LF Energy lands $2.5M Google.org grant for European grid software
LF Energy, the Linux Foundation's open-source energy arm, has received a $2.5 million grant from Google.org, administered via INCO, to advance open-source modelling, forecasting and data tools for Europe's electricity…
Zilch adds £165M in debt as it lines up a London IPO
UK fintech Zilch has secured £165 million in new debt, led by Deutsche Bank, as it prepares for a possible London flotation. The facility lifts Zilch's total securitisation and corporate debt capacity to almost £400…
Zürcher Kantonalbank's Swiss Growth Fund II passes $251M
Zürcher Kantonalbank's asset management arm has secured more than US$188.3M (roughly $251 million) for its Swiss Growth Fund II, formally the Swisscanto (CH) Private Equity Switzerland Growth II L-QIF KmGK. The…
Abu Dhabi's Hub71+ Life Sciences hits $463M in startup funding in first year
Hub71+ Life Sciences, Abu Dhabi's specialist health and life sciences ecosystem, marked its first anniversary with a portfolio of 58 startups that have raised $463 million and generated $138 million in revenue. The…
Startup Garage opens youth incubator in Navoiy with route to AloqaBank, AloqaVentures capital
Startup Garage opened a Youth Business Incubator in Navoiy, Uzbekistan, on November 9 for people aged 18 to 30. It offers mentors, free education programs, coworking space and a route to investment from AloqaBank and…
Uzbekistan extends IT Park tax breaks to robotics makers at new $500M tech centre
Uzbekistan will grant companies in the planned Future Technologies Centre in Nurafshon the same incentives enjoyed by IT Park residents, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced on November 9. Imported materials and…
INMerge Ventures to double charter capital to AZN 6.8M
Baku-based venture firm INMerge Ventures plans to double its charter capital to AZN 6.8 million from AZN 3.4 million. The increase will come from raising the nominal value of its 3.4 million existing shares from AZN 1…
Vinted Go opens in Finland, its sixth market, with 300 Helsinki drop-off points
Vinted Go, the logistics arm of second-hand marketplace Vinted, has launched parcel delivery in Finland, starting in the Helsinki region with 300 pick-up and drop-off (PUDO) points. Deliveries are handled by Unisend,…
Oslo's Frid launches AI assistant built on PSD2 bank data
Oslo fintech Frid, run by Visonomic, has launched an in-app AI assistant that lets users ask questions about their personal finances and get answers drawn from their own bank data. The feature, live for a few days,…
Glasgow spin-out Entourage AI trials blood test to predict injuries at Nottingham Forest
University of Glasgow spin-out Entourage AI has partnered with Premier League club Nottingham Forest on a 12-week trial testing whether blood tests can flag early biological signs that a player is becoming more…
Korea's MBD prices KOSDAQ IPO at $10.4M, 27% below its range
South Korean precision-oncology firm MBD set its IPO price at US$5.87 per share, raising about US$11.7M (roughly $10.4 million) ahead of its KOSDAQ listing. The company is selling 2 million new shares, giving it an…
Bandai Namco takes 42.1% stake in Vietnam's Pops to expand in Southeast Asia
Japan's Bandai Namco Holdings has acquired a 42.1% stake in Pops Group, a Vietnam-based digital entertainment company, and formed an alliance to grow revenue from digital intellectual property and fan engagement across…
Korai Flix to go public via $3.5B SPAC merger with Apex Tech
Interactive entertainment platform Korai Flix has agreed to merge with Apex Tech Acquisition, a blank-cheque company, in an all-stock deal that values Korai at $3.5 billion on a pre-money equity basis. The combined…
Ecopetrol raises $2B in bonds to refinance Brava Energia deal
Ecopetrol, Colombia's state-controlled oil company, sold $2 billion in eight-year bonds to repay existing debt and refinance the loan behind its Brazil expansion. The notes, maturing in November 2034, priced at a 7.98%…
Anthropic sets IPO terms at up to $1.02T, and its chip and cloud suppliers buy $26B alongside
What happened? Anthropic has set the terms of its IPO and launched the roadshow. Amendment No. 2 to its Form S-1, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 10 November 2026, and Anthropic's own…
Airbnb's Chesky pledges $100M to SF parks, city's largest single-donor gift
Airbnb chief executive officer Brian Chesky has pledged $100 million to San Francisco's public parks, which city officials call the largest gift from a single donor in its history. The first $39 million goes immediately…
Windward Bio targets $1B valuation in Nasdaq IPO
Swiss drug developer Windward Bio Group AG is seeking a valuation of up to $1 billion in its US initial public offering. The Basel-based company plans to raise up to $185.3 million by selling roughly 10.3 million shares…
Centric Brands CEO Jason Rabin buys back $3B apparel group in management-led deal
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Strategy raises $284M in share sale, directs most to STRC buybacks over bitcoin
Strategy raised $283.8 million in net proceeds by selling about 2.05 million MSTR common shares through its at-the-market program in the week to November 8. Most of the capital — $188.3 million — went to repurchasing…
Chipmaker Xinde raises $112M in Hong Kong IPO as retail piles in
Jiangsu Xinde Semiconductor Technology priced its Hong Kong IPO at US$1.07 per share, raising net proceeds of about US$106.6M (roughly $112 million). The chip packaging and testing firm offered 107 million H shares and…
Mistral's Arthur Mensch: energy is only 10% of compute costs, capital is the bottleneck, and Mistral can go public in Europe
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Klabin to raise $218M for Paraná forest venture
Klabin, Brazil's largest paper and packaging group, agreed on November 6, 2026, to form a joint company with an undisclosed institutional investor that will inject US$307M. Klabin will contribute forest assets across…
Carbon-credit firm Nature's Ledger to go public via SPAC merger at $323.8M valuation
Globa Terra Acquisition Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Nature's Ledger, an Alberta-based carbon markets company, creating a publicly traded business under the Nature's Ledger name. The deal,…
Renzo Gracie takes equity stake in UJITSU, joins as global ambassador
Renzo Gracie, the two-time ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) world champion, has taken an equity stake in UJITSU, a UAE-founded company building a digital platform for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He joins as global ambassador and…
Big Caring's $480M IPO values Malaysian pharmacy chain at $2B
Big Caring Group Bhd is listing on Bursa Malaysia 's Main Market in a US$478.3M offering that values the pharmacy chain at roughly US$1.91B. The IPO comprises up to 1.88 billion shares at a retail price of US$0.26 each,…
Puresta raises $3.5M, launches AI skincare platform EVERQ in India
Puresta has raised US$4.62M (roughly $3.5 million) and launched EVERQ, an AI-driven platform that identifies skin issues and connects users with dermatologists online. The company aims to bring personalised skincare…
AfDB backs TDB with $200M trade credit line to narrow Africa's financing gap
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $200 million trade finance line of credit for the Trade and Development Bank (TDB), approved by its board on October 28. The revolving facility lets TDB extend trade…
Google.org grants Clalit $2M for multilingual AI patient assistant
Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, awarded Clalit Health Services a $2 million grant to build a conversational AI system that helps patients access care. The two-year grant will fund a "Digital Front Door" for…
Nvidia opens spy probe after CEO Huang admits affair
Nvidia 's board is launching an independent investigation after chief executive officer Jensen Huang admitted an affair with a woman identified in reports as a suspected Chinese intelligence asset. "I was unfaithful to…
Social discovery platform Listnivo hits $6M valuation with FutureBright backing
Listnivo, an invite-only social discovery platform, has raised an early-stage round from FutureBright Ventures, lifting its valuation to $6 million. The financial size of the deal was not disclosed. It is the company's…
Uzbek robotics startup Defex joins Y Combinator, turning down $2M in term sheets
Defex Robotics, founded by Uzbek entrepreneur Husan Mavlonov, has been accepted into Y Combinator. The startup builds robots that automate the installation and inspection of electrical connectors on factory lines.
Andorra Digital opens free marketplace linking firms to tech providers
Andorra Digital on November 6 launched a free online marketplace connecting Andorran businesses with technology providers. The catalogue lets companies browse suppliers offering cybersecurity, cloud data management,…
SinoHytec redirects $38M of IPO cash to loans as hydrogen revenue shrinks
SinoHytec, a Beijing maker of hydrogen fuel cell systems, will redeploy US$36.3M of its IPO proceeds — originally earmarked for R&D and marketing — to repay bank loans and cover general working capital. The shift…
Ghana budgets $854K seed money to revive its Media Development Fund
Ghana's government has allocated GH¢10 million (about $854,000) in the 2027 national budget as seed funding for the Media Development Fund. President John Dramani Mahama announced the figure at the 30th anniversary of…
Hollard completes Mozambique merger, targets 30%+ market share under one brand
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Binance names Airwallex veteran Justin Yek as CFO after $6.3B hack
Binance has appointed Justin Yek, formerly vice-president of finance at Airwallex, as its new chief financial officer. He replaces Kaiser Ng, who is leaving the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange after more than…
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from financial system over $16B
The US Treasury Department has ordered crypto exchange MEXC Global cut off from the US financial system, alleging it facilitated at least $16 billion in illicit transactions. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network…
Ominvest raises $260M in oversubscribed perpetual sukuk
Oman International Development and Investment Company (Ominvest) has raised 100mn Omani rials (about $260 million) through a private placement of unsecured, perpetual, subordinated sukuk. The issue drew subscriptions…
Tivio raises $91.4M for Brazilian mall-focused real-estate fund
Brazilian fund manager Tivio has raised US$128.7M through a public offering of quotas in its Tivio Opportunities II Malls IPCA real-estate fund (FII). The offering, which covered the first issuance of Subclass A and…
Ex-JD.com exec's stealth robotics startup lands hundreds of millions in Series A
Beijing Tianxiaxian Zhichuang Robot Technology (Tianxian Robotics) has raised a Series A of several hundred million yuan, the company announced in September 2026. Chuxin Fund led the round, with Matrix Partners China…
Confipetrol lands $100M syndicated loan led by Santander
Confipetrol, a Bogotá-based industrial services company, has secured a $100 million syndicated credit facility led by Banco Santander Colombia and Banco Santander Perú. A syndicate of 13 Colombian and Peruvian banks…
Pakistan's ABHI Microfinance Bank raises $7.39M in fintech-led IPO
ABHI Microfinance Bank has raised Rs2.046 billion (about $7.39 million) in its initial public offering on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, pricing shares at Rs15.50 each. The lender sold 99 million shares to institutional…
iFood's Zoop wins Visa, Mastercard nod to become card acquirer
Zoop, the fintech owned by Brazilian delivery giant iFood, has been authorised by Visa and Mastercard to operate as a card acquirer. The move lets Zoop process card payments directly, cutting out intermediaries in its…
Phoenix's EmeraNova launches Catalyst accelerator with up to $200K per startup
Phoenix medtech company EmeraNova has launched Catalyst, a four-month accelerator for startups in tissue restoration and advanced wound care. The program offers validation, mentorship, and potential investment of up to…
Uzbekistan runs three-city Scale & Capital bootcamp as it targets $2B in venture by 2030
Scale & Capital is running an intensive startup bootcamp with IT Park Uzbekistan and Hackonnect on 5-7 November, the StartupBase Telegram channel said on 2 November. Sessions run across three cities: Samarkand, Navoiy,…
Why Sequoia ended Scouts, the 2009 programme that found Uber and Stripe
What happened? Sequoia has ended its Scouts programme. In "The Sequoia of Tomorrow", a memo posted on X on 4 November 2026 and signed by its seven general partners, the firm said it had "sunset our batch accelerator…
Equity Bank Rwanda launches EMMA wallet, betting on free transfers and credit
Equity Bank Rwanda has launched EMMA, a digital wallet app for payments, money transfers, savings and eligible credit. It soft-launched in Kigali on November 5 at an event for media and creatives who tested everyday…
Colombia's EPM returns to global debt markets with $1B bond
Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM), Colombia's state-owned utility, raised $1 billion in a dollar-denominated bond sale that closed on November 5. The seven-year notes mature in 2033 and marks the company's first…
Sweden's Gotmic takes $10.3M route to public listing via reverse merger
Swedish semiconductor firm Gotmic has gone public through a reverse merger with listed shell Hemply Balance Holding, a transaction valued at US$12.1M (≈$10.3 million). The deal completed on November 5, 2026, and the…
MVL taps Kaia's tokenized fund for first institutional mobility private credit loan
MVL has secured a loan for its Cambodian electric mobility subsidiary, ONiON Mobility, from Kaia Investment Partners' (KIP) tokenized private credit fund Yield8. The financing ran through Musubi, MVL's real-world asset…
Vinci Compass buys control of medical-education platform Sanar
Vinci Compass has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Sanar, a Brazilian medical-education platform, through its Vinci Capital Partners IV fund. The all-secondary deal, announced in November, gives full exits to…
Austin Financial adds Kyle Wilson to drive asset-based lending growth
Austin Financial Services (AFS), an asset-based lending firm, has hired Kyle Wilson as senior business development officer. The appointment was announced on November 5, 2026.
LightSolver lands $1.8M Israeli grant to push laser computing toward market
LightSolver, an Israeli deep-tech firm building an all-optical computing platform, has secured a grant of about $1.8 million from the Israel Innovation Authority. The money will fund development of its Laser Processing…
Highway Holdings takes $7M from David Lazar, who becomes CEO in near-total takeover
Highway Holdings (Nasdaq: HIHO) has closed a $7 million strategic investment from David Lazar, who takes a stake that could reach roughly 95% of the company on a fully diluted basis. The Hong Kong-based manufacturer…
TA'ZIZ closes $1.39B financing for two Ruwais industrial projects
TA'ZIZ has closed $1.39 billion in financing for two projects in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, with MUFG and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation advising. The package covers a chemicals terminal and an ammonia plant, both of which…
OPay pulls $4B New York IPO at the last minute after China inquiry
OPay, a Nigeria-focused fintech backed by SoftBank, terminated its planned $304 million New York Stock Exchange listing hours before trading was due to begin, citing a regulatory inquiry in a foreign jurisdiction it…
Staff.am launches Armenia's first AI career assistant with a paid Premium tier
Staff.am, Armenia's largest career platform, has launched SIMO, which it calls the country's first AI career assistant, alongside a Premium subscription. Users describe the work they want, and SIMO recommends relevant…
UK launches £700M Strategic Sites Accelerator; South Yorkshire eyes Runway Park
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Phoenix dealmaker Stella Cohen raises $120M for new private equity fund
Stella Cohen, a former director at Israeli insurer The Phoenix, has raised $120 million from US investors for a new private equity fund. She is now seeking hundreds of millions of shekels more from Israeli institutions…
AgDevCo Ventures backs Ugandan agro-processor Newman Foods with $3M loan
AgDevCo Ventures has invested $3 million in Newman Foods, a Ugandan agro-processor, through a mezzanine loan. Newman's turns locally grown crops into value-added foods and packs fresh fruits and vegetables. It sources…
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