Index Ventures raises $2B in fresh capital, lifting total to $3.5B across seed, venture and growth
Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in new capital — a $400 million seed fund, a $900 million venture fund, and a $700 million top-up to its growth fund — lifting its total investing capital to $3.5 billion across all…
Japan joins Horizon Europe research program
The European Commission announced that Japan has joined Horizon Europe. Japanese researchers can now partner with teams across the EU on research in health, digital technologies and climate neutrality.
Xsight Labs raises $300M at $2.8B valuation on AI networking demand
Israeli semiconductor company Xsight Labs has raised more than $300 million in a late-stage round at a $2.8 billion valuation. Fidelity Management & Research Company led, with participation from Atreides Management ,…
Antora Energy raises $550M Series C to build second thermal battery factory
Antora Energy has raised $550 million in a Series C round to expand production of its thermal batteries, which help heavy industry and data centers cut costs and run on renewable energy. Eclipse Ventures and G2 Venture…
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body control
Google DeepMind on July 30, 2026, introduced Gemini Robotics 2, an intelligence layer for robots that adds whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration. It is a vision-language-action (VLA)…
ThreatLocker raises $190M Series F to secure AI workloads
Orlando-based ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in Series F financing led by Boston's Elephant , with participation from D. E. Shaw Ventures, Arthur Ventures , and new investor Koch Disruptive Technologies . The…
Scale AI names ex-Google Cloud COO deSouza as CEO after $14.3B Meta bet
Scale AI has appointed Francis deSouza , formerly chief operating officer of Google Cloud, as chief executive. He starts on August 10, replacing interim chief Jason Droege .
ByteDance leads China with $4bn in AI revenue, breaks up Lark
ByteDance now makes about $4bn a year from AI, the largest figure any Chinese company has publicly claimed, the South China Morning Post reported. To push that lead, the company behind TikTok is folding Lark , its…
Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sells its public stock book to Citadel after AI-trade losses
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the bulk of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after steep losses. Prime brokers had…
Simile raises $200M Series B at $2B valuation to survey AI 'twins' of consumers
Simile , a year-old Palo Alto startup, has raised over $200 million in a Series B at a $2 billion post-money valuation to build "agentic twins" — AI stand-ins for real consumers that companies can survey instead of…
K2 Space raises $500M at $6.8B to build big satellites
K2 Space , the Torrance, California manufacturer of large, high-power satellites, has raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation. With the round, K2 has cumulatively raised over $1 billion and says it…
Fusion's funding boom: a record 2026 as capital piles into the frontier
Capital is piling into private-sector fusion in 2026. A ranking compiled by FusionX of the ten fusion companies that have raised the most in 2026 year-to-date (equity and non-dilutive, ex-debt) shows nine-figure rounds…
German court finds $5.4B AI music startup Suno infringed copyright in European first
The Munich Regional Court ruled on July 31 that AI music generator Suno broke copyright law by training on protected songs without permission. The court found Suno had memorised and reproduced six songs represented by…
TMX Group to take 59% of new US$2.3B options group MEMX
Toronto-based TMX Group has agreed to make a strategic investment in US exchange operator MEMX and combine it with equity options market BOX , creating a consolidated US exchange group valued at about US$2.3 billion.…
Razer buys StreamElements, rescuing a platform 2.6M creators use daily
Razer , the gamer lifestyle brand that sells hardware, accessories, and services, has acquired streamer platform StreamElements from its holding company, Live Momentum Ltd. Razer will own and operate the platform, which…
Schneider Electric buys AiDASH for $350M in rare climate adaptation exit
Schneider Electric has agreed to buy about 90% of AiDASH 's shares in an all-cash deal valuing the startup at $350 million, according to the French company's half-year results. AiDASH uses satellite imagery and AI to…
Amphenol lifts CommScope sales outlook to $4.6B as AI bets pay off
Amphenol has folded CommScope 's Connectivity and Cable Solutions business into its portfolio in a $10.5 billion cash deal, adding fiber-optic capabilities to its high-speed copper and power-interconnect range. The move…
Claude breached three organisations' live systems during Anthropic's cyber tests
Anthropic said Thursday that an internal review uncovered three incidents in which its Claude model reached the internet from within a testing environment and gained unauthorised access to the production systems of…
Chey Tae-won buys ₩4.9B in SK hynix as memory glut fears grow
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won made his first purchase of SK hynix shares on Thursday, buying 4.9 billion won worth of stock. The group said the move reflected his belief that a recent sell-off had gone too far and his…
Aspora buys control of Lithuanian e-money firm Hokodo to expand in Europe
US-based fintech Aspora , the trading name of Vance Inc., has acquired a controlling stake in UAB Hokodo , a Lithuanian electronic money institution. The Bank of Lithuania approved the purchase of more than 50% of the…
Relation buys Mid-State Insurance as it deepens its Wisconsin footprint
Relation Insurance Services has acquired the assets of Mid-State Insurance , a Mequon, Wisconsin agency offering commercial, employee benefits, and personal lines coverage. The move extends the Chicago-based brokerage's…
Zanatta family to buy €50M Tecnica stake as founders lift control to 69%
The Zanatta family's Prime Holding has agreed to buy a 9.09% stake in Italy's Tecnica Group from Italmobiliare for roughly €50 million. The deal lifts the founding family's holding from 60% to 69.09%, while…
Kreon Financial lifts Kairosoft stake to 11.06% in open-market buy
Kreon Financial Services has raised its stake in Kairosoft AI Solutions to 11.06% after buying 10,513 equity shares on the open market on July 30, 2026. The purchase lifted its holding from 120,332 shares, or 10.17%,…
Ratcliffe seals £1bn deal for 25% of Manchester United
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has completed a £1bn purchase of a 25% minority stake in Manchester United , taking control of the club's football operations. The British billionaire, founder of petrochemicals firm INEOS , is adding…
Vida Shoes acquires Donald Pliner to expand its footwear portfolio
Vida Shoes International has acquired premium footwear brand Donald Pliner , including its intellectual property and related assets. The transaction closed on July 20, 2026, and financial terms were not disclosed.
Dugar family triggers ₹3.54 crore Colinz Laboratories open offer at ₹54 per share
A group of acquirers — Annjana Dugar, Likhitta Dugar and Antariksh Dugar, with Padam Dugar acting in concert — has launched a mandatory open offer for up to 654,966 shares of Colinz Laboratories , or 26% of its voting…
Tyler Technologies buys public safety software maker CODY Systems
Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) has acquired CODY Systems , a Pennsylvania-based company that builds software and data management, integration, and exchange tools for public safety, law enforcement, and other public…
Ferretti-led investor group makes €115M binding offer for Aeffe
An investor pool that includes the Ferretti family — Aeffe's current owner — has submitted a binding offer worth about €115 million to relaunch the Italian fashion group. The group also comprises state agency Invitalia…
Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes to go public in $638M SPAC merger
Defense technology company Space-Eyes has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company McKinley Acquisition Corp , valuing the combined business at $638 million, according to four people…
Greif buys Spain's Envaplast for $61.7M as Q3 EBITDA jumps 25%
Greif has completed its US$61.7 million acquisition of Envaplast , a Spanish polymer container producer, closing the transaction on June 2, 2026. The deal gives the industrial packaging maker a foothold in Spain's small…
Thales moves to buy Exail Technologies at €134 per share
Thales has signed a tender offer agreement to acquire all shares and bonds of Exail Technologies , at €134.00 per share. The deal, announced July 30, 2026, excludes the Gorgé family's holding, which accounts for 35.51%…
Allianz raises Pimco stake to at least 95% in €1.4B move
Allianz is increasing its stake in US asset-management subsidiary Pimco from 90.6% to 95% or more, spending at least €1.4 billion. The Munich-based insurer announced the move in July 2026.
Fuller family acquires Chattanooga Times Free Press from WEHCO Media
Chattanooga entrepreneurs Craig Fuller and his father, Max Fuller , have acquired the Chattanooga Times Free Press from WEHCO Media . The transaction takes effect July 31, 2026, and financial terms were not disclosed.
Disney sells A+E stake to Hearst in $1B all-cash deal
Disney is selling its 50% stake in A+E Global Media to Hearst Communications, its longtime joint-venture partner, in an all-cash deal believed to be worth north of $1 billion. The transaction is being finalised and is…
Future Financial Bankshares to acquire Commercial State Bank
Plano-based Future Financial Bankshares has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Palmer Bancshares and its wholly owned subsidiary, Commercial State Bank . The July 2026 announcement gives the newly formed Texas…
Tricentis buys AI-coding platform Tabnine to power its testing agents
Tricentis has acquired Tabnine , an AI-coding platform built for secure, context-aware enterprise software development. The Austin-based company will fold Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine into its Agentic Quality…
H.I.G. sells $1B-revenue JT Thorpe to Truelink Capital
H.I.G. Capital has signed a definitive agreement to sell portfolio company JT Thorpe to an affiliate of funds managed by Truelink Capital . Terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in August 2026,…
Alfresa buys stake in US firm Ember to boost pharma cold chain in Japan
Alfresa Holdings said on July 30 that its core pharmaceutical wholesaling unit, Alfresa, has entered a capital and business alliance with US-based Ember LifeSciences . Alfresa has acquired an equity stake in Ember to…
Okta to buy AI security startup Permiso for about $200M
Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security in an almost all-cash deal valued at just under $200 million, according to a source with knowledge of the transaction. Okta did not…
Notion acquires AI-retrieval startup ZeroEntropy
Notion has acquired ZeroEntropy , the San Francisco AI search-infrastructure startup building developer-first retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. ZeroEntropy's…
UK's Kirwin doubles in size with acquisition as Coral moves to take full control of Atlantic Sapphire
UK-based Kirwin has doubled its size through an acquisition, while Coral has launched a tender offer for the remaining shares in land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire , building on the stake that already gave it…
Mach Travel to sell loss-making subsidiary for ₹0.5 crore
Mach Travel Solutions Ltd. has agreed to sell its entire stake in subsidiary Travexel Events and Travel Private Limited to Chhatrapal Singh Yadav, a non-related party. The sale covers 60% of equity shares and 100% of…
Aricoma buys Dentsu Tracking to deepen its western European push
Aricoma , the technology company owned by Czech billionaire Karel Komárek's KKCG group, has acquired Swiss firm Dentsu Tracking from global marketing and communications group Dentsu . The target builds supply-chain…
DoiT buys Attribute in fifth deal, targets $5B AWS goal
DoiT has acquired AI cost-management startup Attribute to launch a real-time, kernel-level token economics product. The Santa Clara-based company also became an inaugural partner for the new AWS Business Value…
Constellation's Vertus Group buys Welsh research firm Delineate
Vertus Group has acquired Delineate , a UK-based research technology and consumer opinion tracking company. Vertus is a division of Jonas Software , itself part of Constellation Software.
France's Aitenders goes public in Canada via reverse takeover, raises $2.4M
Aitenders , a France-based developer of an AI-powered platform for tender response and contract management, has completed a reverse takeover of eXeBlock Technology Corporation. The combined entity is now named Aitenders…
Cosmobilis, Park Square acquire WRC Promoter in FIA rally rights deal
Cosmobilis , a French automotive technology platform, and Park Square Capital , a private credit investor, have acquired WRC Promoter GmbH following approval from the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ( FIA ).…
LVMH sells Patou back to founder Dilesh Mehta
LVMH has sold French fashion house Patou to Nirvana Investments LLC-FZ, the holding company of Dubai-based entrepreneur and Designer Parfums founder Dilesh Mehta. Nirvana announced the deal in July 2026.
Datamatics takes full control of TNQ Tech in ₹554.8 crore deal
Datamatics Global Services has acquired the remaining 20% stake in TNQ Tech, making the digital content firm a wholly-owned subsidiary. The purchase, effective July 31, 2026, involved 202,000 equity shares.
BSE buys 3.33% of bullion holding firm IIBH for ₹10.10 crore
BSE Limited has acquired a 3.33% equity stake in India International Bullion Holding IFSC Limited (IIBH) for an aggregate consideration of ₹10.10 crore. The deal closed after the exchange secured all required approvals,…
Freenow buys Dublin's Lynk and Limerick's Swift to grow Irish B2B arm
Taxi app Freenow , owned by Lyft, is acquiring taxi dispatchers Lynk and Swift to expand its business-to-business operations in Ireland. Dublin-based Lynk has run for more than a decade, while Swift is a 35-year-old…
Zum lands in Philadelphia, opens bus yard to serve city's school district
Zum , a student mobility company, is launching home-to-school transportation for the School District of Philadelphia and has leased two adjacent Northeast Philadelphia properties to serve as its local base. The sites,…
Mittal Growth Partners takes 1.79% Xtranet stake for Rs 12.69 crore
Mittal Growth Partners LLP has acquired a 1.79% stake in Xtranet Technologies through an open market transaction worth around Rs 12.69 crore. It bought 9.40 lakh shares at an average price of Rs 135.04 apiece.
Baader Bank buys 9.9% stake in crypto firm Hyphe
Baader Bank has acquired a 9.9% stake in Hyphe , the Munich-based crypto trading partner it has worked with since 2023. The investment goes into Hyphe's Dutch parent, B4C Markets B.V., which holds all shares in Hyphe…
Derichebourg closes €480M Scholz Recycling buyout
Derichebourg SA has completed its acquisition of Germany's Scholz Recycling Group, effective July 31, 2026. Through its subsidiary Derichebourg Environnement, the company bought 100% of Scholz's share capital in a deal…
Wavestone buys AI Builders for €19.3M as consulting shifts to AI
Consulting firm Wavestone has finalised its acquisition of AI Builders , a French AI and data strategy consultancy, for an enterprise value of €19.3 million, paid entirely in cash. The deal was announced on July 31,…
French manufacturer Groupe Lécuyer buys storied trunk maker Moreau Paris
Cardinal Invest, owner of French luxury manufacturer Groupe Lécuyer, has acquired Moreau Paris, a 19th-century French trunk maker known for the wicker-inspired monogram it introduced in 1882. Financial terms were not…
Tata Steel to buy 23% TMILL stake for ₹335 crore
Tata Steel has agreed to buy a 23% stake in TM International Logistics Ltd (TMILL) from Germany's Martrade for ₹335 crore, ending a 25-year partnership. Once the deal closes, Tata Steel will own 74% of TMILL, with…
Bank of America to buy UK cybersecurity firm MDSec, adding 65 experts
Bank of America said on Thursday it will acquire MDSec Consulting Limited, a UK-based information security consultancy. The deal adds roughly 65 cybersecurity professionals to the bank's operations. Financial terms were…
Swiss National Bank takes new $1.4M stake in Urogen Pharma
The Swiss National Bank bought a new position in Urogen Pharma during the first quarter of 2026, acquiring 77,800 shares worth about $1,399,000. That gives it roughly 0.16% of the biopharmaceutical company, per its…
Germany's accompio buys Austrian IT firm techbold, ending a 10-year buy-and-build run
Germany's accompio group is acquiring 100% of the shares in Vienna-based techbold technology group AG, the companies announced Friday. Neither side disclosed the price; techbold last posted about €28 million in annual…
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