Google to buy 1M rice-methane credits from Mitti Labs by 2030

Deep-tech startup Mitti Labs has signed a five-year carbon credit agreement with Google to deliver one million high-integrity credits by 2030 — the largest rice methane offtake to date. The partnership will scale…

Greenfield Robotics opens public offering with 82 robots and $1M in fleet deliveries

Greenfield Robotics opened ownership to everyday investors on September 11, six years after its first machines entered commercial crop fields. The Kansas startup builds autonomous robots that cut weeds mechanically,…

Stuttgart's Flip raised $85M, grew sales 28% to €8.1M — and still runs deep losses

Flip, a Stuttgart startup building what it calls an "AI-native employee platform for frontline teams," grew revenue 28% to €8.1 million in 2024. It has raised roughly $85 million since it was founded in 2018.

European diaspora have built $1.8T of unicorns abroad

The European Diaspora Index: the 416 unicorns based outside Europe with at least one founder who grew up in Europe (Russia not counted) (Stripe, Snowflake, Datadog, Databricks, Shopify, Hugging Face, UiPath, Grammarly,…

Accel comes to Europe’s densest AI talent pool

Accel AI Innovate Amsterdam on 23 September 2026: a hackathon and evening founder conversations, in the country with Europe’s densest AI talent pool (10.9 AI professionals per 10,000 residents, July 2025 report).

RTRS Technologies to go public via reverse takeover, raising $6.85M

RTRS Technologies has agreed to merge with 1317234 B.C. Ltd. through a reverse takeover, a structure that will list the combined business on the TSX Venture Exchange. The parties signed a definitive merger agreement on…

SemiAnalysis buys Citrini Research to widen its AI infrastructure coverage

SemiAnalysis, the semiconductor and AI infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is acquiring thematic investment research outfit Citrini Research. Terms were not disclosed. Citrini's James van Geelen will…

Bitcoin miner Atlantic HPC to go public in $150M SPAC merger with Aperture AC

Atlantic HPC Group has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Aperture AC (NASDAQ: APUR), a special purpose acquisition company, in a $150 million deal that will take the digital infrastructure firm public. The…

Joby issues 2.4M shares to Strata as Blade deal hits EBITDA targets

Joby Aviation has filed a prospectus supplement covering up to 2.42 million shares for potential resale by Strata Critical Inc, tied to its acquisition of Blade Air Mobility. Joby issued 2,419,801 shares to Strata…

Revolve backs solar acquisition with $7.25M loan from EDC, Vancity

Revolve Renewable Power has secured $7.25 million in project-level debt financing to fund an acquisition. The financing comes from two lenders, Export Development Canada (EDC) and Vancity, each providing a $3,625,000…

Canterbury Christ Church University wins £200,000 grant to close robotics skills gap

Canterbury Christ Church University has secured a £200,000 grant from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to launch a regional robotics skills network across the South East of England.

Brazil's CSN lands $1.2B secured credit facility from nine-bank syndicate

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), one of Brazil's largest integrated steel and mining conglomerates, has secured a US$1.2 billion senior secured syndicated credit facility. The financing was arranged through…

Sino Biopharmaceutical to buy 5% of Chia Tai-Tianqing for ~$72M

Sino Biopharmaceutical (SEHK:1177) signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire a 5% stake in Chia Tai-Tianqing Pharmaceutical Holdings from Eric S Y Tse for CNY 480 million (about $72 million) in cash. The deal,…

MoonPay acquires trading startup Rhythm in eighth deal in two years

FinTech company MoonPay has acquired Rhythm, a crypto trading startup, for an undisclosed sum, according to a September 2026 release. Rhythm's technology and its three co-founders — Joseph Murphy, James Miller and…

Nexus Advanced Technologies raises $1M in registered direct offering

Nexus Advanced Technologies, formerly K Wave Media, raised roughly $1 million in a registered direct offering that closed on August 20, 2026. The Nasdaq-listed company sold 526,314 ordinary shares at $1.90 each to…

Giant Group buys out key alloy supplier as August sales hit $162M

Taiwan-based bike manufacturer Giant Group is acquiring a near-100% stake in D.Mag (Kunshan) New Material Technology, buying all shares held by United King Limited, D.Mag's second-largest shareholder. Terms were…

iXO backs founder buyout at French outdoor platform Hardloop as sales pass €40M

France's iXO Private Equity has taken a stake in Hardloop, an outdoor equipment e-commerce platform based in Annecy, investing alongside co-founders Guillaume Richard and Julien Jérémie. The transaction lifts the…

Suzhou Sizhuimu raises $1.5 million to build damless underwater microgrids

Suzhou Sizhuimu Technology has raised 10,000,000 CNY (about $1.5 million) in an angel round, the company said in September 2026. It develops distributed, damless underwater microgrids built around its own water-turbine…

Linkers to raise $1.6M from SBI Holdings in private placement

Japan's Linkers Corporation will raise ¥249,993,900 (about $1.6 million) from SBI Holdings, Inc through a private placement. The company plans to issue 2,136,700 common shares at ¥117 each via a third-party allotment,…

Anthropic alleges Moonshot routed some Kimi user requests to Claude — then served the answers as Kimi

ARCB launches Malaysia healthcare growth fund to open a Middle East–US capital corridor

Dubai-based ARCB Investment has launched the Kanzun-ARCB Growth Fund to back Malaysian healthcare companies and help them expand into regional and international markets. The growth equity fund comes via a partnership…

Cuorips lands $19 million private placement led by JIC Venture Growth

Cuorips will raise ¥2,999,967,700 (roughly $19 million) through a private placement backed by JIC Venture Growth Investments and its JICVGI Opportunity Fund 1. The company announced the deal on September 11, 2026.

EIB backs German housing with €200M energy-efficiency loan

The European Investment Bank has signed a €200 million long-term loan with GWH Immobilien in Germany. The framework loan will finance energy-efficient housing.

Domarecki takes majority control of Poland's HiProMine with share buyout

Krzysztof Domarecki, HiProMine 's major shareholder, has crossed the 50% ownership threshold in the Polish agri-food and biotechnology company. Through his Luxembourg-based subsidiary WIGAR S.r.l., he acquired 117,223…

Peep Beauty raises $1.3M to sell coloured lenses as makeup, with actor Triptii Dimri as co-creator

Indian eye-beauty startup Peep Beauty has raised 120,000,000 INR (about $1.3 million) in a round led by Sadev Ventures, with participation from iSeed, ISV, and TDV. The brand also named actor Triptii Dimri as an…

EdTechX raises seed round from PKSHA to scale AI English platform for children

Tokyo-based EdTechX has raised seed funding from PKSHA Algorithm Fund to accelerate the nationwide rollout of "X Junior," its AI English learning platform for preschoolers and elementary students. The company is led by…

UK Financial acquires 2018-era Maya Coin to anchor its Moonshot token

UK Financial Ltd said it has acquired Maya Coin, a cryptocurrency originally launched in 2018, and will carry its blockchain history forward under UK Financial Moonshot Token (MAYA). Terms were not disclosed.

HMS Networks bids €21M for Spanish hotel-tech firm Robot

HMS Networks has launched a friendly cash offer to acquire all shares in Robot, a Spanish supplier of sensors and building management systems, at an enterprise value of €21 million. The bid values each Robot share at…

Banco Master's Will Financeira deal drew guidance from ex-central bank official

Banco Master acquired Brazilian consumer lender Will Financeira, one of several purchases that a former central bank official helped banker Daniel Vorcaro push through, according to Federal Police documents released by…

SurfAce raises $310,000 pre-seed for compostable packaging coating

SurfAce Cleantech, a Swiss deep-tech startup, has closed a CHF 250,000 (about $310,000) pre-seed round to advance its patent-pending coating technology for compostable flexible packaging. The round was backed by Swiss…

Nam A Bank secures $30M from Proparco to expand green lending

Nam A Bank (HOSE: NAB) has signed a $30 million credit agreement with Proparco, a development finance institution under the French Development Agency (AFD). The five-year financing, signed in Hanoi, will fund the…

VeriWorks buys LaborWorx, betting on data center construction labor

VeriWorks has acquired LaborWorx, a skilled-trades workforce platform, from Oakley Services, the two companies announced on September 10, 2026. LaborWorx will run as a standalone brand within the VeriWorks family,…

Peter Jones bets £30,000 on finger golf in Dragons' Den deal

Finger Golf, founded by maths teacher-turned-entrepreneur Glyn Richards, secured a £30,000 early-stage investment from Dragons' Den investor Peter Jones. Richards had sought £30,000 for a 15% stake but closed the deal…

Brazil probe: Central Bank official pushed Voiter sale to Master "in record time

A federal police report made public on Friday, November 11, alleges that Paulo Sérgio Neves de Souza, then deputy head of the Central Bank's banking supervision department (Desup), acted to speed Banco Master 's 2024…

Verde lands €31m loan for fourth Riga office building

Verde Development has secured a €31 million loan from Rietumu Banka to build its fourth office building in Riga. The developer, backed by Capitalica European Office Fund, will use the debt to fund Building D at its…

Artefact buys Munich's Nunatak Group to triple its German business by 2030

Artefact, a global data and AI consulting firm, has acquired Munich-based The Nunatak Group for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, Nunatak brings roughly 50 consultants and AI engineers across Munich, Berlin, and…

XSARUS acquires HCL Commerce specialist Cursum

Dutch e-commerce agency XSARUS has acquired Cursum, a specialist in HCL Commerce+, for an undisclosed sum. The move adds enterprise-grade platform expertise to XSARUS's B2B and B2C commerce business, built over more…

Australia's clean-energy fund backs Darwin chemical recycler with $39M debt deal

Darwin-based chemical recycler Global Resource Recovery (GRR) has secured a A$55 million (roughly $39 million) senior secured debt investment from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation. The money will expand its…

ARPA-H backs five teams with up to $125M for on-demand genetic medicine manufacturing

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded contracts to five teams to build automated, distributed manufacturing for RNA-based genetic medicines. The agency will fund up to $125 million for…

Mario Draghi: Europe’s AI bet is also a sovereignty bet

In a Financial Times op-ed highlighted by economist and former MEP Luis Garicano on September 11, 2026, Mario Draghi argues that Europe needs faster productivity growth to sustain its social model. He presents…

Archy raises $50M Series C to automate dental back offices

Archy, which sells AI-powered practice-management software to independent dental offices, has raised $50 million in Series C funding, CEO Jonathan Rat told Axios exclusively. JMI Equity led the round, with participation…

Shanghai Yijing raises Series A for solid-oxide hydrogen tech

Shanghai Yijing Energy Technology, a developer of solid-oxide electrochemical systems, has closed a Series A round. The round was led by Xuanyuan Capital, with participation from Yunyi Electric and Yangzhou Xuanyuan…

FluxWorks lands first-ever $3.5M Army Strategic Breakthrough grant

FluxWorks has secured a $3.5 million grant, the first-ever Department of War Strategic Breakthrough Award since Public Law 119-83 was enacted in April 2026. The company builds magnetic gear systems that replace…

Kreon Financial lifts Kairosoft AI stake to 19.09% via open market

Kreon Financial Services has raised its stake in Kairosoft AI Solutions to 19.09%, up from 18.36%, after buying 8,623 equity shares on the open market on September 11, 2026. The purchase crossed a regulatory threshold,…

Fonn Group buys out everviz, rebrands it as Teikna

Fonn Group has acquired the remaining shares in everviz, a cloud-native platform for interactive charts, maps, and data-driven graphics, taking full ownership. Terms were not disclosed. Fonn will bring the technology…

Impossible Objects raises $40M to scale composite 3D printing

Impossible Objects has raised $40 million to advance its 3D printing technology for advanced manufacturing.

Shell completes Canadian gas acquisition, funds deal with new shares

Shell (LSE:SHEL) has completed the acquisition of a Canadian energy company focused on liquids and gas production across British Columbia and Alberta. The deal value was not disclosed, and Shell issued a tranche of new…

Her Horizon Fund launches with $15M to end female genital mutilation

Her Horizon Fund launched with $15 million to back frontline organisations working to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). The fund debuted at the Justice for Girls convening in Kenya, a gathering of 150…

Korea's Futuremain to list on Nasdaq via $80M SPAC merger

Futuremain, a South Korean engineering and IT company specialising in factory machinery safety diagnostics, has signed a merger agreement with ChampionsGate Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded special purpose…

Rent the Runway lines up $15M raise with investors backstopping full amount

Rent the Runway has arranged a $15 million capital raise through a rights offering, with its largest investors committing to buy any shares existing shareholders decline. The clothing-rental company signed the backstop…

MetaOptics raises $870,000 to automate metalens cameras, launch MetaPhone

MetaOptics Ltd, a Singapore-headquartered semiconductor optics company, has raised S$1.1 million (roughly $870,000) through a share placement. It issued 2,685,825 new ordinary shares at S$0.3912 each to high net worth…

March Networks and VIVOTEK debut combined portfolio five months after merger

March Networks and VIVOTEK will exhibit jointly for the first time at Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2026 in Atlanta, five months after merging in April. The two video surveillance and security firms will show new…

Loads secures $15M debt line to scale embedded credit in food trade

Loads, a Chilean cross-border food trade fintech, has closed a $15 million revolving credit line with Addem Capital, a Mexican structured-debt firm. Unlike an equity round, the capital directly funds the credit Loads…

Dental materials maker Yurucheng lands tens of millions of yuan in Series B

Chinese oral-care materials brand Yurucheng has raised tens of millions of yuan in a Series B round, announced in September 2026. The round drew local state-owned investors alongside a strategic industry backer.

Intus Biosciences lands $2.7M NCI grant for microbiome cancer test

Intus Biosciences has secured a $2.7 million Fast-Track award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a non-invasive screening test for early-onset colorectal cancer. The Meriden-based company will use…

Lobito railway draws $300M debt drawdown as US backs Africa mineral route

Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) has drawn $300 million in debt from a $753 million financing package to expand its US-backed rail corridor moving copper and cobalt out of central Africa. The operator expects to double…

Chuanzhou Semiconductor raises ~$15M for optoelectronic chips

Chuanzhou Semiconductor Technology has raised 100 million CNY (about $15 million) in an early-stage venture round. Shanghai STVC Group led the round, with Sanhe Capital and Daohe Long-Term Capital participating.

Athletic Brewing lands NFL stars Maye and Prescott as investors

Athletic Brewing, the US non-alcoholic beer business, has secured investment from NFL quarterbacks Drake Maye and Dak Prescott.

Spark lands $5 million debt facility for African commercial solar

Spark Energy Services, a financing platform managed by Camco, has secured a senior secured credit facility of 80 million rand — about $5 million — from investor Developing World Markets (DWM). The funds will back…

Z.AI launches $5B Hong Kong raise, among China's biggest AI post-IPO deals

Beijing-based AI developer Z.AI has launched a $5 billion fundraise in Hong Kong, splitting it into a $2 billion share placement and a $3 billion convertible bond sale, according to term sheets seen by Reuters.

China's VMP raises $46M to take its metal 3D-printing powders global

Jiangsu Vilory Advanced Materials (VMP) has raised $46 million in a late-stage venture round at a $310 million valuation, announced in December 2025. The Chinese company makes metal powders for additive manufacturing,…

Azerbaijan's Bank Respublika to acquire AccessBank, creating AZN 4.5B lender

Bank Respublika will acquire 100% of AccessBank, after shareholders of both Azerbaijani lenders approved the transaction's key terms. AccessBank's existing shareholders will receive newly issued preferred shares equal…

Tempest Therapeutics raises up to $7.5M in private placement

Tempest Therapeutics has announced a private placement of up to $7.5 million. The structure includes $2.5 million upfront, with up to roughly $5 million in additional gross proceeds if warrants are exercised in full.

Altınkıılç raises TL 170M (~$3.5M) in debt sale to qualified investors

Turkish dairy and food producer Altınkıılç has sold a domestic financing bill with a nominal value of TL 170 million (roughly $3.5 million) to qualified investors, the company said on September 11, 2026.

Saudi wealth fund weighs merging $55B-buyout EA with Savvy Games

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is considering combining Electronic Arts with Savvy Games to create one of the world's biggest gaming firms, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The deal would…

Wallace Global Fund launches $16M vehicle to eradicate FGM

The Wallace Global Fund has launched Her Horizon Fund, a $15.5 million vehicle to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) globally. It aims to raise $100 million in total to eradicate the practice within a generation.

PennantPark closes $745M credit continuation fund led by Pantheon

PennantPark has closed PennantPark Credit Secondary Fund (PCS), a $745 million continuation vehicle led by Pantheon, with PGIM joining. Law firm Kirkland & Ellis, which advised PennantPark, confirmed the close on…

Sweden's Artist Arena raises $210,000 seed to build AI art advisor

Artist Arena, a Swedish platform selling original art online, has raised 2 million SEK (about $210,000) in a seed round. Chief executive officer Fredrik Sologub declined to disclose the company's valuation, saying only…

RSK buys seventh company of 2026 in push toward $6.76B revenue

UK-based environmental services firm RSK Group has made its seventh acquisition of 2026, extending a long-running "buy and build" strategy. The deal, announced in September, was for an undisclosed sum.

Credos Partners secures $1.1M in first close of pre-Series A

Credos Partners has locked in more than 1.5 billion KRW (about $1.1 million) in a pre-Series A round that it is targeting at over 2 billion KRW. K-Net Investment Partners led as anchor investor, with existing…

Kenya's Watu raises $7M in debt to grow motorcycle and smartphone financing

Watu, a Kenya-based asset-financing company, has secured a $7 million debt facility led by AHL Venture Partners. The nondilutive financing supports working capital and expansion of its asset portfolio across select…

Encision raises $80K to fund operations at its surgical safety business

Encision, a Boulder, Colorado medical device company, has completed an $80,000 private placement of common stock. It closed the deal on September 8, 2026, issuing 2 million restricted shares to a group of private…

Cubase Bio, HeartBeat.bio win €1M Eurostars grant for 3D heart-disease mapping

Stockholm-based Cubase Bio and Vienna's HeartBeat.bio have secured roughly €1 million in Eurostars funding for FACTS-3D, a joint project applying 3D spatial mapping to cardiovascular drug discovery. The grant flows…

Clean Growth Fund II raises $110M for climate tech

Clean Growth Fund II has raised $110 million to invest in climate technology companies worldwide. The fund backs firms building solutions to environmental challenges, from carbon reduction to energy efficiency.

Oracle raises $20B to fuel cloud build-out as revenue jumps 30%

Oracle has completed a $20 billion at-the-market share offering to finance rapid expansion of its cloud infrastructure. The post-IPO equity round ranks among the largest of its kind on record for the sector and…

Planetcast buys BroadStream to launch new Products Division

Planetcast, a global media services and technology company, has acquired BroadStream Solutions, a provider of integrated playout, captioning and subtitling software. Terms were not disclosed. BroadStream will anchor…

Japan's Heartbeats raises $15M Series C for sports fan platform ORICAL

Tokyo-based Heartbeats has raised roughly ¥2.3 billion (about $15 million) in a Series C round to fund new products and expand its sports and entertainment fan-engagement business. Artemis No.1 Investment Limited…

The O.H.I.O. Fund backs Octad's Ohio stamping roll-up with $5.6M

Octad, a Cleveland-based metal stamping platform, has raised $5.6 million in growth equity through private funds advised by The O.H.I.O. Fund. The firm will use the capital to expand its holdings across Ohio's metal…

Mountain Alliance buys into UK defence-tech startup Evolved Aerospace

German investment company Mountain Alliance AG has acquired a stake in Evolved Aerospace, a UK-based developer of autonomous mission systems for defence and security operations. The deal, announced September 11, 2026,…

KOMPEITO, office-snack startup, lists on Tokyo Stock Exchange

KOMPEITO, the Tokyo-based operator of workplace healthy-food service "OFFICE DE YASAI," listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Growth Market on September 11, 2026. The company, founded in September 2012, is led by chief…

Cox raises $800M in hybrid capital to cut Mexican debt

Cox Infrastructure Group has placed an $800 million hybrid capital issue through its Mexican subsidiary, Cox Asset México, targeting international institutional investors, according to a filing with Spain's National…

Atomos buys MWA Financial to widen UK advice reach

UK wealth management firm Atomos has acquired financial advice group MWA Financial, in a deal announced in September 2026. Terms were undisclosed.

C&C to fold Asahi UK wholesale into Matthew Clark Bibendum

C&C Group has agreed to acquire all of Asahi UK 's UK wholesale interests, moving the operation into its Matthew Clark Bibendum division. The deal value was not disclosed.

India's state energy giants launch $210M startups fund

India's biggest state energy firms are backing a Rs 20 billion (roughly $210 million) fund to invest in early-stage energy startups. The corporate vehicle, called the Energy Startups Fund, will be operated under…

Denmark's Seed Capital closes fifth fund at $160M after two-year raise

Danish venture firm Seed Capital has closed its fifth fund at 1bn kroner (about $160 million), capping a two-year fundraising process. It marks the first fund raised by Christian Brøndum, who took over as lead partner…

Blue Laser Fusion goes public via merger, converts shares into 6M new stock

Blue Laser Fusion completed a merger on September 4, converting its outstanding private shares into 5,993,834 common shares. The company now operates as a public reporting entity while keeping the Blue Laser Fusion…

HarbourVest raises $2.4B for private-credit secondaries

HarbourVest Partners has raised $2.4 billion for a fund focused on private-credit secondaries, according to the Wall Street Journal. The vehicle buys existing stakes in private-credit funds from investors seeking an…

Metro Finance prices record $860M securitisation as demand runs hot

Australian non-bank lender Metro Finance has priced a A$1.2 billion (roughly $860 million) asset-backed securitisation, its largest ever and $200 million above its previous record. The deal launched at A$750 million…

Biophytis raises €5.3M to fund obesity drug trial

Biophytis has completed a €5.3 million capital increase to fund a Phase 2 clinical trial targeting obesity. The raise, backed by European and US institutional investors, came through the issuance of over 101 million new…

Thailand's GC taps retail investors for $510M bond sale

PTT Global Chemical Public (GC) is offering up to 17,000,000,000 baht (about $510 million) in bonds to the public through a two-tranche sale. The senior, unsecured notes carry a seven-year tranche at 2.65% and a 10-year…

Ice Code Games buys AMIHAN in $15M stock deal to pivot into asset tokenization

Poland's Ice Code Games (ICG), a NewConnect-listed game developer, has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Estonia-based AMIHAN in exchange for newly issued stock. The deal marks a pivot from game development…

Jiangsu Handian Biotech lands tens of millions of yuan in strategic round

Jiangsu Handian Biotech has raised tens of millions of yuan in a strategic funding round, the company said in September 2026. Bailian Zhigao Capital was the sole investor.

China's Haitian buys 118-year-old Hong Kong brand Amoy to crack Western shelves

Foshan Haitian Flavouring and Food, China's largest condiment maker, has acquired 100% of Amoy Food Limited, a 118-year-old Hong Kong brand. The deal closed on September 10 through Haitian's overseas platform, Haitian…

Sendly launches 12 billion MNT (~$3.3M) bond on Mongolian exchange

Sendly NBFI JSC has launched primary market trading of its Sendly Bond 3.0, a 12 billion MNT (~$3.3 million) offering on the Mongolian Stock Exchange (MSE). The company is issuing 120,000 fixed-rate bonds with a 100,000…

ICBC raises $3B in debt to shore up capital

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has issued 20 billion yuan (roughly $3 billion) in bonds to replenish its capital, the lender announced in September 2026.

Malaysia's Firstborn Top Capital to go public via $1.1B SPAC merger

ARC Group Acquisition I Corp (Nasdaq: ARCL), a special purpose acquisition company, has agreed to merge with Firstborn Top Capital, a licensed Malaysian private financing company. The combined entity will be renamed…

Proparco backs Vietnam's EVF with $20M loan for climate, women-led SMEs

Proparco, the development finance arm of France's Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group, has extended a $20 million senior loan to EVF General Finance Joint Stock Company. The facility targets climate finance…

Transwarp targets $110M in Hong Kong AI software IPO

Transwarp, a Shanghai-based AI infrastructure software company, has launched a Hong Kong IPO, offering 14 million shares at HK$49-HK$61 to raise up to HK$854.7 million (roughly $110 million). Trading is set to begin on…

La Ramada buys dairy brand La Lácteo, targets 1.05M litres a day

Santa Fe-based group La Ramada has acquired 100% of La Lácteo, a historic dairy brand from Córdoba, Argentina. The transaction was announced in September 2026, with terms undisclosed.

Momenta raises $870M in Hong Kong IPO as Uber deepens its bet

Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta raised 6.8 billion HKD (roughly $870 million) in its Hong Kong IPO, listing on September 8. Uber 's subsidiary SMB Holdings picked up an additional 397,600 shares in the…

Volition Capital raises $950M fund for bootstrapped founders

Volition Capital has raised $950 million for its sixth fund, the Boston-based growth equity firm's largest to date. Co-founder Larry Cheng disclosed the figure to The Information, adding that the raise brings the…

Wittington Ventures closes third fund at $130M

Toronto's Wittington Ventures has closed its third venture capital fund at C$180 million (roughly $130 million), managing partner Jim Orlando announced on LinkedIn on Thursday. The fund will back climate, commerce,…

COSCIENS acquires oral thin-film maker Nualtis for $15M

COSCIENS Biopharma (TSX: CSCI) has acquired Nualtis Corp., a Montreal-based specialty pharmaceutical technology business, for a cash price of $15 million. Nualtis — formerly IntelGenX Corp. — develops proprietary oral…

IOTA Foundation launches $10M fund for TradeTech startups at UAE's Investopia

The IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation is launching a $10 million venture fund to back startups building digital trade and asset tokenisation tools. The IOTA TradeTech fund was announced by Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri at…

Copart to buy ACV Auctions for $1.9B in remarketing push

Copart, a global online vehicle auction operator, has agreed to acquire digital automotive marketplace ACV Auctions for $10.50 per share in cash, an implied equity value of roughly $1.9 billion. The all-cash deal,…

Xanadu lands C$196M federal grant to build Toronto quantum chip plant

Xanadu, a Toronto-based quantum computing company, has secured a C$196 million (roughly $140 million) federal grant to build a manufacturing facility in Toronto. The money will fund production of quantum hardware.

First Internet Bancorp raises $21M in subordinated notes at 8% fixed rate

First Internet Bancorp (Nasdaq: INBK) has completed a private placement of $20.5 million in fixed-to-floating rate subordinated notes due 2036. The notes carry a fixed 8.0% annual rate through September 15, 2031, then…

CesiumAstro secures $300M EXIM credit deal to build US space factory

CesiumAstro has signed a $300 million credit agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to consolidate its design, manufacturing, assembly, and testing operations into a single US production site.…

Brazil's PassHub raises $1.5M to centralise travel agency supply

PassHub, a Brazil-based B2B distribution platform for travel agencies, has raised $1.5 million, led by Parceiro Ventures. The startup centralises agencies' access to consolidators and suppliers in a single place.

Indaptus Therapeutics raises $24M in private placement, shares climb

Indaptus Therapeutics has entered a $24 million private placement, sending its shares higher, the company said in September 2026.

Ex-Blackstone team launches tokenized private-credit fund on Superstate

Valinor Digital, founded by two former Blackstone private credit executives, has launched the Valinor BDC Exposure Fund, a tokenized fund that holds a basket of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs). The…

Galaxia raises $3.3 million for satellite computers in Canada's space race

Halifax-based Galaxia Space Systems has raised C$4.5 million (about $3.3 million) to build sovereign compute infrastructure in space. Montréal VC Amiral Ventures and provincial agency Invest Nova Scotia co-led the…

Degelman lands $720K federal grant to blunt US tariff hit

Degelman Industries has received a C$1 million (about $720,000) grant from the Government of Canada to strengthen manufacturing capacity and improve productivity. The award comes through the Regional Tariff Response…

Alpha Compute lands $47M seller note for 200MW Pennsylvania AI data center

Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq:ALP) has amended the binding term sheet for its planned natural gas-powered AI data center campus in northern Pennsylvania, securing $47 million in seller financing. The change cuts the cash…

Brazil's Unico buys Argentina's Valida in identity-verification push

Brazilian identity-verification firm Unico has acquired Argentina's Valida, the two companies said in September 2026. Terms were not disclosed.

Hélène Huby’s bet on European space sovereignty

The ambition: Hélène Huby, founder and CEO of The Exploration Company, is pursuing a vertically integrated European space-transportation platform at a moment when access to orbit is becoming critical infrastructure. In…

Prime Capital closes €305M fund for European infrastructure debt

Prime Capital has held the final close of its Prime Sustainable Infrastructure Debt Fund (PSIDEF), raising €305 million. The Frankfurt-based asset manager lends to small and medium-sized infrastructure developers and…

Downing hires real estate lending head, adds £500m funding line

Downing has appointed George Cotterell as partner and head of commercial real estate lending, alongside launching a new £500m institutional funding line. The £2.6bn investment firm said the line will increase its…

Security 101 buys six firms, nearly triples revenue in two years

Security 101 is expanding its national security integration platform through six acquisitions and a new regional management structure. The West Palm Beach, Florida-based company also promoted Craig Shulman from chief…

Hanger to acquire Numotion, forming a 1.5M-patient mobility care platform

Hanger, a US provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) care, will acquire Numotion, a portfolio company of AEA Investors, for cash. The combined company, to be named Hanger Numotion, will be controlled by Patient Square…

Morocco's Charikaty raises pre-seed round at €3M valuation to expand across MENA

Moroccan legaltech startup Charikaty has closed a pre-seed round at a €3 million (MAD 32.6 million) valuation. Backers include Dubai-based Red Tape Ventures, Faris Al-Obaid, vice president and general manager of…

ECI Partners buys UK accountancy firm Shaw Gibbs from Apiary Capital

ECI Partners has acquired Shaw Gibbs, a top 35 UK accountancy practice, from Apiary Capital. The deal value was not disclosed. Travers Smith, alongside Marlborough Partners, advised ECI on the debt financing.

Evopoint prices Shanghai IPO to raise about $270M

Suzhou SinoV Pharmaceutical Technology, which operates as Evopoint Biosciences, has priced its Shanghai initial public offering to raise 1.8 billion yuan, or roughly $270 million. The listing was announced in September…

Brazil's Premia buys Aulapp in first M&A move after R$5M raise

Brazilian edtech Premia has acquired Aulapp, a platform of digital solutions for schools and companies founded by José Luís Poli. The transaction value was not disclosed.

Principal launches first UCITS fund for US corporate hybrids, eyeing AI power demand

Principal Asset Management has launched the PGIF Spectrum North American Corporate Hybrid Income Fund, a UCITS strategy targeting financing demand from AI-related power infrastructure. It is the first fund dedicated to…

ETC sells Polish subsidiary ETC-PZL to Polsport, keeps 10-year supply tie

Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) has sold 100% of its wholly owned Polish subsidiary, ETC-PZL Aerospace Industries, to Poland's Fabryka Artykułów Turystycznych i Sportowych Polsport. The deal, announced…

Motive lands $1.3B from General Catalyst, pulls its IPO filing

Motive raised more than $1.3 billion in growth equity from General Catalyst and withdrew its previously filed S-1, the San Francisco company announced on September 10, 2026. The financing lets the fleet-management firm…

Serica Energy strikes all-cash takeover to bulk up in the North Sea

Serica Energy (LSE:SQZ) has agreed to acquire a smaller London-listed oil and gas producer in an all-cash transaction announced this week. The undisclosed deal expands Serica's North Sea and international production…

Frazier Life Sciences adds $1.1B to biotech public fund, lifting it to $2.8B

Frazier Life Sciences has closed over $1.1 billion in fresh commitments to its Frazier Life Sciences Public Fund, drawing from new and existing investors in what it called an oversubscribed raise. The close brings the…

Acorn's OmniMetrix buys Gen-Tracker in $3.5M generator-monitoring deal

Acorn Energy, through its OmniMetrix subsidiary, has acquired substantially all assets of Generator Solutions, the provider of Gen-Tracker standby generator monitoring, for $3.5 million. The deal took effect September…

RTX backs Xcimer Energy, targeting fusion and air defence lasers

RTX Ventures, the venture arm of defence giant RTX, has taken a minority stake in laser fusion company Xcimer Energy in a late-stage round. The Denver-based startup develops scalable, multi-kilojoule-class pulsed-laser…

Heron Power lands $60M credit facility, adds ex-Tesla CFO to its board

Heron Power, a US advanced power electronics manufacturer, has secured a $60 million credit facility from J.P. Morgan and TriplePoint Capital. It also named Zach Kirkhorn, former chief financial officer of Tesla, to its…

Piston raises $15M to kill the fleet fuel card

Piston, a cardless payments platform connecting commercial fleets and gas stations, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. FPV Ventures led the round, with existing investors Spark Capital and Pear VC…

Poonawalla Fincorp clears $210M debt raise after profit jumps five-fold

Poonawalla Fincorp has approved a private placement of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) worth up to ₹2,000 crore (about $210 million), in a post-IPO debt raise cleared by its finance committee. The first tranche, under…

Volksbank Wien raises €500M in green senior notes

Volksbank Wien has issued €500 million in green non-preferred senior notes, priced at 4.500% and structured as fixed-to-floating callable debt due in September 2032. The notes were issued under Austrian law on September…

Axogen to buy BioCircuit for $200M, adding sutureless nerve-repair device

Axogen has agreed to acquire BioCircuit Technologies for $200 million in cash at closing, subject to customary adjustments. The Nasdaq-listed company develops surgical solutions for restoring peripheral nerve function;…

Biometrics startup FARx raises £630,000 seed round, names ex-BT chairman

UK biometrics startup FARx has appointed former BT executive Chris Bruce as chairman, weeks after closing a £625,000 seed round to fund international expansion. The company sells a multi-factor authentication platform…

Kering bets on China with Icicle stake and De Sarno hire

Kering acquired a minority stake in Icicle last April, deepening its push into the Chinese market. Icicle is a ready-to-wear brand founded in Shanghai in 1997 that sits under ICCF Group alongside the French maison…

Yerim Sow's holding sells $118M stake in Bridge Bank ahead of Abidjan listing

Bridge Bank Group Côte d'Ivoire begins trading on West Africa's regional stock exchange on September 24, after Bridge Group West Africa (BGWA) — the financial holding through which Senegalese billionaire Yerim Sow…

CoreX takes 77.73% controlling stake in Türkiye's Polisan Holding

CoreX Holding has acquired a 77.73% controlling stake in Polisan Holding, one of Türkiye's leading industrial groups. The purchase was made through CoreX subsidiary Corex Ports and Terminals Dilovası Liman İşletmeleri,…

Veolia closes $3B Clean Earth deal to double US hazardous-waste business

Veolia has finalised its acquisition of Clean Earth for $3 billion, a move the French group calls a major step in its strategic plan. The deal is expected to double Veolia's hazardous-waste revenue in the US.

Archimed closes fourth MED fund at €1.5B hard cap, 3x oversubscribed

France-based healthcare investor Archimed has closed its MED IV fund at its €1.5bn ($1.75bn) hard cap. The fund was three times oversubscribed, exceeding an original target of €1.2bn.

Apiary Capital backs Orega management buyout, targeting 50 UK sites by 2031

Private equity firm Apiary Capital has taken a majority stake in Orega, backing a management buyout of the UK flexible workspace operator from its founders. The buyout is led by chief executive Alan Pepper, with chief…

Starlight closes £680M UK build-to-rent fund to add 6,000 homes

Starlight Investments has closed its Starlight UK BTR Fund II, raising £680 million in capital commitments across the fund and related investment vehicles. The Toronto-based real estate investment and asset management…

Sweden's Mynt acquires Estonian fintech startup CostPocket

Swedish fintech company Mynt has acquired CostPocket, an Estonian startup founded a decade ago. The two companies had already worked together before the acquisition.

MidPoint launches investor-directed real estate lending fund with $10M bridge loan

Phoenix-based MidPoint Capital Partners has launched MidPoint Capital Fund 1, a private real estate lending fund offering verified accredited investors access to senior-secured commercial real estate deals. Structured…

Alibaba leads $300M round for AI-testing startup UniPat at $2.5B

Alibaba is set to lead a $300 million late-stage investment in UniPat, an AI training and benchmarking startup, valuing the company at $2.5 billion. Tencent and previous backer HSG, formerly Sequoia China, also joined…

Chandigarh grant of ~$13,000 backs Panjab University materials startup

Advanced Functional Material Technologies (AFMTech), a Panjab University -incubated startup, has secured a ₹12 lakh (≈$13,000) commercialisation grant from the Chandigarh Administration. The award funds development and…

Chinese startup Qingyan raises $15M Series A to build math-first world models

Qingyan Technology, a four-year-old Chinese startup founded by mathematicians, has raised a 100 million CNY (≈$15 million) Series A. Legend Capital led the round, with Ningbo Yishi and Suzhou Suchuangtou participating.

Open Waters Solar lands $330K grant to automate solar panel production

Open Waters Solar has received a 450,000 CAD (≈$330,000) grant from Pacific Economic Development Canada under the Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI). The Prince George company will use the money to automate…

Pype founder's new construction AI startup Wyre raises $5M seed

Wyre, an AI document intelligence platform for construction, has raised $5 million in seed funding. Ironspring Ventures led the round, with participation from WND Ventures — the corporate venture arm of DPR Construction…

MercadoLibre raises $1B in 10-year bond sale

MercadoLibre raised $1 billion through a 10-year bond maturing in 2036, priced at a spread of 130 basis points over the equivalent US Treasury. The proceeds will bolster liquidity and support the Latin American…

HustleSasa lands Impacc-led round to expand Africa's creator economy

Kenyan creator-commerce platform HustleSasa has raised an early-stage round led by African impact investor Impacc, which is now a shareholder and brought additional investors into the deal. The amount was not disclosed.

Gilat raises $100M in convertible notes for satellite, defence push

Gilat Satellite Networks has raised $100 million through a convertible-note offering completed on September 7, 2026. The senior unsecured notes carry a 3.75% annual coupon and an initial conversion price of $16.00 per…

Bready raises $470K seed for functional foods push

Bready, a Brazilian functional-foods brand, has raised 2.4 million BRL (about $470,000) in a seed round run through EqSeed, an equity-crowdfunding platform authorised by Brazil's securities regulator, the Comissão de…

Dell taps bond market for $5B as AI server demand surges

Dell is set to raise $5 billion in an investment-grade bond sale, drawing booming investor demand as revenue from AI servers surges. Barclays, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase,…

Google’s €13B Finland AI buildout locks in nuclear power

Google has committed at least €13 billion to AI infrastructure in Finland, to be invested during 2027 and 2028. Reuters and Google describe the programme as the company’s largest single investment in Europe. The…

Shopify acquires Tailwind Labs, maker of the web's top CSS framework

Shopify is acquiring Tailwind Labs, the Canadian company behind the free, open-source web development framework Tailwind CSS. The Ottawa-based e-commerce giant will bring Tailwind's team in-house. Financial terms were…

Alceon's new $100M fund makes first bet on AI firm Engage Squared

Alceon has made its debut investment through the $100 million Alceon Private Equity Access Fund, backing AI implementation business Engage Squared. The fund is spearheaded by Zac Midalia.

STV adds Arcapita as investor in Emerging Tech & AI Fund

STV, an investor in emerging-market technology companies, has added global investment firm Arcapita as an investor in its Emerging Tech & AI Fund. The fund backs early-stage startups building application-layer AI…

David lands $250M Series B at $2.25B, a top 1% raise for the stage

New York-based David, a high-protein food company, has raised a $250 million Series B co-led by Greenoaks Capital Partners and Valor Equity Partners. Iconiq Capital, Imaginary Ventures, and company co-founder Peter…

A-Rent lands majority investment from Bregal Sagemount to ride data center power demand

A-Rent Test Equipment, a US provider of electrical test equipment rentals, calibration, and asset management services, has secured a majority growth investment from Bregal Sagemount. The deal, announced September 9,…

Astonea Labs commits $10K to launch US subsidiary Longevity Science

Astonea Labs has approved a $10,000 investment to incorporate Longevity Science, a wholly owned US subsidiary, its board disclosed in exchange filings on September 9, 2026. The move establishes a direct footprint in the…

Prytek buys Scanovate in $50M deal to lead client-onboarding push

Prytek Group, an infrastructure and financial services group, has acquired digital identity and compliance firm Scanovate in a deal worth about $50 million. The transaction is expected to generate up to $100 million in…

Ontic buys SIRS Navigation, maker of compasses in tens of thousands of aircraft

Ontic has completed the acquisition of SIRS Navigation, a Kent-based specialist in precision standby magnetic compasses. Terms were not disclosed.

Hercules raises $2.3B for private credit push into tech and life sciences lending

Hercules Adviser, the registered investment adviser to Hercules Capital, has raised $2.3 billion of investable capital after closing two institutional private credit vehicles. It closed the Hercules Evergreen Fund, a…

Celligence lands $100M in debt to scale AngelAi mortgage automation

Celligence has secured $100 million in debt financing from Mortgage Treasury to expand AngelAi, its artificial intelligence platform for automating mortgage decisioning, origination, and servicing. The financing is…

EU-EIB's €108M Boost Africa fund unlocks €400M for startups

The European Union and European Investment Bank (EIB) have deployed €108 million through their Boost Africa initiative, attracting an additional €400 million in capital for early-stage African businesses. The programme…

Grindstone Ventures launches R500m fund to close Africa's Seed-to-Series A gap

Grindstone Ventures has launched a R500m venture fund targeting technology-enabled African businesses from Seed through Series A. Led by Thandiwe Maqetuka, the fund was set up in partnership with Knife Capital and…

Freudenberg buys Denmark's Nilfisk for $580M, ending stock listing

German family-owned industrial group Freudenberg is acquiring Danish vacuum-cleaner maker Nilfisk for 3.8 billion kr and delisting it from the Danish stock exchange. Freudenberg offered 140 kroner per share — a 40%…

Hepsiburada raises $190M in equity to shore up its balance sheet

Hepsiburada, the Turkish e-commerce platform run by D-Market, has completed a capital increase raising 9.32 billion TRY (roughly $190 million) in post-IPO equity. The fully paid-in issue was registered with the Istanbul…

super{set} backs Moneyball.ai in pre-seed to bring AI to boutique investment banking

Venture studio super{set} has backed Moneyball.ai in a pre-seed round, adding the startup to its portfolio alongside workforce-performance company Eubrics. Moneyball.ai builds an AI deal team partner for boutique…

Tencent backs China sci-fi studio Waking Dreams Media in early VC round

Waking Dreams Media has secured a strategic investment from Tencent, the company announced in September 2026. The early-stage round marks the tech giant's bet on a studio using AIGC to reshape science-fiction…

Particula raises $15M to blend physical games with apps

Particula, an Israeli company that makes smart chess sets and a Rubik's Cube-style puzzle connected to an app, has raised $15 million. The round was led by Haifa-based ella fund.

SWAN to buy Slovanet in Slovak telecoms deal, awaits regulator

Slovak telecoms operator SWAN has signed an agreement to buy a 100% stake in Slovanet. The company inked the purchase contract on September 8, 2026.

Bulgaria's competition regulator clears Eurobank's stake buy in CSoft, revenue at €8.7M

Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has approved the acquisition of a stake in Varna-based software company CSoft by Greece's Eurobank group, which operates in Bulgaria under the Postbank brand.…

EIG raises $4B for infrastructure debt, doubling its prior fund

EIG, an institutional investor in global energy and infrastructure, has closed its EIG Senior Infrastructure Debt Fund VI (SIDF VI) at $1.9 billion — nearly double its predecessor. Add $2.1 billion committed to…

Luma Group closes debut life sciences fund at $410M

Luma Group, a New York-based investment firm, has closed its inaugural life sciences venture fund, LumaBio Fund I, with $410 million in committed capital. The fund drew a global investor base spanning financial…

Strattum acqui-hires Tropicalia months after $3.2M pre-Seed round

Strattum, a Brazilian data infrastructure startup for AI, has acquired Tropicalia, a context-engineering startup founded in 2025 in Silicon Valley. Tropicalia will wind down its independent operations in what the market…

Partillion lands 10th SBIR grant, taking federal funding past $8M

Partillion Bioscience has secured a two-year, $2.1 million Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. The award funds the…

Perry Weather raises $110M Series C to automate weather safety compliance

Perry Weather has raised a $110 million Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, with participation from Arthur Ventures, which backed the company's Series A and Series B. The Dallas-based weather safety and…

France's Greenly buys climate-data firm Normative for €64M

France's Greenly has acquired Swedish climate-data company Normative for just over €64 million (about SEK 700 million), according to Impact Loop, which cited a source with knowledge of the deal and official documents…

Stoke Space raises $1B Series E as its reusable rocket awaits first flight

Stoke Space has closed the initial tranche of a $1 billion Series E, bringing the reusable-rocket startup's total capital raised to $2.3 billion. Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, joined by General…

Uber taps Europe's bond market for €4B in debut euro sale

Uber is raising about €4 billion through its first-ever euro bond sale, a five-part deal marketing fixed-rate debt with maturities from three to 20 years, Bloomberg News reported. The post-IPO debt sale marks the…

China's finance ministry to inject $5.2B into China Life Group

China's Ministry of Finance will inject 35 billion yuan (about $5.2 billion) into China Life Group, the largest single share of a broader recapitalisation of state insurers announced in September 2026.

Banco Patagonia buys Bind's retail arm for reported $60M

Argentina's Banco Patagonia, controlled by Banco do Brasil (BB), has agreed to buy the retail division of Banco Industrial (Bind). The deal transfers certain assets and liabilities — including branches, employees,…

Creditchek buys Uganda's Algosys to expand credit infrastructure into East Africa

Nigerian fintech Creditchek has acquired Algosys, a Ugandan core banking software startup, marking its formal entry into Uganda. Algosys will operate as a subsidiary, and its team joins Creditchek. Terms were not…

ICG closes largest structured capital fund at €12B

ICG, the London-listed global alternative asset manager, has closed its ninth European Corporate fund, ICG Europe Fund IX, at €12 billion. That marks a 50% jump over its predecessor and, per ICG, makes it the largest…

Medcaptain's Hong Kong IPO raises $77M, then sinks 42.9% on debut

Shenzhen Medcaptain Medical Technology, a Chinese medical device maker, went public in Hong Kong on September 7, 2026, raising $76.5 million. Its shares fell 42.9% on the first day of trading, closing at HKD 8.80…

DocMorris raises $120M in convertible bonds to refinance 2028 debt

DocMorris is issuing approximately CHF 100 million (about $120 million) in senior unsecured convertible bonds due 2031 through a private placement. The bonds, issued by wholly-owned subsidiary DocMorris Finance B.V. and…

Chinese suture maker Biomaike jumps 92% in IPO, cracking foreign grip on market

Hainan Biomaike Medical Technology debuted on Beijing's stock exchange on September 9, opening at 32.86 yuan — up 92% — for a market value of roughly 1.7 billion yuan. The stock later eased to 27.84 yuan, up 62.81%,…

Topicals founder Olowe exits CEO role, hands reins to ex-Fenty exec after $22M raised

Topicals has named former Fenty Beauty executive Sukiana Chancy as chief executive officer, with founder Olamide Olowe stepping back from the role to focus on marketing, creative direction, and strategy. Olowe founded…

ProLogium starts mass production of solid-state batteries at 381 Wh/kg

Taiwan-based ProLogium has begun mass production of its Gen 3.5 all-solid-state Lithium Ceramic Battery cells. The move follows a 2022 investment from Mercedes-Benz to develop next-generation solid-state batteries…

Altaline backs Risk & Regulatory Consulting to grow actuarial ranks

Altaline Capital Management has taken a stake in Risk & Regulatory Consulting (RRC), a firm serving US insurance regulators, with founders staying on as co-chief executive officers. Altaline plans to provide capital to…

YES Group wins $7.4M grant to roll out 14 community batteries in Australia

South Australian renewable energy company YES Group has secured a A$10.29 million (roughly $7.4 million) grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to deploy 14 community batteries across regional South…

Relief AI goes public via reverse takeover, raising C$5.7M

Relief AI Inc. has gone public through a reverse takeover, in which shell company 1329308 B.C. Ltd. acquired all of its outstanding securities and renamed itself Naia Relief Inc. The deal closed September 8, 2026, and…

GRTS Digital hits 1,000 clients a year after $670,000 seed round

Brazilian startup GRTS Digital raised a 3.4 million-real (roughly $670,000) seed round about a year ago and has since grown its client base more than 16-fold, passing 1,000 companies served. The round was backed by…

Ualá CEO's $30M fund 17Sigma backs 20-plus Latin American startups

Pierpaolo Barbieri, chief executive officer of Argentine neobank Ualá, is backing early-stage Latin American startups through 17Sigma, a venture capital fund he founded in 2022 with $30 million in initial capital. The…

NTT's $100M optical fund backs Spanish startup Ephos as first bet

NTT has picked Spanish startup Ephos as the first investment for its optical communications fund, as the Japanese telecom giant seeks outside partners to advance its technology for artificial intelligence.

Holtec targets $830M IPO to fund nuclear reactor push at Palisades

Holtec International launched an initial public offering of 50 million Class A shares priced between $15 and $18 apiece, raising $830 million and valuing the company at roughly $10.2 billion. The shares are expected to…

Colombia's Kala raises ~$63M in debt to enter capital markets

Colombian fintech Kala has issued COP 195,000,000 million (roughly $63 million) in securities backed by its loan portfolio, its first issuance under a new securitisation programme with a total ceiling of COP 1 trillion.…

Karamtara raises $28M from anchors ahead of $92M IPO

Karamtara Engineering, an Indian manufacturer of engineering steel products for the renewable energy and power transmission sectors, raised Rs 262.50 crore (about $28 million) from anchor investors on Tuesday. The…

Clean Cells buys bioinformatics CRO Xegen, launches NGS viral safety testing

France-based Clean Cells has acquired French bioinformatics CRO Xegen and launched next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based safety testing for viral matrices such as viral vectors and recombinant preparations. Xegen…

Gen İlaç takes majority control of brain-health startup Neo Auvra

Turkish pharmaceutical company Gen İlaç ve Sağlık Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (GEN) has taken majority control of digital health startup Neo Auvra, lifting its stake to 76.94%. GEN acquired an additional 41.79% —…

Egypt's sovereign fund launches $206M industrial sub-fund

The board of the Sovereign Fund of Egypt for Investment and Development has approved a new Egypt Industrial Investment Sub-Fund with authorised capital of EGP 10 billion and issued capital of EGP 1 billion. The sub-fund…

Chilean legal AI startup Magnar raises $8M Series A to expand across Latin America

Santiago-based legal AI startup Magnar has raised an $8 million Series A. The round was co-led by 6 Degrees Capital and Hi Ventures.

Gainline closes oversubscribed continuation fund for Core Health & Fitness, led by StepStone

Gainline Capital Partners has closed an oversubscribed single-asset continuation fund to extend its partnership with Core Health & Fitness, a global commercial fitness equipment maker. StepStone Group anchored the fund…

Apple quietly buys brain-sensor startup Sonera

Apple has acquired Sonera, a California startup that builds non-invasive sensors capable of measuring neural signals from the brain and muscles. European Union acquisition records show Apple completed the deal in May…

AMH launches Capital Passport, an AI tool that scores founders like investors do

Amplifying Markets for Her (AMH) Catalyst Center has launched Capital Passport, an AI-powered platform that shows founders how experienced investors are likely to evaluate their companies before they start fundraising.…

Robinhood ties up with Crypto.com on prediction markets, takes minority stake

Robinhood Markets struck a multi-year deal to carry Crypto.com 's yes-or-no event contracts on its app, while also acquiring minority stakes in the digital-currency exchange and its prediction-markets unit, OG.com.…

Keep Converting exits stealth with $2M pre-seed for AI product pages

UAE-based Keep Converting has raised $2 million in a pre-seed round led by Nuwa Capital and COTU Ventures, exiting stealth. Founded in 2025 by Mohammad El Mougi and Manuel Prinz, the startup runs an AI-powered platform…

Deneb Medical raises €15 million to automate spinal surgery

Deneb Medical, a San Sebastián-based biotech, has raised €15 million in a Series A round led by the Spanish government, with participation from Kutxa Fundazioa. The company is building Izar, a system that combines…

Djarum's GDP Venture acquires Najwa Shihab's Narasi media group

Indonesia's Djarum Group, owned by the Hartono family, has acquired PT Narasi Citra Sahwahita, the company behind digital media outlet Narasi, founded by TV presenter Najwa Shihab. The deal ran through PT Global Digital…

Innovaero locks in $29M IPO ahead of $158M ASX debut

Perth-based attack-drone maker Innovaero has filled its A$40 million (≈$29 million) float, clearing the way for a September 22 debut on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company will issue 80 million shares at 50¢…

DeepSeek hires 150 engineers as $74.5B funding round nears

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is recruiting about 150 senior back end engineers in what it calls an "unprecedented" hiring push to overhaul infrastructure strained by surging user demand and compute-heavy AI agents. Cui…

Balwin to delist from JSE after R2.26B buyout by PIC-led consortium

South African residential property developer Balwin Properties will be delisted from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and A2X on September 22, after a consortium met all conditions to acquire the company. The…

Ex-DeepMind duo raises $3.7M to build fusion's software backbone

Fusionality, a Lausanne startup founded by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised CHF 3 million (about $3.7 million) in pre-seed funding. Founderful and Playfair led the round. The company builds…

Innventure launches second food and agtech fund, targets AI-driven agrifood startups

Innventure has launched Innventure Food & Agtech — Fund II, its second investment vehicle backing companies across the global agrifood system. The firm announced the fund on LinkedIn but did not disclose its size.

Strnad's defence fund raises $170M, beats first target

Czech industrialist Jaroslav Strnad's fund CE Industries & Aerospace Sicav raised more than 3.6 billion Czech koruna (about $170 million) from investors during its first subscription period. The money will back…

Mistral raises €3B Series D, Europe's largest-ever tech round

Mistral AI has raised €3 billion in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion. Samsung Electronics led the round, joined by co-leads Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, and existing investor…

PXN and British Business Bank add £80M to North West fund, hitting £180M

PXN Ventures and the British Business Bank have added an £80m extension to their NPIF II — PXN Equity Finance fund, lifting its total size from £100m to £180m. The fund backs businesses across the North West of England…

Dangote Refinery launches $1.5B IPO, Africa's biggest, open to retail investors

Aliko Dangote has launched the initial public offering for the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, seeking to raise slightly over ₦2 trillion (roughly $1.5 billion). Shares are priced at ₦525 each, with a minimum purchase of 10…

Glass Wall Systems raises $14M from anchors before India IPO

Glass Wall Systems India Ltd raised ₹128.36 crore (about $14 million) from anchor investors on September 7, a day before its ₹428 crore initial public offering opens. The facade solutions provider allocated 70.53 lakh…

Anupam Rasayan approves ₹60.88 crore Tanfac stake buy

Anupam Rasayan India 's board on September 7, 2026 approved acquiring 260,065 equity shares in Tanfac Industries through a preferential issue. The shares, with a face value of ₹5 each, are priced at ₹2,341 apiece, for a…

OpenAI commits $1B to shore up frontline cyber defenders

OpenAI on September 3 unveiled Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a program pledging $1 billion in credits over six months to help under-resourced defenders use its cybersecurity models, training, and technical support.…

Al Rajhi Bank raises $600M in social sukuk to fund housing and jobs

Al Rajhi Bank has raised $600 million through an issuance of Tier 2 social sukuk denominated in US dollars. The lender, one of the region's largest Shariah-compliant institutions, finalised the placement after…

Teva launches new senior notes offering to refinance debt, redeem up to $450M in 2027 notes

Teva announced on September 7, 2026, that it plans to issue new euro- and dollar-denominated senior notes through its Dutch finance subsidiaries. The offering is intended mainly to refinance existing debt.

Lazard acquires Belgian M&A boutique Altamoda, adds De Smet and Lamarche

Lazard has acquired Altamoda, a Belgian boutique specialising in mergers and acquisitions. Founders Fabian De Smet and Gérard Lamarche are set to join the bank as part of the deal.

Molten Ventures hits £175M first close on growth fund, targets £350M

Molten Ventures has secured a £175 million first close for its new Growth Fund, anchored by a £75 million cornerstone commitment from the British Business Bank. The London-listed firm committed the remaining £100…

Jersey Electricity refinances to fund island grid overhaul

Jersey Electricity (LSE:JEL) has completed a post-IPO debt refinancing package to fund a long-term programme of network investment. The arrangement combines a sustainability-linked revolving credit facility with an…

Tolu Minerals lands $21M debt facility to restart Tolukuma gold mine

Tolu Minerals (ASX:TOK) has accepted a 95 million kina (roughly $21 million) debt facility from National Banking to fund capital works at its Tolukuma Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea. The five-year loan carries a 9.60%…

Samlip expands supplier fund to $25M in low-rate lending push

South Korean bakery firm Samlip is expanding a shared-growth fund with Shinhan Bank to 35 billion won (about $25 million) this year to support low-interest loans for its suppliers. The company announced on September 7…

ICBC raises $15B in state-backed placement, a record for China fintech deals

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has raised 100 billion yuan (about $15 billion) through a private placement of A shares. The Ministry of Finance led the round with a 70 billion yuan contribution,…

China injects $42B into eight state financial firms as global funds rotate from AI

China's Ministry of Finance is issuing 300 billion yuan (roughly $42 billion) in special sovereign bonds to inject capital into eight central state-owned financial firms, replenishing their core tier-1 capital.…

Court lets Twitter rival keep 'tweet' as judge finds X abandoned the mark

A federal court in Delaware has ruled that startup Operation Bluebird cannot use the "Twitter" name for its rival social network, but can use the word "tweet" and the Twitter bird logo, which Elon Musk 's X likely…

Clucky launches alarm app with $40 subscription that wakes users with a rooster

Clucky has launched an iPhone alarm app for habitual snoozers that can wake users with a crowing rooster and requires them to complete a mission before the alarm turns off. It offers a Pro subscription priced at $39.99…

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit with Spectrum rocket

On September 5, 2026, Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway and reached orbit, deploying five satellites. The mission marked the company’s first successful orbital flight…

ESA awards Rocket Factory Augsburg $220M launch grant

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) a €186.9 million grant through its European Launcher Challenge, the German launch startup said in August 2026. The money backs RFA's development…

US to take 35% stake in Venezuelan oil firm tied to sanctioned tycoon

The US Department of Defense's Office of Strategic Capital will acquire a 35% stake in Blue Energy Partners of North America, an oil company owned by Venezuelan billionaire Alejandro Betancourt. The long-term…

How Saudi Arabia hired the man behind a $21.9B hospital IPO to run its health system for 33M people

Nasser Al Huqbani, who spent 26 years building Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group (HMG) into Saudi Arabia's largest private healthcare operator, became chief executive officer of the state-run Health Holding Company…

Extropic introduces Z1T sparse models for probabilistic hardware

On 5 September 2026, Extropic published a technical overview of Z1T, a family of transformer-like models designed around the constraints of its Z1 probabilistic sub-threshold CMOS hardware. The company describes the…

Atom bank launches £2M green loans to unlock UK housing

Atom bank has launched Natural Capital, a lending product financing Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) habitat banks across England. Loans run from £100,000 to £2 million, with a maximum loan-to-value of 65% against the…

Ghana's SeevCash lands $333K in Stellar grants, launches Visa card

SeevCash, a Ghanaian remittance and peer-to-peer money transfer startup, has raised $333,000 in grant funding through the Stellar Community Fund and the Stellar Development Foundation. The money spans four separate…

Saudi startups raise $293M on day three of Leap26 in Riyadh

Startups announced $293 million across 11 investment deals and venture capital funds on the third day of the Leap26 tech conference in Riyadh, according to Asharq Al-Awsat. The figures underscore rising investor…

Medcaptain's $76.5M Hong Kong IPO draws 436-times retail demand

Medcaptain Medical Technology (2041.HK) raised roughly HK$600 million (about $76.5 million) in its Hong Kong IPO, priced at HK$15.42 per H share. The offering nets the company approximately HK$496.2 million after…

CEMEX backs gasification startup WtEnergy to cut cement's carbon footprint

CEMEX and its corporate venture arm, CEMEX Ventures, have invested in Waste to Energy Advanced Solutions (WtEnergy), a Spanish cleantech startup that turns solid waste into synthesis gas. Founded in 2017, WtEnergy…

Pranav Constructions banks ₹84 Cr from anchors ahead of ₹351 Cr IPO

Pranav Constructions, a Mumbai-based real estate developer, raised ₹84.24 crore from anchor investors on September 4, ahead of its ₹351-crore IPO. It allocated 67.94 lakh equity shares at ₹124 apiece.

Trip.com Group takes majority stake in cruise specialist e-hoi

Trip.com Group is acquiring a majority stake in e-hoi, the Frankfurt-based online cruise specialist. The move folds e-hoi into one of the world's largest online travel companies. Terms were not disclosed.

Xiaomi unveils in-house 3nm chips, backs silicon push with 50B yuan

Xiaomi used its first appearance at IFA 2026 in Berlin to unveil its own in-house processors, the Xuanjie (XRing) series. The line spans premium smartphones, edge AI, and autonomous driving.

Africa50 raises $71M for African decentralized renewables fund

Africa50 has secured $71 million in commitments for its fund dedicated to decentralized renewable energy in Africa, the pan-African infrastructure manager said in a statement on Wednesday, September 2. Backers include…

APX launches Bitcoin-backed revolving line of credit in Canada

APX Lending has launched a Line of Credit that lets clients borrow against Bitcoin and Ethereum through a five-year revolving facility. Borrowers can repay principal when they choose and redraw available credit as needs…

Rolls-Royce leasing arm to invest RMB2.3B in new Tianjin engine company

Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance (RRPF) has agreed to set up a new aircraft engine leasing company in China's Tianjin Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, committing more than RMB2.3 billion. The agreement was signed with…

Revolut wins conditional US bank charter, plans 2027 launch

Revolut has secured conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national US bank charter, a major step toward launching a fully fledged American bank in the first half of 2027.…

Brainchild launches with $100M from IMC to build kids' franchises

Brainchild Entertainment has launched with $100 million in committed capital from Integrated Media Company (IMC) to build children's franchises across video, consumer products, gaming, publishing, and live experiences.…

Brazil's DM raises $70M in largest-ever capital markets deal

DM, a Brazilian financial services group focused on credit management, raised R$ 380 million ($70 million) through two new series of Receivables Investment Funds (FIDCs). The simultaneous issuances mark the largest…

Village Capital deploys $450K in first Nigeria bets amid early-stage funding drought

Village Capital, a global nonprofit backing high-impact startups, has deployed $450,000 into two Nigerian companies from its Africa Ecosystem Catalysts Facility. The investments — its first in Nigeria — went to Trade…

Yuce Biotech raises $7.4M Series B for single-molecule immunodiagnostics

Yuce Biotech has raised more than 50,000,000 CNY (about $7.4 million) in a Series B round, the Chinese diagnostics company announced in September 2026. The round was led by the Jiangsu Taizhou Big Health Advanced…

Betterley lists on Shenzhen's ChiNext at 12.1 yuan per share

Betterley Polymer Materials, an electronic chemicals maker, debuted today on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's ChiNext board. It listed under the ticker 301697 at an offer price of 12.1 yuan per share.

The $12.93B Easter Egg: Hugging Face Meets Nvidia in 129,303

What is the Easter egg? The $12,930,300,000 price announced for Nvidia ’s acquisition of Hugging Face contains two references to the companies. Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf invited readers to find both meanings…

Sivers to invest $30M in Scottish chip plant for AI datacenters

Sivers Semiconductors will invest $30 million to expand its Indium Phosphide (InP) manufacturing facility in Glasgow, Scotland. The expansion targets rising demand for optical interconnect technologies used in AI…

Shanghai's Pudong merges two state-backed VC platforms with ¥600B in assets

Shanghai's Pudong New Area is merging its two main district-affiliated state-owned venture capital platforms — Pudong Innovation Investment Development, known as Pudong Venture Capital, and Shanghai Pudong Science and…

Uber adds Wayve robotaxis in London, first of 12 planned markets

Uber and Wayve launched supervised autonomous rides in London on September 3, 2026, the first time autonomous trips are available in the UK. Londoners requesting an UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort may now be…

Brazil's HIT raises angel round from GVAngels, targets R$5M revenue and 2027 merger

Brazilian healthtech HIT has raised an angel round from investor group GVAngels to fund its next growth phase. The company, which builds integrative health tools, did not disclose the amount.

Tensive lands €20M EIB convertible loan to bring bioresorbable breast implant to market

Milan-based Tensive has signed a convertible loan agreement of up to €20 million with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to commercialise REGENERA™, its bioresorbable scaffold for breast reconstruction. The…

Bally's Intralot debt hits €1.61B as Evoke deal advances

Bally's Intralot reported adjusted net debt of €1.61 billion at June 30, 2026, up about €125 million from €1.49 billion at the end of 2025, as it advances its proposed acquisition of evoke plc. The rise coincided with…