Anthropic embeds Claude Mythos 5 in security tools, pledges $35M in credits

Anthropic is embedding its Mythos 5 model into cybersecurity products for security operations, incident response, threat intelligence, and detection engineering. It is also launching Claude Security in public beta for…

Uber hit with €825M Dutch fine over automated driver suspensions

The Dutch data protection authority has fined Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without properly informing them. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under…

LifeStance revenue jumps 26% to $435M as new investors pile in

LifeStance Health reported second-quarter revenue of $435.35 million, up 26.1% year over year and ahead of the $414.58 million analysts expected. The outpatient mental health provider posted earnings of $0.06 per share,…

Poolside AI’s $6B Nvidia licensing deal reshapes the model-building race

A novel Nvidia–Poolside arrangement. Poolside AI has agreed to a non-exclusive deal under which Nvidia will pay $6 billion to license the startup’s AI model-development software, according to a letter to investors…

Nvidia eyes Korean chip startup Rebellions, valued at $2.3B

Nvidia is in early talks with Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a possible tie-up, ranging from a technical partnership to an investment or even an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter.…

Morpho's desktop UV printer raises $7M on Kickstarter in 16 hours

Morpho has launched a desktop UV printer on Kickstarter, raising more than $7 million from nearly 2,000 backers in the campaign's first 16 hours. The device is aimed at artists, Etsy sellers, and small business owners…

DexCom posts $1.31B quarter as Silvant Capital opens a $5.4M stake

Silvant Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in DexCom, Inc. (NASDAQ:DXCM) in the second quarter of 2026, purchasing 79,562 shares worth roughly $5,359,000, according to HoldingsChannel.com.

Alibaba's AI revenue run rate on track to hit $10B by September

Alibaba expects the annualised revenue run rate for its AI-related products to reach $10 billion in the quarter through September, chief executive officer Eddie Wu said on an earnings call Thursday. That would be up…

Rothschild holding buys $2.65M Nova stake as chipmaker beats Q2 estimates

Edmond de Rothschild Holding S.A. bought a new stake in shares of Nova Ltd. (NASDAQ:NVMI) during the second quarter of 2026, according to its latest Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund bought 5,007 shares of the…

NEOM secures SAR10B credit facility to fund giga-project push

NEOM has secured a revolving credit facility worth SAR10 billion to cover short-term financing needs, as the Saudi giga-project advances developments including Trojena, THE LINE, Oxagon, and luxury island Sindalah. The…

Gates Foundation buys $352M Home Depot stake, trims $818M from Berkshire

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust built a new $352.7 million position in Home Depot, buying 1 million shares during Q2 2026. To fund the move, it cut its Berkshire Hathaway holdings by roughly $818 million.

Gossamer Bio secures up to $250M to push seralutinib toward FDA approval

Gossamer Bio, a San Diego clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has entered a structured private placement expected to provide up to $250 million in gross proceeds. The financing backs seralutinib, its treatment for…

Samsung SDI sells 5% Samsung Display stake for 4.445T won

Samsung SDI has agreed to sell roughly 5% of its stake in Samsung Display back to Samsung Display for 4.445 trillion won in cash. The company's board approved the transfer of 13,088,235 shares on 21 August 2026.

EP Wealth adds $15.19M Travelers stake as insurer beats profit estimates

EP Wealth Advisors LLC bought 68,909 shares of Travelers, creating a new stake worth about $15.19 million in Q2 2026, according to HoldingsChannel.com.

Trillium takes new $20M stake in AutoZone as analysts turn cautious

Trillium Asset Management acquired a new position in AutoZone, buying 6,269 shares worth roughly $20,047,000 during the second quarter, according to its latest SEC disclosure. The retailer of automotive parts and…

Expeditors tops estimates as institutional investors add positions

Expeditors International reported $2.03 earnings per share for the quarter ended August 4, beating the consensus estimate of $1.69 by $0.34. That marked a jump from $1.34 a share in the same period a year earlier.

China's Xinjie Energy raises $100M Series B for solid-state batteries

Shenzhen Xinjie Energy Technology has raised more than $100 million in a Series B round led by Puhua Capital. The company develops lithium-metal solid-state batteries.

Y Combinator to sell up to 1.05% of Meesho for ₹957.5 crore

Y Combinator is set to sell up to 1.05% of its stake in Meesho for ₹957.5 crore through a block deal, sources told CNBC-TV18. The floor price was set at ₹197.5 per share — up to a 4% discount to the previous close.

AmpIn Energy lands $195M green financing for hybrid renewables

AmpIn Energy has secured $195 million in green financing from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and Rabobank. The financing will support a large-scale hybrid renewable-energy project in India, combining solar…

Swarmer backs new air defence venture led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince

Drone swarm software company Swarmer has made an equity investment in Vectus Air Defense Systems, a new company led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince. The early-stage round was announced in August 2026.

HCA Healthcare beats estimates with $20.23B in quarterly revenue

HCA Healthcare reported $20.23 billion in revenue for the quarter ended July 24, 2026, beating the consensus estimate of $19.76 billion. Earnings came in at $7.59 per share, ahead of the $7.56 analysts expected.

Westpac buys $3.23M Kroger stake as grocer's shares slide

Westpac bought a new stake in Kroger during the second quarter of 2026, according to its latest Form 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Australian bank bought 58,083 shares worth…

Zero Zero Infinity's HoverAir Versa tops $230K on Indiegogo

Zero Zero Infinity, the company behind HoverAir, has launched the Versa, a flying pocket camera, on Indiegogo. The campaign has raised over $230,000, with 59 days left to run. Backing starts at $449 for the Pocket-Only…

Danske Bank buys $9.9M Tyler Technologies stake as EPS beats estimates

Danske Bank bought a new stake in Tyler Technologies during the second quarter of 2026, acquiring 33,789 shares worth about $9.88 million, according to Holdings Channel.

Be Clinical raises ₹21 Cr for clinical skincare expansion

D2C skincare startup Be Clinical has raised ₹21 Cr (about $2.2 million) in a seed extension round led by Sauce, with participation from existing investor V3 Ventures. Angel backers included Sangeet Agrawal, Navin Parwal…

Uttar Pradesh and Yamanashi launch ₹600-crore fund for MSMEs

Uttar Pradesh and Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture unveiled a ₹600-crore fund to support Yamanashi-based Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that invest in the Indian state. The announcement came at the UP-Japan…

Thirona lands €7.5M to scale its AI lung-imaging platform

Nijmegen-based Thirona has raised €7.5M in an early-stage round to advance AI-powered analysis of thoracic CT images. The round combines a €5M investment from HERAN Partners and Dutch-based Borski Fund with a €2.5M…

Cumming Group merges with Dublin's OutForm to build out infrastructure advisory

Cumming Group has merged with OutForm Consulting, a Dublin-based advisory firm serving the water, transport, and energy sectors across Ireland and the UK. Terms were not disclosed.

Aditya Infotech raises ₹1,500 crore to expand surveillance capacity

Aditya Infotech has raised ₹1,500 crore (about $157 million) through a qualified institutional placement to expand manufacturing capacity for its security and surveillance products. The post-IPO equity raise, announced…

Gate.io opens prediction-market toolkit with $3M developer grant

Gate.io has launched Event Contracts Builder, a white-label toolkit that lets third parties run their own prediction markets, alongside a $3 million grant programme for developers who build on it. The product, announced…

Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Group Holdings announces up to HK$4.8m placing

Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Group Holdings (Hong Kong stock code 601) entered into a best-efforts placing agreement on 21 August 2026 to issue up to 96 million new shares at HK$0.05 each, a discount of about 19.35%…

EP Wealth Advisors buys $12.87M stake in Ecolab

EP Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) in Q2 2026, acquiring 46,202 shares worth roughly $12,872,000, according to Holdings Channel.com. The move adds to heavy institutional ownership of the…

Qben Infra raises SEK 73.4M in convertibles to fund Power platform

Qben Infra, a Nordic energy-infrastructure group, is strengthening its capital base with two convertible loans totaling approximately SEK 73.4 million from shareholders. The capital will support further growth and…

Self-Help Credit Union and partners launch a $20M Jacksonville housing fund

A coalition of private and philanthropic investors on Thursday launched a $20 million loan fund to spur $80 million worth of new affordable apartment construction in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Growth and…

PATEO CONNECT acquires 20% of Guangzhou Seagull for RMB800M

PATEO CONNECT Technology (Shanghai) Corporation has conditionally agreed to acquire a 20% stake in Guangzhou Seagull Kitchen And Bath Products for approximately RMB800 million. The transaction, announced on 21 August…

Korea's three Hanjin budget carriers to merge into 58-plane airline by 2027

Jin Air, Air Seoul and Air Busan — the three budget carriers under Hanjin — will merge into a single airline under the Jin Air name on 17 March 2027. The boards approved and signed the merger agreement in August 2026.…

Avudari group makes ₹8.76 cr open offer to take control of Aar Shyam

Radha Krishna Avudari and associates have launched a mandatory open offer to buy up to 58,43,327 shares of Aar Shyam India Investment Company Limited — 26% of its emerging paid-up equity capital. The offer is priced at…

OpenAI buys InstantDB team to power agent infrastructure

OpenAI has acquired the team behind InstantDB, a real-time database and backend platform serving over 17,000 users and powering 400,000 applications. The deal, announced on August 22, brings backend infrastructure…

Yingxin completes ¥520M semiconductor deal as tourism losses widen to ¥294M

Yuanxing Intelligent Manufacturing (000620) has completed its ¥520 million acquisition of a 60% stake in Guangdong Guangzhou Semiconductor, fully consolidating the chip business into its accounts. The move, disclosed in…

Profusa converts $6.1M debt to equity, issues new $650K note

Profusa (NASDAQ: PFSA) has issued a new $650,000 senior secured convertible note to Ascent Partners Fund, its primary secured lender, alongside a deal to convert $6.14 million of existing debt into preferred stock. The…

Idaho Power seeks $154M sale of Oregon service territory to co-op

Idaho Power has applied to sell its Oregon service territory to Oregon Trail Electric Consumers Cooperative (OTEC) for $154 million. The company filed the application with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission on August…

Global Water raises $10M in private placement

Global Water agreed to issue 1,129,944 new common shares to accredited investors at $8.85 per share, for aggregate proceeds of approximately $10 million. The Securities Purchase Agreement was dated 20 August 2026 and…

Brumby raises A$1.2M for AI drones that herd cattle

Brumby, an Australian startup, has raised A$1.2 million (about 13,800,000 ZAR, or roughly $861,476) in a seed round to build AI-powered drones that move, monitor, and manage cattle without traditional herding teams.…

DayOne secures $237M debt facility for Hong Kong data centre

DayOne has secured a US$237 million syndicated term loan facility to finance a hyperscale data centre in Hong Kong. The debt was announced on 22 August 2026.

Northino wins top $15K grant in Nigeria's iHatch programme

Northino won the top $15,000 prize at Cohort 3 of iHatch, a free five-month incubation programme run by Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency…

Starling Oncology secures $25M revolving credit line for working capital

Starling Oncology, Inc. 's wholly owned subsidiary, Starling Oncology Management, Limited Liability Company, entered into a revolving credit facility of up to $25 million with Gemino Healthcare Finance, doing business…

Evgen Pharma (TheraCryf) raises £1.05M to advance addiction treatment into clinical trials

AIM-listed biotech Evgen Pharma (TheraCryf) is raising £1.05 million to finish development work on its lead addiction treatment and find a commercial partner. The Cheshire firm is placing 416,388,888 shares and issuing…

NITDA backs startups through iHatch funding programme

Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are running iHatch, a free five-month incubation programme that pairs seed funding with…

Scope Technologies (Quantum Secure Encryption) closes C$6M private placement

Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) has closed the second and final tranche of its non-brokered private placement, bringing the total raised to C$5,999,999.85. The Vancouver-based company issued 13,333,333 units…

Sax Wealth Advisors adds $350M in Florida deal for Lighthouse Financial

Sax Wealth Advisors, the wealth management arm of Top 100 Firm Sax Advisory Group, has acquired Florida-based Lighthouse Financial. The deal, which closed at the end of June, adds $350 million in assets under management…

Rōmy acquired by The FOCUS Group

The FOCUS Group (TFG), a 40-year-old fundraising consulting firm based in St. Augustine, Florida, has acquired Rōmy, an AI-powered donor prospect research platform. The deal closed August 14, 2026; terms were not…

Fifth Third invests in embedded payments firm Payload

Fifth Third has made a corporate investment in Payload, an embedded payment firm that has found demand in real estate and is expanding into other multi-party industries such as law firms, property managers, construction…

Nvidia takes minority stake in power firm Cloverleaf to fuel AI data centres

Nvidia has made a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data centre power company, the chipmaker announced in August 2026. Terms weren't disclosed, but Nvidia is expected to invest several hundred million…

Synektik CEO sells 7.2% stake for 215M zł after 1,500% share surge

Cezary Kozanecki, founder, chief executive officer, and largest shareholder of Polish medical equipment distributor Synektik, sold 615,000 shares — 7.2% of the company's share capital — for slightly over 215 million zł.…

Denge Yatirim greenlights TL 3B private placement to fund asset buys

Denge Yatirim Holding, an Istanbul-listed investment holding company, has approved a TL 3 billion (roughly $62 million) capital increase via private placement to finance the acquisition of financial fixed assets. The…

MicroCloud takes $15.76M Strategy stake in Bitcoin push

MicroCloud Hologram (NASDAQ: HOLO) has acquired 140,268 shares of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) worth about $15.76 million, deepening its move into Bitcoin-linked investments. The shares came through the maturity and…

Anthropic launches $35M fund for open-source cyber defence

Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, a collaborative cybersecurity initiative backed by a $35 million fund for open-source security projects, plus up to $100 million in model usage credits and $4 million in direct…

Atlas Quant closes oversubscribed seed round to verify quant strategies

Atlas Quant, a London-based startup building an independent verification layer for investment strategies, has closed an oversubscribed SEIS tranche of its seed round in under seven weeks. The company is now finalising…

Nscale eyes $3B US IPO in AI data center listing rush

London-based Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3 billion in a US initial public offering that could take place as soon as September, according to people familiar with the matter. The AI cloud firm is working with…

Newtrace raises $6.3M to cut green hydrogen costs with rare-earth-free electrodes

Newtrace, a Bangalore-based deep-tech climate startup founded in 2021, has raised $6.3 million in a pre-Series A round. The company builds advanced electrode and stack technologies designed to make green hydrogen…

Absolics raises 400B KRW to commercialise glass substrates

Absolics, the SKC subsidiary developing glass substrates for semiconductor packaging, is raising about 400 billion KRW (≈$289 million) through a rights offering to fund commercialisation. SKC, which owns 70.05% of…

Alychlo takes majority stake in Amadeus, eyes one new site a year

Alychlo, the holding company of Belgian entrepreneur Marc Coucke, has taken a majority stake in Amadeus, a restaurant chain known for its all-you-can-eat ribs. The chain runs five locations, including one in Brussels.

BDO raises record P115B in Philippines' largest corporate bond sale

BDO Unibank, the Philippines' largest lender, raised P115 billion (about $1.87 billion) from its latest ASEAN Sustainability Bond offering — the country's largest corporate bond sale. The 1.5-year bonds carry a fixed…

Horizon Equity Partners acquires 80% of Geralseg and ITELSIS

Portuguese fund manager Horizon Equity Partners has acquired 80% of the capital of Geralseg and Vitelsis (ITELSIS), two companies in the technology and security sector. Law firm Antas da Cunha Ecija advised Horizon on…

HSBC Asset Management backs financial AI platform Model ML

HSBC Asset Management has invested in Model ML, a financial AI platform.

Bay Area Lyme Ventures backs LymeLess Health's AI companion for tick-borne disease patients

LymeLess Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, has raised seed funding led by Bay Area Lyme Ventures, the venture philanthropy arm of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. The company builds software to help people with…

CUREator+ awards A$13.5M in grants to six Australian health startups

Six Australian biomedical and health technology startups have been awarded a combined A$13.5 million through the second funding round of CUREator+, a non-dilutive commercialisation program delivered by Brandon…

Grown Rogue enters New York with $15M PharmaCann deal

Grown Rogue International has taken the first steps towards acquiring PharmaCann 's New York licence and assets, closing initial transactions backed by project-based capital commitments of $15 million. The Medford,…

Ninepoint Partners LP: Canadian Large Cap Leaders Split Corp. raises C$34.45M

Canadian Large Cap Leaders Split Corp. has raised C$34.45 million through an overnight offering of preferred and Class A shares. The fund sold 1,675,300 preferred shares at C$10.70 and 1,155,300 Class A shares at…

Zhongke Digital closes C+ round, valuation nears ¥7B

Chinese chip developer Zhongke Digital has closed a C+ funding round, lifting its post-money valuation to nearly ¥7 billion. The round drew industrial capital and policy funds including Yangtze River Capital, Taiping…

819 Capital backs Bedrock 3D

Bedrock 3D, the Dutch 3D-printing filament maker spun out of BASF, has taken a strategic investment from 819 Capital Partners. Announced in August 2026, the investment places Bedrock 3D in 819's Private Equity Fund I.

Sentinel Net Lease closes $101M Opportunity Fund I

Sentinel Net Lease has completed the final closing of Sentinel Opportunity Fund I, its first commingled investment fund, after assembling a $101 million portfolio of single-tenant properties across the US. The fund…

Pet Media Group buys world's largest horse marketplace ehorses

Pet Media Group, a European group of digital pet marketplaces, has acquired ehorses, the world's largest digital horse marketplace. The transaction closed on 1 August 2026, with law firm YPOG advising the buyer.

Greenjoules raises $6.5M Series B from Amazon, Singularity for green fuels

Pune-based green energy startup Greenjoules has raised about ₹62 crore ($6.5 million) in an apparently ongoing Series B round. Amazon 's investment arm, Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings, led the round, with Singularity…

Colter Bay's first deal: a A$115M loan to helicopter operator Vertical Aviation

Colter Bay Capital has made its debut investment, providing a A$115 million (≈$82.4 million) senior secured loan to Perth-headquartered Vertical Aviation. The debt deal was announced in August 2026.

Cyncly acquires imos to expand furniture manufacturing software

Cyncly has completed the acquisition of imos, a Germany-based provider of CAD/CAM, integration and automation software for furniture manufacturing. Financial terms were not disclosed.

BitVault raises CHF 500K to launch worldwide Bitcoin self-custody app

Lugano-based BitVault has raised CHF 500,000 (≈$625,532) in a seed round to launch its Bitcoin security app, now available worldwide on the App Store. The round was backed by Basel-based Le Chêne Family Office and…

Kerno adds chairman Thomas McKinney as Blair Street Advisors invests

Kerno has named Thomas McKinney as chairman of its board, alongside a strategic investment from Blair Street Advisors. McKinney is the firm's managing member and brings more than 25 years of experience across…

The Metals Royalty Company raises US$165M to buy extra Mesabi iron ore royalty

The Metals Royalty has secured a US$165 million financing package to fund the purchase of an additional 1.0% production royalty in the Mesabi Metallics iron ore project in Nashwauk, Minnesota. The package combines a…

Kerno brings in Blair Street investment as Thomas McKinney joins as chairman

Kerno has received a strategic investment from Blair Street Advisors, whose managing member Thomas McKinney has joined the company's board as chairman. The investment amount was not disclosed.

Concord Holdings acquires Paramount Placements

Concord Holdings has acquired Paramount Placements, a US skilled-trades talent platform, with debt and equity backing from Route 2 Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

First State Bank to be acquired by HBT Financial for $204.6M

HBT Financial has agreed to acquire Tri-County Financial Group, the parent of First State Bank, in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $204.6 million.

Oxford's Arcturis and Akrivia merge in £140M deal to challenge Palantir

Oxford-based NHS patient data firms Arcturis Data and Akrivia Health have agreed an all-share merger worth £140m, aiming to build greater scale against US software giant Palantir Technologies. The transaction is…

Selkie lands four Dragons in £40,000 haircare deal

Refillable haircare brand Selkie Hair has secured £40,000 from four investors on BBC's Dragons' Den. Founder Cicely Coops gave away a combined 20% equity stake to Deborah Meaden, Jenna Meek, Peter Jones, and Steven…

Ambros Therapeutics to merge with Werewolf Therapeutics in all-stock deal

Werewolf Therapeutics and Ambros Therapeutics have signed a definitive all-stock merger agreement to form a Nasdaq-listed, late-stage biotech developing neridronate for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 (CRPS-1).…

MPACT secures S$100M post-IPO debt facility

Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT) said its subsidiaries entered a S$100 million (approximately US$78.8 million) multi-currency facility on 21 August 2026. The facility is guaranteed by DBS Trustee Limited,…

Bunker Hill to buy Silver47 at 38% premium, forming US silver player

Bunker Hill Mining has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Silver47 Exploration in an all-share merger, creating a combined company called Bunker Hill Silver Corp. Silver47 shareholders will receive a 38%…

Waiis buys corporate mobility startup SharetoGo to target business market

Catalan shared-mobility platform Waiis has acquired SharetoGo, a startup specialising in mobility solutions for companies. Waiis confirmed the deal in a statement on Friday but did not disclose the amount.

Ripple pushes RLUSD into institutional credit with Clearpool, Cicada fund

Ripple has partnered with Clearpool and Cicada to launch a credit fund for institutional investors, using its RLUSD stablecoin as the underlying asset. It marks a new use for RLUSD, which Ripple has marketed mainly as a…

DBAG exits foundry group Silbitz to Germany's VTC

Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG), together with DBAG Fund VI, has sold foundry group Silbitz to VTC, a German independent investment firm. The transaction closed in August 2026; the parties did not disclose the purchase…

MIDF provides RM13.4M Islamic financing to Gapima

Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad (MIDF) has provided RM13.4 million in Islamic financing to Gapima to part-finance the acquisition of a new industrial property in Klang, Selangor. The facility has a total…

Oshen lands £3.65m seed to triple ocean-robot production

Oshen, a Plymouth-based marine robotics startup, has raised £3.65m in a seed round led by Lunar Ventures. AlbionVC, Twin Track Ventures, Concept Ventures, and several angel investors also participated.

Nanolope raises $872K pre-seed to turn ceilings into thermal batteries

Nanolope, a Berlin deep-tech startup, has raised $872,000 in a pre-seed round led by IBB Ventures through its B# fund. Business angels and industry specialists also joined the round.

The Economist: Britain would be bonkers to ditch Palantir

An August 20, 2026 leader in The Economist argues that Britain should retain Palantir 's public-sector contracts despite the company's controversial politics, work with American border authorities and Israeli forces,…

Cicada Partners launches RLUSD-based credit fund with Ripple

Ripple is backing a new institutional credit fund that will issue working-capital loans in its RLUSD stablecoin to fintech and payments companies on the XRP Ledger. It is partnering with lending platform Clearpool,…

Gumi and SBI launch ¥3B crypto fund to prep for Japan's ETF era

Gumi Inc. and SBI have launched SBI Crypto Fund I, a three-year private fund with about ¥3 billion (around $18.3 million) in committed capital, according to a 28 July company announcement. The vehicle begins operations…

Tata Steel completes TM International Logistics stake acquisition

Tata Steel has completed its acquisition of a 23% stake in TM International Logistics for INR 3.4 billion, increasing its shareholding to 74%.

Netmarble's chairman buys 13.4% stake for 374B won as Tencent trims holding

Netmarble Chairman Bang Jun-hyuk has agreed to acquire 13.4% of the South Korean gaming company's shares for 374 billion Korean won. The stake comes from the 18.1% held by Han River Investment, an affiliate of China's…

ADB raises $2B in 10-year global bond, part of $45B 2026 plan

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised $2 billion through a 10-year global bond, its second 10-year US dollar benchmark of 2026. BMO Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura managed the transaction,…

Samsung SDI raises 4.45T won to grow US energy storage output

Samsung SDI has raised roughly 4.45 trillion Korean won in cash to expand energy storage system (ESS) production in North America and fund next-generation batteries. The company disclosed on August 21 that it will sell…

Knights buys 220-year-old law firm Moore Barlow in second deal this week

Legal and professional services group Knights has acquired Moore Barlow, a 160-strong law firm and one of the South East's largest regional practices. The firm employs specialists across corporate, dispute resolution,…

Kyoei Medical Instruments to be acquired by Kurihara Medical Equipment

AMiquam leads €2.2M Eurostars grant for defect-spotting 3D printing

Swiss startup AMiquam has won a €2.2 million Eurostars grant to lead a four-partner consortium developing precision metal 3D printing. The company, founded in 2020 and based in Gland, brings together Neuchâtel's Gravity…

Cornaro family takes near-full control of Cornèr Bank

The Cornaro family has acquired the 19.6% stake in Cornèr Bank previously held by the Piotrkowski-Dollfus family, lifting its holding to roughly 99.7% of the Swiss private bank's share capital. The move gives the…

Austria's Invest AG buys 11% of TTTech to keep space tech in local hands

Austrian private equity firm Invest AG has acquired an 11% stake in Vienna-based TTTech Group, the two companies said. Neither the price nor the seller of the shares was disclosed. Both sides describe the move as a…

Omega Seiki Mobility raises ₹50 crore to expand electric mobility

Omega Seiki Mobility, an Indian electric commercial vehicle maker, has raised ₹50 crore (about $5.2 million) in a late-stage round at an undisclosed valuation. The financing was led and managed by Abhishek Misra, SKG…

Soglowek acquires 70% of Plant & Bean

SwiftScale lands Tencent-linked angel funding for AI model routing platform

SwiftScale, an AI infrastructure startup, has secured angel investment from Tiliang Investment and other Tencent-affiliated investors in August 2026. Its intelligent distribution platform routes requests across multiple…

NICE I&T buys 93% of Vietnam's EasySalon in first local deal

South Korea-listed NICE Information & Telecommunication (NICE I&T) has acquired more than 93% of Vietnamese beauty software platform EasySalon, buying out the stake held by its founder and chief executive officer.…

NE1 Fitness Club lands £20K Start Up Loan, tops 100 members

Newcastle-based NE1 Fitness Club has secured a £20,000 Start Up Loan through the British Business Bank to fund its expansion. The debt financing was delivered with support from Business Enterprise Fund North East (BEF…

NEXON & Partners Center launches Kona Global IP Investment Fund

Nexon has launched a long-term investment program worth up to ₩250 billion, aiming to back innovative intellectual property (IP) from early-stage developers and scale it into global brands. Through its new investment…

Yojee raises A$3.5M in oversubscribed share plan

Logistics technology company Yojee (ASX: YOJ) has raised approximately A$3.5 million through an oversubscribed Share Purchase Plan (SPP), the Sydney-based company announced on August 21, 2026. The post-IPO equity raise…

Arabica Star lands $4M shariah-compliant facility from Saudi National Bank

Arabica Star has secured a 15,000,000 SAR ($4 million) shariah-compliant credit facility from Saudi National Bank, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Saudi Exchange. The five-year line is structured…

AgDevCo Ventures hits $49M first close for East African agribusiness

AgDevCo Ventures has reached a $49 million first close to finance early-stage farming and food-processing companies in East Africa. The Nairobi-based vehicle, led by Christine Mwangi, will write cheques of $1 million to…

FilingRamp buys longtime partner Multiplayer to speed up its InsurTech push

FilingRamp is acquiring Multiplayer, the maker of application-monitoring and AI debugging technology. FilingRamp announced the acquisition on August 18, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. FilingRamp automates insurance…

Sisuta raises early VC for care-home AI, eyes bank partnership

Sisuta, a Tokyo-based healthtech startup behind the care-home AI platform "Michicare," has raised an undisclosed early VC round from the Hekishin AOMI Fund. The fund is run by Hekishin Shinkin Bank and Shinkin Capital,…

Energy Vault lands $137.5M loan to fund power generation equipment

Energy Vault has secured a senior secured term loan facility of roughly $137.5 million to fund the purchase of power generation equipment. The NYSE-listed company (NRGV) established the facility on August 14, 2026, and…

Constantinople raises A$62.5M Series B, nears unicorn status

Australian fintech Constantinople has raised A$62.5 million in a Series B round co-led by Airtree Ventures and Square Peg Capital. Both firms are existing backers, having funded the startup's A$32 million seed round in…

James Hardie sells Fermacell to Holcim for €840M, exits Europe

James Hardie Industries has agreed to sell its European walling and flooring business Fermacell to Swiss building-materials group Holcim for €840 million (about $980 million) in cash. The deal, announced August 20,…

Aster launches USD1-settled RWA perpetuals with $28M liquidity fund

Aster, a perpetuals decentralised exchange, launched five real-world asset perpetual markets on August 20 settled entirely in USD1, the stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial. The contracts cover tokenised…

Plotpackers lands £120K from two Dragons after £1.5M first-year sales

Plotpackers, a travel platform founded by Louise Truman, secured a £120,000 investment from Deborah Meaden and Steven Bartlett after appearing on BBC's Dragons' Den. Truman had initially sought £60,000 for 3% of the…

Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner

On 20 August 2026, Adit Singh joined Mayfield as an infrastructure partner. He will invest across hardware, infrastructure software, cybersecurity and physical AI. Singh previously helped source and co-lead the first…

NJEDA, RWJBarnabas Health back Portal Innovations fund with $10M for life sciences startups

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) approved up to $5 million for the New Jersey Innovation Hub Fund, managed by Portal Innovations. The commitment is matched by an up to $5 million commitment from…

Antares Labs launches with $7.25M to build AI agents for real estate institutions

Antares Labs has launched with $7.25 million in funding to build artificial intelligence that "thinks, decides, and acts" alongside real estate's largest institutions. The startup is targeting the sector's biggest…

TRX's TRXF11 approves R$5B raise for its 13th share issue, targeting premium assets

Brazilian real estate fund TRX Investimentos (TRXF11) has approved its 13th share issue with an initial target of R$5 billion, expandable to R$10 billion if demand allows. The offering covers 53.05 million new shares…

Cityblock buys Homeward Health, raises $116M to push into rural care

Cityblock Health, which provides care for urban Medicaid and dual-eligible members, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health in an all-stock deal, the company said on Aug. 20, 2026. Financial terms…

Swish Basket lands $3.2M pre-seed, already chasing $8M seed

Swish Basket, an AI-powered basketball data tracking firm, has raised a $3.2 million pre-seed led by Aristagora VC, with participation from Peter Kadas, Nika Capital and RGE Group. The Tel Aviv startup was selected for…

Banco do Brasil pays $38M, TIM launches $193M buyback, BlackRock cuts Gerdau stake

Three large Brazilian companies made shareholder decisions in the same week. Banco do Brasil approved a cash payout, TIM Brasil approved a buyback, and the asset manager BlackRock trimmed its holding in steelmaker…

ESS raises $3.2M in stock offering as non-lithium storage push continues

ESS Tech, Inc. (NYSE: GWH), a Wilsonville, Oregon-based maker of non-lithium energy storage systems, has raised approximately $3.2 million through a registered direct offering paired with a private placement of…

Ares to acquire Fortna in deal cutting $1.8B in debt

Atlanta-based systems integrator Fortna will be acquired by Los Angeles investment firm Ares Management and other lenders. The recapitalisation aims to reduce Fortna's debt by $1.8 billion and raise $150 million in cash.

BCC Fuba India puts ₹5 crore into subsidiary ioGems via convertible debentures

BCC Fuba India has subscribed to ₹50,000,000 (about $522,173) in optionally convertible debentures (OCDs) issued by its subsidiary, ioGems Technologies. The company was allotted 50,000,000 unsecured OCDs at a face value…

Vessev raises $19M Series A, enters US with FlyTahoe deal

Vessev, an Auckland-based marine technology company, has raised a $19 million Series A led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from other institutional and angel investors. Alongside the round, it is entering the…

Brazil's S do bem raises R$10M in grants to scale Chinese-plant skincare

S Cosméticos do Bem, a Campinas-based biotech startup, has raised more than R$10 million ($1.93 million) in non-repayable innovation grants. The backers include Brazil's research foundation FAPESP — through three PIPE…

Brazil's Jui raises R$2M to push gut-health powder into physical retail

Jui, a Brazilian foodtech that makes a powdered green juice aimed at gut health, has raised R$2 million (about $386,000) from undisclosed angel investors. The startup, founded in 2023, will use the money to widen…

Barnes Aerospace buys Jet AirWerks to grow engine repair business

Barnes Aerospace has closed its acquisition of Jet AirWerks LLC, a Kansas-based provider of inspection, repair, overhaul, and disassembly services for commercial aeroengine components. Terms were not disclosed.

The Scottish Government's Food and Drink Processing Scheme distributes £6M

Twenty-eight Scottish food and drink businesses will share almost £6 million in capital funding through the Scottish Government 's Food and Drink Processing Scheme Scotland. More than £1.39 million goes to six firms…

Micron bets $10B on new AI memory research lab in Boise

Micron Technology (MU) said it will invest $10 billion to build Micron Research Labs, a new research institution in its hometown of Boise, Idaho. The lab will focus on future memory technologies, advanced computing…

Beldex raises $8M to build privacy infrastructure for Web3 and AI

Beldex, a privacy-focused blockchain ecosystem, has raised $8 million in an early VC round to accelerate development of privacy infrastructure for Web3 and AI. Sigma Capital led the round, with participation from NTC…

Raiffeisen Bank raises €600M in Eurobond issue, tops €10B in six-year bond total

Raiffeisen Bank Romania has raised €600 million (about $701 million) through a new issue of senior non-preferential Eurobonds on international markets, the bank said on August 20, 2026. The debt qualifies as eligible…

Eyedentity closes oversubscribed early-stage round led by Norrsken Launcher

Eyedentity, a Swedish startup in the Karolinska Institutet Innovation Incubator, has closed an oversubscribed early-stage round led by Norrsken Launcher. Karolinska Institutet Innovation is also investing, alongside…

Unitree unveils GD01 mecha as it leads a humanoid market forecast to hit $5T

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has unveiled the GD01, which it bills as the world's first mass-produced, transformable mecha robot. Standing 9ft tall and weighing half a ton, it can carry a pilot in a torso-mounted…

KORE Wireless names Roi Ross chief growth officer after Searchlight and Abry buyout

KORE Wireless has appointed Roi Ross as executive vice president and chief growth officer following its acquisition by Searchlight Capital Partners and Abry Partners. Ross will oversee global marketing and revenue…

ENERCON lands $1.17B guarantee facility, repays German government loan early

German wind turbine maker ENERCON has agreed a $1.17 billion syndicated guarantee facility with its financing partners, the company announced on August 20, 2026. Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank coordinated the 11-bank…

Pouchers raises $500K to power stablecoin payments for Nigerians

Pouchers, a stablecoin-powered payments platform, has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding and exited beta. The company helps Nigerians receive, hold, and spend money globally.

Siemens Healthineers wins $31.1M ARPA-H grant for stroke robotics

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded Siemens Healthineers up to $31.1 million over five years to develop autonomous, remote endovascular robotics. The grant targets neurovascular robots…

Blue Coast Capital takes full control of UK furniture brand Loaf

Blue Coast Capital has acquired the remaining shares in furniture retailer Loaf from founder Charlie Marshall, giving it 100% ownership of the business. The deal completes a buyout that began in 2021, when Blue Coast…

Unitree soars 460% in Shanghai debut, hits $53B on $904M IPO

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics closed up more than 460% in its Shanghai debut Wednesday, having raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in an initial public offering. It is the first publicly traded…

Alif secures $10M debt round as Uzbekistan tightens BNPL rules

Alif has raised $10 million in debt financing from Armenia-based Ineco Group to expand Alif Nasiya, its installment payments business in Uzbekistan. The deal is structured under the mudaraba Islamic finance model.

Makers Fund closes $250M Fund IV, pushing gaming-focused AUM to $1.5B

Makers Fund, the venture capital firm built around interactive entertainment, has closed its $250M Fund IV. The close brings total assets under management to $1.5 billion. The fund will back founders building the next…

Norselab launches fourth credit fund with NOK 1B commitment

Norselab is launching Norselab Shipping & Energy, its fourth credit fund in under four years, with NOK 1 billion in committed capital from the Odfjell family as anchor investor.

Bosch's Five AI wins UK funding for AI-built AV test worlds

Five AI, a Bosch subsidiary based in Cambridge, has secured UK government funding through the CAM Pathfinder programme to build photorealistic simulation technology for testing autonomous vehicles (AVs).

KARM BABA raises ₹1 crore seed at ₹33 crore valuation

KARM BABA has raised ₹1 crore (about $104,435) in a seed round at a post-money valuation of ₹33 crore. Founded by Maanav D., the technology-led B2B marketplace connects manufacturers, suppliers, buyers and exporters…

Domyn targets $2B raise as revenue nears $1B ARR

Milan-based Domyn is raising $2 billion in a late-stage round, according to a report from Sifted. The AI company, led by Uljan Sharka, passed €200 million in annualised recurring revenue in July 2026, according to…

Radial acquires MSO behind Mindful Health Solutions to build largest US brain medicine network

Radial has acquired the management services organisation (MSO) supporting Mindful Health Solutions, one of the top interventional psychiatry groups in the US. The combined management company will support what Radial…

Coastline Wealth Management secures $100m debt facility

Coastline Wealth Management has closed a senior secured credit facility of up to $100m from Brightwood Capital Advisors, which acted as sole lender and administrative agent.

Ex-Nvidia researchers raise $90M seed for world model startup Veeda

Veeda AI, a Toronto startup founded by former Nvidia researchers led by computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has raised $90 million in seed financing, The Logic reports. Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures backed the…

Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun unveils stealth robotics startup Dulo

Sebastian Thrun, who founded Google 's self-driving-car project, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. He named the venture on Tuesday at the close of a keynote at Actuate, a robotics conference in San…

Franklin Templeton pulls in $1.5B for its first collateralised fund obligation

Franklin Templeton has raised $1.5 billion from global investors for its first collateralised fund obligation (CFO). The vehicle, Franklin Templeton Structured Solutions 2026, L.P., gives investors exposure to the…

Spark raises €2M from development funds to scale off-grid solar in Africa

Spark, a Dutch B2B provider of modular solar home systems, has raised €2 million ($2.3 million) in a seed round led by CEI Africa, a development-finance fund focused on energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. The…

LMO acquired by Enpulsion to build full spacecraft-mobility stack

Austrian spacecraft propulsion maker Enpulsion has agreed to acquire 100% of British firm Lift Me Off (LMO), a specialist in chemical propulsion systems and tank designs. The seller is Luxembourg-based LiftOff Space…

Woodland Biomass wins $305K state grant for wood-to-gasoline plant

Woodland Biomass Innovations has received a $305,035 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture towards its woody biomass-to-gasoline conversion facility in Tioga County. The award came in the second round of…

KKR bids $9B for UGI as chip stocks drag Wall Street lower

Private equity firm KKR has submitted a $9 billion takeover proposal for energy distributor UGI Corp, offering $42.50 per share. That marks a premium of roughly 21.1% to UGI's prior close.

FlapKap raises $34M pre-Series A to close MENA's SME financing gap

Abu Dhabi-based fintech FlapKap has raised $34 million in a pre-Series A round of debt and equity. BECO Capital led, with new backing from Pact VC and follow-on investment from A15, Nclude, and QED Investors. Channel…

Continental Resources acquires FireBird Energy II

NewEdge Wealth takes a $13.91M stake in Starz

NewEdge Wealth LLC bought a new position in Starz Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: STRZ) during the second quarter of 2026, acquiring 482,028 shares worth roughly $13.91 million, according to HoldingsChannel. The purchase…

Muon Space raises $250M Series C with Google and Salesforce Ventures at reported $1.5B valuation

Satellite startup Muon Space closed a $250 million Series C round in August 2026, backed by Alphabet's Google and Salesforce Ventures. While Muon declined to comment on its valuation, SpaceNews reported that the round…

NewEdge Wealth buys $19.71M Uber stake as robotaxi push expands

NewEdge Wealth LLC acquired a new stake in Uber Technologies during Q2 2026, according to its latest 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm bought 273,130 shares, valued at roughly $19,709,000.

Studio Beuro secures £728.97 grant for immersive digital studio

Three University of Hull computer science graduates are growing Studio Beuro, a digital studio building immersive experiences, apps, and websites, after securing a £728.97 grant through a partnership between rural…

Rocket Lab revenue jumps 62% to $234M as Danske Bank takes new stake

Danske Bank has disclosed a new stake in Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB), buying 269,377 shares worth roughly $27.4 million during the second quarter, according to its latest 13F filing with the Securities and…

Bewe Lab awarded CHF 250,000 convertible top-up

Bewe Lab, a University of Fribourg spin-off building a neuroscience-based digital intervention for unhealthy food cravings, has been awarded Biopôle's Pre-Clinical Top-Up. The award is a CHF 250,000 (roughly $312,533)…

HKEX's IPO boom tops $40B in 2026

More than 100 companies have listed in Hong Kong in 2026, raising over $40 billion, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) chief executive officer Bonnie Chan told CNBC. That already tops the $37 billion raised during…

Nisus Finance Projects launches tokenized real estate offering NIFCOT1

Nisus Finance Services has launched NIFCOT1, a tokenized offering that brings regulated real estate fund assets onto the blockchain. It starts with an initial issuance of $50 million, made up of 100,000 digital…

Mitsubishi Electric to buy energy software firm PCI for $1.4B

Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to acquire PCI Energy Solutions, a US-based enterprise software provider, for $1,400 million. The agreement was signed on August 20, 2026, and would make PCI a wholly owned subsidiary of…

SDC Technologies leads flō Optics convertible round, takes board seat

SDC Technologies has made a follow-on investment in flō Optics, leading a convertible (SAFE) financing round for the digital lens coating startup. SDC Technologies will appoint a representative to flō Optics' board of…

HeadHunter buys 51% of A Happy Job

HeadHunter has acquired a 51% controlling stake in employee engagement technology provider A Happy Job, one of several tech deals announced this week. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move pushes HeadHunter…

Attendo lands SEK 3.7B sustainability-linked financing to fund Nordic care growth

Attendo, the Nordic region's leading care provider, has secured a new long-term financing package worth SEK 3.7 billion (roughly $392 million), replacing its 2023 credit facilities. A consortium of Danske Bank,…

China's Lingkong raises 200M yuan Series E for counter-drone tech

Xi'an Lingkong Electronic Technology, a Chinese counter-drone systems developer, has raised 200 million yuan (about $29.7 million) in a Series E round. The funding values the company at 3 billion yuan. Investors include…

Supreme Group bets $25.8M on first US plant in North Carolina

India's Supreme Group will invest about $25.8 million to build its first US manufacturing facility, in Lexington, North Carolina. Through its subsidiary Supreme Nonwoven Inc, the company is setting up a…

Pixelgen closes $15.5M Series B to scale cell architecture platform

Stockholm-based Pixelgen Technologies has closed an oversubscribed $15.5 million (about SEK 150 million) Series B, announced in August 2026. New investor Flat Capital led the round, with existing backers Industrifonden…

Beijing Chaoweijing Biotechnology: Chery takes 10% stake in Nio energy unit

Chery has acquired a 10% stake in Weiju Technology, a Nio -controlled energy unit, paying 72.5 million yuan ($10.8 million), according to Chinese corporate records. Separately, fresh road-test images pointed to a…

Avalon Pharma renews SAR 50m Alinma Bank facility as profit climbs 26%

Avalon Pharma renewed its Sharia-compliant banking facility agreement with Alinma Bank on 19 August 2026 for SAR 50 million. The credit facility runs for one year, and the company issued a promissory note for the full…

South Korea's Jeonbuk launches its first venture fund, raising 100B won

South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups launched the Jeonbuk regional growth fund, a 100 billion won vehicle backing startups in Jeonbuk State. The ministry announced on 20 August 2026 that the fund had finished…

Nofar Energy to acquire 92.5% of Enlight Renewable Energy

Israeli renewable energy developer Nofar Energy has agreed to buy a 92.5% stake in Highlight Renewable Energy, valuing the transaction at about $67.7 million (€58.4 million). The purchase will run through Nofar's Israel…

Tempsens Instruments opens ₹650 crore IPO at 73% grey market premium

Tempsens Instruments opened its ₹650 crore (roughly $68 million) IPO for subscription on August 20, 2026. The book-built issue includes a ₹95 crore fresh issue and a ₹555 crore offer for sale from promoters and other…

Twiga Stationers & Printers acquired by Hemas Holdings

Hemas Holdings, through its subsidiary Atlas Axillia Pvt., acquired a 75% stake in Twiga Stationers & Printers, a Kenyan stationery manufacturer, for $16.2 million in August 2026.

Maybank completes Malaysia's first RM1M tokenised supply chain deal

Maybank has completed Malaysia's first tokenised supply chain financing transaction, worth RM1 million. The bank ran the pilot with Virtual Economy Technology Sdn Bhd, known as V Systems, using its NexA tokenisation…

ZeroStack swaps stock for $1B in MemeCore tokens, names Rong president

ZeroStack Corp. (Nasdaq: ZSTK) acquired roughly 925.9 million MemeCore tokens valued at about $1 billion, in exchange for 3.5 million common shares and pre-funded warrants covering up to 36.2 million more, according to…

Africa50's Infrastructure Acceleration Fund reaches $330M

Africa50 's Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF) has reached approximately $330 million in capital commitments after British International Investment committed $20 million as its latest limited partner.

Omie sets up R$75M credit fund, launches corporate card for SMEs

Omie, a Brazilian provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has structured a Credit Rights Investment Fund (FIDC) with an initial contribution of R$75…

Ukraine's Taimi and Hily target IPO while bootstrapped and profitable

Kyiv-founded dating apps Taimi and Hily are preparing to become IPO-ready, an unusual path for companies built without venture capital. Co-founder Jake Vygnan and his fellow founders have grown the business bootstrapped…

Innovex Downhole Solutions raises equity with 5M-share offering

Innovex Downhole Solutions completed a follow-on equity offering of 5,000,000 common shares in August 2026, adding capital as the energy services firm pivots toward higher-margin offshore and subsea work. The raise…

Anthro Energy breaks ground on $45M Kentucky factory to feed US battery supply chain

Anthro Energy broke ground Tuesday on a Louisville, Kentucky, factory that can produce enough electrolyte for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. The plant will make 25 gigawatt-hours' worth of electrolytes annually…

Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for $7.5B, months after $113M raise

Stripe said Wednesday it will acquire OpenRouter, a marketplace that lets developers route queries to hundreds of AI models through a single interface. Terms weren't disclosed, but The New York Times, citing a person…

Jacob Bank returns to Google to lead Chrome product

New role: Jacob Bank announced that he is rejoining Google as Vice President of Product for Google Chrome, alongside several former Relay.app colleagues.

TerraPower to break ground on first data centre nuclear project in 2027

TerraPower plans to announce its first data centre project this year, according to Bloomberg. The Bill Gates-founded startup expects to break ground in 2027 on what would be its second power plant, following its first,…

GPx anchors Silent Ventures’ $85M defense tech Fund II

Silent Ventures, the defence tech firm run by solo general partner Jackson Moses, closed an $85M second fund in 2026, Moses told Tectonic Defense. GPx — the specialist-VC-backing fund from Founders Fund partner emeritus…

Fiibo extends seed round to expand its health marketplace

Fiibo, a Brazilian health infrastructure company, has closed an extension to its Seed round. The undisclosed investment was led by Vox Capital and Criabiz Ventures, with participation from Headline, IKJ Capital and 040…

Jem raises $8.4M Series A to grow AI workforce platform across Africa

Jem, the WhatsApp-based workforce management platform for deskless teams, has raised $8.4 million (135 million ZAR) in a Series A round. Quona Capital led the round, with University Tech Fund, E4E, and angel investors…

Atera Energy enters Mexico with $350M renewable energy bet

Atera Energy, a Colombian renewable energy company, is entering Mexico with a $350 million investment. The move targets demand from steel and glass manufacturers, plus data centers riding the artificial intelligence…

Yellow raises Series C led by Convergence Partners

Convergence Partners has led a Series C funding round in Yellow, a fintech providing asset-backed credit for smartphones and off-grid solar products across sub-Saharan Africa. The amount was not disclosed.

Revmedx wins $11.42M APFIT grant for XSTAT P15

The XSTAT P15 applicator, a hemorrhage control device for narrow-entrance wounds, won funding on July 14, 2026 through the Pentagon's Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program.…

ExchangeRight fully subscribes $27M debt-free net-lease DST

ExchangeRight has fully subscribed its Net-Leased All-Cash 19 DST, a $26.95 million debt-free offering that gives 1031 exchange and cash investors access to net-leased real estate. The Pasadena, California-based firm…

Boosta spins out Rebels fund, backing product startups with $20M deployed

Ukrainian IT company Boosta has launched the Rebels Investment Fund, a dedicated vehicle for product IT companies. Its portfolio already holds 11 businesses, with over $20 million invested to date.

Cyfr Capital, Future Fund Oman back Sooq Cars in five-deal seed push

Muscat-based Cyfr Capital has completed a seed investment in vehicle-trading platform Sooq Cars, with Future Fund Oman (FFO) participating. It was one of five seed deals the firm closed through its Seed Fund alongside…

Also hits $1B valuation with $150M round to fund small-vehicle autonomy

Also, a Palo Alto micromobility startup, has raised a $150 million Series D led by Prysm Capital, with participation from Eclipse Ventures and Greenoaks Capital Partners. The round pushes the two-year-old company's…

Lattice buys performance startup Pando, names founder Gago as CMO

Lattice, the people management platform, has acquired Pando, a performance management startup, and appointed Pando founder and chief executive officer Barbra Gago as chief marketing and strategy officer. Terms were not…

Samsung to invest 240B won in Korean plant for AI data centre cooling

Samsung Electronics will invest about 240 billion won ($158 million) to build a new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) production line in Gwangju, Korea. The 21,800m² facility is set to begin production…

EIG's geothermal fund backs Power Planet in debut deal

EIG 's Geothermal Catalyst Partners fund has made its first investment, backing Power Planet, a US geothermal developer building enhanced geothermal system (EGS) projects. The capital supports Power Planet's lead…

Donut Lab acquires Nordic Nano Group as Siilasmaa steps back to observer role

Finnish battery startup Donut Lab has completed its acquisition of Nordic Nano Group, buying the company's entire share capital. The companies did not disclose the deal's value.

Saudi edtech AILA raises $3M pre-Series A led by Rua Growth Fund

Saudi edtech startup AILA has closed a $3 million pre-Series A round led by Rua Growth Fund. Jo Academy, Bunat VC, Fikr Ventures and other investors also participated.

SK Hynix unveils record $28.9B buyback after chip stock slides

SK Hynix, one of South Korea's leading chipmakers, said Wednesday it will buy back a record 40 trillion won ($28.9 billion) in shares to boost returns and support its stock after steep sector declines. The board…

UNC Health relaunches venture fund with $125M for healthcare startups

UNC Health has relaunched its venture capital fund with $125 million to invest in emerging healthcare companies. The new fund, UNC Health Ventures, succeeds Rex Health Ventures, which the nonprofit health system created…

Flash raises R$150M Series D

Flash, a Brazilian startup that manages corporate benefits, people, and expenses, has raised a R$150 million (about $28.8 million) Series D round. Battery Ventures and US investor Kevin Efrusy — an early Facebook backer…

Blue Cloud Softech joins India's NSE, adds second listing for AI conglomerate

Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Limited began trading on the Main Board of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) on Tuesday, 18 August 2026, under the symbol BLUECLOUDS. The Hyderabad-based AI-first technology…

Absa Group lifts Absa Kenya stake to 71.99% via tender offer

Absa Group is raising its stake in Absa Bank Kenya PLC to roughly 71.99% after accepting 189,380,644 ordinary shares in a tender offer that closed on August 11, 2026. The offer was priced at Ksh 34.50 per share and made…

Adinath Textiles IPO closes with 1.15x subscription

Adinath Textiles, a West Bengal-based garment manufacturer, closed its initial public offering on 19 August 2026 with an overall subscription of 1.15 times. Institutional buyers carried the book, subscribing 22.74…

AQR takes 4.7% stake in energy SPAC ahead of Hecate merger

AQR Capital Management bought 735,031 shares in EGH Acquisition Corp at $10.29 each on June 30, 2026, according to GuruFocus. The stake represents roughly 4.74% of EGH's outstanding stock.

Defense tech firm Lyntris prices IPO, to trade on NYSE as "LYNX"

Lyntris Inc. has priced its initial public offering of 17,000,000 shares of common stock, the defence technology company announced on 18 August 2026. The stock is expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange…

Pravaler raises R$770M in private credit to fund tuition for 50,000 students

Pravaler, a Brazilian student-credit specialist, has raised R$770 million (about $148 million) in lending capital to finance tuition for 50,000 students. The funds were raised through Receivables Investment Funds…

California Pintos acquired through Forest Holding Financeira

Brazil's central bank authorised Francine Prado Kallas to acquire California Pintos, a financial firm based in Piauí. The purchase was made through Forest Holding Financeira, and the process was signed in December 2024.

Kinematics buys RenuTrak to tap ageing solar tracker market

Kinematics, a Phoenix-based provider of motion control systems for solar, industrial, and satellite applications, has acquired solar tracker repowering specialist RenuTrak. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Nesnah Ventures acquires Lake Region Enterprises

Lake Region Enterprises, a Chippewa Falls manufacturer of custom trailers and truck equipment, has been acquired by Nesnah Ventures LLC. Financial terms were not announced.

Patria closes fourth VC fund at R$550M, targeting fintech and Latin America

Patria Investimentos has closed its fourth venture capital fund at more than R$550 million, aimed at technology and financial-services companies across Latin America. The fund is run by Patria High Growth, the union of…

Mariposa Dairy lands C$6.5M federal grant to expand amid US tariff threat

Ontario goat cheese producer Mariposa Dairy has secured a C$6.5 million repayable contribution from FedDev Ontario, the federal economic development agency for southern Ontario. The money supports a C$19.5 million…

Emzor Pharmaceutical lists N26.70bn bond for API plant

Emzor Pharmaceutical has listed a N26.70 billion (≈$19.8 million) five-year fixed-rate bond on FMDQ Exchange. The Series 1 bond, priced at 19%, falls under a wider N40 billion issuance programme and is Emzor's second…

Noggin HQ raises £2.3M seed to challenge UK credit bureaus with FCA licence

Newcastle-based fintech Noggin HQ has raised £2.3 million in an oversubscribed seed round and secured credit referencing authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority. The round was led by Blackfinch Ventures, with…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens amid lawsuits over child safety

OpenAI on August 18, 2026, launched ChatGPT for Teens, a mode with stronger safety protections and learning tools for users aged 13 to 17. It becomes the default for anyone who identifies as under 18 at signup, or whom…

Mercury launches two exclusive cash funds, deepening its $5.2B platform play

Business banking fintech Mercury launched two Mercury-only investment funds, partnering with Morgan Stanley Investment Management and State Street Investment Management. The funds let customers earn yield on idle cash…

Checkr acquires Truv to push into mortgage and government verification

Checkr has acquired Truv, a provider of consumer-permissioned income, employment, and asset verification. The purchase strengthens Checkr's mortgage business and marks its entry into government work through benefits…

Exploreminnesota launches 10,000 Stories Fund

Wave Digital Assets launches Wave Kentucky Whiskey 2020 Digital Fund

Wave Digital Assets received its first round of client investment for the Wave Kentucky Whiskey 2020 Digital Fund, an investment vehicle that tokenizes bourbon. The firm also purchased 1,000 barrels of Kentucky whiskey…

Chile's Lokal raises $700K seed to bring AI to corner-store sourcing

Lokal, a Chilean B2B marketplace founded in 2022, has raised a $700,000 seed round led by Invexor Venture Partners through its Discovery II fund. The deal leaves cofounders Nicolás Sarquis, Alberto Morelli, and Gabriel…

Skylabs joins KOSDAQ listing wave with ₩26B IPO

Digital healthcare company Skylabs is set to raise 26 billion won (about $18.4 million) in an initial public offering on Korea's KOSDAQ market. It is one of three companies listing in the third week of August, alongside…

ByteDance draws $30B in orders for record $20B loan

ByteDance sought $20 billion in offshore syndicated financing and drew more than $30 billion in orders, roughly 1.5x oversubscription. The debt facility, expected in August 2026, carries a three-year tenor extendable to…

China's Starlink rival Qianfan raises $1B — and bars all foreign capital

Qianfan, the operator of China's most ambitious satellite internet constellation, has raised 6,976,000,000 CNY ($1.035 billion) in a late-stage round led by Shanghai Alliance Investment, at a $7.41 billion valuation.…

ACT! wins $500K USDA grant to fund rural business lending in Georgia

Albany Community Together, Inc. (ACT!) has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Development to establish a revolving loan fund for small businesses across Southwest Georgia. The…

TruGolf to acquire tokenization firm Polymath in Nasdaq listing move

TruGolf Holdings, the Nasdaq-listed golf simulation company, will acquire Canadian tokenization firm Polymath in exchange for Class A common stock and non-voting Series C preferred stock. The companies signed the…

BioCurie lands $1M state-backed seed round for AI cell therapy platform

BioCurie raised $1 million in seed capital in August 2026 through Delaware's Accelerator & Seed Capital Program, part of the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI). The company is building an AI-driven digital…

Parachute launches $1.5M in-house venture arm

Veteran entrepreneur John Vance has launched Parachute, an advisory studio for frontier and emerging technology companies, alongside a $1.5 million in-house venture arm. The firm plans to deploy capital directly into…

Riven Systems raises $7.9M pre-seed to speed up minerals processing

Riven Systems, an NYC-based startup using AI and automated lab testing to improve minerals processing, has raised $7.9 million in pre-seed funding, the company tells Axios Pro.

Stigg buys Received.ai for usage-based billing

Stigg, a runtime platform that decides what customers, users, and AI agents can do when they try, has acquired billing-infrastructure startup Received.ai. The deal, announced August 18, 2026, folds contract-to-invoice…

FORT Robotics to go public via SPAC deal valuing it at $557M

FORT Robotics, a Philadelphia safety platform for robots, will go public by merging with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company. The combined entity — FORT Robotics Holdings — will…

Sunshine Pictures' Rs 282-crore IPO fully subscribed within 90 minutes

Sunshine Pictures, the film and television production house led by filmmaker Vipul Amrutlal Shah, saw its Rs 282-crore (roughly $29.5 million) IPO fully subscribed within 90 minutes of opening on August 18, 2026. The…

Dangote refinery raises $600M placement, sets up landmark IPO

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has completed a $600 million private placement, part of a $1 billion financing programme designed to pave the way for a public listing. Pan-African Refinery Investment SPV, a Lilium Capital…

Tanganda closes $8M rights offer, handing Innscor 27% control

Riyadh's Fahy Studios raises $1.75M to test if Saudi Arabia can build its own game hits

Fahy Studios, a Riyadh-based mobile game developer, has raised $1.75 million in a seed round led by Saudi firms Impact46 and Merak Capital. The two-year-old studio will use the funds to accelerate a pipeline of…

Guangdong Mingyang Electric backs Malaysian unit with $20M guarantee

Guangdong Mingyang Electric said on August 18, 2026, that it will provide a $20 million joint liability guarantee for its wholly owned Malaysian subsidiary, MY GLOBAL ELECTRICS SDN. BHD. The guarantee, equivalent to…

Indo-MIM stock trades 96% above IPO price after ₹5B listing

Shares of Indo-MIM, a Bengaluru-based precision engineering components maker, hit their 10% upper circuit at Rs 952.75 on Tuesday, roughly 96% above the stock's issue price. The company raised 5,000,000,000 INR (about…

Al Kuzama secures SAR 37M credit facility from SAIB

Al Kuzama Trading signed a SAR 37 million (approximately $9.9 million) Shariah-compliant credit facilities agreement with the Saudi Investment Bank (SAIB) on 17 August 2026. The five-year financing will support working…

Invesco opens ₹1,000-minimum pharma and healthcare fund on August 18

Invesco Mutual Fund has launched the Invesco India Pharma and Healthcare Fund, an open-ended equity scheme investing in pharmaceutical, healthcare, and allied companies. The new fund offer opens on August 18 and closes…

Craif raises ¥5.3B Series D to fund US pancreatic cancer push

Japanese biotech startup Craif has raised roughly ¥5.3 billion (about $33 million) in a Series D round. The global round included investors across Singapore, the US and Japan, alongside bank debt, and brings Craif's…

Kiara Health raises pre-seed for AI fertility platform

Kiara Health has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round from Coyote Ventures to advance its AI-powered personalised fertility care platform. The company was founded by Milan Chavarkar and Priyanka Vaidya.

Eventer closes C$2.48M placement, eyes Nasdaq listing

Eventer Technologies (TSXV: EVNT), an Israeli SaaS platform for managing and selling tickets to live events, has closed a non-brokered private placement, raising C$2,475,000. It sold 33,000,000 units at C$0.075 each,…

Compound bets $52M and three new leaders on an institutional pivot

Compound Finance's decentralised autonomous organisation approved a $52 million budget — its largest ever — and installed three new executives to court institutional money. It is the DeFi lending protocol's most…

Unitree's $900M IPO outshines Shein's $3B listing as AI hype grips China

Unitree Robotics, China's best-known humanoid robotics maker, is set to begin trading on Shanghai's STAR Market on August 19, raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) at a valuation near $9 billion. Days later,…

XCF Global Capital raises $3M in new capital

XCF Global has raised $3.0 million in new capital, according to its Q2 2026 10-Q filing. The renewable diesel and naphtha company remains in a development stage with minimal revenue and continues to fund operations…

Gary Hoffman to step down as Monzo chair

Monzo Bank chairman Gary Hoffman will step down from the role in September 2026, after nearly eight years leading the digital bank's board. Karen Peacock, a Monzo non-executive director who joined the board in 2025,…

Ninety One buys 5% of Rupert's Remgro as its assets jump to £171.8B

Ninety One, South Africa's largest private asset manager, has acquired a stake of more than 5% in Remgro, the diversified investment company controlled by billionaire Johann Rupert and his family. Remgro disclosed the…

Uber invests in Zipline to scale drone delivery on Uber Eats

Drone delivery startup Zipline has partnered with Uber to bring autonomous drone delivery to Uber Eats customers in the United States. Uber will also make a strategic investment in Zipline, but the amount was not…

Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to rebuild after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal

Groq, the AI inference chip startup once valued at $6.9 billion, has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation — roughly half its peak worth — in a round led by Dallas-based Disruptive and joined by Nvidia. The…

Nvidia to invest $1.5B in SB Energy for OpenAI data centre push

Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SoftBank -backed SB Energy, securing up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at an Ohio campus being built for OpenAI. The corporate round makes the chipmaker the lead backer of a…

Ever After Foods acquires Fishway

Ever After Foods has acquired Fishway, adding aquatic cell lines, animal-component-free media expertise and a scientific team to its industrial protein manufacturing platform. The companies said the transaction follows…

JEL Technology lists on Beijing exchange at 18.86 yuan per share

JEL Technology, a Chinese developer of radio-frequency smart chips, began trading today on the Beijing Stock Exchange under the code 920138. The company priced its IPO at 18.86 yuan per share, at a price-to-earnings…

Sony's entertainment pivot deepens as Spider-Man opens to $900M

Sony chief executive officer Hiroki Totoki is steering the company from consumer electronics toward entertainment, betting its future on music, movies and videogames. Since taking the top job last year, he has offloaded…

JLL Partners buys Munich's Life Couriers, installs new CEO to fuel expansion

JLL Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of Life Couriers, a Munich-headquartered healthcare logistics company. JLL bought the business from an affiliate of AUCTUS Capital…

Tax Star raises $1.75M seed to ride UAE's e-invoicing mandate

Tax Star, a UAE corporate tax software platform, has closed a $1.75 million seed round backed primarily by angel investors. The company is a pre-approved Accredited Service Provider (ASP) for the country's e-invoicing…

Western Union's Intermex takeover clears New York but hits California snag

Western Union and Intermex said Western Union's pending acquisition of Intermex has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services, while California's Department of Financial Protection and…

Terra Industries adds $18M in seed extension

Nigerian defence technology startup Terra Industries has raised an additional $18 million, extending its seed round for the second time in 2026. The latest raise brings its total funding to $51.7 million.

Infosys Innovation Fund backs Basel's Indivi in early VC round

Basel-based TechBio company Indivi has secured strategic investment from the Infosys Innovation Fund in an early-stage round announced in August 2026. The amount was not disclosed.

Basque government launches €50M fund for industrial SMEs, backs first company

The Basque government has launched Ezten II, a €50 million venture capital fund aimed at strengthening the size, competitiveness, and growth of small and medium-sized industrial companies. The fund targets unlisted…

Alibaba's Qwen hits 3B downloads, passing Meta and Google in open AI

Alibaba 's open-weight Qwen models have topped 3 billion global downloads over the past six months, overtaking Meta, Google and domestic rivals to become the world's most-downloaded AI model family.

SpaceX closes Cursor acquisition, adding AI coding to its stack

SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of Cursor, the AI-powered coding tool, the company confirmed. The move brings Cursor's software-development technology in-house at Elon Musk's rocket and satellite firm.

Alibaba sells gaming arm to Trustar Capital for $1.5B in AI pivot

Alibaba is selling its gaming arm, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital in a deal worth at least $1.5 billion, according to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. The transaction may value…

Ingenic launches Hong Kong IPO to raise up to HK$3.21B

Ingenic, a China-based fabless semiconductor company, has launched its Hong Kong IPO, targeting up to HK$3.21 billion (roughly $409 million). It is offering 31.3 million H-shares at up to HK$102.80 each, split between a…

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.7 Flash and SL2T

In posts on 13 August 2026, Demis Hassabis highlighted two new Google DeepMind launches. Gemini 3.7 Flash was presented as an upgrade for software engineering, web development and knowledge work, with an introductory…

Korea Eximbank hands Glencore $1B to secure copper supply

The Export-Import Bank of Korea is providing $1 billion in debt financing to Glencore, announced on 17 August 2026. The funds will support Glencore's general working capital, while Glencore will commit to stable copper…

Pinnacle Capital launches new Saudi technology investment fund

Pinnacle Capital has launched a new fund focused on venture growth investing and secondary transactions in Saudi Arabia. It aims to open access to a group of promising Saudi companies while boosting liquidity across the…

Qassim Cement signs SAR 400M loan with SIDF to fund new production line

Qassim Cement Company signed a SAR 400 million ($106.7 million) financing agreement with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF), according to a Tadawul statement. The post-IPO debt deal carries a nine-year tenor,…