China's Stairmed raises $210M for brain-computer implants, ranking in the 99th percentile
Stairmed Technology, a Shanghai-based maker of implantable brain-computer interfaces, has raised about US$192.5M in a late-stage round. Investors include Tencent, Alibaba, Geely Capital, CATL, OrbiMed, Qiming Venture…
Salesforce buys defense firm Rune to grow $5.6B military arm
Salesforce agreed on October 29 to acquire Rune Technologies, a defense software startup, to expand its Missionforce business serving the US military and government agencies. Terms were not disclosed. The deal is…
Jaan Tallinn's angel investments, from DeepMind to Anthropic
Jaan Tallinn led Anthropic's first round in 2021; Anthropic filed to go public on 26 October 2026. Two charts: the six unicorns among the 44 companies in his angel portfolio, and how he ranks among 619 of the most…
Pinterest Q3 revenue climbs 12% to $1.17B as ad growth cools
Pinterest reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $1,174 million, up 12% year over year, with global monthly active users reaching a record 661 million. But GAAP net income fell 77% to $21.515 million, and diluted…
UK chipmaker Fractile raises £577.4m Series C to challenge Nvidia
UK semiconductor startup Fractile has raised about £577.4m in Series C funding, based on Companies House share allotments filed for September–October 2026. The round has not been formally announced by the company;…
Canada takes a stake in Cohere's record US$5.13B round, led by Lidl owner Schwarz
Toronto-based Cohere has announced the initial close of a Series E round targeting up to US$5.13B, which would value it at US$26.2B. Germany's Schwarz Group, the owner of Lidl and Kaufland, leads the round. New backers…
Harvey snaps up Aida in its fifth acquisition of 2026
Legal AI company Harvey has acquired Aida, an AI-native sales execution platform, for an undisclosed sum. It is Harvey's fifth acquisition of 2026, following purchases of Guardails in September and Benchmark in July.
Replika creator's Wabi raises $55M at $1.25B to build AI for groups
Wabi, a San Francisco personal AI startup founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, has raised $55 million in an early-stage round at a $1.25 billion valuation. IVP led, with Andreessen Horowitz, Forerunner, Amazon's…
Serval raises $150M Series C at $3B valuation to automate office tasks
Serval has raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the San Francisco startup at $3 billion. First Round, General Catalyst, Redpoint, and Conviction also joined. The two-year-old company builds AI…
Deepgram buys Pipecat-maker Daily to own more of the voice AI stack
Deepgram has acquired Daily, the company behind Pipecat, one of the most popular open-source frameworks for building voice AI agents. The price was undisclosed. Both companies committed to keeping Pipecat free and…
TPG raises $5B to buy real estate from squeezed owners
TPG has raised roughly $5 billion for its TPG Real Estate Fund, a private equity vehicle aimed at buying property from owners squeezed by rising refinancing costs. The firm plans to use the capital to acquire assets…
10Beauty buys Nimble to lead the robotic manicure market
10Beauty has acquired Nimble, a rival robotics venture in nail care, folding in its technology and much of its executive leadership. The deal value was undisclosed. Nimble adds 47 granted patents and a customer base…
Anthropic files for an IPO
Five charts on Anthropic’s IPO filing of 26 October 2026: its valuation from an $845M Series A in 2021 to a reported $1.5T–$2T target, quarterly revenue and operating results from the S-1, the second quarter of 2026…
India's NSE lists in $2.37B IPO, the country's second-largest ever
The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) completed its initial public offering, raising US$3.06B (roughly $2.37 billion), making it the country's second-largest IPO on record. Law firm Khaitan & Co advised the…
Neuron Industries raises $10M to replace factory controllers with AI
Neuron Industries, a Los Angeles-based industrial hardware and software startup, has raised a $10 million seed round co-led by FCVC and Obvious Ventures. Y Combinator, Thin Line Capital, Zee Prime Capital, and Founder…
Waymo pioneer Thrun's hardware-design startup Dulo raises $130M seed
Dulo, an AI engineering startup co-founded by Sebastian Thrun, has raised a $130 million seed round. Thrun, the computer scientist who pioneered several AI projects at Google, started the San Francisco company this year…
Ares draws $8B for first close of flagship credit fund, eyeing up to $12B
Ares Management has drawn $8 billion in commitments for the first close of its latest flagship direct lending fund. The firm is targeting $10 billion to $12 billion in equity commitments, or roughly $20 billion once…
NVIDIA's Jensen Huang names Armenia's Firebird among top AI neoclouds in Berlin
NVIDIA founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang named Armenia's Firebird in the "Neoclouds" section of his keynote at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Berlin. He described it as a company building a new…
Pixel Systems raises €2.7M to detect AI-faked images and documents
Swedish startup Pixel Systems has raised €2.7 million ($3 million) in a Seed round led by Unconventional Ventures, at a pre-money valuation of about €18 million. Founded in Stockholm in 2026, the company builds…
RedBird and Sound Ventures pledge $1B for tech, media and culture bets
RedBird Capital Partners and Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures have teamed up to invest up to $1 billion in "emerging platforms at the convergence of technology, media and culture," the firms announced on October 29. Gerry…
Nightfood pivots to AI chip inspection, eyes up to $2.25M in monthly sales
Nightfood Holdings (OTCQB: NGTFD), now operating as TechForce Robotics, has acquired technology, designs, and know-how for automated optical inspection (AOI) machines used in CoWoS advanced semiconductor packaging. The…
Intel buys Classiq for a reported $2.3B
Five charts on Intel’s agreed purchase of Classiq, announced 26 October 2026: Classiq’s valuation and funding rounds, who backed it round by round, the largest exits of quantum computing companies, Intel’s largest…
Negroni nears $1B in loans under management after funding round
Australian loan management platform Negroni Software has closed a funding round cornerstoned by KeyPay co-founder Phil Bernie, with fellow KeyPay co-founder Kristian Reynolds also taking part. The company said it is…
Korea's Lotus Material raises $1.5M for power-chip bonding material
Lotus Material Research Institute, a startup spun out of Inha University, has raised US$1.68M in an early-stage round. The money came from two funds managed by Vine Ventures.
Korean drone maker Freeinu lands $14M Series D, eyes 2027 IPO
Freeinu, a South Korean drone design and manufacturing company, has raised a US$13.9M Series D round. IBK Industrial Bank of Korea led, joined by Korea Investment & Securities, Newmain Capital, MVG Investment, IBK…
Gigabyte locks in $1.53B loan to stockpile AI server parts early
Gigabyte 's board has approved a US$1.45B five-year syndicated loan to repay existing borrowings and fund next year's AI server component purchases ahead of schedule. Bank of Taiwan, Mega Bank, Hua Nan Bank, and Cathay…
Sun Paper's Q3 profit jumps 34.89% as it bets $5.6B on pulp, packaging
Sun Paper (002078) reported Q3 net profit of US$133.5M, up 34.89% year on year, while approving two investment plans worth a combined US$550M at a single board meeting on October 28. Third-quarter revenue reached…
Invex raises $632K in first tranche of US$6.47M Rekover deal
Invex Therapeutics has raised US$582.4K (roughly $632,000) in a post-IPO equity placement, issuing 11,250,000 shares at US$0.05 each to sophisticated and professional investors. The Perth-based biopharmaceutical firm…
Osaka's Kacoms acquires AI-skills startup ERAS to deepen DX push
Kacoms, an Osaka-based IT services company, has acquired 100% of ERAS, a Tokyo startup specialising in AI talent training and AI implementation. The deal, announced in October 2026, brings ERAS into the Kacoms group.…
Orient Securities clears key hurdle in $3.8B Shanghai Securities takeover
China's Orient Securities won approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange's merger and restructuring review committee on October 29 for its acquisition of 100% of Shanghai Securities, valued at US$3.45B. The committee…
Aspen Neuroscience raises $141M in Nasdaq IPO for Parkinson's cell therapy
Aspen Neuroscience, a San Diego clinical-stage biotech developing autologous cell therapies for Parkinson's disease, priced its initial public offering at $15 per share, raising roughly $140.6 million before expenses.…
Chip startup Denglin launches Hong Kong IPO at up to US$34.8 a share
Suzhou Denglin Technology, a Chinese designer of AI chips, opened its Hong Kong IPO, offering 6.125 million H shares at up to US$34.8 each. The order book runs from October 30 to November 5, with the stock set to list…
Luxury leather maker buys collapsed haulier Telford Transport for £320,000
Lloyd Baker Leather has bought Telford Transport Solutions (TTS) for £320,000 in a pre-pack administration deal, rebranding the business as Lloyd Baker Logistics. The buyer, part of the Lloyd Baker Group, is a UK maker…
Firstwave raises $745K placement to shore up near-empty cash buffer
Firstwave Cloud Technology (ASX: FCT), an Australian cybersecurity and network management company, raised US$685.9K through a post-IPO share placement completed in early October. The capital restored a funding runway…
Shinhan launches $350M renewable funds, including Korea's first for resident profit-sharing
Shinhan Asset Management has launched two energy infrastructure blind funds worth a combined US$419.2M. One of them, the Shinhan Resident Profit-Sharing Private Special Asset Investment Trust No. 1, is what the firm…
AirMembrane raises $5.39M to mass-produce graphene chip pellicles
AirMembrane, a Tsukuba-based maker of graphene EUV pellicles, has raised US$6.54M in a round led by Global Brain. The Tokyo venture firm invested through its Global Brain Flagship Fund IX, with the TAKANAWA GATEWAY…
Stablecoin treasury firm SDEV raises $45.9M via ATM after $50.4M SKY-driven quarter
Stablecoin Development Corporation (NYSE American: SDEV) raised approximately $45.9 million in net proceeds through a post-IPO equity sale under its at-the-market program, the company disclosed on October 29, 2026. It…
Cognition buys code-security startup Corridor to harden Devin
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, is acquiring Corridor, a startup that secures code written by AI agents. Terms were not disclosed. Corridor's team and product fold into Devin Security.
Shaw Gibbs buys travel-sector specialist WhiteHart to deepen niche advisory
Shaw Gibbs, a top 35 UK accountancy, tax and business advisory group, has acquired Richmond-based White Hart Associates, a specialist firm serving the travel sector. The price was not disclosed. WhiteHart will keep its…
Bambusa raises $169M in Nasdaq debut, riding biotech IPO rebound
Bambusa Therapeutics, a Boston-based clinical-stage biotech focused on dermatology and autoimmune diseases, raised $168.9 million in an upsized US initial public offering. It sold 10.556 million shares at $16 each — the…
Explorer Talonx raises $545K to drill Botswana copper, WA gold
ASX-listed explorer Talonx Resources has secured firm commitments for an US$501.5K placement to fund copper exploration at its Kihabe project in Botswana and further gold drilling at its Viking project in Western…
Finfra lands Series A extension as NextFin Asia's first investment
Indonesian lending-as-a-service platform Finfra has raised a Series A extension led by ADB Ventures, the venture arm of the Asian Development Bank, alongside existing backers Cento Ventures and Accion Ventures. It is…
Dotz Nano raises US$1.29M, signs term sheet for $1M solar software deal
Dotz Nano (ASX: DTZ) has secured US$1.29M in a share placement and signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire the DeepSolar /GridFeed software platform from Nasdaq-listed PRF Technologies for US$1 million. The deal…
PAG to buy control of Evergrande Property Services in $514M deal
Everest Holdings I Limited has agreed to buy about 5.52 billion shares — a 51.016% stake — in Evergrande Property Services Group for roughly US$487.1M, or US$0.1 per share. The transaction, still subject to conditions,…
Neoen lands $1.26B refinancing for Australian renewables portfolio
Neoen has raised an US$1.16B debt facility to refinance a 1.2GW portfolio of Australian wind, solar, and storage assets. It is the company's largest financing to date.
Korea's NanoForge AI raises $10.9M seed to automate materials discovery
NanoForge AI, a South Korean startup using AI to design new materials, has raised a US$12.2M (roughly $10.9 million) seed round, it said on October 30. Mirae Asset Venture Investment led, with existing backers…
Texas Community Bancshares to buy Bank of San Jacinto County for $9.5M
Texas Community Bancshares, the Mineola-based holding company for Broadstreet Bank, has agreed to acquire The Banc of San Jacinto County Bancshares in an all-cash deal worth $9.5 million. The target owns The Bank of San…
Golden Goose closes $739K first tranche to fund Argentina exploration
Golden Goose Resources (CSE: GGR) has closed the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement, raising US$757.5K through the issuance of 10,330,000 units. Each unit includes one common share and half a warrant…
Octoco Group takes stake in SA rail-monitoring startup HisWay Labs
Technology investment and product development firm Octoco Group has acquired an undisclosed strategic equity stake in HisWay Labs, the Cape Town startup behind the TrackView rail-integrity monitoring system. The deal,…
Franklin Templeton cedes control of AdvisorEngine to ex-InvestCloud founders
Franklin Templeton is selling a majority stake in wealth-tech firm AdvisorEngine to Just Build It, keeping a minority stake, Citywire reported on October 28. Terms were not disclosed. AdvisorEngine founder and CEO Rich…
T3 Defense raises $10M in second tranche of convertible preferred sale
T3 Defense, a Nasdaq-listed company (DFNS), closed a $10 million private placement of Series B convertible preferred stock to a single accredited investor on October 22, 2026. It sold 200 units at $50,000 each, with…
Mondelēz buys into gluten-free snack maker Undercover in health push
Mondelēz International said on October 29 it will acquire a majority stake in Undercover Snacks, a gluten-free quinoa-crisp brand, expanding the "better-for-you" part of its portfolio. Terms were undisclosed. The parent…
Skincare brand GoPure lands debt facility backing its Amazon and TikTok inventory
GoPure, a Los Angeles-based skin and body care brand, has closed a multi-million-dollar revolving credit facility led by Assembled Brands, a specialty asset-based lender to consumer products companies. The facility…
Azerbaijan's ABB Bank returns with $8.82M bond sale months after last raise
International Bank of Azerbaijan, which trades as ABB Bank, has launched its eighth and ninth bond issues, together worth AZN 15 million (roughly $8.82 million). The two tranches are interest-bearing, unsecured bonds…
Coveo buys YC-backed Anglera to feed product data to AI shopping assistants
Coveo, a Montreal-based AI search company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has acquired Anglera, a San Francisco startup that enriches product data for e-commerce catalogs. Terms were not disclosed. The deal,…
Eversource places $100M in bonds, part of a utility financing streak
Eversource has raised $100 million through a post-IPO debt placement, selling 5.17% first-mortgage bonds due 2034. The offering was arranged as a private placement with initial purchasers.
Columbus waffle maker Superb Bakehouse lands $140K from Ohio State network
Superb Bakehouse, a Columbus-based gluten-free waffle brand, has raised $140,000 in an early-stage round led by the Ohio State Early Investor Network. The group, a syndicate of university-connected investors, disclosed…
Oak Hill buys majority stake in Carlyle's fiber platform Wyyerd
Oak Hill Capital has agreed to acquire a majority stake in broadband provider Wyyerd Group from The Carlyle Group, the firms said on October 29, 2026. Oak Hill will pay cash, with Carlyle retaining a minority interest.…
African Frontier Capital lands $125M to fund African e-mobility and solar through debt
African Frontier Capital has secured up to $125 million in lending capital for a securitisation warehouse facility targeting distributed renewable energy, electric mobility, and productive-use equipment across…
Ex-DOJ antitrust chiefs raise $6.4M seed for litigation startup FluxCap
Two former US Justice Department antitrust leaders, Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki, launched FluxCap on October 28 with $6.4 million in seed funding. The platform uses artificial intelligence to help lawyers handle…
Longevity startup Vesalius goes public via reverse takeover in Vancouver
Vesalius Longevity Labs has completed its reverse takeover of Sweet Earth Holdings Corporation, creating a single public company that will trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the ticker "VLAB". The…
Baltimore buys 3.75% of a local watchmaker for $275K
The Baltimore Development Corp. (BDC), the city's quasi-governmental economic development arm, invested $275,000 in the Baltimore Watch Company, a small Hampden-based watchmaker formerly known as Tsao Baltimore. The sum…
Morocco's ABA Life lands $40M from Admaius to chase unicorn status
Morocco-based healthtech firm ABA Life has signed a $40 million late-stage investment agreement with pan-African private equity firm Admaius Capital Partners. The deal — equivalent to 400 million dirhams — is subject to…
Foundry Robotics raises $100M, buys Avea to build adaptive factory robots
Foundry Robotics has raised a $100 million Series A and acquired Avea Robotics, a software company whose Sentinel platform enables real-time remote control of robots. The Emeryville, California startup is an AI-first…
Boralex buys UK's Wind2, adding 350 MW to its renewables pipeline
Boralex has acquired Wind2, a UK-based renewable energy developer behind roughly 350 MW of well-advanced wind projects across Scotland, England, and Wales. The deal, announced in October, also brings over Wind2's teams…
StimCardio raises $30M to take atrial fibrillation treatment out of the hospital
StimCardio, a Los Angeles clinical-stage medical device company, has closed an oversubscribed $30 million Series A led by Metis Medtech, the family office of John Slump, with participation from Catalyst Health Ventures,…
NYSE owner ICE takes stake in Trade.xyz to bring Hyperliquid perps to US
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, is taking a minority stake in Trade.xyz and plans to launch a US-regulated venue for perpetual futures on crypto and stocks. The platform would run…
Ringmetall buys US bag-in-box maker Rapak in its fourth deal of 2026
Germany's Ringmetall SE has agreed to acquire 100% of Rapak, LLC, an Indianapolis- and Woodridge-based maker of bag-in-box packaging and filling systems for food, beverages, and industrial liquids. The purchase price…
Telford's Lapis Home buys loft storage brand LoftZone after seven-year tie-up
Telford-based Lapis Home has completed the full acquisition of loft storage specialist LoftZone, ending a seven-year partnership. Lapis first took a stake in LoftZone in 2019, and the deal value was undisclosed.
NX Filtration launches €20M share sale to chase EBITDA break-even
Dutch water-tech firm NX Filtration on October 29, 2026 launched an equity offering of up to about €20 million (≈$22 million) in new ordinary shares. The majority of the order book is already pre-committed by existing…
Portugal's Grupo PDM buys 20-year-old IT firm ITPEERS
Grupo PDM has acquired ITPEERS, a technology company based in Maia, Portugal. The deal value was not disclosed. ITPEERS now folds into the group's corporate structure, bringing its team, client base, and expertise.
Expleo extends senior debt to 2030 after portfolio overhaul
Expleo, a global engineering, technology, and consulting services provider, said on October 29, 2026, that it had completed targeted portfolio divestments and extended its senior debt maturities. Its amend-and-extend…
Spain's Talky raises €1.5M pre-seed to automate accounting
Madrid-based startup Talky has raised a €1.5 million pre-seed round to build AI that automates corporate accounting and operational finance. Venture funds HelloWorld, Silence VC, and Motive Force took part, alongside…
IDB Invest leads $100M loan to expand AES Argentina wind complex
IDB Invest has arranged a US$100 million A/B loan for Vientos Bonaerenses S.A., an AES Argentina company, to fund the expansion of its wind farm in Buenos Aires Province. The financing splits into a US$20 million…
Strategic Value Partners backs NewEdge Power, launches 1.2 GW battery storage venture
NewEdge Power, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based utility-scale and distributed power developer, has raised an undisclosed round led by Strategic Value Partners (SVP). SJF Ventures, Segue Sustainable Infrastructure, and…
Xsolla buys GamePix to build a web and AI game platform
Xsolla, a global commerce company, has acquired GamePix, the web games platform that publishes and distributes browser games worldwide. Terms were not disclosed. The deal pairs GamePix's catalog of more than 10,000 web…
JLL buys London retail adviser KLM to bolster UK leasing arm
JLL has acquired KLM Real Estate, a London-based boutique retail property advisory firm, for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings 17 KLM staff into JLL's UK Leasing Advisory business under Paul Marshall, head of UK…
Veriv adds Rockmont Partners, Confirmation.com founders to board in financial-verification push
Chicago-based Veriv has secured an investment from Rockmont Partners and appointed financial technology executives Brian Fox and Christopher Schellhorn to its board. Fox, who founded electronic audit confirmation…
ReMo Homes lands $2.15M California grant for factory-built housing
ReMo Homes has won a $2.15 million planning grant from the California Strategic Growth Council to speed factory-built housing delivery in Los Angeles County. The money targets permitting, financing, and workforce…
Playa Rent raises €800,000 to scale self-service water sports stations
Playa Rent, a Pornic-based startup, has raised €800,000 ($891,365) in an early-stage round to accelerate the rollout of its self-service water sports equipment rental stations. The company plans to strengthen its…
Speyside buys Pennsylvania steel tubing maker Tapco Tube
Detroit-based private equity firm Speyside Equity has acquired The Tapco Tube Company, a Midwest manufacturer of steel tubing and building products. Terms were not disclosed. The deal closed in October 2026.
ACORE closes second opportunistic credit fund at $1.1B, above target
ACORE Capital has closed ACORE Opportunistic Credit II (AOC II) with $1.1 billion in commitments, exceeding its $1 billion target. The New York-based commercial real estate investment manager raised from a diverse group…
EU backs €4.2M project to build AI research hubs across Eastern Partnership
A Horizon Europe project called "Widening AI Research and Innovation for Excellence in the Eastern Partnership" (WARIE) launched in Yerevan on October 22. The €4.2 million, four-year project will build interdisciplinary…
Swiss Prime Site buys full control of FlexOffice to bet on managed offices
Swiss Prime Site is acquiring the German-Swiss managed-office provider FlexOffice outright, lifting its stake from 33% to 100%. The deal value was not disclosed. The company expects to close the transaction in the…
Freedom Holding lands $1.16B bond deal to fund Kazakhstan AI build-out
Freedom Holding has agreed to issue up to $1.16 billion in five-year bonds to Kokzhiyek Fund LP, a state-affiliated investor in Kazakhstan. The bonds carry a 7.8% annual coupon and will be listed on the Astana…
Afentra clears Angola approval for $15.2M Etu offshore stake deal
Afentra has received the executive decree from Angola's Ministry of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas for Block 3/05A, removing the last regulatory hurdle for its acquisition of additional interests from Etu…
Athlete-backed Skoka raises $21.5M to fund FDA push for nicotine pouches
Skoka, a nicotine pouch startup, has raised $21.5 million and submitted a bundled Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) to the US Food and Drug Administration covering 55 products across 11 varieties and five…
Collective lands $100M to automate the finances of one-person businesses
Collective, a San Francisco startup that handles the finances of one-person businesses, has raised $100 million. The package splits into a $40 million Series B and a $60 million customer-acquisition facility from…
Wrapped Health raises $2.1M to turn doctor advice into one-tap orders
Wrapped Health has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding, the digital health startup announced on October 29. The round was co-led by Lightbank and Arteria Capital, the healthcare AI fund founded by former Headspace…
NexGen Cloud secures $106M GPU-backed loan to fund Finland capacity
NexGen Cloud, a European AI cloud provider, has closed a $106 million senior secured term loan led by USD.AI, with Silver Point Capital and Victory Park Capital participating as lenders. The four-year facility finances…
ACC's venture arm backs GenServe.AI's bet on autonomous AI for heart care
Cardiovascular Innovation Ventures, the investment arm of the American College of Cardiology, has invested in GenServe.AI, a physician-led healthcare AI company building what it calls an operating system for autonomous…
GoSun opens sixth crowdfunding round, eyeing a $3.74M raise after EV tractor debut
GoSun, a Cincinnati-based solar EV startup, has opened its 2026 Regulation Crowdfunding round through StartEngine, its sixth such offering since 2017. The company filed its Form C with the SEC on September 30, 2026,…
KPN buys Dutch communications software maker Xelion
KPN has acquired Xelion, a Delft-based company that builds software for business communication. Xelion joins KPN's SME business division and will stay active as a standalone unit from Delft. Financial terms were not…
OpenWorld raises $3.5M in registered direct offering after Nasdaq relaunch
OpenWorld, a company building infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets, has agreed to sell 2,517,985 shares of common stock to a single institutional investor at $1.39 each, raising roughly $3.5 million in gross…
NIIT buys US HCM learning firm Bluewater for up to $17.6M
NIIT Learning Systems has acquired 100% of Bluewater Learning, a Plano, Texas-based Human Capital Management (HCM) learning technology firm, for up to $17.6 million. The deal, completed through US subsidiary NIIT (USA),…
Penn State's Nittany Angels backs eye-care startup in first $500K deal
Nittany Angels, an investment network connecting Penn State alumni with early-stage companies, has committed $500,000 to BioLattice Ophthalmics in its first-ever investment. The seed round also drew biosei labs and…
PhotonPay lands $40M Series C for stablecoin payments push
PhotonPay, a Hong Kong fintech building a stablecoin-centric financial operating system, has raised $40 million in a Series C round led by Blockchain Capital. New investor SBI Group joined alongside follow-on backers…
ShareWillow raises $8.5M to tie trades pay to performance
ShareWillow has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to help home-service contractors design and manage incentive pay for technicians, founder Ryan Shank told Axios Pro. The round ranks above the 96th percentile for…
Optimist eyes FY29 profit after $12M raise, targets US$54.3M scale
Indian air-conditioning startup Optimist is targeting profitability in FY29 after raising $12 million, founder Ashish Goel said in Bengaluru on Thursday. The company believes its existing capital is enough to scale to a…
H2O America launches $325M equity-unit offering to fund debt and growth
H2O America (NASDAQ: HTO) has commenced a $325 million underwritten public offering of 6.5 million equity units, the San Jose-based water utility said on October 29. Each $50 unit pairs a future common-stock purchase…
Group14 adds €150M to Series D, will build silicon-anode plant in Spain
Group14 Technologies has closed a €150 million (~$167 million) Series D equity extension and committed to building its next industrial-scale manufacturing module in Sagunto, Spain. The silicon battery materials maker…
Third Space buys live-event drape leader Quest in consolidation push
Private equity firm Third Space Partners has acquired Quest Events, the US national leader in drape and modular scenic solutions for live events. Terms were not disclosed. Quest's management team, led by founder and…
Verisma secures Golub Capital debt to fund M&A and tech push
Verisma, a health information lifecycle management (HILM) company, has closed new senior-secured financing from Golub Capital. The debt package includes a delayed-draw term loan facility and will fund technology…
Anlon's board clears US$34M warrant issue to four investors
Anlon Healthcare's board approved raising up to US$34M through convertible warrants, a post-IPO convertible issue announced in October. The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) maker will allot warrants with a US$0.03…
Bites raises $40M to turn frontline training into measurable performance
Israeli startup Bites has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by PeakSpan Capital, bringing its total funding to $55 million. Existing investors Vertex Ventures, Horizon Capital, Rittenhouse Ventures, and Lyra…
Opentrons raises $40M to scale lab robotics as automation race heats up
Lab automation company Opentrons Labworks has raised a $40 million Series E, chief executive officer James Atwood told Axios Pro. The money will fund the company's robotics, software, and data infrastructure offerings.
AdvanSix lands $47.4M USDA grant to expand Virginia ammonia production
AdvanSix (NYSE: ASIX) has been selected for $47.4 million in proposed funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand ammonia manufacturing at its Hopewell, Virginia plant. The money supports Project CENTURY,…
Blue Laser Fusion raises $34M, goes public via reverse merger
Blue Laser Fusion has closed a $34 million private placement and become a public company through a reverse merger with Unite Acquisition 2 Corp. The California startup develops high-power pulsed laser technology for…
Dutch firm HC Partners doubles up with €100M hard-cap close on third fund
Dutch private equity firm HC Partners has closed its third flagship fund at its €100m hard cap, nearly double the size of its predecessor. The vehicle is a private equity fund, and the close follows two recent sponsor…
Thrive Capital's AI holding company takes ADT private in $15.3B deal
Thrive Holdings, the permanent-capital arm set up last year by Joshua Kushner's venture firm Thrive Capital, has agreed to buy US home-security company ADT in an all-cash deal that values it at about $7.6 billion in…
EIB puts up $90M for Egypt’s Dandara solar-and-battery project
The European Investment Bank, through EIB Global, is lending up to $90 million for the first phase of the Dandara solar and battery project in Egypt’s Qena Governorate. The loan, guaranteed by the EU’s European Fund for…
Rainier Partners buys Texas auto-insurance platform Apex, eyes consolidation
Seattle-based private equity firm Rainier Partners has acquired Apex Insurance Services, a Texas managing general agency (MGA) platform focused on the state's nonstandard auto insurance market. Terms were not disclosed.…
DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17B in grocery delivery bet
DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for $65.00 per share, an equity value of about $17 billion, the companies said on October 29. The consideration is at least 75% cash, with Instacart stockholders able to elect…
Kenafric launches $10M fund to scale Africa's consumer startups
Kenafric Group, the Kenyan consumer goods company, has launched Kenafric Ventures, a $10 million corporate venture fund for African consumer businesses. It will write cheques of $100,000 to $2 million for early-stage…
China Properties Investment raises $1.28M to pay down debt
China Properties Investment Holdings has raised net proceeds of about US$1.21M (≈$1.28 million) through a post-IPO equity subscription, issuing 53,433,000 new shares at US$0.02 each to seven public subscribers. The…
GSMA lands $1.2M NOAA grant to put emergency alerts on Pacific phones
The GSMA has secured a US$1.2 million subaward from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to strengthen mobile-enabled early warning systems across nine Pacific island countries. The money will…
Jalisco launches Circuito 14 to build Mexico's semiconductor supplier base
Jalisco's Secretariat of Economic Development (Sedeco) has launched Circuito 14, a program to develop local suppliers for the semiconductor industry. It selected 17 projects to receive training, business support, and…
Ex-8200 chief Schneorson joins stealth cyber startup Ribon, valued above $1.5B
Ehud Schneorson, co-founder of Israeli cyber firm Paragon and a former commander of the IDF's intelligence Unit 8200, is stepping down from his management role to join Ribon, a stealth startup founded by his former…
Core AI raises $800K in one of Uzbekistan's larger startup rounds
Core AI, an Uzbek startup, has raised $800,000 from Yoshlar Ventures, Aloqa Ventures, SQB Ventures, and angel investors. The round was announced in October 2026, following the startup's participation in the second…
Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust backs new Indian PE firm targeting $315M fund
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank has acquired a minority stake in One Planet Partners, an India-focused private equity firm, and committed to anchor its first fund. The fund targets US$407.4M and aims for a first close by…
Techstars and Hub71 back Abu Dhabi startups with $120K each
Techstars and Abu Dhabi tech hub Hub71 have launched an accelerator offering accepted global startups up to $120,000 in initial investment. Participants also receive mentorship, access to corporate partners and regional…
Dubai proptech Silkhaus to wind down UAE rentals after $10M+ raised
Silkhaus, the Dubai-based proptech startup known for short-term rentals, is reportedly winding down its UAE holiday-home business, with operations ending on November 11. The company has not publicly confirmed the…
Lengow buys Daily&CO to manage marketplace sales end to end
Lengow, a French e-commerce automation platform, has acquired Lisbon-based Daily&CO, a specialist in marketplace integration and distribution software. The companies did not disclose the terms. The deal consolidates a…
BII commits $7M to Okra Solar to scale mesh-grids in Nigeria
British International Investment (BII), the UK's development finance institution, has committed a $7 million debt facility to Okra Solar, an Australian-founded provider of mesh-grid technology. The financing, announced…
Quantum Italia backs post-quantum startup Promethence with €200,000
Quantum Italia has invested €200,000 in Promethence, a Milan-based startup building hardware and software for post-quantum cryptography. Founded in 2025 by professors and researchers from the Polytechnic University of…
Henan state capital takes 52% control of foil maker Guorong
Henan Xingxing Industrial Investment, part of state-owned Henan Capital Group, has bought a 52.10% stake in Henan Guorong Electronic Technology, making it the controlling shareholder. The transfer, announced October 29,…
Harbour Digital Asset Capital completes $9.5M rights issue
Harbour Digital Asset Capital, a Hong Kong-listed investment company, has completed a rights issue that raised gross proceeds of about US$9.01M (roughly $9.5 million). The three-for-two offer priced new shares at…
EIB and Dashen Bank to unlock $22M each for Ethiopian agribusiness
EIB Global will lend €20 million to Ethiopia's Dashen Bank, which will match the sum to make €40 million available to small and medium-sized enterprises. At least 70% of the money targets agriculture — coffee, pulses,…
Sateliot opens €100M Series C to deploy 16 satellites
In April 2026, Spanish satellite operator Sateliot announced a €100 million Series C to deploy 16 satellites, as Spain's minister for digital transformation and the civil service, Óscar López, announced during a visit…
U&I Ventures closes oversubscribed $32.2M debut fund to back AI-native startups
U&I Ventures has closed the oversubscribed final close of its $32.237 million debut fund to back seed-stage founders building AI-native infrastructure across security, engineering, and IT. The San Francisco firm,…
Austria pitches Vienna as home for new UN AI centre
Austria's government has proposed Vienna as the host of a new international AI centre under the United Nations umbrella. Chancellor Christian Stocker announced the bid on October 28, 2026, with State Secretary Alexander…
Vienna's Klartext AI joins €250K circular-electronics project with Fraunhofer
Vienna startup Klartext AI has joined an international research project to build an AI assistant that helps electronics makers design more circular products. The three-year Eureka project, called MANAGER, pairs Klartext…
Azerbaijan to launch AI observatory to drive economic diversification
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Economy and the University of Artificial Intelligence have signed a framework agreement to establish the "AI Azerbaijan Observatory," a body focused on competitiveness and economic…
Uzbekistan's Yurideks raises $250K angel round for voice legal AI
Yurideks, an Uzbek legal-tech startup building a voice-first AI tool for lawyers, has raised $250,000 from angel investors, according to venture group Yoshlar Ventures. Yoshlar Ventures announced the raise in a post on…
Microsoft reveals Azure revenue for first time: $33.2B, up 48%
Microsoft disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars for the first time, reporting $33.2 billion for the July-September quarter, up 48% from a year earlier. The cloud platform, where businesses rent computing power…
Holidu cuts 60 jobs after 14-deal buying spree in European rentals
Munich vacation-rental scaleup Holidu is cutting around 60 jobs, roughly 8% of its workforce, reducing headcount from about 730 to 670. Co-founder and chief executive officer Johannes Siebers confirmed the move, which…
Axiology taps VIALET to put tokenised money funds behind €6B in payments
Lithuanian capital markets infrastructure provider Axiology has partnered with Vilnius-based electronic money institution VIALET to let it use tokenised money market funds (MMFs) for client fund safeguarding and…
Lagarde to exit ECB nine months early, triggering succession race
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends, the ECB said on 29 October 2026. She announced it on X, saying it had been "a source of great pride…
Rolls-Royce lands £1.25 billion UK government grant for next-gen jet engine
Rolls-Royce has secured a £1.25 billion grant from the UK government to develop and build its next-generation UltraFan engine in Britain. The company will add its own investment as part of a joint £2.5 billion, 10-year…
Sweden's Bright Sunday raises $7.06M for solar and battery assets
Bright Sunday, a Swedish solar-as-a-service provider, has raised US$8.46M in growth equity from existing shareholders to fund new solar and battery storage installations. Infrastructure investor Niam, which holds a 78%…
Trafigura lands $1.5B German-backed loan to supply gas to SEFE
Trafigura has signed a $1.5 billion five-year loan, arranged by a syndicate of nine banks, to finance the delivery of more than 150TWh of natural gas to Germany's SEFE Securing Energy for Europe. KfW IPEX-Bank led as…
Crystal Crop raises $8.84M in pre-IPO round ahead of listing
Crystal Crop Protection, a Delhi-based agrochemical maker, has raised US$11.4M in a pre-IPO placement led by WhiteOak Capital. It issued 3,097,979 equity shares at US$3.69 each, drawing 20 institutional and strategic…
Bojiyuan raises tens of millions of yuan to push eczema drug into Phase IIb
Bojiyuan (Shanghai) Biopharmaceutical has closed a Series A extension round worth tens of millions of yuan, announced in October 2026. Investors include Qinzhi Capital, Fuhui Venture Capital, and individual backers,…
Lovable opens London hub, targets 100 staff after $400M raise
AI coding startup Lovable has opened its first London office, its second engineering, product, and design hub after Stockholm. The team already numbers 70 people, with plans to reach 100 by year end.
China's AI labs shift distillation target from Claude to OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, report says
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek and Moonshot AI reportedly trained new models using outputs from OpenAI 's GPT-6 Astra, according to The Information, which cited unnamed sources. Astra, released in September, has become a…
Merz brings German fusion and drone firms to Tokyo in deep-tech push
German deep-tech firms Proxima Fusion and Quantum Systems signed partnerships in Japan during Chancellor Friedrich Merz's visit on October 28. Proxima, a fusion startup, agreed memoranda of understanding with Fujikura…
Anthropic finds experts follow AI agents' coin-flip bias 86% of the time
Anthropic asked 50 professional analysts to run a realistic statistical analysis using Claude Code, and found they followed their AI agent's hidden preference on 86% of four judgment calls. If the agent's input made no…
Amazon warns engineers against 'tokenmaxxing' as AI metrics face scrutiny
Amazon published a memo on Tuesday revising its software engineering guidelines, warning staff against "tokenmaxxing" — inflating AI usage to look productive. Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer at…
Entourage closes €100M second fund for AI, robotics, and deep tech
Ghent-based early-stage firm Entourage has closed its second fund at €100 million ($111 million), beating its initial €75 million target in two weeks. The fund drew commitments from entrepreneurs, family offices, and…
21 Tages raises €120M toward €500M renewables fund, backs first Italian project
InvestcorpTages has raised €120 million for Tages Infra Plus, a renewables and infrastructure fund targeting €500 million. The money came through the fund's first two closes, backed by Italian and international…
YK-Robotics raises €1M seed to let factories program robots with plain words
YK-Robotics has closed a €1 million seed round co-led by Draper B1 and First Drop. BStartup, Coben Ventures, Elephant Capital, and Plug and Play also participated.
BY Venture Partners closes $60M Fund III to back AI-native startups
UAE-based BY Venture Partners has closed its third fund at $60 million to back AI-native startups from pre-seed to Series A. The fund is anchored by the Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), with participation from…
Venttup raises $3M to build precision parts for defence and aerospace
Venttup has raised $3 million in a Series A round co-led by Rainmatter and Unicorn India Ventures. The company will use the capital to expand precision manufacturing capabilities for the defence, aerospace, and energy…
Xingkeyuan raises $15M for nano-silicon battery push
Hangzhou Xingkeyuan New Materials Technology has raised US$13.8M (roughly $15 million) in an early-stage round led by Hony Capital. Xiamen Tungsten Industry Fund and Yibin Talent Fund joined. Founded in 2022, the…
Challenger pulls in another $212M, pushing annuity-note program to $745M
Challenger, Australia's largest retirement income business, has raised US$194.1M (≈$212 million) in post-IPO debt through five-year annuity-backed notes. It was the second issuance under the company's US$3.88B…
Invion posts 79% disease control in skin cancer trial, adds director
Invion has appointed Paul Field as independent non-executive director, succeeding Alistair Bennallack, as the ASX-listed biotech advances its light-activated cancer therapy. The move came alongside preliminary Phase I…
Israel's Sightec raises $6M for GPS-free drone navigation
Sightec, an Israeli developer of visual-navigation technology for drones, has raised US$5.5M in a funding round announced on October 29, 2026. New investors Powerhouse Ventures and New River Asset Management backed the…
Fingular lands $20M credit line to grow Malaysia lending
Malaysian fintech Fingular has secured a $20 million credit facility to expand its lending business, the company said in October 2026. It will deploy the full amount in Malaysia, bringing total funding for its local…
Vinyl Group chair extends $1.41M loan as cash falls to $777K
Vinyl Group chair Ken Gaunt has agreed to lend the ASX-listed publishing and music platforms company another US$1.29M as it chases profitability. The post-IPO debt facility was disclosed alongside Vinyl's quarterly…
Voice AI startup Rime launches Prism after $24M Series A
Rime, a San Francisco enterprise voice AI company, launched Prism on October 28, 2026, a speech-to-speech model it bills as the first fine-tunable frontier model built for business use. The launch follows a $24 million…
Toronto's Beacon acquires Seattle farmworker payroll startup Ganaz
Toronto-based Beacon Holdings has acquired Ganaz, a Seattle startup providing payroll and HR software for agricultural workers and employers. Co-founder and chief executive officer Hannah Freeman announced the deal on…
Texas's Citizens Bank completes merger with Texas National Bank, forming $1.3B lender
Kilgore-based Citizens Bank and Jacksonville's Texas National Bank complete their merger on October 26, operating under the Citizens Bank name. The combined bank will serve East and Southeast Texas through about 20…
SenzaGen buys UK animal-free drug tester Alcyomics for $2.82M
SenzaGen has agreed to acquire Alcyomics, a Newcastle-based specialist in non-animal immunotoxicology testing for drug development. The initial price is roughly US$3.38M, with up to US$3.02M in contingent payments.…
Three Nigerian startups each land $50K in MARL's 14th global cohort
Three Nigerian startups — Solarcorp, Bravoo, and Zendtrax — have been selected for the 14th cohort of US-based venture firm MARL's global accelerator, with each receiving $50,000.
Hexaware names Vivek Jetley CEO, approves $1M Mauritius subsidiary
Hexaware Technologies has appointed Vivek Jetley as its new chief executive officer, succeeding R Srikrishna, its board decided on October 28, 2026. The same meeting approved up to $1 million to incorporate a…
Mubadala's head of ventures exits to launch Noha, seeded by his former employer
Ibrahim Ajami, head of ventures at Mubadala Capital, is set to leave the firm next year to launch his own fund, Noha, with a seed commitment from Mubadala, the Financial Times reported on 28 October (a scoop by Ivan…
K-beauty maker develnity secures $1.51M credit guarantee via Korea's 'First Penguin
South Korean K-beauty company develnity has been selected for the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 's "First Penguin" program, securing a credit guarantee ceiling of US$1.68M (roughly $1.51 million) over three years. The…
Monumental's robots lay every brick of a Dutch house as fleet tops 100 homes
Monumental 's autonomous robots laid every brick of a house in Almere, the Netherlands, marking a full build completed by machine rather than human bricklayers. The company designs, builds, and operates a fleet of…
JAB enters UK with Utmost Life and Pensions deal, adds £5B in assets
JAB Insurance has completed its acquisition of Utmost Life and Pensions, a UK platform with more than £5bn in assets and nearly 300,000 policyholders, from Utmost Group. The business will be renamed JAB Pensions. Terms…
Shimano buys full control of lure maker Jackall after 16-year partnership
Shimano has acquired all shares in Japanese lure maker Jackall, the company announced on its Japanese website in October. The price was undisclosed. Jackall, founded in 1999 by lure designer Seji Kato, is known for…
Andela co-founder's new startup raises pre-seed to train 1M African AI engineers
TalentNation, founded by Nigerian serial entrepreneur Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and South African entrepreneur Kesiah Valkin, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round to train and deploy one million AI engineers from Africa…
Uzbekistan's HabitKid raises $50K from Aloqa Ventures for family chores app
HabitKid, an Uzbekistan-based app for families, has raised $50,000 from Aloqa Ventures, according to a post on UzCombinator 's Telegram channel dated October 24, 2026. Aloqa Ventures is the only investor named.
Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon takes the #1 spot on Artificial Analysis, two weeks after Argon
On 28 October 2026, Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, the new frontier model from Alphabet | Google, which Google calls its strongest model yet for cybersecurity and long-horizon work. It arrives two weeks…
Closed Loop Partners lends to Renegade Plastics to scale recyclable PP fabric
Closed Loop Partners has provided a loan to Renegade Plastics, a Denver startup commercializing a recyclable, mono-material polypropylene (PP)-coated textile. The financing, issued through the firm's Catalytic Capital &…
AGR Partners closes $167M toward Fund IV, targeting food's "hidden middle
AGR Partners has closed $167 million in commitments to its fourth private equity fund as of September 2026, with four investments already announced. The firm is targeting $250 million and has set a $300 million hard cap.
Turkey's Polinas buys control of İmaj Ambalaj for €4.02M
Turkish plastics manufacturer Polinas has acquired a 67% controlling stake in İmaj Ambalaj for €4.02 million, according to a stock-exchange disclosure by parent investment company Gözde Girişim. İmaj Ambalaj makes…
Amalgamated Brands' $20M IPO is Zimbabwe's first in nearly two decades
Consumer-goods maker Amalgamated Brands has launched a $20 million initial public offering on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX), priced at $0.35 per share. The offer is split between $5 million of new shares for…
Korean D2C brand house Eastend lists on Konex after 43% sales jump
Eastend, the Korean company behind women's casual label CityBreeze and skincare brand VT Note, began trading on the Korea Exchange 's Konex market on October 26. The exchange approved the listing on October 22, with…
Colombia's Celes raises $5M Series A to enter Brazil's retail market
Celes, a Colombian retail software startup founded in Barranquilla in 2023, has closed a $5 million Series A led by Brazilian fund SP Ventures. Fulcrum Global Capital (US), 30N Ventures (Mexico), and Taram Capital…
Emerald Nuclear's marine reactor project wins $2.15M Norwegian grant
The Research Council of Norway has awarded a grant of US$2.42M to the Marine Nuclear Propulsion System (MarNuPS) project, led by the Norwegian subsidiary of US reactor startup Emerald Nuclear. The grant supports the…
Carlyle Global Credit backs Summit Group financing to fund next acquisition
Carlyle Global Credit has provided a financing package to Summit Group, a provider of trust, fund, corporate and advisory services, the lender's legal adviser Mayer Brown confirmed in late October. Summit serves private…
Chapter buys Hively to build out its retirement platform
Medicare navigation startup Chapter has acquired Hively, a personalised retirement navigation and membership platform for older adults. The deal value was undisclosed. Hively co-founders Angela Gu and Jenn Kim join…
Bombay Coated raises $5.68M from anchors ahead of $19M IPO
Bombay Coated and Special Steels raised US$7.35M from six anchor investors on October 28, a day before its US$24.9M initial public offering opened for subscription. The company allotted roughly 6.6 million shares at…
Airbnb commits $500M to its nonprofit for crisis housing
Airbnb will donate a portion of revenue from every booking to Airbnb.org, its independent nonprofit, targeting $500 million over five years. The company says the money will put the nonprofit on a path to provide one…
Amphenol buys defense PCB maker AdvancedPCB in deal-heavy run
Industrial Growth Partners (IGP) has agreed to sell AdvancedPCB to Amphenol Corporation, exiting a holding it acquired in October 2021. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is subject to US regulatory approvals…
Ex-Groww team launches Onto with $1M to refund travellers when hotel prices drop
Onto, a Bengaluru travel startup founded by former Groww professionals Jagdeep Singh and Shubham Goyal, has launched with $1 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Stargazer Fund and co-led by Singapore-based…
Bambusa seeks $134M IPO to fund eczema antibody trials
Bambusa Therapeutics, a Boston-based immunology and inflammation biotech, plans to raise about $134.9 million by selling 9.4 million shares at $15 to $17 each in a Nasdaq IPO. The sum could rise to $155.8 million if…
KKR closes first private credit continuation vehicle at $460M, led by AllianzGI
KKR has closed its first private credit continuation vehicle with more than $460 million in commitments, with Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) acting as lead buyer. The vehicle holds the assets of KKR Lending…
Transpharmation buys OrganoTherapeutics to add human brain organoids
UK-based contract research firm Transpharmation has acquired OrganoTherapeutics, a Luxembourg startup that builds patient-derived brain organoid models of neurodegenerative diseases. The deal, announced October 28,…
CellectGen wins SBIR grant for saliva-based periodontal test
CellectGen has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a saliva-based, point-of-care diagnostic for periodontal disease. The Frederick, Maryland company is building the platform with…
Anthropic files for IPO that could value it at $2T, raise over $100B
Anthropic filed its S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, 2026, setting up what could be the largest initial public offering ever. The AI company plans to list its Class A common stock on the…
ETFs use 'perps' to sell bets on Anthropic and OpenAI before they go public
A string of exchange-traded products now offers ordinary investors exposure to unlisted Anthropic and OpenAI through perpetual futures, or "perps", the Financial Times reported on 28 October 2026. Perps were only…
SpaceX tells the FAA its outdated air traffic control caps 10,000 launches a year
SpaceX has told the Federal Aviation Administration that rocket production is no longer its main constraint — outdated air traffic control is. The company proposed dedicated launch corridors, faster approvals, and…
Stark's founders on building a European defence 'neo-prime': billions in contracts in 18 months and 'production is deterrence'
What's the story? On Sequoia Capital's Training Data podcast, partners Pat Grady and Luciana Lixandru interview Stark CEO Uwe Horstmann and CTO Johannes Schaback. The Berlin-based company, about two years old, calls…
India backs Manastu Space with $12.2M to ready green propulsion for deployment
India's Technology Development Board has committed US$15.8M (roughly $12.2 million) to Mumbai-based Manastu Space Technologies to advance its indigenous green propulsion system for satellites and launch vehicles. The…
UPM to spin off plywood arm WISA, listing on Nasdaq Helsinki on November 2
UPM -Kymmene's board has decided to complete the partial demerger of its plywood business into a new company, WISA Group Plc, with completion set to register in the Finnish Trade Register on October 31, 2026. UPM…
Geekco hands new director Lepage 800,000 shares and options
Geekco Technologies (TSXV: GKO) has granted an aggregate of 650,000 stock options and 500,000 restricted share units to a director and a consulting firm. New director Marie Ginette Lepage receives 400,000 options and…
AIIB backs NIO Capital's Eve ONE Fund III with $10M for mobility, energy tech
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is investing $10 million in NIO Capital 's Eve ONE Fund III, a venture fund backing early-stage companies in new mobility, energy and supporting digital infrastructure.…
ixigo's Rajnish Kumar launches $105K fund for IIT Kanpur founders
ixigo co-founder and group co-chief executive officer Rajnish Kumar on October 28 launched the Made in Fire Fund, a US$135.8K initiative to back graduating IIT Kanpur students starting companies. The fund will support…
GE Vernova to buy Trench Group for $9B in grid-equipment push
GE Vernova has agreed to buy high-voltage grid equipment maker Trench Group from investment firm Triton Partners for $9 billion. The company will split the price equally between cash and debt, with closing expected in…
Credo Bank raises $10M in Georgia's first AT1 bank bond placement
Credo Bank, Georgia's fifth-largest commercial bank, has placed $10 million in perpetual, subordinated Additional Tier 1 (AT1) private bonds. TBC Capital acted as exclusive partner on the transaction, announced in…
Qatar's Startup Qatar wins 2026 UN award after helping establish 850+ startups
Invest Qatar won the 2026 United Nations Investment Promotion Award for its Startup Qatar initiative, which has facilitated the establishment of more than 850 startups in the country. The award, presented at UN Trade…
Mediclinic joins Abu Dhabi's Hub71+ Life Sciences to validate healthtech startups
Mediclinic Middle East has joined Hub71+ Life Sciences, Abu Dhabi's specialist ecosystem for biotech, medtech and digital health. The private healthcare provider signed a memorandum of understanding with Hub71 at the…
Dubai AI Campus doubles 2030 goal to 1,000 firms after passing $270M early
Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has approved new targets for Dubai AI Campus: more than 1,000 artificial intelligence companies and over 5,000 skilled jobs by 2030. He signed off…
Korea Investment bets $4M on TikTok owner ByteDance, extending SpaceX and Anthropic streak
Korea Investment Partners has invested $4 million (US$4.61M) in ByteDance, the Chinese operator of TikTok, in a late-stage deal announced in October. The firm backed the company through a project fund, Korea Investment…
China's open AI models fall 26 points behind as new index hides the answers
Artificial Analysis released version 5 of its Intelligence Index on October 27, 2026, and the overhaul sharply widened the gap between closed and open-weight AI models. The leading open model now sits 26 points behind…
SK hynix sets up $1.5B credit program for domestic chip suppliers
SK hynix has launched a US$1.68B financing program with the South Korean government, four major banks, and a state insurer to provide cheaper loans to domestic semiconductor suppliers. The company signed the agreement…
Proparco lends €75M to Garanti BBVA Leasing for Türkiye's green transition
Proparco is providing a €75 million long-term loan to Garanti BBVA Leasing to fund the Turkish company's climate-related investments. The facility will finance renewable energy, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, and…
AP Ventures closes $300M Fund III for early-stage industrial tech
AP Ventures has closed AP Ventures Fund III LP at $300 million, raised from a global base of institutional investors. The London-based firm backs early-stage industrial and energy technology companies. It has already…
Azerbaijan approves 20-year tax breaks for tech firms, startup investors and digital nomads
Azerbaijan's president signed decrees on October 22, 2026 approving sweeping tax incentives for technology park residents, startup investors, and digital nomads. The package extends tax breaks on eligible tech income,…
Yandex Armenia picks 10 teams from 140 bids for first startup accelerator
Yandex Armenia launched its first international startup accelerator, selecting 10 teams from 140 qualified applications for a three-month program. The initiative, launched in September 2026, pairs early-stage founders…
Trelleborg buys US aerospace plastics maker Tri-Mack in third such deal
Swedish engineered-polymer group Trelleborg has agreed to acquire Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing, a Rhode Island maker of high-performance thermoplastics and composites for aircraft engines and airframes. The purchase…
Eleveight AI plans $2B to eightfold its Armenia AI factory to 40 MW
Eleveight AI will invest $2 billion in a second phase of its Gagarin AI Factory in Armenia, adding 35 MW to reach 40 MW total. Construction has begun, with completion expected by mid-2027.
Monil hires reMarkable's CMO to build a global grazing-tech brand
Norwegian agritech startup Monil has hired Magnus Heimsjø as chief marketing officer, tasking him with building its brand internationally and expanding the marketing team. Heimsjø joins from reMarkable, where he was the…
Villoid enters Sweden with ex-Desenio chief Fredrik Palm backing push
Norwegian fashion e-commerce platform Villoid is launching in Sweden and has brought on Swedish retail veteran Fredrik Palm as investor and board member. Palm previously led Desenio Group as chief executive officer and…
Vienna and Raiffeisen open €7M growth fund for scaleups
The city of Vienna and Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien have opened applications for Wiener Wachstum, a €7 million financing instrument for growth-oriented companies. Startups, scaleups and SMEs in Vienna's health and…
ResoTher Pharma takes public listing via reverse merger with Hunter Capital shell
Swedish-listed shell company Hunter Capital RTO 1 has signed a transaction agreement to reverse-acquire Danish biotech ResoTher Pharma, making it the operating business of the listed entity. ResoTher shareholders are…
Robotechnik tops up Hong Kong IPO with $34.8M over-allotment
Robotechnik Intelligent Technology raised US$33M through the partial exercise of its over-allotment option, concluding the stabilization period for its Hong Kong H-share offering. The sponsor exercised the option on…
Samsung C&T commits $687M to Samsung Biologics' $2B rights offering
Samsung C&T will invest US$770.5M (≈$687 million) in a rights offering by affiliate Samsung Biologics, acquiring 782,818 common shares. The commitment, resolved by its board on October 28, lifts Samsung C&T's total…
KPIT names Anant Talaulicar to US board, sets up $2M Vietnam arm
KPIT Technologies has appointed Anant Talaulicar as an independent director on the board of KPIT Technologies Inc., its unlisted US subsidiary. The board confirmed the move on October 28, alongside quarterly results and…
Emits inks underwriting deal ahead of Q4 2026 ACE Market listing
Antenna maker Emits Berhad has signed an underwriting agreement with Mercury Securities for its initial public offering on Bursa Malaysia 's ACE Market. The deal covers 35,158,000 shares available to the Malaysian…
Amanat's UK subsidiary buys complex-care firm Cornerstone for £76M
Amanat Holdings has acquired UK-based Cornerstone Healthcare Holdings through its wholly owned subsidiary Cambridge Health Group (CHG), the company announced. The all-equity deal, completed October 27, 2026, carries a…
How Jamaica wooed Sutherland's 700-worker outsourcing centre
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has welcomed US-based Sutherland Global Services to Jamaica, calling its new business process outsourcing (BPO) operation "a bold declaration that the country is ready for business…
CICC closes $17.1B triple merger to become China's fourth-largest broker by net capital
China International Capital Corporation (CICC) has completed a merger absorbing Dongxing Securities and Cinda Securities, in a deal valued at roughly US$15.7B. It is the first merger of three listed brokerages on…
Doosan units raise $140M fund to scout robotics and chip startups
Five Doosan Group companies are setting up a US$167.7M corporate venture fund to back promising startups. Doosan, Doosan Enerbility, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Tesna, and Doosan Robotics will each contribute US$33.5M to…
Hall Chadwick to merge with rare-earth recycler REEcycle in $400M SPAC deal
Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: HCAC) will merge with REEcycle, a US rare-earth recycling startup, in a transaction valuing the business at $400 million. The companies on October 27 unveiled the proposed board…
Anthropic buys Mithril Medicine, a one-person biotech that ran a muscular dystrophy drug programme with Claude
Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech whose founder Cody Tranbarger was its only full-time employee. Anthropic disclosed the deal on 27 October in a post on its drug-development…
Gaio raises $1.03M seed led by G4 to automate Instagram selling
Gaio, a Brazilian social selling startup, has raised US$1.41M in a seed round led by G4. An unnamed fund and angel investors also joined.
Phaze Ventures launches two funds targeting $75M for AI and deeptech
Oman-based Phaze Ventures has launched two new venture funds targeting more than $75 million combined, anchored by local institutional backers. Phaze Ventures Fund II, anchored by ITHCA Group and Oman LNG Development…
Valion Bio adds $4.72M in preferred stock, but only $1.5M is fresh cash
Valion Bio, a Delaware company that raises capital by issuing non-voting convertible preferred stock, has closed a $4.72 million private placement of Series C preferred shares and warrants. Existing Series C purchasers…
Stuttgart's SkySpirit lands German federal games grant
SkySpirit, a Stuttgart-based studio, has been awarded a grant through the German federal government's video game funding programme, announced in October 2026. The reporting does not specify the grant amount or the…
FinMaq raises $6.5M Series A to finance equipment for Colombia's small businesses
Colombian fintech FinMaq has closed a $6.5 million Series A led by global investor Accion, with participation from Mundi Ventures and returning backers Alive Ventures and 30N Ventures. The company finances machinery and…
Janus Henderson brings Nasdaq-100 onchain with tokenized fund JQQQ
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge have launched JQQQ, the first tokenized fund licensed to track the Nasdaq -100 Index. Issued on the Stellar blockchain using Centrifuge's technology, it is available only to eligible…
India's MK Sons raises $8.69M from anchors ahead of jewellery IPO
M K Sons Fine Jewels raised US$11.2M from nine anchor investors on October 27, ahead of its US$3.74-crore IPO. The company allotted 51 lakh shares at US$2.2 each, the top of its US$2.08-US$2.2 price band.
FutureMeds buys Bulgaria's Hera as Oracle, IQVIA deepen trial-tech ties
FutureMeds has acquired Medical Centre Hera, a Bulgarian clinical research group, for an undisclosed sum, expanding its trial footprint across Sofia, Plovdiv, Montana and Kyustendil. The deal is one of three…
Uzbek AI design startup MimoramAI raises $40K from Yoshlar Ventures
MimoramAI, an Uzbek AI tool for interior design, has raised $40,000 from Yoshlar Ventures. Accelerator UzCombinator announced the pre-seed investment on October 24, 2026.
SPACCircle prices trimmed $100M SPAC IPO for digital assets, tech and healthcare
SPACCircle Acquisition Corp. priced its initial public offering at $100 million, selling 10 million units at $10.00 each. The blank-check company begins trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "SCQCU" and…
Dubai's DIP Holding books $543M IPO within minutes despite Iran war slowdown
DIP Holding, owner of Dubai Investments Park, drew enough demand to cover its up to $543 million initial public offering within minutes of opening its order books on the Dubai Financial Market. Parent Dubai Investments…
Circle Ventures backs South Africa's CrissCross in stablecoin payments push
CrissCross, the South Africa-based cross-border payments infrastructure company, has raised an undisclosed early-stage investment from Circle Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Circle Internet Group, which issues…
Mumbai developer Runwal raises $52M in muted India IPO
Runwal Enterprises, a Mumbai-based real estate developer, raised roughly $52 million in its initial public offering, listing on the National Stock Exchange of India and the BSE. The US$67.9M offering was entirely fresh…
Brazil's Viveo closes $160M share sale to tame its debt load
Brazilian medical distributor Viveo has completed a post-IPO equity raise of US$221.8M, subscribing 99.71% of the operation's US$222.5M ceiling. Roughly 963 million new ordinary shares were taken up at US$0.23 each;…
Nvidia backs India's Simplismart in $14M round to squeeze more from GPUs
Simplismart, a Bengaluru-based startup, has raised $14 million in a Series B round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with Nvidia, Accel, Shastra VC, and Micromax participating. The deal values the four-year-old company at…
QSTP taps Microsoft to give Qatar startups up to $9.4M in cloud credits
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation, has launched a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Microsoft for Startups program to its startup community. Eligible founders gain access to…
Egypt's Raya Holding launches venture arm, backs UK AI startup Pidima
Raya Holding for Financial Investments has launched Raya Ventures, a wholly owned corporate venture arm targeting early-stage AI and fintech startups. The Cairo-based conglomerate disclosed the move alongside the fund's…
Energea commits $20M to US EV charging in first move beyond solar
US energy infrastructure investment platform Energea has committed up to $20 million to finance electric vehicle charging stations, beginning with a $10 million credit facility for Tesla V4 Supercharger developer…
Brazil's $22.5M Northeast seed fund makes first bets on two B2B startups
The FIP Nordeste Capital Semente fund has made its first two investments, putting US$255.8K each into Recife-based RSCRM and Entrega+, based in the textile hub of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe. Both serve business customers…
BAC Credomatic prices $500M bond, its first cross-border deal since 2023
Banco de América Central (BAC Credomatic) priced $500 million in five-year bonds, its first cross-border deal in over three years. Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Santander acted as bookrunners.
Abu Dhabi family office targets $1.2B initial close for new LNG fund
The Private Department of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan, alongside affiliate KSH Investments, has launched the Pvt Dpt – LNG Fund (CEIC) IC, targeting an initial close of $1.2 billion. Reem Partners Limited will…
Intel to acquire Israeli quantum software startup Classiq, reportedly for about $2.3B
Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Classiq, the Tel Aviv-based maker of quantum computing software, the companies announced on 26 October 2026. Intel did not disclose the price; Calcalist's Ctech and…
UAE's EDGE buys controlling stake in Italian engine maker CMD
EDGE, the Abu Dhabi defence and technology group, has completed its acquisition of a controlling stake in CMD S.r.l., an Italian maker of propulsion systems for automotive, marine, and aeronautical use. The deal, signed…
DPI closes $112M Nclude fund, with 93% of capital raised in Africa
DPI Venture Capital, managed by Development Partners International, has reached a final close of more than $112 million for its fintech-focused Nclude Fund. Notably, 93% of the commitments came from African investors.
Anthropic’s IPO windfall: the early VC and angel winners lighting up at $965B
What's the story? Anthropic's S-1 and IPO run-up have lit up paper values for the lab's earliest venture and angel backers. At the last private mark of about $965 billion (Bloomberg / TechCrunch), several early stakes…
Türk Telekom lands $1B club loan to fund 5G and fiber push
Türk Telekom has secured a $1 billion long-term club loan from 14 international banks to finance its 5G and fiber network investments and general corporate needs. Bank of America and ING led the facility, which matures…
Egypt's Xceed buys Indian outsourcer, scales to 500+ staff in Hyderabad
Xceed Software, a Telecom Egypt subsidiary, has acquired a major Indian outsourcing company, it announced in October 2026. Terms and the target's identity were not disclosed. The deal extends Xceed's customer care and…
Aeropuertos Argentina lands $400M bond at 8% to fund $1.5B works plan
Aeropuertos Argentina, the Argentine subsidiary of New York-listed Corporación América Airports, has raised $400 million in post-IPO debt. The bond, placed on October 22, 2026, carries an 8% coupon and matures in 2036.
Aviva puts £50M into tokenized sterling fund on XRP Ledger
Aviva Investors has launched a tokenized share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger and committed £50 million to it. The fund itself holds roughly £22 billion, but only the new share class — not the…
Itaú buys AI startup NeoSpace for $580M in all-cash deal
Itaú Unibanco, Brazil's largest bank by assets, has agreed to acquire 100% of NeoSpace AI, a Brazilian generative AI startup, for 2.9 billion reais (about $580 million) in cash. The all-cash transaction was announced on…
Kazakhstan's $2B sovereign AI hub moves ahead as Freedom Holding plans a public GPU cloud for 2027
Kazakhstan's $2 billion Sovereign AI Hub is moving ahead. In an update on 26 October 2026, Almaty-based Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: FRHC), the hub's principal financing and operating partner, said its first GPU…
Pegasus founder Shalev Hulio urges governments to trust him with sovereign AI, ditch US providers
Dream, the sovereign-AI and national cyber-defence company founded by former NSO Group chief executive Shalev Hulio, is making the case that governments should ditch US AI providers and run their own models. In an…
Elvis estate sues Anthropic over 274 songs, seeks $41.1M
Authentic Brands Group, the licensing company that controls Elvis Presley's music and likeness rights, has sued Anthropic, alleging the AI firm used 274 of the singer's songs without permission to train its Claude…
Israel votes in what observers call the world's first 'AI election'
Israelis go to the polls Tuesday in a tight general election that researchers and political scientists are calling the country's first "AI election." Polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc locked in a…
Andorra bets on sport-tech crossover to diversify its economy
Andorra held its first Cluster Day on Tuesday, October 20, bringing together institutional representatives, companies, and professionals from the sports and technology sectors at the Hotel Comtes d'Urgell in…
TEK4 lists on AIM in £24.8M placing at £42M valuation
TEK4 Group began trading on London's AIM market on October 26, 2026, under the ticker TEK4, after a placing that raised £24.75 million. The listing values the precision engineering business at £42 million.
AfDB backs $1.84M push to make Ethiopian SMEs investment-ready
Ignite Capital is advancing a $1.84 million programme to prepare Ethiopian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for equity investment, backed by a $999,250 grant administered by the African Development Bank. Known…
Egypt's Turuq lands Den VC seed after year-long InvestIT pipeline
Turuq Innovations, an Egypt-based logistics and fulfilment startup, has raised a seed round led by Den VC. The deal follows the company's participation in InvestIT, a joint program by the Information Technology Industry…
Costa Rica's largest credit union clears a step toward $3.5B merger
Costa Rica's competition regulator, Coprocom, has received formal notification of a merger between credit unions Coopenae and CoopeAnde, in which Coopenae absorbs CoopeAnde. Both operate in financial intermediation, and…
Japan's DeltaForesight closes US$2.49M seed, launches yen DeFi protocol on Ethereum
DeltaForesight has closed a US$2.49M seed round led by Coral Capital, with early backing from Fracton Ventures, and launched its JPY DeFi protocol on Ethereum. Users can borrow its JPYdf token against collateral such as…
Colibri buys Cannoli to turn restaurant data into repeat sales
Brazilian restaurant-software maker Colibri has acquired Cannoli, a customer-relationship platform, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is one of two recent purchases — alongside queue-management firm Qnow — aimed at…
Tether leads seed round for Bolivian fintech Peso to push USDT into daily payments
Tether has led a seed round in Peso, a Bolivian fintech company building USDT-based consumer payments across Latin America. The round was announced in October 2026; the amount and valuation were not disclosed.
Iceland's Aurora Abalone lands $12M for land-based farming
Aurora Abalone, an Icelandic land-based seafood farmer, has closed a $12 million funding round, the company said in October 2026.
Foxconn pours $1.2B into Singapore, France, and Czech units
Hon Hai Precision Industry — the Taiwan-based electronics giant known as Foxconn — approved more than $1.2 billion in share acquisitions across three subsidiaries in Singapore, France, and the Czech Republic. Its board…
IFC commits up to $20M to expand Argentine university Siglo 21
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to a debt facility of up to $20 million for Universidad Siglo 21 to build two sustainable campuses in Argentina's Córdoba province. The IFC, a member of the World…
Italy's Everli clears SPAC merger, heads to Nasdaq as EVRL
Melar Acquisition Corp. I (Nasdaq: MACI), a special purpose acquisition company, said its shareholders voted on October 22, 2026, to approve a merger with Everli Global Inc. The combined company will operate as Everli…
Türkiye's top waste-to-energy platform ITC sold to Re-Pie Asset Management
Re-Pie Asset Management has acquired ITC, Türkiye's largest integrated waste management and waste-to-energy platform, for an undisclosed sum. Oaklins ' Türkiye team acted as exclusive sell-side adviser to ITC's…
Release Therapeutics lands ~$609K Swiss grant for rare-disease implant
Geneva-based Release Therapeutics has won a US$458.3K (roughly $609,000) Innovation Project grant from Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. The non-dilutive funding, awarded with the University of Geneva's Faculty…
UK government arm buys $15M stake in Kenya's Quickmart via IPO
The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is buying a 6.5% stake in Kenyan supermarket chain Quickmart for Sh1.94 billion ($15 million) through the retailer's initial public offering. It will purchase 260…
ODATA bets $630M on liquid cooling to make Latin America AI-ready
ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company, is deploying DeltaFlow liquid cooling at its SP04 campus in Brazil and QR03 campus in Mexico, backed by a US$630 million first-phase investment. Installation and testing are…
Falfurrias merges IDS and RED Group into new industrial automation platform
Falfurrias Management Partners is combining control systems integrator Industrial Design Solutions (IDS) and operational technology engineering firm RED Group into a new industrial automation platform. Carl Fangue,…
Telecentro buys fiber rival Iplan for $260M in Argentine telecom consolidation
Argentine telecom operator Telecentro has acquired Iplan for $260 million, confirming a deal that adds more than one million homes to its fiber-optic network. The purchase also extends Telecentro's reach into cities…
Urban and Caldeira OTC merge to combine crypto and cross-border payments in Brazil
Crypto infrastructure and international payments firm Urban is merging with Caldeira OTC Group, an institutional crypto trading desk, the companies announced on October 19. The combined business will keep the Urban…
Rebels Ventures backs Canal Foco, a YouTube studio chasing US$25.6M by 2028
Canal Foco, a Brazilian digital entertainment company founded in 2023, has raised an early-stage round from Rebels Ventures, the investment firm of Reserva founder Rony Meisler. The amount was not disclosed.
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