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Fintech🇩🇪Dec 17, 2025 Trade Republic becomes Decacorn in €1.2bn secondary round at €12.5bn valuation
🇺🇸Dec 17, 2025 ComplYant founder Shiloh Luckey faces investigation over alleged false revenue claims and personal spending
FundingEnterprise Software🇺🇸Dec 17, 2025 Databricks Closes $4B New Round as Enterprise AI Demand Accelerates
🇪🇸Dec 17, 2025 Samaipata Adds Ex-Julius Baer CEO Carolina Martínez-Caro to Support Next Growth Phase
FundingFintech🇭🇰Dec 16, 2025 RedotPay Closes $107M Series B to Accelerate Cross-Border Payments
Funding🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Dragoneer Secures $4.3B in Fresh Capital with New Venture Fund
FundingEnergy🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Last Energy Raises $100M to Build Steel-Encased Nuclear Microreactors
Transportation🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Luminar Shuts Down Operations, Moves Lidar Assets to Bankruptcy Sale
Fintech🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Octane Achieves $1.3B Valuation in $100M Series F to Expand Vehicle Financing Platform
Investors🇮🇱Dec 16, 2025 Viola Ventures Raises $250M Across Two New Funds to Support Israeli Tech from Early Stage to Scale
IPOsFintech🇬🇧Dec 16, 2025 Monzo's board attempts to replace CEO TS Anil over IPO location dispute
Home Living🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 iRobot Files for Chapter 11 After Years of Rising Costs and Fierce Competition
Investors🇩🇰Dec 16, 2025 The Nordic Web’s Neil Murray Closes $6m Fund III to Back Early Nordic Founders
M&AHealth🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Cencora to Buy Out TPG Stake and Take Control of OneOncology in $5B Deal
FundingHealth🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Chai Discovery Raises $130M Series B at $1.3B Valuation to Advance AI Drug Design
Investors🇺🇸Dec 16, 2025 Lightspeed Raises $9B as AI Drives Bigger Venture Funds
IPOsFashion🇸🇦Dec 15, 2025 Noon secures $500M as it prepares for a possible public listing
🇸🇪Dec 15, 2025 Norrsken Chooses Amsterdam for Its Largest Impact Hub Set to Open in 2026
Investors🇪🇸Dec 15, 2025 Kibo Ventures Reaches €80M First Close on Fund Aimed at Early-Stage European Tech
IPOsFintech🇺🇸Dec 15, 2025 Robo-Adviser Wealthfront Completes $485 Million IPO at $2 Billion Valuation
FintechEl SalvadorDec 15, 2025 Tether Considers Tokenization to Manage Investor Exits in $20 Billion Raise
🇳🇱Dec 15, 2025 Peter Wennink’s “Dutch Draghi” Report Calls for Urgent Reform of the Dutch Economy
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Dec 12, 2025 From Hollywood to ChatGPT: Inside Disney’s Bold Sora Power Move
Energy🇺🇸Dec 12, 2025 From Oilfield Tricks to 24/7 Clean Power: Inside Fervo’s Monster Series E Round
Fintech🇬🇧Dec 11, 2025 From Rivals to a €3B Beast: Mollie’s GoCardless Grab Just Rewired European Payments
Investors🇮🇳Dec 11, 2025 IAN Group Reaches Final Close of $100 Million Alpha Fund for Early-Stage Indian Startups
Funding🇩🇪Dec 11, 2025 U2V Raises €60 Million to Back European University Spinouts
FundingHealth🇺🇸Dec 10, 2025 SanegeneBio Raises $110M to Advance RNAi Pipeline Toward Late-Stage Development
Fintech🇸🇬Dec 10, 2025 $1B in Revenue, $235B in Volume—Now Airwallex Is Using AI to Rewrite Global Banking
FundingRobotics🇮🇹Dec 10, 2025 Generative Bionics Secures €70M to Accelerate Next-Gen Humanoid Robots
Investors🇺🇸Dec 9, 2025 Tiger Global Launches $2.2B Venture Fund as It Moves Toward Selective, High-Conviction Investing
Semiconductors🇺🇸Dec 9, 2025 Unconventional AI Emerges From Stealth With a $4.5B Valuation and a Plan to Reinvent AI Hardware
Semiconductors🇨🇳Dec 9, 2025 Founded in 2020 by former NVIDIA exec, Chinese GPU Maker Moore Threads IPOs at ±$40B Valuation
ProductsEnterprise Software🇶🇦Dec 9, 2025 Qatar Launches Qai and Forms $20 Billion AI Infrastructure Venture With Brookfield
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Dec 8, 2025 IBM Just Dropped $11 Billion on Confluent—Is This the New Data Backbone of the AI Era?
M&AMedia🇳🇱Dec 8, 2025 Tekpon acquires TNW brand from the Financial Times
M&AEnterprise Software🇺🇸Dec 7, 2025 Meta acquires Limitless to strengthen its push into AI wearables
Media🇺🇸Dec 7, 2025 Paramount Considers Hostile Offer to Challenge Netflix’s Warner Deal
M&AFintech🇧🇭Dec 5, 2025 Türkiye's Paribu Enters Gulf Crypto Market With CoinMENA Acquisition Valued at Up to $240 Million
Space🇫🇮Dec 5, 2025 One Satellite a Week: The Wild Production Plan Behind Europe’s Hottest Space Tech Unicorn
M&AFashion🇺🇸Dec 5, 2025 Streaming Overtakes Hollywood: Netflix Agrees to Buy Warner Bros. Studios and HBO Max for $72 Billion
PeopleFood🇳🇱Dec 5, 2025 Jitse Groen Steps Down as Just Eat Takeaway CEO, Replaced by Prosus's Roberto Gandolfo
M&AEnterprise Software🇵🇱Dec 5, 2025 OpenAI Acquires Neptune.ai to Enhance AI Model Training Capabilities
FundingSecurity🇺🇸Dec 4, 2025 7AI, the New Cybersecurity Player from Cybereason Founders, Lands Record $130 M Series A
Funding🇺🇸Dec 4, 2025 Nexus Raises $700M to Double Down on AI and India’s Digital Boom
Health🇺🇸Dec 4, 2025 $150M Series B Fuels Curative’s National Expansion, Cementing Its Unicorn Status
M&AEvent Tech🇺🇸Dec 4, 2025 Bending Spoons Acquires Eventbrite for $500M, Continuing Deal Spree
Marketing🇫🇷Dec 4, 2025 Brevo Becomes Unicorn, Raising €500M to Challenge Salesforce and HubSpot
Big techGaming🇺🇸Dec 4, 2025 Nvidia Bets $2B on Synopsys to Power AI Chip Innovation
FundingFintech🇺🇸Dec 4, 2025 Ex-Revolut Team’s Nevis Secures $35M Series A to Redefine Advisor Capacity
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