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Health🇰🇷Aug 18, 2026 HEM Pharma raises US$45.3M to build second Sejong plant for Amway orders

FundingLegal🇺🇸Aug 18, 2026 Deepgram lands $130M Series C extension, plants APAC base in Singapore

FundingHealth🇯🇵Aug 18, 2026 Craif raises US$40.8M Series D to fund US pancreatic cancer push

Energy🇯🇵Aug 18, 2026 Kyushu University spinout Carbon XTRACT raises Series A for membrane CO₂ capture

Funding 🇮🇳Aug 18, 2026 Rezolv raises $12.5M Series A to push AI beyond debt collection

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 18, 2026 ENDRA to merge with Noble Africa, pivoting to helium in $50M-backed deal

Investors 🇰🇷Aug 18, 2026 The Invention Lab closes US$3.35M fund and backs OzX

FundingTravel🇰🇷Aug 17, 2026 DeepFine raises US$8.38M Series B to turn factory-floor AI into recurring revenue

FundingHosting🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 DataVita lands £300m debt facility for AI data centres

Energy🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Phoenix Capital Group draws $75M in new term loans

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Gray Television prices $750M in notes at 7.5% to refinance costlier debt

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 AT&T raises $2.3B in debt to refinance term loans

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Turn Therapeutics raises $1.35M from existing backers

Chemicals🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 AdvanSix refinances $425M credit facilities, adds $150M term loan

Energy🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 HydroGraph Clean Power locks US$36.7M bought deal

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 NIMS merger reworked, cutting existing shareholders to 3.5%

Media🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Starz adds $100M in debt as lenders back its balance sheet

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Coherus Oncology refinances with $55M term loan, pushes debt maturity to 2031

Health🇿🇦Aug 17, 2026 Kiara Health raises pre-seed for AI fertility platform

FundingEnterprise Software🇰🇷Aug 17, 2026 Upstage raises $381M Series D, among top South Korean deep tech rounds

IPOs 🇮🇱Aug 17, 2026 Eventer closes US$1.82M placement, eyes Nasdaq listing

M&A 🇫🇷Aug 17, 2026 Lone Star sells Vigor Marine Group to Antin Infrastructure Partners

Funding 🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Mid-Day Squares raises $8M in debt to fund US Walmart, Costco push

Big tech 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Anthropic's revenue run rate hits $65B, up sevenfold ahead of IPO

InvestorsSports🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Nukleus raises angel investment from Ashton Jeanty

Home Living🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Lifetime Brands refinances debt with $60M second lien term loan

M&A 🇮🇳Aug 17, 2026 Inkrise acquired by MetaBull as studio joins in-house production arm

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Eaton's $9.55B Boyd Thermal buy powers AI data-centre push

M&A 🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Jumpspark acquired by KickCharge Creative

FundingSports🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Peripheral Labs lands $8.7M seed to turn live sports into interactive 3D

M&A 🇸🇪Aug 17, 2026 Lagercrantz buys 88% of UK measurement firm Bf1

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Sonic Fire Tech raises $15M to put out fires with sound

FundingSecurity🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Smack raises $61M Series B as Pentagon pushes AI vendors to move faster

Health🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Green Light Biosciences bets $100M on Mexico's first RNA biofungicide plant

M&A 🇳🇱Aug 17, 2026 WeMarket A/S buys FashionLab as fashion tech consolidates

Security🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Emergent 3 lands Arthur Ventures backing to expand school safety platform

People 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Compound bets $52M and three new leaders on an institutional pivot

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 UCC Environmental buys Cast Steel Products to expand wear-parts platform

Big techSemiconductors🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Nvidia backs OpenAI's Ohio data center with up to $105B in financing

🇨🇭Aug 17, 2026 Genesis Investment Partners rebrands as Genesis Partners AG

Investors 🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Storonsky's QuantumLight closes oversubscribed $500M fund to back AI startups

Funding 🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 GALLOS Technologies raises $50m to build and back defence-tech startups

M&A 🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Smart Energy Training buys EAS Mechanical in fifth deal of 2026

🇭🇰Aug 17, 2026 Congyu Intelligent Agricultural raises US$4.06M in placing

FundingFintech🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Alfred raises $5M seed at $27.5M valuation

IPOs 🇸🇬Aug 17, 2026 Unitree's $900M IPO outshines Shein's $3B listing as AI hype grips China

Enterprise Software🇩🇪Aug 17, 2026 Paragon takes growth stake in quality-management software maker Babtec

🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Trivium Point opens $540K position in Analog Devices

FundingHealth🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Cheiron raises $8M seed led by Menlo Ventures to model drug programs as software

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Inner Logic raises $11.5M to simulate surgery on thousands of virtual patients