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Funding 🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Metavista3D secures CDN$6M private placement

Funding 🇮🇳Aug 17, 2026 NetWeb Technologies opens QIP to raise up to US$163M for AI-server push

Big tech 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Astera Labs: Amazon discloses $134M stake as Q2 revenue doubles

Funding 🇸🇪Aug 17, 2026 Amanda AI raises US$1.21M as it cuts costs and enters the UK

Products 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Serve adds Grubhub, pushing its 2,000-robot fleet to eight US markets

InvestorsEnergy🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 XCF Global Capital raises $3M in new capital

FundingHealth🇸🇪Aug 17, 2026 Aligned Bio raises $3.6M to bring nanowire molecule sensing to market

Telecom🇩🇪Aug 17, 2026 T-Mobile Polska strikes €1B deals to expand fibre in Poland

Investors 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Floating Point raises $125M to back 'real world' businesses

M&A 🇳🇱Aug 17, 2026 Wolters Kluwer buys Spain's Marosa, ending Aquiline's two-year bet

People 🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Gary Hoffman to step down as Monzo chair

Health🇿🇦Aug 17, 2026 Ninety One buys 5% of Rupert's Remgro as its assets jump to £171.8B

FundingFintech🇮🇳Aug 17, 2026 Manappuram Finance raises US$115.4M in debenture placement

FundingSemiconductors🇸🇪Aug 17, 2026 SweGaN raises $14M to scale European GaN-on-SiC chip output

Energy🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 NextNRG raises $9.2M in convertible preferred stock financing

Big techFood🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Uber invests in Zipline to scale drone delivery on Uber Eats

Funding 🇨🇭Aug 17, 2026 SoftBank bets $200M on Gravis Robotics, minting Europe's newest robotics unicorn

FundingEnterprise Software🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Dragonfly secures €800K UK government grant for software security standard

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to rebuild after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal

M&AAug 17, 2026 Edgewater's Nationwide Cooling Group buys HVAC coil maker Cooney

M&A 🇮🇳Aug 17, 2026 Motherson buys control of China's Shenzhen Autocruis in $22.6M deal

Marketing🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Palona AI lands Series A for AI operating layer in restaurants

FundingFintech🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 VastAdvisor raises $1M seed to build organic growth engine for wealth firms

M&AFintech🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 MAI enters Atlanta with acquisition of Waypoint

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Takt raises $9.25M Series A for warehouse labor intelligence

FundingEnergy🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 SoFab Inks raises $6M seed for perovskite solar reliability

Food🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Genesis Capital exits GTH Catering after 16 years via management buyback

Big techEnergy🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Nvidia to invest $1.5B in SB Energy for OpenAI data centre push

Funding 🇮🇱Aug 17, 2026 Xpander raises $7.5M Seed for enterprise AI

Sports🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Egypt Dean's $1M bet on Ballislife HYDRO draws Boardroom spotlight

M&A 🇮🇱Aug 17, 2026 Ever After Foods acquires Fishway

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Wrap Technologies raises $12M in registered direct offering at $1.40 a share

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Wispr Flow raises $280M at $2B valuation in Series B

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Noblis buys FTS International to deepen intelligence and space work

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Norion Bank closes Strand Kapitalförvaltning deal to build out wealth arm

FundingHealth🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Treatment.com AI closes US$727.5K second debenture tranche

IPOsSemiconductors🇨🇳Aug 17, 2026 JEL Technology lists on Beijing exchange at US$2.59 per share

Investors 🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 LTC Invest draws $50m for private assets fund

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 The Domain Companies closes $176M financing for Queens housing

M&AFintech🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Volaris Group buys UK social housing tech firm Alertacall

M&AGaming🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 Spin Master to acquire Brooklyn's Hapiko, maker of AI sticker toy Stickerbox

FundingHealth🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Zepto lands up to $8.9M NIAID contract for infectious-disease liquid biopsy

Funding 🇬🇧Aug 17, 2026 Fidelis prices $2.04B refinancing, one of UK fintech's largest debt deals

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Gunnebo buys France's Safe Products to grow in Europe's second-largest entrance market

Funding 🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 KWESST Micro Systems announces US$4M private placement

FundingFintech🇫🇷Aug 17, 2026 Ingenico lands €150M from PIMCO to cut debt and go cloud

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 Slate Medicines merges with Fulcrum, backed by $245M raise for migraine drugs

Energy🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 AngloGold Ashanti backs Thesis Gold with US$42.9M to lift stake to 9.7%

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 17, 2026 OpenRouter announces it is joining Stripe

FundingEnergy🇨🇦Aug 17, 2026 LNG Energy Group raises US$346.1K in first tranche to lift trading ban