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Fintech🇵🇭Aug 6, 2026 Discovery Capital lands BDO credit line to fund nationwide lending push

FundingEnergy🇬🇧Aug 6, 2026 Vast Resources raises £300K in oversubscribed retail offer

Funding 🇯🇵Aug 6, 2026 JPYC raises US$46.2M in Series B extension as AZ-COM Maruwa joins

🇯🇵Aug 6, 2026 SoftBank profit beats forecasts on $8.8B Intel stake gain

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 The Learning Experience buys UK's Banana Moon in early years push

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 Newmark buys German valuation firm L+P to expand advisory arm

M&A 🇬🇧Aug 6, 2026 Harworth Group receives £582.9M takeover offer from Peel Group

🇹🇼Aug 6, 2026 Nanya Tech greenlights $11B expansion, stock jumps 2.47%

Funding 🇬🇧Aug 6, 2026 Great British Energy backs Naked Energy in $11.8M round to build UK solar-thermal plant

FundingEnergy🇬🇧Aug 6, 2026 Tritax Big Box raises £350M to fund data centre push

Funding 🇰🇷Aug 6, 2026 Owerve raises $4.4M Series A for AI herbal medicine automation

Funding 🇬🇧Aug 6, 2026 Global Connectivity raises £293K in placing and subscription

Funding 🇫🇷Aug 6, 2026 Affluent Medical secures €30M structured debt facility

Funding 🇮🇳Aug 6, 2026 Consint.AI raises $2.3M Series A to build fraud-detection AI model

M&A 🇮🇹Aug 6, 2026 Mare Group lands €20M credit line to fuel acquisition push

Funding 🇮🇳Aug 6, 2026 LEAP India banks US$50.4M ahead of IPO

M&AAug 6, 2026 LAPP takes full control of JJ-LAPP in its biggest-ever acquisition

Funding 🇸🇬Aug 6, 2026 PetrolPrice raises pre-seed at $2M valuation, backed by Balaji Srinivasan

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 KKR to acquire Medicover Hospitals

M&A 🇫🇮Aug 6, 2026 PlusTerveys buys mental health provider Kuuleva, adding 160 professionals

M&A 🇩🇪Aug 6, 2026 Rebuy buys book-trade specialist Zeercle to add 1M titles a year

M&A 🇬🇧Aug 6, 2026 Hodge acquires Blue Motor Finance out of administration, saving 168 jobs

Funding 🇸🇬Aug 6, 2026 Acrab lands $130M Series B for agentic AI compute platform

Funding 🇮🇳Aug 6, 2026 HomeRun raises $12M for quick commerce in building materials

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 IKS unit sells $10M stake in AI scribe startup Abridge

M&A 🇮🇳Aug 6, 2026 Karur Vysya Bank buys 16.4% of Sahayya Finserve for US$4.03M

Travel🇯🇵Aug 6, 2026 G Lion Group joins Not a Hotel's US$126.9M round

FundingSemiconductors🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 Altex lands US$3.67M debt financing to automate plants, chase US growth

Fintech🇮🇩Aug 6, 2026 Bakrie Sumatera Plantations completes US$283.4M private placement

FundingRobotics🇮🇳Aug 6, 2026 Solinas raises $5.5M Series A1 to scale water infrastructure robotics

IPOsMarketing🇮🇳Aug 6, 2026 Shiprocket sets IPO at US$1.25–US$1.32 a share, targeting $184M

IPOsHealth🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 Braveheart Bio raises $382.5M in upsized Nasdaq IPO

Funding 🇯🇵Aug 6, 2026 Marsdy raises US$3.08M Series A for its AI-plus-human automation tool

Funding 🇨🇳Aug 6, 2026 Ex-Anker executive's smart RV startup Squirrel Power raises US$27.5M Series A

M&A 🇩🇰Aug 6, 2026 Afterwind buys Advantis blade-cutting assets, enters Danish market

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 Erae AMS acquired by APS Innovation for K-beauty expansion

FundingHealth🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 MiiHealth raises $2.8M seed to automate patient intake with AI

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 Veea takes $600,000 unsecured loan from NLabs

Funding 🇰🇷Aug 6, 2026 Comfo Labs raises seed round from Prodigy Investment

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 6, 2026 Unichem to buy e-skin startup Loomia for up to $6.3M

Funding 🇨🇱Aug 6, 2026 Clínica Las Condes closes $84M capital raise

Funding 🇺🇸Aug 5, 2026 AbbVie raises $9.5B in senior notes

M&A 🇬🇧Aug 5, 2026 Valaris swings to $47M profit as $5.8B Transocean merger nears close

FundingEducation🇦🇺Aug 5, 2026 MIST raises US$2.26M to keep international students' funds verified

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 5, 2026 Atoms acquires Pronto as Kalanick reunites Uber executives

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 5, 2026 Frontenac buys specialty ingredients maker NutriScience

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 5, 2026 Silicon Prairie News acquired by Omaha 100 in mission-driven handoff

Funding 🇨🇦Aug 5, 2026 Celestica launches $3B share offering to ride AI infrastructure boom

FundingEnergy🇩🇪Aug 5, 2026 Siemens Energy raises €1.5B in first green bond, top of the range for German post-IPO debt

M&A 🇺🇸Aug 5, 2026 KL&Partners buys color lens maker PPB Studios for US$117.4M