European industrial giant makes $23B acquisition in US

• ValonNew York$150M Series D

  AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing. Backed by Ribbit Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

• Zhongke Ion$82.5M Early VC

  Superconducting cyclotron proton therapy systems for oncology.

• TVS AutomobileChennai$57.7M Series D

  A provider of car repair and prevention services in India. Led by CE-Invests.

$96B across 2,157 rounds in September, by headquarters and by sector.

• JenzOslo$121K raised

  AI coworker for ecommerce operations via Slack.

  JSRBNSJo Schou Sandåker, Remi Bjørnestad & Natnael Seifo founded it. Sandåker worked at Stadium. Bjørnestad worked at furnit.ai.

• GahizCairo

  AI-powered voice screening for multilingual candidate interviews.

  AYAmmar Yasser

• ObliviqLabsJabalpur

  Synthetic data engine for autonomous robotics AI.

  SPSaurabh Patil founded it after working at SpringtownAI LLC.

• Schneider Electric to buy PTC for $22.6B in industrial software push

  Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire US software firm PTC in an all-cash deal valuing PTC's equity at about $22.6 billion (€20.1 billion).

• Former Groq engineers sue over Nvidia's $20B licence-and-hire deal, saying it left a hollowed-out shell
• China's Claude token-reseller gray market keeps Anthropic access flowing despite its restrictions
• Gone for good: AWS writes off its entire Bahrain cloud region after Iranian strikes

  Amazon Web Services told customers in a Health Dashboard update on 15 September 2026 that it cannot restore resources and data hosted exclusively in its Middle East (Bahrain) region, me-south-1.

• One company's access, 8.8M Danes exposed: inside Denmark's CPR register breach

  On 5 October 2026, Denmark's Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Digitalisation disclosed a serious security incident at the Central Person Register (CPR), the country's national civil registration system.

• Niobrara closes debut tech fund with $1.5B in commitments

  Niobrara Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, has closed its inaugural Niobrara Founders Fund with over $1.1 billion in committed capital — and more than $1.5 billion including related co-investment vehicles.

• LS Electric pours $180M into US plant as AI power orders top $5B

  LS Electric is expanding manufacturing capacity at home and in the US as AI infrastructure investment drives surging demand for power grid equipment.