The Daily Deal
Saturday 24 October 2026
Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm
- Chart of the day Anthropic Future Founders.
- Just raised Star Therapeutics $200M, TRACTIAN $130M, Hexagon Bio $62M.
- Just founded ExamPal Education, Piccard, Addvista.
- In the news Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm, and two more stories.
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Anthropic alumni have founded 7 verified startups so far, worth about $22B together, while 3,318 operators still work there. The chart maps those alumni companies and the current talent who look like future founders.
Just raised
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Star TherapeuticsSouth San Francisco$200M Late VCDeveloping life-changing therapies for rare diseases. Backed by Janus Henderson Investors and OrbiMed.
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TRACTIANAtlanta$130M Series DPlatform for condition monitoring and asset management. Backed by M&G Catalyst and Sapphire Ventures.
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Hexagon BioMenlo Park$62M Series CA data-driven biotech company developing targeted small molecule therapeutics. Backed by The Column Group and 8VC.
By country
- US$98B
- China$18B
- South Korea$2.7B
- India$1.3B
- UK$1.2B
- France$846M
By sector
- Enterprise$102B
- Health$7.1B
- Fintech$5.7B
- Hosting$4.4B
- Semiconductors$3.6B
- Energy$3.3B
$126B across 1,097 rounds in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.
Just founded
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ExamPal EducationBerlin
AI-powered Goethe & telc B1 German mock exams with instant feedback, marked like the real test.
JIJean Isserstedt founded it after working at Yager. -
PiccardUS
Physical AI for untethered ocean robotics systems.
BCBora Celik previously founded Subkit and Jukely. -
AddvistaBerlin
Addvista delivers physical AI data from real construction sites and turns hands-on skills into visual intelligence, starting with a visual assistant for the trades.
DBDavid Ban
In the news
View all news stories- Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner pitched buying or carving out a stake in TikTok's European operations over lunch with the US ambassador to France, citing the US TikTok deal as a model.
- OpenAI nears $30B round at $1.25T valuation, led by Coatue and UAE investors
OpenAI is close to raising $30 billion in a late-stage round that would value the company at up to $1.25 trillion, before the new money.
- Datadog reportedly offered nearly $4B for Israel's Upwind, which is raising at $3.8B instead
Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud security startup Upwind for nearly $4 billion, The Information reported on 22 October.
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