Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
Reconfigurable robotic modules for task-specific forms.
YTREYannik Trinn & Ruben Estrella founded it. Trinn worked at Neura Robotics and Roland Berger. Estrella worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and Formlabs.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Databricks announced on 11 November that it plans to invest about $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over the next three years, its largest regional investment outside North America.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, Discovery Loop.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, Superluminal Medicines.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
AI systems that automate experimental loops for machine learning, science, and engineering.
JDSGQLJeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat & Quoc Le founded it. Dean worked at EZCorp and MySimon. Ghemawat worked at Alphabet and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Nvidia's board is launching an independent investigation after chief executive officer Jensen Huang admitted an affair with a woman identified in reports as a suspected Chinese intelligence asset.
Chicago-based venture firm The 81 Collection has raised $82 million for Fund II, doubling its 2021 debut fund and pushing total assets under management above $145 million.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, Square8.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, Superluminal Medicines.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Devia, a Zurich-based spinout from AI firm Visium, emerged from stealth on November 11, 2026, with an agentic AI that manages GxP deviation investigations in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, Outis Robotics.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, Somos Internet.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
Reconfigurable robotic modules for task-specific forms.
YTREYannik Trinn & Ruben Estrella founded it. Trinn worked at Neura Robotics and Roland Berger. Estrella worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and Formlabs.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Databricks announced on 11 November that it plans to invest about $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over the next three years, its largest regional investment outside North America.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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The Daily Deal
Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, Outis Robotics.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, Superluminal Medicines.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
Reconfigurable robotic modules for task-specific forms.
YTREYannik Trinn & Ruben Estrella founded it. Trinn worked at Neura Robotics and Roland Berger. Estrella worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and Formlabs.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Databricks announced on 11 November that it plans to invest about $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over the next three years, its largest regional investment outside North America.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The 29th edition of the Cape Town event formerly known as AfricaCom, covering connectivity, data centres, AI, cybersecurity and startups; it is the largest annual gathering of African telecom and technology operators.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
The Global edition with the best from Africa added. It goes out every morning. Set your regions to get the best from them by email, alongside the day's biggest stories.
The Daily Deal
Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, ChemPilot.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, Buildots.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
Autonomous laboratories for critical materials development and production.
MGSCOSMaor Goldman, Sam Cogan & Ofir Simhi founded it. Goldman worked at Cyberbit and Israel Defense Forces. Cogan worked at Sterling Bancorp and Israel Defense Forces.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Databricks announced on 11 November that it plans to invest about $3 billion across Europe and the Middle East over the next three years, its largest regional investment outside North America.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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The Daily Deal
Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, Outis Robotics.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, X Square.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
Reconfigurable robotic modules for task-specific forms.
YTREYannik Trinn & Ruben Estrella founded it. Trinn worked at Neura Robotics and Roland Berger. Estrella worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and Formlabs.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Resonac, the Japanese materials company created when Showa Denko acquired Hitachi Chemical in 2020 for about $8.8 billion, is betting that surging AI-chip demand will finally justify the price.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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The Daily Deal
Thursday 12 November 2026
Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang
Also: SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres; Musk calls it a default, SoftBank denies it
Chart of the day Top US funds back European startups at a record pace.
Just raised Torus $500M, Harwood Private Capital £120M, Imprint $130M.
Just acquired OpenAI buys Odessia, and two more.
Just founded Beancat, Outis Robotics.
Talent moves Yana Prikhodchenko joined Phase, and two more.
Hiring now iPronics, Fieldguide, Neara.
In the news Nvidia's board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after a report of a second affair, and six more stories.
Rounds raised by European startups with at least one of 24 leading US funds taking part came to $12.7B across 52 deals between 1 July and 11 November. That is above the $10.2B of the whole first half, and compares with $1.6B in the first half of 2023. Mistral AI raised $3.3B and Helsing $1.8B. At the same pace the half would end near $17.5B. The full value of each round is counted, not only the US funds' share.
BTAVSTBrian Tam, Amogh Vaishampayan & Samuel Tesh founded it. Tam worked at Yahoo! and Palo Alto Networks. Vaishampayan previously founded Paintcollar.
Reconfigurable robotic modules for task-specific forms.
YTREYannik Trinn & Ruben Estrella founded it. Trinn worked at Neura Robotics and Roland Berger. Estrella worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and Formlabs.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS and the Financial Times report that directors are meeting to decide his future, after the New York Times reported a relationship with a vice president who reports to him. No decision has been announced. Nvidia shares fell about 8% after hours, and the company has lost about $600B of value this week.
SoftBank reserved more than 13GW of gas turbines, mostly from GE Vernova, then cancelled the excess as payments came due and took a $3.7B charge. Musk posted that it was defaulting. SoftBank's CFO said there is no default, and GE Vernova said it saw no impact.
Xero shares jumped as much as 13% on Thursday after the cloud accounting company reported 46% first-half revenue growth, raised its outlook and announced a share buyback of up to A$1 billion.
The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia.
Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.
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REYannik Trinn & Ruben Estrella founded it. Trinn worked at Neura Robotics and Roland Berger. Estrella worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology and Formlabs.
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