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Samsung lifts Chungcheong chip plan to $98B as HBM race heats up
The 4 trillion won top-up goes to HBM, with Onyang Line 5 pulled forward a year to June 2028, while rival SK Group has pledged 170 trillion won for the same region.
Applied Intuition in talks to raise $1.5B+ led by General Catalyst at about $30B, double its 2025 valuation
Applied Intuition, the Mountain View company building software, operating systems and autonomy for vehicles and defence, is in talks to raise at least $1.5 billion in a round led by General Catalyst, Bloomberg reported…
Analysis: More investors are backing VC rounds again, but a third of the new money goes to 10 funds
Unique investors in VC rounds of $5M or more since 2010, by type from VC firms and corporate VCs to angels and crossover funds, and new VC funds raised per year with the share taken by the 10 largest.
Fractile raises $720M at a $7B valuation as Britain backs its bid to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips
London- and Bristol-based Fractile has raised a $720 million Series C at a $7 billion post-money valuation, according to backers Balderton and Georgian. Reuters and the Financial Times also reported $7 billion; the UK…
Drone maker Uforce raises $700M, nears $5B valuation
Uforce, a London-based drone maker founded by Ukrainian technologists, has raised $700 million, backed by the UK National Wealth Fund. The round values the company at $5 billion.
Agile Robots lands €450 million at $8.5B valuation to crack the US
Munich-based Agile Robots has raised €450 million ($500 million) in a late-stage round led by SoftBank Group, with participation from Nvidia, Hitachi, and T. Capital. The deal values the industrial robotics maker at…
Palantir lobbied UK minister to pull GP records into £330M NHS platform
Palantir lobbied a former UK health minister to extend its artificial intelligence technology into GP records, according to WhatsApp messages obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The messages, spanning July…
OpenAI, Anthropic sign Macron's Paris Call, but US and Google stay away
Ten AI labs — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft, Hugging Face, Cohere, Black Forest Labs, Synthesia and Sakana — signed the European-led Paris Call on AI safety on November 9. Signatories promise shutdown…
ByteDance plans Muse-style AI agent, eyes $70B AI spend
ByteDance plans to release an AI assistant in the coming weeks to rival Meta 's Muse, Bloomberg reports. Co-founder Zhang Yiming outlined the plan at an all-hands meeting of the company's AI team, framing it as a way to…
Databricks commits about $3B to Europe and the Middle East, its biggest bet outside North America
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. It will grow its EMEA team…
SE3 raises $30M Series A to give military drones spatial smarts
SE3, a Munich-based startup building AI software that helps military drones and unmanned systems understand the world in 3D, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Keen, Lakestar, and Seedcamp also…
Torus raises $500M Series C for modular AI data centers
Torus, a Salt Lake City energy-storage startup, raised $500 million in a Series C round to launch Foundry, a shipping container-sized product that combines batteries with AI computing. Magnetar led the round, with…
Rox raises $100M Series B at $1.3B valuation to replace the CRM
Rox, a San Francisco startup building AI sales agents, has closed a $100 million Series B at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation. General Catalyst and March Capital led the round, with Sequoia and GV returning and…
Xero jumps 13% on US$647.1M buyback, US$1.13B revenue
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 US$647.1M. The stock closed up 5.6% at…
Alta raises $47.5M for a compliance-first blockchain built for banks
Alta, a Layer 1 blockchain targeting banks and large financial institutions, has raised $47.5 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. GV, Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg, and Capital49 also took part, bringing…
Imprint raises $130M at $1.9B valuation to power retail loyalty cards
Imprint, a US fintech that builds co-branded credit cards for retailers, has raised $130 million at a $1.88 billion valuation. Positive Sum, the firm co-founded by Invest Like The Best host Patrick O'Shaughnessy, joined…
Al Gore's Just Climate closes $540M fund, eyes first Brazil deals
Just Climate, the climate investment arm of Al Gore's Generation Investment Management, has closed its first natural climate solutions fund, NCS I, at $540 million. The vehicle, which began raising in 2024, drew more…
SpaceX buys Grain's nationwide 800MHz spectrum, doubling CalPERS' stake
SpaceX has signed a deal to acquire nationwide 800MHz spectrum from private equity firm Grain Management. The price was undisclosed, though the acquisition was reported at around $8 billion and still requires approval…
Orakl Oncology raises $34m Series A for AI-powered 'virtual patient' cancer drug testing
Paris-based biotech Orakl Oncology has raised a $34m Series A to scale its AI-driven "virtual patient" platform, which models how cancer drugs will perform in patients before they reach clinical trials.
Analysis: AI-mogged: the AI-native startups now worth more than listed rivals
Six AI startups set against the listed rival a customer would weigh them against: Mercor is worth 8.7 times Upwork, Sierra 5.8 times Five9, Clay 5.6 times ZoomInfo, Lovable 4.1 times Wix, Cyera 1.9 times Varonis (at its…
Analysis: How stocks moved after the 2026 US midterms
Share price moves on 4 November 2026, the day after Democrats won Congress: SpaceX fell 4% and Tesla 3%, drone makers Kratos and Red Cat 10–12%, CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN 7–11%, Comfort Systems and Vistra 14–15%, while…
Analysis: Five venture hubs compared
The SF Bay Area, New York, London, Tel Aviv and Europe's New Palo Alto supercluster compared on share of global VC funding since 2015, new and total unicorns, thoroughbreds, $1B+ rounds in 2026, enterprise value, $10B+…
E-Guardian buys identity-security firm Pentio to build zero-trust stack
E-Guardian has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Pentio, making the Tokyo-based identity and access-management specialist a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal value was not disclosed. E-Guardian expects to complete…
Georgia sends six startups to Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon
Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) announced on November 11 that six Georgian startups are attending Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon. The companies — Quissly, AdMagica.ai, Filmcore, Zapio, Agrolog and Briano —…
StellarFix raises €50,000 to prototype star-based GPS alternative
Estonian startup StellarFix has raised €50,000 (≈$55,471) in a pre-seed investment from TooEarly Ventures, the venture studio at Estonian Business School. The money will fund a first prototype of its star-based…
Armenia moves toward EU supercomputing network, 5G security pact
Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry and Artificial Intelligence and the European Commission exchanged two statements of intent — one on joining the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC…
MistEO raises $1.9M seed to turn weather forecasts into risk intelligence
Climate intelligence startup MistEO has raised US$2.44M in a seed round led by MGF Kavachh, with participation from SeaFund and others. The Thiruvananthapuram-based company, founded in 2019, converts hyperlocal weather…
Phoenix Mills pays $144M to lift Island Star stake to 68.10%
Phoenix Mills has raised its stake in Island Star Mall Developers (ISMDPL) to 68.10% from 58.33%, paying US$183.3M to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). The transaction completed on November 12,…
SOLIZE unit buys AWS specialist Benjamin for undisclosed sum
SOLIZE Ureka Technology, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based SOLIZE Holdings, is acquiring all shares of Benjamin, a cloud and AI systems developer with strengths in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The deal value was not disclosed;…
1Crowd leads early VC round in India's Rymo Technologies
1Crowd has led an early-stage venture round in Rymo Technologies, an Indian health-tech company that builds robotic and AI-driven physical rehabilitation systems. The investment, announced in November 2026, expands…
Umicore to invest €450M in Belgian recycling, cut 350 jobs
Umicore will invest €450 million to expand its Precious Metals Refining flowsheet in Hoboken, Belgium, while proposing to cut up to roughly 350 jobs. It also reiterated its full-year 2026 guidance, with Q3 2026 trading…
Elligint buys Israel's Laguna to embed care-team AI for health plans
US healthcare technology company Elligint Health has acquired Israeli digital health startup Laguna Health, which builds conversational AI for insurers' care management teams. The price was not disclosed, though Israeli…
Rantum builds German surgical-instruments group with Eurazeo-backed financing
Rantum Capital has secured new growth financing from Eurazeo to fund the build-out of its MedTech group in premium surgical instruments. The financing, raised through the Rantum Private Equity Fund II, backs a string of…
Relic's Toyama fund backs Second Heart in bid to end diabetic amputations
Japan's Second Heart has raised an undisclosed seed extension led by the Toyama Co-Accel Fund (T-CAF), the deep-tech vehicle managed by business-creation company Relic. The Kyoto-based healthtech startup is working to…
Urbanista goes Swedish again as CEO leads buyout
Urbanista, the Swedish headphone brand, is being acquired by chief executive officer Magnus Wistam and Daniel Soussan, who are buying the bulk of the company. Terms were not disclosed.
Aptus Pharma raises $4.77M in private placement
Aptus Pharma raised US$6.07M on November 12, 2026 through a private placement, allotting 15,97,470 equity shares at US$3.8 each to 188 investors. The Indian pharmaceutical company priced the shares at a US$3.67 premium…
Olyv raises $6.15M in Series C extension, led by Nippon India Digital
Bengaluru-based personal lending platform Olyv has raised US$7.82M (around $6.15 million) in an extension of its Series C round. New investor Nippon India Digital led with US$6.79M, while returning backer Fundamentum…
Qlife raises $773,000 in directed share issue, with $350K more proposed
Swedish med-tech group Qlife has raised approximately US$930.8K through a directed issue of shares and warrants, with investors including Klockhuset Investment AB and Tellus Equity AB. The board upsized the raise from…
Cantabria's Tera cluster launches AI catalogue to lift 21% adoption rate
Cantabria's ICT cluster Tera is launching a catalogue of its members' AI solutions to spur adoption among companies in the northern Spanish region. The cluster announced the move on November 11, 2026, following an…
Ethiopia opens Pan-African AI residency for 51 founders from 12 countries
The Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute (EAII) launched the Pan-African AI Ventures Residency in Addis Ababa on November 9, bringing together 51 AI founders from 12 African countries. The 10-day programme runs…
$4.15M ORBIT project puts private 5G on Blackpool's trams and buses
VIAVI Solutions has joined ORBIT, a roughly $4.15 million project led by Blackpool Council to deploy a private standalone 5G network across the town's trams and buses. VIAVI contributes digital-twin technology to test…
AI tools win Andorra's ACTINN Awards, sharing €7,000 in prizes
Two AI startups won the seventh edition of Andorra's ACTINN Awards, announced November 11 by the country's technology and innovation cluster. Minervaly, a document-automation platform, took first place and €5,000;…
Franklin Templeton opens first GIFT City outbound fund, $5K minimum
Franklin Templeton has launched the Franklin US Equity IFSC Fund, its first outbound retail fund domiciled at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City). The open-ended feeder fund channels capital into the FTGF…
Hundo Pizza raises $800K seed to scale delivery-first pizza beyond Mumbai
Hundo Pizza, a Mumbai-born, delivery-first pizza brand, has raised US$1.02M in its first funding round, led by Titan Capital. Indian Silicon Valley Capital, Ankur Rangnekar, Akshay Rangnekar, and Haresh Chawla also took…
Gold by Gold raises €1.2 million to buy more physical gold
Gold by Gold, listed on Euronext Growth Paris, has raised €1.2 million in a capital increase to buy physical gold for its Reserves division. The share offer ran from October 19 to November 6, 2026, drawing demand for…
Tianyin Holdings raises $256M in share placement for channel push
Shenzhen-listed Tianyin Holdings has raised US$235.1M in a private share placement, issuing 219 million new A-shares at US$1.07 each. The shares began trading on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on November 12.
Kotak Alts puts $34.7M in debt into India's Gainwell Group
Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd has invested US$44.1M (roughly $34.7 million) in structured debt in India's Gainwell Group. The capital, channelled through holding company Indocrest Transportation Private Ltd, will…
B-LOG unit lands $5.5M BCA loan for cold-chain expansion
PT Simpan Sini Aja (SSA), a subsidiary of Indonesian logistics firm PT Trimitra Trans Persada (BLOG), has secured an additional US$6.51M investment loan from PT Bank Central Asia (BBCA). The facility, dubbed Investment…
Fortsense raises $60M Series C for lidar SPAD chips
Fortsense has closed a Series C round of more than US$55M (≈$60 million), the Chinese maker of lidar core chips and machine vision solutions said. Investors include Xintong Electronics, Jingce Electronic, Huarui…
Family firm Jakey Group buys Birmingham agency Opace
UK family investment firm Jakey Group has acquired Opace, a Birmingham-based digital marketing and web development agency, for an undisclosed sum. Founder David Bryan stays on as technical director, and the entire team…
First Capital bids €8.20 a share to lift Patrizia stake to 73%
First Capital Partner has launched a voluntary partial offer for shares in Patrizia, the Augsburg-based real estate investment manager, at €8.20 each in cash. The price is a 30.2% premium to the stock's prior close on…
Guardant Health prices $500M convertible notes to refinance 2027 debt
Guardant Health, a precision oncology company listed on the Nasdaq, has priced $500 million in 0% convertible senior notes due 2032. The private offering, sold to qualified institutional buyers, is set to settle on…
eClerx unit to buy US compliance firm RegEdge for up to $12M
eClerx Services said its wholly owned subsidiary, eClerx LLC, has signed a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement to acquire 100% of RegEdge LLC. The all-cash deal is valued at up to $12 million, including…
NIB lends Arelion $70.2M to build Nordic-Baltic fibre "superhighway
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has signed a five-year, US$84.6M loan with Arelion to expand and upgrade fibre network infrastructure across the Nordic and Baltic countries. It is project financing — debt, not equity.
Sami Robotics lands $100K seed at AgSharks, a first for the contest
Sami Robotics raised a $100,000 seed investment from Reservoir VC after taking top honours at the 2026 AgSharks pitch competition. It was one of two winners funded — alongside Soiltech Wireless, which received $25,000…
Kurabo to take 20% of TAUNS for US$99.7M in diagnostics push
Japan's Kurabo Industries plans to acquire 21.6 million shares in TAUNS Laboratories —20.27% of voting rights—for US$99.7M, making the in-vitro diagnostics maker an equity-method affiliate. The shares will come from two…
Google backs India's Rigi with $1.07M at $6.7B valuation
Creator economy startup Rigi has raised US$1.36M in late-stage venture funding from Google, according to regulatory filings reviewed by Entrackr. The company's board approved an allotment of 1,543 preference shares at…
Okinawa's forc closes Tsuryo Fund to back local seed startups
forc inc. has completed the final close of its Tsuryo Fund (Shinryo No. 1 Investment Limited Partnership), a venture capital vehicle backing seed-stage startups in Okinawa. The firm, based in Okinawa City and led by…
Leisure Hotels & Resorts buys IDM, expanding across the Midwest
Leisure Hotels & Resorts (LHR), based in Baxter, Minnesota, has acquired Madison, Wisconsin-based IDM Hospitality Management. The deal, which closed November 11, 2026, adds hotel and resort properties across Wisconsin,…
Plurai raises $13M seed to stress-test AI agents before launch
Plurai has raised $13 million in seed funding to expand a platform that simulates corporate environments and stress-tests autonomous AI agents before they go live. Team8 led the round, with participation from U&I,…
Nebuly raises $21M to prove what enterprise AI agents are worth
Nebuly has raised $21 million in a Series A round, led by Planven, to help enterprises measure what their AI agents are actually worth. The startup, founded in 2022 with offices in Turin and New York, tracks what AI…
Vytas lands $2.26M grant for silicon battery-material pilot plant
Vytas has secured a US$2.14M (≈$2.26 million) grant from the Government of Western Australia to build a nanoporous silicon pilot plant in Henderson. The award came through Round 2 of the Cook Labor government's…
Fresenius raises €523M from FMC share sale to fund growth
Fresenius placed about 13.4 million Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) shares at €39 each, raising just under €523 million and trimming its stake from roughly 25% to 20%. The accelerated bookbuilding, aimed at institutional…
ITOCHU closes $1.95B deal for half of US aircraft lessor ACG
ITOCHU has completed its $1.95 billion acquisition of a 50% stake in Aviation Capital Group (ACG), the US aircraft lessor, from Tokyo Century. The purchase, made via a 50% equity interest in holding company TC Skyward…
Belgium's Horus raises growth round at €300M valuation to take on Flanders
Liège-based Horus Software has raised a growth equity round led by French fund Verto Growth, valuing the accounting software company at €300 million. Verto takes a 40% stake in the family-owned scale-up, which until now…
Gama raises €15M seed to build satellite solar arrays
Gama, a Paris-based spacetech company, closed €15 million in seed funding to develop solar arrays for satellites, it announced on November 12. Transition, Planet A, Draper Associates, and Manta Ray joined the round.
Thailand's Horizon Group raises $12.5M to expand beyond sleep
Thailand's Horizon Group has raised $12.5 million in a Series A round from Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. The Bangkok-based consumer wellness company will use the money to expand its flagship brand, Lunio,…
Orvian buys Italian digital marketing firm WMR Group in platform roll-up
Orvian, a digital innovation group backed by Xenon Private Equity Small Cap, has acquired WMR Group, an Italian digital marketing business. Terms were undisclosed. OC&C Strategy Consultants provided buy-side commercial…
Rocket One's new Tracer Drone unit lands eight public-safety wins
Rocket One (Nasdaq: RKTO), an AI-based semiconductor infrastructure company, said its recently acquired Tracer Drone unit has won drone program contracts across four law enforcement agencies, two sheriff's departments,…
Wuxi Laitakang closes Series A and A+ to advance myeloid cell tech
Chinese biopharmaceutical company Wuxi Laitakang has closed Series A and Series A+ financing rounds, the company said on September 20. Cathay Capital led the Series A round, with CICC Capital 's CICC Norsgar Fund…
Iwan Books lands angel round to build AI self-publishing platform for Gen Z
Egyptian self-publishing startup Iwan Books has closed its first investment round, an angel round backed by Ahmed Sami, founder and chief executive officer of Eye Advertising Group. The capital will fund an AI-driven…
Israel's Tzomtech buys fintech Easify to build all-in-one MCA platform
Israeli technology company Tzomtech has acquired Easify, a New York fintech serving the merchant cash advance (MCA) industry, the companies announced on September 18, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. Easify's founder,…
Belgium's Altum Capital raises €32M for SME fund, backed by PMV
Ghent-based Altum Capital has raised €32 million for a new venture capital fund targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Belgian public investment company PMV is among the backers.
Kangxi Communications closes $23M deal for satellite chip maker Zhirong
Kangxi Communications has acquired a 50.3616% controlling stake in Chengdu Zhirong Technology for US$20.8M (roughly $23 million), the company announced in August 2026. The deal closed on September 22, 2026, with Zhirong…
Korea's ualive raises Series A as revenue jumps to $5.9M
ualive, a Korean entertainment company that builds businesses around artist intellectual property (IP), has raised a Series A round from several undisclosed domestic venture capital firms. The company announced the…
B3 and Leto invest $7.19M in private-credit data firm Idex
B3, Brazil's main exchange, and Leto Asset Management are investing roughly US$10.2M in Idex Analytics, a firm specialising in fixed-income indices, data, and pricing. The deal gives B3 up to 40% of the company, with an…
Merak Capital leads $1.3M round in Saudi studio Lambda
Merak Capital has led a $1.3 million round in Lambda Studios, a Saudi game developer that began on Roblox and is now moving onto new platforms, including Steam.
BayCoast's parent raises $91M in quiet Nasdaq debut
BayCoast Bank's new holding company, Narragansett Bancorp, raised $90.98 million by selling 9,098,800 shares at $10.00 each in a stock offering that closed on November 2. Shares began trading on the Nasdaq under the…
Echelon turns a year-old partnership into a stake in CREATE. Payments
Echelon Payments has made a strategic investment in CREATE., a payments company focused on the nonprofit sector. The move builds on a partnership that began in September 2025, when CREATE. joined Echelon's Strategic…
Vend places $300M in senior unsecured bonds at BBB+
Vend Marketplaces ASA has placed US$344.5M of senior unsecured bonds across three tranches, with Danske Bank and SEB acting as joint lead managers. The Oslo-based company, rated BBB+ with a stable outlook by Scope, will…
Rongqi Technology to buy semiconductor parts maker Deqishun in $84.2M deal
Chinese smart-inspection equipment maker Rongqi Technology (301360) will acquire a 60% stake in Shanghai-based Deqishun Precision Machinery for US$77.2M (about $84.2 million, FX-converted) in cash. After the deal…
Marble launches with $11M seed to finance the AI compute buildout
Marble, a new institutional capital markets firm, launched on November 10, 2026, with an $11 million seed round led by Polychain Capital. Maven 11, Ripple, Susquehanna Crypto, Lattice, Blockwall, and AI-focused angel…
SkyDrive lands fifth railway backer as Tobu joins eVTOL push
Japanese eVTOL maker SkyDrive has raised fresh late-stage funding from Tobu Railway and Tobu Top Tours through a third-party share allotment. The pair will help SkyDrive build ground infrastructure and plan commercial…
HeyInvest buys Capex Funds to merge investor data and fundraising
HeyInvest has acquired Capex Funds, combining its investor intelligence platform with a hands-on capital raising services firm. The deal was announced on November 10, 2026. Terms were not disclosed.
HOSIN raises $137M in Hong Kong IPO with razor-thin 1.77% free float
HOSIN Electronics, a Shenzhen-based memory chipmaker, priced its Hong Kong IPO at US$8.8 per share, raising gross proceeds of US$129.3M. The stock (ticker 2681) began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November…
Zydus closes $166M Assertio buyout for US oncology foothold
Zydus Lifesciences has completed its acquisition of US-based Assertio Holdings through a cash tender offer, executed via wholly owned subsidiary Zara Merger Sub Inc. The $166.4 million deal, at $23.50 per share, makes…
Robot-chip maker Amicro raises $90.5M in below-range Hong Kong IPO
Zhuhai-based Amicro Technology priced its Hong Kong IPO at US$1.2 per H share, raising US$85.8M in gross proceeds. The maker of navigation chips and modules for cleaning and service robots began trading on November 12,…
Terra Drone's Unifly wins $940K EU defence grant for counter-drone work
Unifly, the Belgium-based drone traffic management subsidiary of Japan's Terra Drone, has secured a grant worth €849,769 (about ¥150 million, or roughly $940,000) from the European Defence Fund. The money backs SPECTRE,…
QuickFee expands Fancourt term loan by $3.42M, cuts margin to 8.1%
QuickFee has raised an additional US$3.24M in post-IPO debt from Fancourt Capital Group, doubling its term loan facility to US$6.47M. The ASX-listed fintech also cut the margin it pays from 10.0% to 8.1% per annum over…
Texas teachers' pension anchors Avatar's $156M Asia-Pacific property fund
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) has anchored Avatar Capital Partners Fund II, a private equity vehicle that has held a $156 million first close. It marks the pension's first commitment to the Japanese…
Harwood hits £120M first close as British Business Bank adds £40M for SMEs
The British Business Bank has committed an additional £40 million to London-based Harwood Private Capital, backing the first close of its second fund, Harwood Private Capital UK Fund II. The commitment brings total…
Lila Bio wins $3.65M NIH grant for AI-designed lung disease drug
Lila Bio, a Seattle startup spun out of Nobel laureate David Baker's lab at the University of Washington, has won a $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a treatment for pulmonary…
NEX-I debuts on KOSDAQ after cut-price $29.9M IPO
Immuno-oncology drug developer NEX-I lists on South Korea's KOSDAQ market today, November 12, raising US$33.5M (roughly $29.9 million) by selling 5 million new shares. At its confirmed offer price, the company carries…
Octave buys stealthy Cerebre to fuel industrial AI push
Octave Intelligence has acquired Cerebre, a US software company that turns fragmented engineering schematics and plant data into a connected, real-time plant model. The deal was announced on November 11, 2026. Financial…
Pfizer lands up to $1.5B from Blackstone to fund obesity drug
Pfizer said on November 11 that Blackstone will provide up to $1.5 billion through 2028 to help fund development of berobenatide, its experimental monthly obesity treatment. The co-funding agreement shifts development…
Neurosterix lands $105M Series B for schizophrenia drug
Neurosterix has raised $105 million in a Series B to fund NTX-253, its lead schizophrenia candidate, and has recruited several figures behind Cobenfy, Bristol Myers Squibb 's muscarinic antipsychotic. The Geneva-based…
LOA Carbon wins $15K grant after relocating to Mississippi
LOA Carbon, a manufacturer that relocated from New York to Mississippi this year, won a $15,000 grant at Innovate Mississippi 's annual conference, beating nine other startups in a pitch competition before investors.
Inovalon to buy DrFirst, linking 240,000 prescribers to its data platform
Healthcare-technology company Inovalon has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DrFirst, a provider of prescription and clinical workflow technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced on…
ECGI buys Avanta Group in pivot to AI-enabled healthcare
ECGI Holdings has completed its acquisition of Avanta Group, a developing healthcare platform, issuing 17.16 million preferred shares to fund the all-stock deal. The transaction gives the holding company a…
Munters bets $37M on data-center cooling supply chain
Cooling technology provider Munters Group will invest $9.5 million in a US joint venture with heat-exchanger producer Lordan and around €25 million (about $27.73 million) to expand its chiller plant in northern Italy.…
Simbisa buys out Kenya delivery arm Kutuma for $664,000
Simbisa Brands, the Zimbabwean group behind Pizza Inn and Chicken Inn, has bought out the minority shareholder in Kutuma Kenya, the delivery company serving its fast-food chains. The deal, worth US$835.2K, gives Simbisa…
Revolv Space raises $5.6M Series A to scale satellite power systems
Revolv Space, an aerospace power system developer based in Italy and the Netherlands, has closed a €5 million ($5.6 million) Series A round led by Deep Ocean Capital. The company said it will use the money to expand…
Newfoundland backs EcoAxis with US$183.3K mat-rental grant
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is investing US$183.3K (roughly $175,000) in EcoAxis Inc. through its Business Investment Program. The grant, announced November 9, 2026, will fund the company's Access…
Aquaterra Energy's leaders buy the company, backed by HSBC
Aquaterra Energy's management team has bought the UK offshore engineering company, backed by financing from HSBC. The Norwich-based firm did not disclose the deal's terms or its previous owners.
Goldman, HSBC, and Fortress back $150M Saudi private credit deal
Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and Fortress Investment Group are backing $150 million in financing for United Saudi Company, alongside regional fund managers Ruya Partners and Amwal Capital Partners, according to Bloomberg. The…
Dubai's Cequire allocates $100M to early-stage blockchain startups
Cequire, a Dubai-based firm, has launched a $100 million venture capital fund targeting pre-seed and seed blockchain startups. Founded in the UAE in 2024 by Salman Parsi, the firm says it has already invested over $50…
Coro Energy lands $20M Mirova debt line for Vietnam solar push
Coro Energy, a South East Asian renewable energy developer listed on London's AIM, has secured a senior secured debt facility of up to $20 million from Mirova, part of Natixis Investment Managers. It is pairing the loan…
Chapel Hill lists Nigeria's first gender bond at $5.57M
Chapel Hill Denham has issued Nigeria's first gender bond, a 7,500,000,000 NGN (about $5.57 million) five-year fixed-rate debt instrument to finance women-owned and women-led businesses. FSD Africa (Financial Sector…
Crux Advisors buys Spectacular at Work to merge talent and strategy
Crux Advisors has acquired Spectacular at Work, a leadership and executive-assessment firm, in a deal announced in November with undisclosed terms. The combined business will operate as Crux Advisors, led by John Downey…
Autem lands $100K Musella grant to probe RF-EMF glioblastoma therapy
Autem Therapeutics has received a $100,000 venture philanthropy grant from The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research & Information to fund research on its glioblastoma device. The grant supports preclinical and…
Abac buys Ansotec and Bigmon to build Spanish automation platform
Abac Capital has acquired Ansotec Soluciones Tecnológicas and Bigmon Energía, taking a reference stake in both industrial automation firms. The Spanish private equity firm, led by Oriol Pinya, did not disclose terms.…
HiLITE Group launches debut $21M real estate fund in India
HiLITE Group, a Kerala-based real estate developer, has launched a $21 million (US$27.2M) real estate fund, its first vehicle as it enters investment management through a new vertical, HiLITE Investment Management. The…
VuMedi raises $104M Series B to scale AI physician learning tools
VuMedi, a peer-to-peer learning community for physicians, has expanded its AI-powered learning tools following a $104 million Series B investment from Oak HC/FT. The capital has funded hiring, research and development,…
Arauco raises $400M in hybrid bond to fund $4.6B Brazil mill
Arauco, the Chilean forestry company, placed a sustainable hybrid bond worth UF 10 million (about $400 million) on November 6. The 32-year, three-month bond carried a 4.13% rate and a spread of 163 basis points over the…
Oaktree buys Guascor Energy from Mutares for €74M
German investor Mutares has agreed to sell its power business Guascor Energy to Oaktree Capital Management for an equity value of €74 million. The deal, announced November 11, covers 100% of Guascor Energy and its…
Decentraland opens $30K beta fund to pay indie game creators
Decentraland has launched the beta season of its Creator Fund, a $30,000 rewards pool shared among developers based on how players engage with their games. Creators can opt in through the platform's Creator Hub from…
Arifpay, KLIK deal targets 1,500 Addis Ababa vendors with POS, QR payments
Arifpay Financial Technologies and KLIK Investment signed a partnership on October 19, 2026 in Addis Ababa to bring POS terminals and QR code payments to restaurants across the Ethiopian capital. The deal is commercial,…
Coreshell raises $30M to swap Chinese graphite for US silicon
Coreshell, a California-based battery startup, has raised a $30 million Series B to scale up manufacturing of its silicon-anode lithium-ion cells. Ferroglobe and investment firm Access Industries led the round, with…
DFN Foundation launches £15M myeloma fund, targets £30M total
The DFN Charitable Foundation has launched the Jacquelin Forbes-Nixon Myeloma Fund with £15 million already committed, targeting £30 million to accelerate treatments for myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. The initial…
Seattle's Ascend closes $17M fund for 'Third Act' hardware startups
Seattle venture firm Ascend has closed a $17 million third fund to back early-stage startups building robots, energy systems, defense technology, and other products that combine software and hardware. The firm also…
Foreign buyers took 300+ UK firms worth £500B in a decade
Foreign acquirers have bought more than 300 UK-listed companies over the past decade, with a combined price tag of over half a trillion pounds at today's prices, according to a Financial Times analysis of London Stock…
AirTrip buys Pilates chain Habit in second beauty franchise deal
AirTrip, a Tokyo-listed travel and services group, is acquiring Habit Pilates, which runs small-group machine Pilates studios, and turning it into a consolidated subsidiary. The companies signed a stock transfer…
Trampay builds $44.8M FIDC to lend to Brazil's delivery workers
Trampay, a Brazilian fintech serving app-based delivery workers, launched a credit fund with the capacity to lend up to US$64M (≈$44.8 million) to drivers who often struggle to get bank credit. The personal loan line is…
Theo the humanoid takes the supermarket night shift
Key takeaways from the launch video of Theseus Robotics (November 2026):
Zinzino buys Uzesta's Asia assets for $800K to shore up APAC
Swedish health-tech company Zinzino has acquired the distributor database, customer records, inventory, and intellectual property of US-based direct seller Uzesta Global, targeting the latter's operations in Taiwan,…
Indonesia's Rukun Raharja secures $15M Islamic credit line from Maybank
Indonesian energy infrastructure company PT Rukun Raharja (IDX: RAJA) and six subsidiaries have secured a 12-month Islamic financing facility of up to US$16.3M from PT Bank Maybank Indonesia. The parties signed the…
Alibaba takes minority stake in Vietnam beauty chain Hasaki
Alibaba has acquired a minority stake in Vietnamese cosmetics retailer Hasaki, gaining direct exposure to an omnichannel beauty network of more than 140 physical stores. Terms were not disclosed. The deal, reported in…
Ardian raises €1B for Europe's first chip-focused private equity fund
Ardian has raised €1 billion (about $1.1 billion) for Ardian Semiconductor, a private equity platform dedicated to Europe's semiconductor value chain. The total comprises close to €700 million in fund commitments, with…
Zimmer Biomet raises $500M in debt as it funds a 2026 buying spree
Medical device maker Zimmer Biomet has raised $500 million through a senior unsecured bond due 2036, part of a broader offering it priced on November 5, 2026. The dollar notes carry a 5.85% coupon and sold at 99.993% of…
Ex-Microsoft engineers raise $70M for AI-era data platform Edelbyte
Israeli data infrastructure company Edelbyte has emerged from stealth with $70 million, led by Sequoia and Quiet Capital, with participation from Greenoaks and Swish Ventures. The company builds a search and analytics…
Genetec exits loss-making battery JV with Citaglobal for US$0.24
Genetec Technology Bhd has agreed to sell its entire 50% stake in Citaglobal Genetec BESS Sdn Bhd (CG BESS) to Citaglobal New Energy Sdn Bhd for a nominal US$0.24 (≈$0). The deal, signed November 6, 2026, also transfers…
Afreximbank lends Nigeria's DBN $75M for small businesses
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has committed a $75 million loan to the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) to expand financing for small and medium-sized businesses, including creative firms. DBN will route…
The 81 Collection raises $82M to fund businesses VC overlooks
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. Rather than chase software and AI startups, it…
365 Retail Markets buys SpyderWash maker to crack laundromats
365 Retail Markets has acquired Setomatic Systems, maker of the SpyderWash laundry payment platform, in a deal announced November 9, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. The Schantz family retains an investment in the…
ETRA Group takes full control of drone maker ETRAir
ETRA Group has acquired 100% of ETRAir, buying the remaining 49% stake from Casiatech to take full ownership of the drone and counter-drone business. The acquisition, closed on May 28, was announced in November. No…
Muxi-UBTECH chip venture raises $74.9M angel round
Xixuan Chuangzhi, a chip joint venture founded by Chinese GPU maker Muxi and robot maker UBTECH, has raised US$68.8M in an angel round. Jiyuan Capital and Matrix Partners co-led the financing.
Bahrain's Bapco backs Kimmeridge energy fund nearing $1.5B target
Bapco Energies, Bahrain's integrated energy group, has invested in Kimmeridge Fund VII, the flagship private equity fund of US energy-focused asset manager Kimmeridge. The commitment, made through Bapco's corporate…
Roshel to buy idled Stellantis plant in Brampton for defence output
Canadian armoured-vehicle maker Roshel will acquire Stellantis 's idled Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario, the two companies announced on November 9, 2026. The price is undisclosed, and the deal is expected to close by…
Goldman, Citi lead 21-bank group backing stablecoin with $270M
A 21-bank consortium including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Banco Santander, and Deutsche Bank has committed about $270 million to a joint stablecoin venture, according to people familiar with the matter. The funding will…
Gates warns Trump inaction leaves world exposed to AI pandemic risk
Bill Gates has accused the Trump administration of blocking efforts to guard against AI's risks, warning the technology could be used to cause a pandemic "significantly worse than Covid." The Microsoft co-founder spoke…
QSTP, TotalEnergies bring 11 water-tech startups to Doha showcase
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation, and TotalEnergies have hosted the Final Showcase of their WaterTech Accelerator in Doha. The event closed a Doha Immersion Week that brought a cohort…
China pumps $11.5B into ETFs to revive its AI stock rally
China's state-backed "national team" of banks and funds poured a net $11.5bn into nine exchange traded funds on Tuesday, the second-highest daily total on record, according to Bloomberg data. An unusually large share…
Freight unicorn sennder lands €228M in equity and credit
German freight startup sennder has raised €228 million ($255 million), combining €73 million in new equity with €155 million in financing facilities. Scania and Poste Italiane led the equity portion, all of which came…
Palomma raises $10M Series A to grow Colombia rent-payment business
Palomma, a Medellín-based startup that handles rent payments and lending for landlords, tenants and property managers, has raised a $10 million Series A led by Mexican venture firm Cometa. Co-founder and chief executive…
Vine Ventures closes $236M third fund, doubling its AUM
US-Israeli venture firm Vine Ventures has closed its third fund at $236 million. The raise lifts the firm's total assets under management above $500 million, five years after its 2020 founding.
Norfund commits $25M to DPI's next fund after MNT-Halan IPO
Development finance institution Norfund committed $25 million to Development Partners International's (DPI) next fund, a private equity vehicle, in December. The pledge follows DPI's track record backing Egyptian…
Altius to buy TNR Gold in $85.9M royalty deal
Altius Minerals has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the roughly 87% of TNR Gold it does not already own, in a transaction valuing the target at about US$89.5M (roughly $85.9 million). TNR shareholders will…
Nova raises $24M to link credit cards to Brazil's Pix network
Nova, a Brazilian fintech that lets consumers use existing credit cards for instant payments and bills, raised $24 million in a Series A led by Canaan, chief executive officer Rafael Matos told Axios Pro.
Student-led proptech Soolok lands US$93.6K DOST grant
Soolok Properties, a Philippine proptech startup, has won a US$93.6K grant from the Startup Grant Fund of the DOST Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD).…
Devia exits stealth with agentic AI and a new leadership team for pharma quality
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 tool is now available to…
AST SpaceMobile wins $1B Japan grant as 100-satellite plan faces launch test
AST SpaceMobile has secured approximately $1 billion in non-dilutive funding from Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, tied to a new joint venture with Rakuten called Rakuten AST. The Texas-based…
Warner Bros-Paramount merger brings games layoffs amid $6B savings push
Skydance Games has laid off staff across its video game division, just over a month after the merger of Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount combined their gaming operations. At least 25 people have lost their jobs,…
Iron Path buys Boulder Scientific, ending Quad-C's seven-year hold
Quad-C Management has sold Boulder Scientific Company to Iron Path Capital, the firms announced on November 11, 2026. Terms were undisclosed.
Romanian edtech Kinderpedia closes €2.7M round as BCR backs it
Romanian edtech Kinderpedia has closed a €2.7 million early-stage round, with corporate venture arm BCR Seed Starter adding €500,000 as a strategic backer. The round was led by Polish fund Simpact Ventures, with Early…
Palo Alto's CyberArk deal: $25B on paper, $21B at close, $37B now
Palo Alto Networks ' acquisition of CyberArk, announced in July 2025 as a roughly $25 billion cash-and-stock deal, was booked at $21.1 billion when it closed on February 11, 2026. The gap reflects a drop in Palo Alto's…
Banks insure AI data-centre loans to lend past their limits
Banks are buying credit insurance on their AI data-centre loans to lay off risk and lend more into the AI boom. Barclays recently bought cover for its AI infrastructure exposure, HSBC has explored the product, and…
Campfire buys Winnipeg Apple consultancy Precursor Systems
Campfire Technology has acquired Precursor Systems, a Winnipeg Apple consultancy founded in 1994 and led by Alex Narvey. Terms were not disclosed. Campfire is an independent, owner-operated IT provider that has worked…
Inverto Earth raises $2.4M seed to cut coastal restoration costs
Swiss NatureTech startup Inverto Earth has raised US$1.83M in a seed round led by the Bloom Foundation. Zürcher Kantonalbank, Venture Kick, Kickfund, Techstars, Valery Foundation, and SICTIC angels also backed the…
Invest Qatar launches bootcamp to prep startups for Web Summit 2027
Invest Qatar has launched Road to Web Summit Qatar 2027, a programme to ready high-potential startups for investor and commercial engagement ahead of the event. Announced November 10 on the sidelines of Web Summit…
Arizona hands five SaaS startups $100K non-dilutive awards each
The Arizona Commerce Authority on November 4 named five SaaS startups as the Fall 2026 Arizona Innovation Challenge awardees. Each will receive $100,000 in non-dilutive funding plus three months of tailored support on…
IBM Ventures backs Komodor's push to run AI agents in production
IBM Ventures has invested in Komodor, the maker of what it calls an Agentic Operations Platform for Production. The investment, announced on November 10, 2026, backs Komodor's shift from Kubernetes troubleshooting to…
SpaceX taps Germany's Singulus for €60M solar-cell line to power orbital AI
SpaceX has signed a supply contract worth more than €60 million with German equipment maker SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES for a turnkey heterojunction (HJT) solar-cell production line. The first line is due in the first half of…
Hikma Ventures backs 3D-printing nutrition firm Rem3dy in first wellness bet
Hikma Pharmaceuticals' corporate venture arm, Hikma Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Rem3dy Health, a UK company that uses 3D printing to make personalised nutrition products. The company, founded by Melissa…
Anthropic IPO could mint 4,250 millionaires as Wall Street circles
Anthropic 's planned initial public offering could turn roughly 4,250 of its 5,300 employees into millionaires, according to a forecast from private-market tracker Hill reported by The Observer. The estimate includes…
Swiss fintech Selma raises $1.45M from the crowd to build AI pension planning
Selma, a Zurich-based digital wealth manager, has raised nearly US$1.1M from more than 150 crowd investors. The financing takes the form of a convertible loan that later converts into company shares.
Nelson brothers buy back Nelson's Green Brier from Constellation
Brothers Andy and Charlie Nelson have bought back full ownership of Nashville's Nelson's Green Brier Distillery from Constellation Brands, through their company Belle Meade Spirits. The undisclosed deal, completed…
Course Corrected closes $91.1M second fund for Nordic climate tech
Stockholm's Course Corrected has reached a final close on Fund II at US$108.8M, a venture vehicle targeting Nordic early-stage climate technology. The firm, founded in 2021 by Kerstin Cooley and Katja Bergman, backs…
HCP Bricks buys Helsinki offices below replacement cost as rivals gate
Helsinki Capital Partners is raising capital for its HCP Bricks Fund to buy discounted commercial properties in Helsinki, betting on Finland's dislocated real estate market. The boutique firm is targeting low…
Nvidia's Israeli-built BlueField-4 chip becomes 'Sentry' watchdog for AI agents
Nvidia 's Israeli engineers are developing BlueField-4, a processor designed to provide an external layer of control over autonomous AI agents. It sits outside the CPU as a hardware-level safeguard that monitors agents…
Crop Cura enters Rwanda, targeting 5M farmers across Africa
Crop Cura Rwanda Limited has launched operations in Rwanda with a digital platform that helps smallholder farmers access agricultural advice, build verified farm records, and improve access to financial services. The…
Scottish state bank launches first fund, up to £65M for university spinouts
The Scottish National Investment Bank is launching its first-ever fund, the Scottish Universities Fund, committing up to £65m of cornerstone capital to businesses spun out of Scotland's universities. Investments begin…
Vertex Minerals raises $1.94M to fund gold mine ramp-up
Vertex Minerals has completed a convertible loan round, raising a minimum of US$1.81M (roughly $1.94 million). The money came from third-party investors plus entities tied to two executive directors, with Vert Capital…
Newcastle founder lands Start Up Loan to launch Bass Turtle device
Nick Tyler, founder of Newcastle-based Pisces Devices, has secured five-figure debt funding to bring his Bass Turtle sensory device to market. The Start Up Loan came through the British Business Bank, with support from…
Hong Kong meatball maker Tai Lung Fung lands £75,000 to double its range
Tai Lung Fung, a Whickham food factory founded by Hong Kong immigrant Gary Yeung, has secured £75,000 in debt funding to expand its premises and double its frozen meatball range for UK supermarkets. The money comes from…
North Dakota's FIBT buys Dallas' Dominion Bank to enter Texas
North Dakota-based First International Bank & Trust (FIBT) has agreed to acquire Dallas' Dominion Bank, which holds $650 million in assets and three branches. The deal, announced in November 2026, gives FIBT its first…
Ellipse buys Montreal broker Asassur, deepening Laval footprint
Ellipse Insurance has acquired Asassur, a Greater Montreal brokerage founded in 2012, for undisclosed terms. The deal strengthens Ellipse's presence in Laval and adds a client base rooted in Montreal's Asian community.
Coal trader Javelin buys its way into cobalt and molybdenum
Javelin Global Commodities has acquired Derek Raphael & Co., a family-owned merchant that trades cobalt and molybdenum, Bloomberg reported. The deal, announced in November 2026, gives the coal trader a foothold in…
NZ agtech Aimer Farming raises $1.69M to turn grass data into beef profits
New Zealand agtech startup Aimer Farming has raised US$1.94M (≈$1.69 million) in an early-stage round to help beef farmers calculate how much grass they have to feed their cattle. The round was co-led by Cultivate…
Helsing launches Clarity, an AI-agent intelligence platform for armed forces, taking on Palantir
What happened? Helsing, the German defence AI company, unveiled Clarity in Berlin on 11 November: an agentic intelligence platform that helps armed forces process sensor feeds, satellite imagery, drone video, open…
Enbridge raises $3B in debt as Q3 earnings climb
Enbridge, the Calgary-based energy infrastructure company, disclosed a $3 billion long-term debt program in a filing dated November 9, 2026. The program spans senior notes maturing between 2032 and 2056 and subordinated…
Electra AI raises $5M bridge as SPAC merger clears SEC comments
Electra AI has raised roughly $5 million in bridge financing, the company said Tuesday, as it and Iron Horse Acquisition II Corp. (Nasdaq: IRHO) filed Amendment No. 1 to the Form S-4 registration statement for their…
Montana clears final hurdle for $15.4B NorthWestern–Black Hills merger
The Montana Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved the $15.4 billion merger of NorthWestern Energy and Black Hills Corp, the last regulatory sign-off the companies needed to combine. The vote was 3–2.
Samsung Biologics rights offering hits 96.83% as $1.98B M&A nears
Samsung BioLogics has secured most of a US$2.23B rights offering, with its employee and existing-shareholder round reaching a 96.83% subscription rate. Major shareholders Samsung C&T and Samsung Electronics took their…
Vanna Health adds three executives after $17M Series B
Vanna Health has named three executives after closing its Series B round, the company announced November 10, 2026, in San Francisco. Todd Yu joins as chief financial officer, Julie Barbiere as vice president of…
SoftBank gives up gas turbines it reserved for US data centres as the AI race turns on scarce power; Musk says it defaulted
What's the story? The AI race is turning on who holds the scarce inputs: turbines and power, chips, and compute. The Wall Street Journal reports that SoftBank reserved well in excess of 13 gigawatts of gas turbines for…
a16z leads $27M bet on code-level translation startup
General Translation has raised $27 million across seed and Series A rounds to embed AI localization directly into code and documentation. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A, with partner Martin Casado joining the…
Cade clears France's Loxam to buy control of Brazil's Mills
Brazil's antitrust regulator, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), approved without restrictions the acquisition of control of Mills by France's Loxam SAS, the company said on November 10. Loxam is…
RIVM may have to close outdated Bilthoven virus labs after park manager flags outbreak risk
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) may have to close its laboratories for research on highly contagious pathogens at Utrecht Science Park Bilthoven.
Ruikang units to back $12M in new credit as revenue, profit slide
Ruikang Pharmaceutical Group said two wholly owned subsidiaries will provide joint liability guarantees for up to US$11.7M in new comprehensive credit facilities for the listed parent. The subsidiaries — Ruikang…
BuildDirect raises $3.54M to fund US Midwest flooring deal
BuildDirect has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to US$3.67-million (about $3.54 million) to help fund a US acquisition. The Vancouver company plans to issue up to 2,083,333 common shares at US$1.76 each…
Avanade acquires Manchester AI firm Robiquity in Microsoft automation push
London-based Avanade has agreed to acquire Robiquity, a Manchester specialist in AI-first business solutions, intelligent automation and low-code development. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal, announced…
Botswana Tech Fund backs seven Southern African startups with up to £100,000 each
The Botswana Tech Fund has selected seven startups from Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe for the first cohort of its pre-seed accelerator, committing up to £100,000 per company. The three-month…
OpenAI buys travel agent Odessia, hires ex-Sonder founder Davidson
OpenAI has acquired Odessia, an AI travel concierge that books complete trips, and hired its founder, Francis Davidson. Terms were undisclosed; the deal was announced on November 10, 2026.
Cetus Maritime lands $175M backing for Oslo listing
Hong Kong dry bulk company Cetus Maritime has secured $175 million in a private placement as it prepares to list on Euronext Growth Oslo later this month. Eastern Pacific Shipping, Songa Capital, the Albemarle Shipping…
Anthropic rolls out AI office suite as it eyes $64.4B IPO
Anthropic has launched a set of workplace tools — Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, Meetings and Data — pushing its AI assistant into everyday office work. The rollout, announced at a San Francisco event on Tuesday, targets…
OpenAI opens ChatGPT to businesses with claimable profiles, analytics and sponsored Business Agents
What's new? OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta on 10 November. Through a new Business Hub, any eligible business in a market where ChatGPT is available can claim and verify its listing, update its details and…
AMD puts $2.9B price on Toronto's Taalas, a top Canadian tech deal
AMD will pay about $2.9 billion for Toronto AI chip startup Taalas, according to a securities filing on November 4, making it one of the largest takeovers of a Canadian technology company. The cash-and-stock deal,…
Square8 buys Switzerland's Korix to secure its AI workers
Square8 has acquired the technology and team of Korix, a Swiss cybersecurity company based in Canton Schwyz, in a transaction with undisclosed terms. Korix provides phishing simulations, security-awareness training and…
My.Games managers to buy out owner in UAE-backed deal
My.Games has signed a definitive agreement for a management buyout from its sole shareholder, Alexander Chachava. The deal is led by chief executive officer Elena Grigorian and chief operating officer Denis Savuta, and…
Carlyle and SEI debut private markets fund with $1,000 minimum for wealthy investors
The Carlyle Group and SEI Investments have launched the SEI Carlyle Private Markets Fund, a private equity vehicle aimed at wealthy individual investors. It carries a 0.75% management fee and a $1,000 minimum…
Broadwing launches distribution platform with Supply Side buy
Dallas-based private equity firm Broadwing Capital has acquired Supply Side, a Cleveland distributor of packaging materials and hardware, as the first investment in its new specialty distribution platform. Terms were…
Conta Azul buys PlayBPO as it targets one million customers
Conta Azul, a Joinville-based financial management platform for small and medium businesses, has acquired PlayBPO, a Florianópolis startup that builds technology for outsourced finance providers. Terms were not…
Brazil's finaya lands growth round from Crescera and GS1 for embedded finance push
Finaya, a Brazilian embedded finance platform, has raised an undisclosed growth equity round from Crescera Capital and GS1 Brasil Ventures. The company lets retailers and large firms offer banking services under their…
Pay2o raises $1.08M seed to cut recurring-fee payment costs in Japan
Pay2o, a Tokyo fintech startup, has raised US$1.31M in a seed round led by XTech Ventures, with Mizuho Capital and Plaid participating. The company offers a payment service for recurring charges like tuition and…
IP Lab lands $56M for Czech deep-tech fund spun out of universities
IP Lab has raised 1,200,000,000 CZK (roughly $56 million) for the IP Lab Ventures Fund, a venture capital vehicle backed by the European Investment Fund (EIF) with support from the Czech ministry of industry and trade.…
Wix paid $80M for Israel's Base44. It's now nearing $250M in ARR
Base44, the Israeli AI app-building platform Wix bought in June 2025 for about $80 million upfront, is now nearing $250 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), Calcalist reports. That is up from roughly $200 million…
Alibaba moves to list T-Head, its in-house answer to Nvidia's AI chips, in Hong Kong
Alibaba said on 10 November that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has cleared it to spin off T-Head, its wholly owned chip design unit, and that T-Head confidentially filed its listing application for the Main Board on 11…
PortX lands non-dilutive growth capital from CIBC for bank integration platform
PortX, a Seattle-based AI-native data integration platform for community banks and credit unions, has secured growth capital financing from CIBC Innovation Banking. The debt facility is non-dilutive, and its amount and…
LF Energy lands $2.5M Google.org grant for European grid software
LF Energy, the Linux Foundation's open-source energy arm, has received a $2.5 million grant from Google.org, administered via INCO, to advance open-source modelling, forecasting and data tools for Europe's electricity…
Zilch adds £165M in debt as it lines up a London IPO
UK fintech Zilch has secured £165 million in new debt, led by Deutsche Bank, as it prepares for a possible London flotation. The facility lifts Zilch's total securitisation and corporate debt capacity to almost £400…
Huberman joins Hims & Hers board — plus $8.5M a year in advisory and ad deals
Hims & Hers Health appointed neuroscientist and Stanford professor Andrew Huberman, 51, to its board on November 4, 2026, expanding the board from nine to ten directors. Alongside the seat, Huberman signed overlapping…
Zürcher Kantonalbank's Swiss Growth Fund II passes $251M
Zürcher Kantonalbank's asset management arm has secured more than US$188.3M (roughly $251 million) for its Swiss Growth Fund II, formally the Swisscanto (CH) Private Equity Switzerland Growth II L-QIF KmGK. The…
Abu Dhabi's Hub71+ Life Sciences hits $463M in startup funding in first year
Hub71+ Life Sciences, Abu Dhabi's specialist health and life sciences ecosystem, marked its first anniversary with a portfolio of 58 startups that have raised $463 million and generated $138 million in revenue. The…
Startup Garage opens youth incubator in Navoiy with route to AloqaBank, AloqaVentures capital
Startup Garage opened a Youth Business Incubator in Navoiy, Uzbekistan, on November 9 for people aged 18 to 30. It offers mentors, free education programs, coworking space and a route to investment from AloqaBank and…
Uzbekistan extends IT Park tax breaks to robotics makers at new $500M tech centre
Uzbekistan will grant companies in the planned Future Technologies Centre in Nurafshon the same incentives enjoyed by IT Park residents, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced on November 9. Imported materials and…
INMerge Ventures to double charter capital to AZN 6.8M
Baku-based venture firm INMerge Ventures plans to double its charter capital to AZN 6.8 million from AZN 3.4 million. The increase will come from raising the nominal value of its 3.4 million existing shares from AZN 1…
Vinted Go opens in Finland, its sixth market, with 300 Helsinki drop-off points
Vinted Go, the logistics arm of second-hand marketplace Vinted, has launched parcel delivery in Finland, starting in the Helsinki region with 300 pick-up and drop-off (PUDO) points. Deliveries are handled by Unisend,…
Oslo's Frid launches AI assistant built on PSD2 bank data
Oslo fintech Frid, run by Visonomic, has launched an in-app AI assistant that lets users ask questions about their personal finances and get answers drawn from their own bank data. The feature, live for a few days,…
Poland's ZEN.COM eyes 100K Hungarian users as it rolls out full suite
Polish fintech ZEN.COM has launched its full retail portfolio in Hungary, offering multi-currency accounts, cards, transfers, and currency exchange in 35 currencies. Strategy director Maciej Rynarzewski announced the…
Glasgow spin-out Entourage AI trials blood test to predict injuries at Nottingham Forest
University of Glasgow spin-out Entourage AI has partnered with Premier League club Nottingham Forest on a 12-week trial testing whether blood tests can flag early biological signs that a player is becoming more…
Korea's MBD prices KOSDAQ IPO at $10.4M, 27% below its range
South Korean precision-oncology firm MBD set its IPO price at US$5.87 per share, raising about US$11.7M (roughly $10.4 million) ahead of its KOSDAQ listing. The company is selling 2 million new shares, giving it an…
Bandai Namco takes 42.1% stake in Vietnam's Pops to expand in Southeast Asia
Japan's Bandai Namco Holdings has acquired a 42.1% stake in Pops Group, a Vietnam-based digital entertainment company, and formed an alliance to grow revenue from digital intellectual property and fan engagement across…
Horizon Capital backs UK compliance firm enevo for growth push
Horizon Capital has acquired a significant stake in enevo, a UK built-environment testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) business, in a late-stage investment announced in November 2026. The firm is…
Korai Flix to go public via $3.5B SPAC merger with Apex Tech
Interactive entertainment platform Korai Flix has agreed to merge with Apex Tech Acquisition, a blank-cheque company, in an all-stock deal that values Korai at $3.5 billion on a pre-money equity basis. The combined…
Ecopetrol raises $2B in bonds to refinance Brava Energia deal
Ecopetrol, Colombia's state-controlled oil company, sold $2 billion in eight-year bonds to repay existing debt and refinance the loan behind its Brazil expansion. The notes, maturing in November 2034, priced at a 7.98%…
Anthropic sets IPO terms at up to $1.02T, and its chip and cloud suppliers buy $26B alongside
What happened? Anthropic has set the terms of its IPO and launched the roadshow. Amendment No. 2 to its Form S-1, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 10 November 2026, and Anthropic's own…
JBS buys sister firm Flora for $542M to enter personal care
JBS, the world's largest meat company, has agreed to acquire 100% of Flora, a Brazilian consumer products maker, in a deal valued at $542 million. The move marks JBS's entry into beauty and personal care and expands its…
Airbnb's Chesky pledges $100M to SF parks, city's largest single-donor gift
Airbnb chief executive officer Brian Chesky has pledged $100 million to San Francisco's public parks, which city officials call the largest gift from a single donor in its history. The first $39 million goes immediately…
Octopus Energy launches Asian renewables fund, targeting $600M Asia push
Octopus Energy has launched a new Asian renewables fund, unveiled during the US$0.01 climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. The fund size is undisclosed, but it builds on the company's planned $600 million Asia…
Amazon brings $150K community fund to Ulsan after Incheon debut
Amazon on November 9 unveiled South Korea's second Amazon Korea Community Fund, a $150,000 corporate grant programme for Ulsan. It backs schools, non-profits, and libraries pursuing local projects in education, STEM,…
Windward Bio targets $1B valuation in Nasdaq IPO
Swiss drug developer Windward Bio Group AG is seeking a valuation of up to $1 billion in its US initial public offering. The Basel-based company plans to raise up to $185.3 million by selling roughly 10.3 million shares…
Centric Brands CEO Jason Rabin buys back $3B apparel group in management-led deal
Centric Brands chief executive officer Jason Rabin has led a management buyout of the New York lifestyle brand group, backed by new investors Axar Capital Management, M-Cor Capital, MSP Sports Capital, and group…
Strategy raises $284M in share sale, directs most to STRC buybacks over bitcoin
Strategy raised $283.8 million in net proceeds by selling about 2.05 million MSTR common shares through its at-the-market program in the week to November 8. Most of the capital — $188.3 million — went to repurchasing…
Chipmaker Xinde raises $112M in Hong Kong IPO as retail piles in
Jiangsu Xinde Semiconductor Technology priced its Hong Kong IPO at US$1.07 per share, raising net proceeds of about US$106.6M (roughly $112 million). The chip packaging and testing firm offered 107 million H shares and…
Mistral's Arthur Mensch: energy is only 10% of compute costs, capital is the bottleneck, and Mistral can go public in Europe
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Klabin to raise $218M for Paraná forest venture
Klabin, Brazil's largest paper and packaging group, agreed on November 6, 2026, to form a joint company with an undisclosed institutional investor that will inject US$307M. Klabin will contribute forest assets across…
Carbon-credit firm Nature's Ledger to go public via SPAC merger at $323.8M valuation
Globa Terra Acquisition Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Nature's Ledger, an Alberta-based carbon markets company, creating a publicly traded business under the Nature's Ledger name. The deal,…
Renzo Gracie takes equity stake in UJITSU, joins as global ambassador
Renzo Gracie, the two-time ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) world champion, has taken an equity stake in UJITSU, a UAE-founded company building a digital platform for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He joins as global ambassador and…
Big Caring's $480M IPO values Malaysian pharmacy chain at $2B
Big Caring Group Bhd is listing on Bursa Malaysia 's Main Market in a US$478.3M offering that values the pharmacy chain at roughly US$1.91B. The IPO comprises up to 1.88 billion shares at a retail price of US$0.26 each,…
Kazakh startup PanDev Metrics closes seed round to measure AI's real impact on coding
Almaty-based PanDev Metrics has closed a seed round for its Engineering Intelligence platform, which measures the real business impact of AI on software development. Investors will be named later. The startup counts 20…
Puresta raises $3.5M, launches AI skincare platform EVERQ in India
Puresta has raised US$4.62M (roughly $3.5 million) and launched EVERQ, an AI-driven platform that identifies skin issues and connects users with dermatologists online. The company aims to bring personalised skincare…
AfDB backs TDB with $200M trade credit line to narrow Africa's financing gap
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $200 million trade finance line of credit for the Trade and Development Bank (TDB), approved by its board on October 28. The revolving facility lets TDB extend trade…
Google.org grants Clalit $2M for multilingual AI patient assistant
Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, awarded Clalit Health Services a $2 million grant to build a conversational AI system that helps patients access care. The two-year grant will fund a "Digital Front Door" for…
Nvidia opens spy probe after CEO Huang admits affair
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. "I was unfaithful to…
Social discovery platform Listnivo hits $6M valuation with FutureBright backing
Listnivo, an invite-only social discovery platform, has raised an early-stage round from FutureBright Ventures, lifting its valuation to $6 million. The financial size of the deal was not disclosed. It is the company's…
Uzbek robotics startup Defex joins Y Combinator, turning down $2M in term sheets
Defex Robotics, founded by Uzbek entrepreneur Husan Mavlonov, has been accepted into Y Combinator. The startup builds robots that automate the installation and inspection of electrical connectors on factory lines.
Andorra Digital opens free marketplace linking firms to tech providers
Andorra Digital on November 6 launched a free online marketplace connecting Andorran businesses with technology providers. The catalogue lets companies browse suppliers offering cybersecurity, cloud data management,…
SinoHytec redirects $38M of IPO cash to loans as hydrogen revenue shrinks
SinoHytec, a Beijing maker of hydrogen fuel cell systems, will redeploy US$36.3M of its IPO proceeds — originally earmarked for R&D and marketing — to repay bank loans and cover general working capital. The shift…
Ghana budgets $854K seed money to revive its Media Development Fund
Ghana's government has allocated GH¢10 million (about $854,000) in the 2027 national budget as seed funding for the Media Development Fund. President John Dramani Mahama announced the figure at the 30th anniversary of…
Nvidia board prepares to oust Jensen Huang after report of second affair, with an executive who reports to him
Latest: Nvidia 's board is preparing to remove co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday evening, 11 November, citing people familiar with the matter, with directors set to meet as…
Hollard completes Mozambique merger, targets 30%+ market share under one brand
Hollard Moçambique has completed its merger with Global Alliance, folding three insurance businesses — Hollard Seguros, Hollard Vida and Global Alliance — into a single company under one brand. The deal value was not…
Binance names Airwallex veteran Justin Yek as CFO after $6.3B hack
Binance has appointed Justin Yek, formerly vice-president of finance at Airwallex, as its new chief financial officer. He replaces Kaiser Ng, who is leaving the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange after more than…
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from financial system over $16B
The US Treasury Department has ordered crypto exchange MEXC Global cut off from the US financial system, alleging it facilitated at least $16 billion in illicit transactions. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network…
Ominvest raises $260M in oversubscribed perpetual sukuk
Oman International Development and Investment Company (Ominvest) has raised 100mn Omani rials (about $260 million) through a private placement of unsecured, perpetual, subordinated sukuk. The issue drew subscriptions…
Tivio raises $91.4M for Brazilian mall-focused real-estate fund
Brazilian fund manager Tivio has raised US$128.7M through a public offering of quotas in its Tivio Opportunities II Malls IPCA real-estate fund (FII). The offering, which covered the first issuance of Subclass A and…
Ex-JD.com exec's stealth robotics startup lands hundreds of millions in Series A
Beijing Tianxiaxian Zhichuang Robot Technology (Tianxian Robotics) has raised a Series A of several hundred million yuan, the company announced in September 2026. Chuxin Fund led the round, with Matrix Partners China…
Confipetrol lands $100M syndicated loan led by Santander
Confipetrol, a Bogotá-based industrial services company, has secured a $100 million syndicated credit facility led by Banco Santander Colombia and Banco Santander Perú. A syndicate of 13 Colombian and Peruvian banks…
Pakistan's ABHI Microfinance Bank raises $7.39M in fintech-led IPO
ABHI Microfinance Bank has raised Rs2.046 billion (about $7.39 million) in its initial public offering on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, pricing shares at Rs15.50 each. The lender sold 99 million shares to institutional…
iFood's Zoop wins Visa, Mastercard nod to become card acquirer
Zoop, the fintech owned by Brazilian delivery giant iFood, has been authorised by Visa and Mastercard to operate as a card acquirer. The move lets Zoop process card payments directly, cutting out intermediaries in its…
Phoenix's EmeraNova launches Catalyst accelerator with up to $200K per startup
Phoenix medtech company EmeraNova has launched Catalyst, a four-month accelerator for startups in tissue restoration and advanced wound care. The program offers validation, mentorship, and potential investment of up to…
Uzbekistan runs three-city Scale & Capital bootcamp as it targets $2B in venture by 2030
Scale & Capital is running an intensive startup bootcamp with IT Park Uzbekistan and Hackonnect on 5-7 November, the StartupBase Telegram channel said on 2 November. Sessions run across three cities: Samarkand, Navoiy,…
EU-backed Armenia programme offers €10K grants to 15 crisis-hit SMEs
The EU-funded Three4ResilientArmenia programme has opened applications for a five-month pre-acceleration cohort supporting 15 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Armenia. Applications are open until…
Why Sequoia ended Scouts, the 2009 programme that found Uber and Stripe
What happened? Sequoia has ended its Scouts programme. In "The Sequoia of Tomorrow", a memo posted on X on 4 November 2026 and signed by its seven general partners, the firm said it had "sunset our batch accelerator…
Equity Bank Rwanda launches EMMA wallet, betting on free transfers and credit
Equity Bank Rwanda has launched EMMA, a digital wallet app for payments, money transfers, savings and eligible credit. It soft-launched in Kigali on November 5 at an event for media and creatives who tested everyday…
Colombia's EPM returns to global debt markets with $1B bond
Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM), Colombia's state-owned utility, raised $1 billion in a dollar-denominated bond sale that closed on November 5. The seven-year notes mature in 2033 and marks the company's first…
Sweden's Gotmic takes $10.3M route to public listing via reverse merger
Swedish semiconductor firm Gotmic has gone public through a reverse merger with listed shell Hemply Balance Holding, a transaction valued at US$12.1M (≈$10.3 million). The deal completed on November 5, 2026, and the…
MVL taps Kaia's tokenized fund for first institutional mobility private credit loan
MVL has secured a loan for its Cambodian electric mobility subsidiary, ONiON Mobility, from Kaia Investment Partners' (KIP) tokenized private credit fund Yield8. The financing ran through Musubi, MVL's real-world asset…
Vinci Compass buys control of medical-education platform Sanar
Vinci Compass has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Sanar, a Brazilian medical-education platform, through its Vinci Capital Partners IV fund. The all-secondary deal, announced in November, gives full exits to…
Yogiji Digi raises $4.12M in pre-IPO placement ahead of listing
Yogiji Digi, an Indian flat steel processing solutions provider, has raised US$5.3M through a pre-IPO placement ahead of its planned initial public offering. The company allotted 1,805,555 shares at US$2.93 each to 11…
Israel's Explorium shuts down after raising $127M as founder's Base44 thrives
Israeli startup Explorium is shutting down after nearly nine years, co-founders Omer Har and Or Tamir announced in a farewell post. The company raised more than $127 million and reached roughly 130 employees, but said…
Austin Financial adds Kyle Wilson to drive asset-based lending growth
Austin Financial Services (AFS), an asset-based lending firm, has hired Kyle Wilson as senior business development officer. The appointment was announced on November 5, 2026.
eCamps spins out of PlayMetrics in CEO-led buyout
eCamps Sports Network has been acquired from PlayMetrics by an investor group led by its longtime chief executive officer, Charley Biggs. The deal, announced November 5, 2026, closed on undisclosed terms. eCamps…
LightSolver lands $1.8M Israeli grant to push laser computing toward market
LightSolver, an Israeli deep-tech firm building an all-optical computing platform, has secured a grant of about $1.8 million from the Israel Innovation Authority. The money will fund development of its Laser Processing…
Highway Holdings takes $7M from David Lazar, who becomes CEO in near-total takeover
Highway Holdings (Nasdaq: HIHO) has closed a $7 million strategic investment from David Lazar, who takes a stake that could reach roughly 95% of the company on a fully diluted basis. The Hong Kong-based manufacturer…
TA'ZIZ closes $1.39B financing for two Ruwais industrial projects
TA'ZIZ has closed $1.39 billion in financing for two projects in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, with MUFG and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation advising. The package covers a chemicals terminal and an ammonia plant, both of which…
OPay pulls $4B New York IPO at the last minute after China inquiry
OPay, a Nigeria-focused fintech backed by SoftBank, terminated its planned $304 million New York Stock Exchange listing hours before trading was due to begin, citing a regulatory inquiry in a foreign jurisdiction it…
Staff.am launches Armenia's first AI career assistant with a paid Premium tier
Staff.am, Armenia's largest career platform, has launched SIMO, which it calls the country's first AI career assistant, alongside a Premium subscription. Users describe the work they want, and SIMO recommends relevant…
UK launches £700M Strategic Sites Accelerator; South Yorkshire eyes Runway Park
The UK government has launched a £700m Strategic Sites Accelerator to help unlock major development sites, and South Yorkshire mayor Oliver Coppard says the fund could help bring forward the region's Runway Park…
AgDevCo Ventures backs Ugandan agro-processor Newman Foods with $3M loan
AgDevCo Ventures has invested $3 million in Newman Foods, a Ugandan agro-processor, through a mezzanine loan. Newman's turns locally grown crops into value-added foods and packs fresh fruits and vegetables. It sources…
Sequoia shuts its London office six years in and raises $10B, while partner Luciana Lixandru stays in Europe
Sequoia is closing its London office, six years after opening it in 2020, and several people will leave the firm. "This is not about the team - they are excellent. We simply don't see the need for a local presence," the…
Chile's Transelec raises $240M in bonds to fund grid expansion
Transelec, Chile's largest electricity transmission company, raised 6 million CLF (about $240 million) through a local bond placement announced in November 2026. The 25-year bullet notes will fund the company's…
Mediterrania Capital backs AFG Assurances in push to double to 14 insurers
Private equity firm Mediterrania Capital Partners has invested in AFG Assurances, the insurance arm of Ivorian tycoon Koné Dossongui's Atlantic Group. Atlantic Group and MCP announced the growth-equity deal on November…
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