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🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 LanzaJet raises $20M to scale sustainable jet fuel production

🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Serena Williams' fund leads $3M seed round in presale fashion app Trace

Oct 16, 2026 Raiffeisen Salzburg takes 6.67% stake in review startup optimizzer

🇨🇦Oct 15, 2026 Mission Control raises $10M to chase bigger Moon missions

🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Cal Water prices $125M in notes, parent of utility serving 2.2M people

🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Exus lands €200M debt facility from Santander and Société Générale

🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Otter Health launches with $8M to replace prior authorization

🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Opsin raises $21M to rein in rogue enterprise AI agents

🇬🇧Oct 15, 2026 Salience Labs raises $125M to scale photonic chips for AI data centres

🇺🇸Oct 15, 2026 Airswift raises $325M in senior secured bonds

🇭🇰Oct 15, 2026 MIRAVA raises $7.47M to build smart electric yachts for "people who play in water

🇬🇧Oct 14, 2026 Nvidia backs five UK startups, including Cambridge quantum firm Riverlane

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 Travel + Leisure prices $300M timeshare securitization at 6.18%

🇳🇬Oct 14, 2026 Layer3 raises $1.13M in debt to fund Nigeria data sovereignty push

🇮🇱Oct 14, 2026 Zenzap raises $44M to replace WhatsApp in the workplace

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 M.M.LaFleur lands $7M credit line from JPalmer Collective

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 Probably Genetic lands $12M Series A to turn rare disease data into drug targets

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 SignSplit exits stealth with $400M seed round at $1B valuation

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 Ex-Qualcomm exec's AI chip startup Axonica raises $80M pre-seed

🇮🇹Oct 14, 2026 Berkshire Hathaway pours another $330M into Bending Spoons

🇨🇳Oct 14, 2026 Moss Intelligence raises $149M Pre-A for real-time multimodal AI

🇰🇷Oct 14, 2026 Car-care app Sejinsa lands seed extension, picked for Korea's TIPS program

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 MDIA lands $3M Knight grant to take public-innovation model national

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 Birria Bomb maker EZ Bombs raises $25M Series A

🇨🇳Oct 14, 2026 China's ChipBetter raises ~$14.9M Series C for RF chips

🇮🇱Oct 14, 2026 Uvi raises $7.5M to cut AI agent costs eight-fold

Oct 14, 2026 Continuity Biosciences lands $9.6M Gates grant for multi-year HIV prevention implant

🇸🇦Oct 14, 2026 KEIR International renews $33.5M credit facilities with BSF

🇨🇳Oct 14, 2026 High-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals closes Pre-A round, nears hundreds of millions for the year

🇨🇦Oct 14, 2026 Silver Pony arranges $704K flow-through placement for BC exploration

🇯🇵Oct 14, 2026 Hotel OS startup AZOO raises $3.09M Series A to automate lodging operations with AI

🇺🇸Oct 14, 2026 Doosan Fuel Cell raises ~$299M in perpetual bonds, stock jumps 5%

🇨🇳Oct 13, 2026 Akeso raises $249M in discounted share placing

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 Pluto Security exits stealth with $42M to secure the enterprise AI workspace

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 Funl raises $2.5M to let creators test event demand before booking

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 Mogul raises $15.5M Series A to scale AI real estate investing

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 Nutriband raises $1.75M via warrants to fund AVERSA fentanyl patch

🇸🇪Oct 13, 2026 Tavion starts Poland battery builds with $58M raise

🇦🇹Oct 13, 2026 Vienna's DropForce raises six-figure angel round to 3D-print drones on-site

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 Nvidia pledges $2B more for its European AI push, including a new stake in France's Doctolib

🇬🇧Oct 13, 2026 Teen's gift card startup lands £50,000 Dragons' Den deal

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 Ramp raises $1.85B at $60B valuation, up $16B in four months

🇺🇸Oct 13, 2026 CDT Equity taps J.J. Astor for $6.75M convertible note

🇮🇳Oct 13, 2026 Clueso raises $10M Series A for agentic business video

KazakhstanOct 13, 2026 Network School hits $2B valuation with Astana as its base

🇬🇧Oct 13, 2026 Google Health takes strategic stake in Flo Health in women's health push

🇩🇪Oct 13, 2026 Causa Prima raises $20M seed to let AI agents settle business billing disputes

🇬🇧Oct 13, 2026 Sainaptic raises £1M to grow AI marking tool that cuts hours to seconds

🇮🇳Oct 13, 2026 Bower School raises $2.82M to build Hyderabad campus

🇧🇷Oct 13, 2026 Swiss elea Foundation backs Brazil's Leapy in its first deal in the country