News archive — October 2026
Energy🇩🇰Oct 27, 2026
ZITON refinances offshore wind fleet with European banks on infrastructure terms
M&A🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Guidewire buys London's hyperexponential for $1.7B, a startup its own co-founder backed
FundingHealth🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Aclaris raises $50M to push its immuno-inflammatory pipeline deeper into trials
FundingMarketing🇪🇸Oct 27, 2026
Barcelona's OmniWallet raises €220,000 after five years of bootstrapping
Health🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Nautilus wins up to $6M in ARPA-H grant to probe Alzheimer’s and cancer proteins
FundingEnterprise Software🇪🇸Oct 27, 2026
London's Querio launches with €4.48M to fix AI's conflicting-answer problem
FundingMarketing🇦🇹Oct 27, 2026
Vienna's Fawks AI lands €300,000 grant for dialect-recognition engine
Enterprise Software🇬🇧Oct 27, 2026
Ex-detective's stealth startup 22one hits ~$400M valuation, backed by Sequoia and Lux
Funding🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Joe Lonsdale's 8VC put $20M into Safer Human Medicine, a startup planning to breed 30,000 research monkeys in the US
Investors🇨🇭Oct 27, 2026
Partners Group raises $510M private credit feeder as first-half earnings soften
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Intel CEO backs Hyperbolic's $30M round to unite hundreds of AI clouds
FundingFintech🇮🇳Oct 27, 2026
Vouch raises $500K from Y Combinator to build an AI wealth manager for India
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
OpenAI says its AI disproved a core computer-science assumption, gives $5M to review it
Funding🇱🇺Oct 27, 2026
EIB’s €3bn Airbus loan vs Boeing’s $8.7bn tax break: USTR Greer warns on US-EU trade pause
Semiconductors🇮🇱Oct 27, 2026
Gix-backed Quantum X Labs starts hardware error-correction tests in Israel
Products🇩🇪Oct 27, 2026
ICEYE and OroraTech link satellite data for full-lifecycle wildfire intelligence
FundingGamingOct 27, 2026
Trivia app dubdub lands $1.3M seed to build short-form entertainment platform
FundingRobotics🇫🇮Oct 27, 2026
Finland's Arctic RAVN raises €2.5M to scale European drone electronics