News archive — October 2026
🇪🇸Oct 27, 2026
Five Navarra startups make Spain's TOP101; Uraphex and Integralia honoured in Pamplona
FundingEnterprise Software🇩🇪Oct 27, 2026
Tendos raises €12M seed round, topping 99% of German enterprise software peers
FundingTransportation🇩🇪Oct 27, 2026
Qwello raises up to €55M to grow its urban EV charging network across Europe
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Dario and Daniela Amodei on Claude's values, Pentagon red lines and why they left OpenAI
Legal🇮🇸Oct 27, 2026
Iceland's Jónsbók raises early VC from Crowberry and Leo Capital to expand across Europe
IPOsEducation🇰🇷Oct 27, 2026
Lablup prices Korea IPO at band's floor, raising $31.2M for Kosdaq debut
PolicyTransportation🇯🇵Oct 27, 2026
Japan's NYK clears antitrust hurdle in US$1.21B bid for NS United Kaiun
Health🇰🇷Oct 27, 2026
iPSC therapy developer YiPSCELL raises Series C from Big Move Ventures, returning backers
IPOs🇦🇺Oct 27, 2026
Pengana's $186M AI trust lists on the ASX with stakes in ByteDance and Databricks
Funding🇲🇽Oct 27, 2026
Cinépolis lands $380M IFC-led loan, a first for Latin America's creative industries
FundingHealth🇨🇦Oct 27, 2026
Rubicon raises US$2.2M to fast-track cannabis capacity with greenhouse lighting upgrade
IPOsSecurity🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Bold Eagle buys more time for $1.25B REDLattice SPAC deal as redemptions drain trust to $111M
Big techMedia🇨🇳Oct 27, 2026
AI push makes ByteDance's Zhang Yiming China's richest with record $99.7B
FundingHealth🇰🇷Oct 27, 2026
South Korea's BISTOOL lands $1.51M state grant for AI nose-implant design
FundingFood🇦🇺Oct 27, 2026
Melbourne's Forward Deployed raises $702,000 to take chemical detector to production
M&A🇮🇳Oct 27, 2026
Protectt.ai buys majority stake in Bosch-incubated AIShield to add enterprise AI security
FundingSemiconductors🇮🇳Oct 27, 2026
Nova Spectral AI raises $2.22M to build cheaper infrared sensors
FundingEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026
Paradev raises $11.5M seed to run coding agents by the hundreds
FundingSemiconductors🇨🇳Oct 27, 2026
Zhongke Jilian lands fresh state capital in $35.7K top-up for space optical chips