News archive — October 2026
Health🇦🇹Oct 22, 2026
Austrian AI startup Wictory.ai lands six-figure angel backing from Olympic champion
Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment🇨🇳Oct 22, 2026
Yuto Packaging buys 60% of cooling specialist Weibochi for $26M
Education🇸🇦Oct 22, 2026
Saudi edtech Academy of Learning adds $6.37M Alinma facility to expansion push
FundingSecurity🇰🇷Oct 22, 2026
SecuLetter raises $529,000 to shore up finances amid KOSDAQ suspension
Media🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
PHP ships emergency patches for critical "php2shell" flaws enabling remote code execution
People🇬🇧Oct 22, 2026
Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs, about 5% of staff, with developers among those hit as AI lifts productivity
M&AHealth🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
Sustainable Medical Billing buys Smrtdo, adds first Latin American operations
Big techSemiconductors🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
NVIDIA pledges nearly $10B to European AI, tests factory tools with Siemens
Investors🇪🇸Oct 22, 2026
Spain's Seaya raises €600M for its first growth fund and opens in London, as EU money targets Europe's scale-up gap
M&AMarketing🇬🇧Oct 22, 2026
The Lede Company buys London's Aisle 8, names founder Winslade president of brand
FundingRobotics🇨🇭Oct 22, 2026
Zurich's Enact raises $30M pre-seed from Mistral's Mensch and LeCun to give robots a sense of touch
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
Workday prices $2.5B bond sale to refinance debt and fund expansion
Big techSemiconductors🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
NVIDIA backs six chip suppliers in $279B push to break AI capacity bottleneck
Big techMedia🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
Meta strikes deal to keep Zuckerberg in California after wealth-tax concerns
Investors🇯🇵Oct 22, 2026
Animal Spirits hits $35.4M in second close for its disciplined mid-size VC fund
FundingSecurity🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026
SecureTech secures up to $10M convertible note, nets just $293K at close
Enterprise SoftwareOct 21, 2026
KAIST professors' AI inference startup AnyBridge lands seed round from The Ventures