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M&ASecurity🇨🇳Oct 21, 2026 Hengwei's acquisition target founders hit 50% of $8M share-buying pledge
M&AEnergy🇦🇺Oct 21, 2026 UK's ACE revives Namibia's Karibib lithium project with Lepidico buyout
FundingMusic🇨🇦Oct 21, 2026 Hive raises $27M Series B to scale its live-events marketing platform
Real Estate🇵🇹Oct 21, 2026 EBRD lends Mota-Engil Africa €99.1M to modernise West African mining
M&A🇯🇵Oct 21, 2026 INFRONEER raises $659M in share offering to repay acquisition debt
Investors🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Aries launches media-tech venture fund for Sub-Saharan Africa, backs first three startups
Robotics🇳🇱Oct 21, 2026 LogiXair raises seed from GrowthCap Ventures to build India's cargo VTOLs
FundingHealth🇪🇸Oct 21, 2026 HAWK Biosystems raises €3.5M to take its cancer diagnostic to the clinic
Energy🇭🇺Oct 21, 2026 Serbia says it has signed deal selling Russian stake in NIS to Hungary's MOL
Funding🇱🇹Oct 21, 2026 Pollen Street lifts Finbee Verslui lending facility to €55M
FundingHealth🇮🇸Oct 21, 2026 Iceland's Arctic Therapeutics raises $21.5M to push new pipeline to the clinic
FundingLegal🇮🇹Oct 21, 2026 Italy's Rulen raises €1.8M to automate tax workflows with AI
FundingFintech🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Pennant raises $5M seed to automate proxy-voting research
M&A🇦🇺Oct 21, 2026 IFM to buy control of UK's biggest ports group ABP from Canadian pension funds
FundingSpace🇨🇦Oct 21, 2026 Obruta lands $1.07M from Canadian Space Agency to fix two orbital servicing problems
Energy🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Ensurge upsizes convertible loan to $2.56M for solid-state battery push
FundingFood🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 Opply raises $7.5M to automate supply chains for CPG brands
Enterprise Software🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 BGF backs Edinburgh's Harley Haddow in multi-million-pound growth deal
FundingFintech🇻🇳Oct 21, 2026 Vietnam's TPBank lands $50M from Germany's DEG for green and SME lending
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 OpenAI's own AI agents switched off the tools meant to catch their mistakes
Big tech🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Anthropic's draft S-1 reveals $16.3B revenue, $80.7B loss and up to $750B compute bill
M&A🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 SpaceX swings to $4.4B profit as AI becomes over half of revenue, Musk floats Tesla merger
FundingTravel🇩🇪Oct 21, 2026 YGO raises €8M Series A to make travel inventory bookable by AI agents
FundingFashion🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 VIA Outlets raises $206M in Swiss franc bond market debut
🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 sennder turns profitable on its way to €1B revenue as digital freight's survivors consolidate
Wellness Beauty🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 McCormick moves to take control of Unilever Pakistan Foods in $45B global deal
IPOsFintech🇮🇳Oct 21, 2026 Edelweiss unit EAAA sets $127M IPO at $1.1B valuation, opens October 26
🇰🇷Oct 21, 2026 Pointers PE puts $7.55M into Korean medtech firm Limeed's convertible bonds
Funding🇦🇹Oct 21, 2026 DiLT Analytics raises seven-figure pre-seed to find faults in buildings
Real Estate🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 Ember to take Ashtead Technology private in £505M cash deal
Funding🇫🇷Oct 21, 2026 HRS raises €1.5M in cut-down round as cash runway shrinks to December
🇷🇴Oct 21, 2026 Romania's Bravva Angels backs four startups in €220K+ run
FundingSports🇨🇦Oct 21, 2026 Bike distributor LTP Sports lands $65M asset-based facility
FundingEnergy🇫🇷Oct 21, 2026 Elax Energy raises €30M to turn water heaters into grid batteries
Funding🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Irish legal-tech EstateMin lands €1m pre-seed for US push
FundingHealth🇦🇪Oct 21, 2026 Vitalls lands $1.5M seed for its cross-border health passport
FundingEnterprise Software🇩🇪Oct 21, 2026 Staffbase lands €50M credit line from J.P. Morgan and KfW
Enterprise Software🇫🇷Oct 21, 2026 Econocom buys majority of Germany's ICT in European audiovisual push
Funding🇧🇷Oct 21, 2026 Celesc lands $243M IDB loan for Santa Catarina grid upgrade
InvestorsEnergy🇯🇵Oct 21, 2026 JR East's place-based fund backs fusion startup Starlight Engine
M&ATransportation🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 RideTandem buys StudentSafe to drive into school transport
FundingMarketing🇦🇺Oct 21, 2026 Cuttable raises $20M to automate brands' ad creative on Meta
Funding🇮🇩Oct 21, 2026 ALVA lands $20M trade finance facility from Standard Chartered
🇨🇦Oct 21, 2026 Allegiance Resources opens $640K placement to fund tungsten push
🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Industry Ventures' secondaries fund tops $1.7B in commitments
FundingSemiconductors🇳🇱Oct 21, 2026 Photon Bridge raises €10m for lasers that link AI chips
FundingOct 21, 2026 Li Zexiang-mentored team's AI e-ink screen raises $4.49M led by Vertex Ventures
FundingFintech🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026 Cembra lands $424M covered bond as it funds Santander deal
Fintech🇬🇧Oct 21, 2026 Fidelity rolls out global innovators equity fund in Hong Kong and Singapore
🇧🇪Oct 21, 2026 PMV backs its first defence startup with €10M before its new fund is ready
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