News archive — October 2026
Business Association🇳🇱Oct 20, 2026
VVD strategy chief quits to launch Dutch pro-growth group Wij Willen Groei
Security🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Gambit, eight months out of stealth with $61M, lands on Greenfield's Disruptors 60
FundingEnergy🇮🇱Oct 20, 2026
Water-metering startup DrizzleX raises $6.8M, with its own customers investing
FundingEnergy🇪🇬Oct 20, 2026
Infinity Power, HAU Energy land $566M debt for Africa's largest solar plant
Travel🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Truck Parking Club raises growth round from Argentum to expand 7,200-site network
FundingEnterprise SoftwareOct 20, 2026
Gradient raises $4M to build an AI-native accounting firm for startups
🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Kian Capital builds commercial door distribution platform with Allen Supply, TAP deal
FundingMarketing🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Firefly raises $20M to turn cameras and radios into AI safety systems
FundingEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
AuxoAI lands $20.7M Series A to embed AI teams inside enterprises
Big techHome Living🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Amazon to pour $18B into Germany in 2027 to grow AI, cloud and satellites
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Allegion Ventures leads Ambient.ai Series C, pushing total funding past $100M
FundingHealth🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Xylyx Bio lands $3M NIH grant, FDA orphan status for bioengineered lung graft
FundingHealth🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Sinopia lands $2.5M NIH grant to build metabolomics model for drug discovery
Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Citrini Research let Anthropic's Claude design scorpion antivenom: 211 proteins tested, 17 binders, then months of waiting on the lab
FundingHealth🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Route 92 lands $100M debt facility from Trinity Capital to scale stroke platform
FundingEnterprise Software🇨🇦Oct 20, 2026
PataBid lands $2M pre-seed to automate construction estimating
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Stellios exits stealth with $5M to rebuild US high-power energy systems
FundingFintech🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
VIVA Finance lands $150M credit facility from Viola to fuel payroll-linked lending
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Formidium buys into Luxembourg's €9T fund market with Ci Fund Services deal
Media🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Investors rush to insure against an AI blow-up: CDS trading on Big Tech debt jumps to $9bn a week, with Meta and Nvidia at record spreads
Telecom🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026
Huawei engineers move into DeepSeek's offices as China builds its own lab-plus-chipmaker answer to Nvidia