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Transportation🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Brightstar buys majority stake in forklift service firm Material Handling Group
FundingFood🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Imio raises $12M seed for freeze-dried crop microbes, a Belgian food first
Funding🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Baba raises $40M Series A for Medicare patient advocacy
FundingFintechKazakhstanOct 20, 2026 Paidax raises $1M to widen retail investing across Central Asia
IPOsSemiconductors🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 Suzhou Dongshan raises $1.84B in Hong Kong IPO, below expectations on US trade fears
M&ASecurity🇮🇱Oct 20, 2026 Elbit buys Canada's ISE to move into underwater autonomy
M&ATransportation🇫🇷Oct 20, 2026 Clayens acquires Vision Systems, saving 210 aerospace jobs near Lyon
M&AFintech🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Dime to buy Empire State Bank for $58M in all-five-boroughs push
IPOsRobotics🇮🇳Oct 20, 2026 Zetwerk's $528M IPO fully subscribed as institutions carry weak retail demand
Big techEnterprise Software🇩🇪Oct 20, 2026 H.I.G. WhiteHorse backs €92M European Microsoft cloud platform with debt deal
M&AFintech🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Cross River to buy fintech Accrue, merging payments with loyalty
Investors🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Edinburgh opens £3.8M fund to upgrade its heritage buildings
FundingFintechBruneiOct 20, 2026 Baiduri prices debut $219M overseas bond as Golomt lands $50M loan
Investors🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Monomoy closes oversubscribed $589M Family Fund I, backed solely by existing LPs
RoboticsOct 20, 2026 Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars — and it's already profitable
Enterprise Software🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 US orders civilian federal agencies to rip out DeepSeek, including third-party tools built on its models
Investors🇩🇪Oct 20, 2026 Afinum X makes first Swiss bet with Ergon cybersecurity deal
Big techHome Living🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Amazon's TorchNeuron lets 85% of AI developers run code on its chips, challenging Nvidia
Big techHosting🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Anthropic nears second $45B compute deal with Nscale
FundingEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Greptile raises $50M to audit AI-written code
FundingJobs Recruitment🇳🇱Oct 20, 2026 Dutch HR startup Learned raises €3M to ride EU pay-transparency rules
ProductsMedia🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Replika founder launches Wabi, a $20M bet on shared AI assistants
Fintech🇦🇪Oct 20, 2026 Emirates NBD, BlackRock expand UAE fund platform to retail investors
Transportation🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Zorlu Enerji sells EV charging stake to Wren House for $148M
Wellness Beauty🇫🇷Oct 20, 2026 Motion Equity Partners buys majority stake in beauty manufacturer Capsum from Chanel
🇯🇵Oct 20, 2026 Tokyo's Ethical Spirits lands B Corp status, closes AMJ Capital-led round
FundingReal Estate🇨🇦Oct 20, 2026 Neo lands €126M EU grant for Estonian rare-earth magnet scale-up
FundingEnergy🇮🇹Oct 20, 2026 SOCAR Türkiye closes $1.6B five-year refinancing at SOFR+2.30%
🇸🇪Oct 20, 2026 EIF anchors BackingMinds' €20M third fund for overlooked Nordic founders
FundingTransportation🇻🇳Oct 20, 2026 Dat Bike raises $26M Series B as PIDG exits Vietnamese e-motorbike maker
Media🇨🇦Oct 20, 2026 Mijem plans $213K raise to shore up working capital
Funding🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Skyfly raises $10M seed to bring Axe eVTOL to market
Funding🇵🇱Oct 20, 2026 mBank raises €250M in Poland's first euro AT1 bond, drawing 7x demand
Funding🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Renaissance Fiber lands $2.24M to build US hemp fiber plant
IPOs🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 China's first EIIR maker Micro-Intelligence launches $102M Hong Kong IPO
FundingRobotics🇮🇹Oct 20, 2026 Ganiga raises €1.5 million to scale AI food-waste tool for kitchens
🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Zilch commits $104M to new London HQ as it eyes European expansion
People🇮🇱Oct 20, 2026 monday.com's AI makeover is quietly pushing managers out
🇰🇷Oct 20, 2026 Korea's pension fund loses US$152.6B in three and a half months as Samsung and SK hynix slide
Robotics🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Fabrice Grinda on China: pragmatism, scale and a robotics craze
Products🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Google Cloud falters in London as Revolut goes dark across Europe
Energy🇨🇦Oct 20, 2026 Evolve Royalties lines up US$75M BMO facility to fund copper royalty push
FundingHealth🇩🇪Oct 20, 2026 Cellbox closes €5M Series A for warm-chain cell logistics push
FundingSecurity🇪🇸Oct 20, 2026 FlamAid raises €1M as UFC champion Topuria backs safety wearable
Semiconductors🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI goes quiet on China chip curbs, siding with Nvidia and Trump as Anthropic keeps fighting for them
🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 Rainbow Display buys out $287M minority stake, lifting Hongyang ownership to 95.82%
Investors🇫🇷Oct 20, 2026 Amundi launches fifth private-debt fund with €200M first close
Funding🇯🇵Oct 20, 2026 Daiwa Zaitaku pulls in $1.26M impact loan from Chiba Bank
Oct 20, 2026 Halcyon backs Greek pastry maker Rodoula to fund new €32,000m² plant
🇮🇱Oct 20, 2026 Israel's military creates dedicated Space Division
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