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Health🇳🇱Oct 20, 2026 TU Delft spinout Constellate raises pre-seed to speed up antibody screening
Fintech🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Manchester's Raiser lands innovation grant for AI charity-funder matching
Funding🇹🇷Oct 20, 2026 Garanti Faktoring raises $20.9M in TLREF-linked bill sale
InvestorsEnergy🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Amazon to fund 960-MW nuclear project at retired Indiana coal site
FundingEnergy🇳🇴Oct 20, 2026 Hydro lands $8.72M grant to plan zero-emission aluminium pilot
🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Optima Health revenue up 60% to £96M as PAM deal drives scale
Products🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 DeepSeek open-sources its serving engine and reveals $38 of revenue per GPU-hour, an anchor for cheap Chinese tokens
Telecom🇩🇪Oct 20, 2026 Europe's four biggest telcos team up to bid for the satellite airwaves at the centre of the EU's Starlink fight
M&AEnterprise Software🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Altman tells OpenAI staff there are three endgames for AI: an IAEA for AI, a merger of the labs, or one firm that "melts everyone else's GPUs"
FundingEnterprise Software🇦🇪Oct 20, 2026 CapQuest raises $1M pre-seed to help startups track ownership and employee equity
Big techSemiconductors🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Germany woos Nvidia at Berlin summit, but local startups still lean on foreign capital
M&A🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Plus500 buys Brazil's Guru in second deal this week
Funding🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Raven Housing Trust lands £100M funding line from THFC's Blend
Energy🇦🇪Oct 20, 2026 TAQA pulls in $1.75B bond sale, with $850M earmarked for green projects
Energy🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Elon Musk to Walter Isaacson: humans are unlikely to stay in control of superintelligence
M&A🇸🇮Oct 20, 2026 Italy's Mipot buys 51% of Slovenia's Atech in electronics tie-up
FundingHealth🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 UP Oncolytics raises $2.5M NIH grant to advance Zika-based brain cancer therapy
InvestorsFood🇯🇵Oct 20, 2026 15th Rock's Hokkaido fund backs soil tech startup Teraform
FundingEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI races to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic IPO
M&AHealth🇳🇱Oct 20, 2026 Ambrose buys AM-Pharma for up to €161M, gaining first European base
FundingOct 20, 2026 Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to tame the heat inside quantum computers
IPOsEducation🇰🇷Oct 20, 2026 Korea's biggest 2026 IPO stumbles: Elice falls 30% despite 389x-covered book
FundingHealth🇨🇦Oct 20, 2026 Ondine Biomedical raises $13.4M to fund global push, resumes trading
FundingRoboticsOct 20, 2026 YITA Dynamics raises $15M seed+ for robot power systems
FundingReal Estate🇩🇰Oct 20, 2026 Plinto raises €2.9M pre-seed for AI agents that police invoices
Energy🇫🇷Oct 20, 2026 Holosolis lands EU Innovation Fund backing for 5 GW French solar factory
FundingTransportation🇯🇵Oct 20, 2026 Japan's Kinish raises $3.09M to turn rice into dairy alternatives
🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Starboard builds stake in Solstice, pushes for $100M in cost cuts
Transportation🇩🇰Oct 20, 2026 Lumilab raises pre-seed led by Giant Ventures for AI that runs energy assets
InvestorsSri LankaOct 20, 2026 Sri Lanka's HLAB venture fund targets $9.06M to scale local startups
Legal🇦🇺Oct 20, 2026 Five V Capital buys majority of AML startup First AML, handing Blackbird a payday
FundingHealth🇧🇪Oct 20, 2026 4Tissue raises €7M to test resorbable breast implant in humans
Food🇮🇳Oct 20, 2026 Furtilo raises seed round to deliver from local shops in 500 Indian towns
🇰🇷Oct 20, 2026 Huatai-PineBridge chip ETF trading jumps 60% as Korea backs $1.4B supplier fund
Energy🇸🇪Oct 20, 2026 EU picks Minesto for €20.2M grant to build Ireland tidal kite farm
Big techRobotics🇩🇪Oct 20, 2026 Nvidia backs Germany's Agile Robots in late-stage round
Gaming🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 VR maker Pimax takes strategic investment from Agibot-backed data platform Mifeng
IPOsSemiconductors🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 PCB maker Dongshan Precision launches Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1.36B
Transportation🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 东杰智能为子公司3000万元授信提供担保，上半年净利翻倍
Real Estate🇸🇪Oct 20, 2026 CemVision wins EU grant as €3.4B backs 77 net-zero projects
M&A🇹🇭Oct 20, 2026 Betagro buys majority stake in Thai food platform Freshket
Funding🇮🇳Oct 20, 2026 Flexxon backs Tech4Biz to harden sovereign AI infrastructure
IPOsEducationOct 20, 2026 Perth's Capability X closes $8.38M IPO, eyes November ASX debut
FundingTransportation🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 Neolix raises $400M Series E, China's biggest robovan round this year
Hosting🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 HSBC sticks with Reduce on CoreWeave: neoclouds earn ~$12M per MW versus $17-18M for hyperscalers
Fintech🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Truist sells LightStream to Carlyle in $7.7B exit as GAAP profit halves
IPOs🇭🇰Oct 20, 2026 First Digital to go public via SPAC merger in down round from $400M peak
FundingHealth🇦🇺Oct 20, 2026 Microba raises $1.41M placement at a discount amid deeper cost cuts
Funding🇦🇺Oct 20, 2026 Sparc Hydrogen raises US$841.2K to scale solar-to-hydrogen tech
FundingEnergy🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 NuCube lands $25M from Alaska state fund to back factory-built microreactors
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