Venture Capital

The IPO market is experiencing a revival after a yearslong drought, with notable debuts from CoreWeave, Circle and Figma.

Blacksmith, a Y Combinator alum, raised $10M Series A led by Google Ventures to cut costs and speed up software builds.

1789 Capital, an investment fund where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, has invested alongside Nvidia Corp. in a $1 billion funding round for artificial intelligence company Reflection AI.

Kayvon Beykpour said he built Macroscope because of how difficult it was to track what developers were working on at Twitter.

Elliott Investment Management announced it a $2 billion stake in Workday.

Colossal Biosciences Inc., a biotechnology startup working to resurrect extinct animals, has raised $120 million from investors including filmmaker Peter Jackson — and its chief executive officer says the company expects to resurrect the dodo in less than seven years.

Funding round is led by Disruptive, includes Blackrock and Neuberger Berman

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Collapsed fintech startup Linqto Inc. agreed to a deal to repay customers who were wrongly promised that they could get stakes in hard-to-acquire, private companies.

TikTok’s US operations would be acquired by a consortium that includes Oracle Corp., Andreessen Horowitz and private equity firm Silver Lake Management LLC under a deal President Donald Trump is set to discuss with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

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MGX, an Abu Dhabi-backed investment company focused on artificial intelligence, joined private equity firm Silver Lake Management LLC in a 51% acquisition of Intel Corp.’s Altera, which makes programmable chips.

Saudi Arabia’s new artificial intelligence company, Humain, is in early-stage talks with global private equity firms on a partnership to plow significant capital into data centers and related infrastructure, people familiar with the matter said.

Figure AI Inc., a company developing humanoid robots, has received more than $1 billion in committed capital in a financing round that values it at $39 billion, a deal that would make it one of the most valuable startups.

Greece’s new innovation and infrastructure fund wants to join with private partners to carry out €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in fresh investments in the next three to four years, said the top official overseeing the state’s assets.

Vanara, a spinoff of TPG, led the latest funding round. 

Rewards startup Fetch increased the size of its credit facility with Morgan Stanley’s private credit arm by roughly 30% to $110 million as it prepares to launch a new platform and push deeper into artificial intelligence.

Dyna Robotics, a startup working to develop cost-effective, general-purpose robots, has raised $120 million in a new funding round that boosts the company’s valuation to more than $600 million.

CoreWeave Inc. said its shareholder Nvidia Corp. has agreed to buy cloud services valued at $6.3 billion, part of that company’s push to speed up the adoption of artificial intelligence across the economy.

Conceivable Life Sciences, which makes a robotic lab that can create human embryos, raised $50 million to help develop and launch its technology commercially at more in-vitro fertilization clinics with an aim to make it available in the US early next year.

Standard Chartered Plc’s venture building arm plans to soon start raising capital for a $250 million fund focused on investments in digital assets in the financial services sector.

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Divergent Technologies Inc. notched a $2.3 billion valuation in a new funding round as the startup expands its work for US weapons companies — making it the the latest tech company to attract investor attention while aiming to bolster the country’s military arsenal.

FuriosaAI, the Seoul-based chip startup seeking to challenge Nvidia Corp., is preparing to raise more than $300 million in a potential pre-initial public offering funding round.

Hala, a Saudi Arabia-based fintech company, raised $157 million in one of the largest-ever funding rounds for an early-stage startup in the Middle East.

Klarna's bumper IPO has got investors wondering about which fintech names could be next to go public.

Klarna's bumper IPO has got investors wondering about which fintech names could be next to go public.

The leaders of OpenAI and Nvidia plan to pledge support for billions of dollars in UK data centre investments when they head to the country next week at the same time as President Donald Trump, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The two companies are teaming up with London-based data centre business Nscale Global Holdings on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are part of...

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