Chinese AI Chip Maker Biren Technology Plans $623 Million Hong Kong IPO

Sherry Qin / wsj - Biren Technology, one of China’s “Four Little Dragons” in the graphics-processing-unit sector, aims to raise as much as 4.85 billion Hong Kong dollars.

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Digital bank Monzo gains a full European banking licence

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - UK-based digital bank Monzo is ready to expand into Europe. The fintech has acquired a full banking licence from the Central Bank in Ireland, as well as from the European Central Bank. Monzo has gone from strength to strength since it launched back in 201…

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Crypto exchange HashKey's shares fall 5% on trading debut in Hong Kong

Sam Reynolds / coindesk - Investors questioned whether Hong Kong’s dominant licensed exchange can turn surging volumes and regulatory advantage into sustainable profits.

Back to Top / Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 1:20 am / permalink 17055 / 3 stories in 2 months

Apollo Took Bets Against Software Makers Vulnerable to AI: FT

Shiyin Chen / bloomberg - Apollo Global Management placed bets against the loans of several software makers as it grew increasingly bearish on technology firms vulnerable to artificial intelligence, the Financial Times reported.

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Mollie buys GoCardless in €1.05B deal to serve 350,000+ businesses across Europe

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Dutch payments leader Mollie has struck a landmark agreement to acquire UK-based GoCardless in a deal valued at…

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Mondu Secures €100M Funding And Strategic Partnership With J.P. Morgan Payments

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Berlin-based Mondu, a B2B payment solutions provider, has secured a €100 million debt facility from J.P. Morgan Payments to scale its services and support its expansion across European markets. Founded in 2021 by Malte Huffmann, Philipp Povel, and Gil Dan…

Back to Top / Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 6:21 am / permalink 16769 / 5 stories in 2 months

Bitstack Raises $15M To Build Europe’s Bitcoin Savings App

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based Bitcoin savings app Bitstack has secured $15 million in a Series A funding round led by 13books Capital, with continued support from existing investors including AG2R LA MONDIALE, Plug and Play Ventures, Serena, Stillmark and Y Combinator. Acc…

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5 Free Apps You Should Install ASAP On A New MacBook

slashgear - New Mac, new setup. If you want to skip the trial and error, these free apps cover everyday gaps and makes the whole system feel more capable.

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Fintech Revolut valued at $75 billion following fundraising share sale

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Revolut, the London-based fintech, has completed a fundraising process which values the company at $75 billion. The fundraising involved a share sale which saw NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, investing in the company. Employees of Revolut were ab…

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Berlin’s Integral boosts total funding to €12 million and strengthens capabilities with cleverlohn acquisition

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Integral, a Berlin-based AI-powered services company innovating accounting, taxation, and payroll for SMEs, today announced the acquisition of cleverlohn, a digital payroll and HR provider in Germany. Additionally, the company announced new funding from G…

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Agentic AI startup Kaaj secures $3.8M to expand credit intelligence platform

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Credit intelligence platform startup Kaaj Technologies Inc. revealed today that it has raised $3.8 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its agentic artificial intelligence-powered platform across the U.S. small-business and equi…

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 16103 / 4 stories in 3 months

Deblock Raises €30M Series A To Grow On-Chain Banking Across Europe

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - French crypto-banking startup Deblock has raised €30 million in a Series A round led by Speedinvest, with participation from CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors including 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures and Kraken Ventures also joined the ro…

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 16099 / 5 stories in 3 months

Zilch nets $175M as eyes "strategic" M&A

John Reynolds / tech - Zilch, the UK consumer lending fintech, has netted over $175m in an equity and debt funding round as it eyes acquisition targets. The funding round was led by KKCG, the Czech investment group, with pa...

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SoftBank's Nvidia Exit Reveals the Paper Billionaire's Paradox at AI's Peak

Robert Brown / implicator - SoftBank just posted record profits driven by OpenAI's soaring valuation. So why is Masayoshi Son selling $15 billion in assets, expanding margin loans, and converting paper gains into cash? The answer reveals uncomfortable truths about AI's peak.

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As banks face an “invisible enemy”, London’s FALKIN raises €1.7 million to stop fraud before it starts

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - FALKIN, a British digital safety company that helps users stop scams before payments happen, has today announced it has secured €1.7 million ($2 million) in pre-Seed funding amid rising regulatory and consumer pressure for proactive scam-prevention measur…

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Aspirity Partners secures €875 million for debut fund, one of Europe’s largest new private equity launches of 2025

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Aspirity Partners, a London-based private equity firm focused on Financial and Enterprise Technology Services, has announced the final close of its inaugural fund, Aspirity Partners I (AP I), at over €875 million. The fundraise reached its hard cap within…

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AI analytical agent caps a wave of new and enhanced Snowflake products

Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today announced the general availability of Snowflake Intelligence, the centerpiece of the company’s latest wave of artificial intelligence-driven products aimed at allowing employees across skill levels to derive insights from enterprise d…

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Monzo CEO Passes Torch to Google Vet Diana Layfield 

PYMNTS / pymnts - U.K. digital bank Monzo is getting a new chief executive from the ranks of Big Tech. Diana Layfield, former general manager of search international and growth at Google, will become Monzo’s CEO in February, the company’s current head said in a memo sent t…

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