Anthropic raises $30 billion, now valued at $380 billion
Jon Keegan / sherwood - The company announced that it has a $14 billion annual revenue run-rate, and business subscriptions to Claude Code have quadrupled since the start of the year.
- Heat: rivals, safety exits and skepticism flare after fundraising (5)
- Inside: Claude Code sales surge, $14B annualized revenue run-rate (5)
- Local impact: Anthropic vows to cover datacenter electricity costs (2)
- On the ground: massive $30B Series G reshapes AI valuations (7)
Heat: rivals, safety exits and skepticism flare after fundraising
Inside: Claude Code sales surge, $14B annualized revenue run-rate
Local impact: Anthropic vows to cover datacenter electricity costs
On the ground: massive $30B Series G reshapes AI valuations
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Paris-based Rivage raises €2.6M to modernise payroll for accounting firms
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Paris-based Rivage has secured €2.6 million in pre-seed funding to fast-track the rollout of its payroll software across…
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Bracket Raises $7M in Seed Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Bracket, a London, UK-based fintech that has developed an FX, treasury and cash management platform, raised $7M in Seed funding. The round was led by Macquarie Group and Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from existing investor Failup Ventures. the c…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 19052 / 5 stories in 22 days
Seamflow Raises $4.5M To Build AI Tools For Testing, Inspection, And Certification Industry
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Seamflow, an AI-driven software company for the global testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) industry, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Northzone and Initialized Capital, with participation from Entrepre…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 10:23 am / permalink 19022 / 3 stories in 23 days
Porters Raises €2.7M Pre-Seed Funding For Banking Back-Office Software
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Porters has raised €2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop AI-powered software for banking operations. The investment was led by Earlybird, with additional backing from Seedcamp, fintech founders, and industry professionals. Angel investors in…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 2:20 am / permalink 19006 / 3 stories in 23 days
Matia Raises $21M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Matia, a Miami, FL-based provider of a unified data operations platform, raised $21M in Series A funding. The round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Leaders Fund, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, Caffei…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 18977 / 3 stories in 24 days
Can Databricks IPO after $7B raise at $134B valuation?
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - San Francisco-based data and AI company, Databricks, has raised more than $7 billion in new funding, combining around $5…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 6:20 am / permalink 18971 / 5 stories in 24 days
Digitising energy and water data for the energy transition underpins €40 million raise by Berlin’s metiundo
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - German utility and tech company metiundo has secured €40 million to scale the rollout of smart metering systems and expand its software platform – all with the aim of boosting the energy transition in the building sector. The funding round came from funds…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 4:21 am / permalink 18967 / 4 stories in 24 days
Paris-based EventTech Startup Naboo Secures €58.7 Million In Series B Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based EventTech startup Naboo has raised €58.7 million ($70 million) in a Series B funding round to expand its AI-powered procurement platform beyond events to include companies’ “tail spend” (Class C spending). The round was led by Lightspeed Ventu…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 12:20 am / permalink 18963 / 7 stories in 25 days
Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO
Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - Bhusri said in a statement that the company's next chapter would be focused on AI.
Back to Top / Monday, February 9, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 18948 / 5 stories in 25 days
UK- and Spain-based sustainability data platform Dcycle acquires Germany’s ESG-X to accelerate DACH expansion
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - Dcycle, a UK and Madrid-based sustainability data management platform, today announced the acquisition of ESG-X, a Munich-based software company specialising in AI-powered sustainability reporting solutions, to expand its presence in the DACH region. The …
Back to Top / Monday, February 9, 2026, 1:20 am / permalink 18918 / 3 stories in 26 days
Salesforce Shelves Heroku
msmash / slashdot - Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a "sustaining engineering model" focused entirely on stability, security and support. Existing customers on credit…
Back to Top / Friday, February 6, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 18850 / 4 stories in 28 days
Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.
Back to Top / Thursday, February 5, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 18791 / 9 stories in 29 days
Sweden Startup Fintower Raises €1.5M In Oversubscribed Seed Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Gothenburg-based Fintower has successfully closed an oversubscribed €1.5 million seed round, drawing support from both new and existing investors. Participants include Chalmers Ventures, Akka, the Stena family via William Olsson, several entrepreneurs and…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 18780 / 3 stories in 29 days
Linda AI secures €2.6M to scale AI-powered workflows for dental practices
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Linda AI, a healthtech startup that automates front-desk operations for dental clinics, has raised €2.6 million in a pre-seed funding round led by 6 Degrees Capital. The funding comes at a time when voice AI is being adopted rapidly across service-heavy i…
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Snowflake bypasses Microsoft to strike multiyear deal with OpenAI
Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today said it has struck a $200 million, multiyear partnership with OpenAI Group PBC to bring enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence models directly into its data platform, deepening a relationship that until now had largely fl…
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French IT Scale-Up Fleet Raises First External Capital At €100M Valuation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Fleet, a Paris-based scale-up specialising in IT fleet management, equipment, and security for SMEs, has welcomed ISAI Expansion into its capital via the ISAI Expansion III fund, at a valuation of €100 million. ISAI Expansion, part of ISAI Gestion, target…
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Incard closes £10M Series A to expand its financial platform
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - London-based Incard, a financial platformfor high-growth digital companies, has raised £10 million in Series A fundingled by Smartfin, with participation from Founders Capital, MountFund, and angelinv...
Back to Top / Monday, February 2, 2026, 2:20 am / permalink 18652 / 6 stories in 4 wks
Microsoft stock plunges 10% as its worst day in years sees a $357 billion market cap wipeout
Quartz Staff / qz - Along with a brutal day for software stocks, Microsoft's wipeout helped drag down the tech-heavy Nasdaq about 0.7% for the day
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ServiceNow falls 6% despite better-than-expected fourth-quarter results
cnbc - ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership with Anthropic about a week after it inked a similar deal with competitor OpenAI.
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