Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value
Kate Clark / wsj - The planned deal represents nearly a doubling of the AI startup’s valuation from four months ago.
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Amgen acquires Oxford-based Dark Blue in deal worth up to €718 million to advance leukemia programme
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Dark Blue Therapeutics, a British discovery and development BioTech company innovating the next generation of precision oncology medicines, has been acquired by US-based global BioTech company Amgen, in a transaction valued at up to €718 million ($840 mil…
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Swap Raises $100M in Series C Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Swap, a NYC-based provider of a commerce operating system, raised $100m in Series C funding. The round was co-led by DST Global and ICONIQ. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach, as well as to invest …
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Beijing mulls intervention in Meta’s deal to buy Manus amid AI ‘brain drain’ fears
scmp - Chinese authorities are considering whether to step in over Meta Platforms’ acquisition of Manus – an artificial intellligence agent developer with Chinese roots – amid concerns the deal could breach technology export controls and encourage more start-ups…
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Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini
O'Ryan Johnson / theregister - Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choice The data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supp…
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Pixel Flow Raises Seed Funding Just Three Months After Launch
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Istanbul-based game Pixel Flow has closed a seed round with participation from Akın Babayiğit and e2vc; the investment amount was not disclosed. Launched three months ago, the game has already reached seven-figure daily revenue and entered the Top 25 of t…
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SoftBank Makes Good on $40 Billion OpenAI Investment
PYMNTS / pymnts - SoftBank completed its promised $40 billion investment commitment to OpenAI, CNBC reported Tuesday (Dec. 30), citing unnamed sources. The Japanese investment firm last week gave the artificial intelligence startup a final payment of $22 billion to $22.5 b…
Editor: So the big question here is what did Softbank have to do to make this happen? We already know ~6B of it came from liquidating Nvidia stock, but what else? Selling off more bets? Taking on more debt? It feels like a lot of exposure.
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Britain’s Octopus Energy To Spin Off AI Arm Kraken At $8.65 Billion Valuation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - British renewable-energy startup Octopus Energy is spinning off its utility management platform, Kraken Technologies, with a valuation of $8.65 billion. The move follows Kraken’s first standalone $1 billion equity raise, led by D1 Capital Partners and joi…
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Meta Platforms buys Manus to bolster its agentic AI skillset
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. is pushing into autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the acquisition of Singapore-based Manus, which made headlines when it first emerged earlier this year for its ability to perform tasks using a web browser without human su…
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SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year
Tobias Mann / theregister - Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank needs to secure $22.5 billion before the end of the year to make good on its commitments to AI partner OpenAI.…
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Swiss Glucose-Monitoring Startup Liom Raises €13.9 Million In Series A Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Schwyz-based Liom, a developer of a non-invasive glucose-monitoring wearable and biomarker monitoring solutions, has secured a €13.9 million (CHF 13 million) extension to its Series A financing round. The round was led by existing investors, with new part…
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Early backer of Personio and Enpal Picus Capital raises €150M in preferred equity from Carlyle AlpInvest
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Picus Capital has secured a capital boost, closing a €150 million preferred equity financing provided by Carlyle AlpInvest.…
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Enlightra Raises $15M To Develop Energy-Efficient AI Data Centre Lasers
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Enlightra, a deeptech startup focused on developing chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has raised $15 million in funding. Investors include Y Combinator, Runa Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Protocol Labs, Halo Labs, …
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Imprint becomes latest Irish-founded unicorn with $150m Series D raise
Ann O’Dea / siliconrepublic - New York-based fintech Imprint, co-founded by Irishman Daragh Murphy, has hit a $1.2bn valuation with its latest $150m Series D raise.Read more: Imprint becomes latest Irish-founded unicorn with $150m Series D raise
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Italy’s Cybersecurity Firm Exein Raises €100M To Fuel Global Expansion
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Exein, a Rome-based innovator in embedded cybersecurity for connected devices, has announced €100 million in new funding to accelerate product development and international expansion, bringing its total raised in 2025 to €170 million. The round was led by…
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Ben Raises $27.5M in Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Ben, a London, UK-based provider of a platform using AI to help global enterprises manage employee benefits, raised $27.5M in funding. The round was led by Mercia Ventures with participation from existing investors Atomico, Cherry Ventures, DN Capital, an…
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Ankar lands $20M Series A to reinvent how Innovation becomes defensible IP
Cate Lawrence / tech - IP patent platform Ankar has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Atomico, with Index Ventures doubling down and Norrsken VC and Daphni participating. This Series A brings Ankar’s total funding...
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Wodan AI Secures €2M Funding To Advance Sovereign Data Security In Europe
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Wodan AI, a startup specializing in running artificial intelligence models directly on fully encrypted data, has closed a €2 million pre-seed round. The round was led by Spanish funds JME Ventures, Swanlaab, and Adara Ventures, with additional participati…
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Roamless Secures $12M To Expand Global eSIM Connectivity Platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Global connectivity provider Roamless has closed a $12 million Series A funding round, led by Rasmal Ventures, with participation from Shorooq, Revo Capital, Finberg, and JIMCO. This new capital brings Roamless’ total funding to $18 million, following a $…
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Alphabet-owned Waymo in talks to raise $15 billion in funding
cnbc - The funding round would give Waymo a valuation as high as $110 billion, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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