Live shopping platform Whatnot acquires AI discovery startup Shaped
The live-shopping unicorn is bringing Shaped's real-time recommendation technology and its founder in-house.
Ex-Apptio founders land $21M seed for enterprise AI venture Thira
Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer are getting the band back together for a third act backed by Madrona.
Post-quantum security startup pQCee raises $3.9M seed round
Singapore-based quantum-safe cybersecurity company pQCee has raised US$3.9 million in a seed funding round co-led by SGInnovate and Lotus One…
Kai-Fu Lee AI startup 01.AI targets Hong Kong IPO next year
01.AI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by renowned AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee, is targeting a Hong Kong initial public offering…
Nvidia quietly invested $196M into fintech giant Revolut
Companies House filings reveal Nvidia invested nearly $200 million in Revolut, marking one of the chipmaker's largest fintech bets.
EQT’s €5B scaleup fund in talks to lead Mistral AI round
Swedish investment firm EQT is negotiating to lead or co-lead Mistral's Series D through its massive Scaleup Europe Fund.
OpenRouter draws multibillion-dollar takeover interest from big tech
The AI model routing platform is in sale talks that could value it at a significant premium to its $1.3B…
Blackstone plans $30B investment in Japan AI data centers
The private equity giant plans to pour $30 billion into Japanese AI data center infrastructure, its president confirmed.
BP shuts down its corporate venture capital arm after 20 years
The oil giant closed its CVC unit after two decades of investing, marking one of the largest corporate venture wind-downs.
Apple explores AI chip startup acquisitions to close server gap
Apple is actively scouting semiconductor startups to buy as it races to build better AI server chips and reduce reliance…
