Circle swallows Tazapay for $400M to widen USDC’s reach
Circle agrees to buy cross-border payments startup Tazapay in an all-stock deal worth about $400M.
The $1.35B Alif exit shows where edge AI deals are heading
Analog Devices pays $1.35B plus up to $200M in earnouts for Alif Semiconductor's edge AI microcontrollers.
Five banks back month-old Zankore with $3.1B GPU loan
A month-old Nvidia-backed startup has secured $3.1B in bank debt to roll out GPU capacity across Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
China’s flagship AI lab books a banker for STAR Market debut
Reuters says DeepSeek hired CITIC Securities for pre-IPO tutoring as the AI lab targets a Shanghai STAR Market listing this…
Ground A leaves stealth with €9M for laser counter-drone system
German defense tech startup Ground A revealed a €9M pre-seed from Vsquared Ventures for its AI-guided laser drone defense.
BrainChild banks $116M for CAR T trial in child brain cancer
BrainChild Bio closed a $116M Series A to run a pivotal CAR T study in a rare pediatric brainstem cancer.
Moonwalk banks $70M to test fat-targeting RNAi in humans
Moonwalk Biosciences raised a $70M Series B co-led by Alpha Wave and YK Bioventures for its obesity RNAi candidate MW101.
UK pension pools push Clean Growth’s climate fund past £81.5M
Clean Growth Fund's second close reached £81.5M after pension investors including Border to Coast backed its climate strategy.
Lexroom snaps up French and Bulgarian legal AI startups
Legal AI scaleup Lexroom made its first acquisitions, buying France's Query Juriste and Bulgaria's Praven Intelekt.
Blee banks $20M as AI ads overwhelm marketing reviewers
Blee raised a $20M Series A co-led by Fin Capital and SMBC to automate marketing compliance review for AI-era content.
