Global Startup Funding Watch

China's state planner has told SoftBank it will not allow its $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB's robotics unit to go ahead. SoftBank had expected the...

India's PE-VC investment rose 46% to US$17.1 billion in Q3 2026, but the gain is concentrated. Deals above US$100 million made up about 76% of value,...

Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup whose product deploys multiple agents into parallel workspaces to build software projects. The deal fits Meta's...

Sequoia says it has raised about $10 billion in new funds. The firm's stated plan is to concentrate on fewer companies and return to high-conviction,...

AI sales startup Nooks has sealed a $500M financing deal, and its valuation has climbed nearly 20% over the past year. The available reporting gives few other details, so the deal's structure and terms remain unclear.

• Open models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups seek lower costs, more control and flexibility.
• The open...

OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, aiming to expand Codex's tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code. Pierre's libraries are...

Israeli cybersecurity company Sentra has raised a $150 million Series C, led by Capital One Ventures. The round targets a concern CEO Yoav Regev...

Late-stage rounds drove October's US totals, with 51 rounds raising $10.77B, or 51.7% of the $20.83B reported. That category covers Series C and...

AI agents now shape venture decisions early, often before a partner reads a meeting brief. The speed carries risks worth watching:

• Confident...

Ayelet Noff, CEO of SlicedBrand, argues that AI changes what clients need agencies to do, shifting the role from execution toward advice.

• Execution...

Traversal, which provides an AI-powered platform for site reliability engineering, has raised a $120 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation. The...

The roughly $100 million in net cash expected at closing is conditional. It would come from a PIPE and GPAT's trust account, and the final figure...

Big Tech companies together expect to spend more than US$870 billion on capital projects in 2026 and US$1.3 trillion in 2027. These are projections, and the source does not specify which companies or capital items the figures include.

Nooks secured a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund. Unlike traditional investors who buy a stake, the deal involves...

The EIC's report puts Scaling Club members' fundraising at €4.06bn since joining. The more useful comparison is with non-selected applicants: members...

Funding is heavily concentrated: the ten largest InsurTech companies have raised $9.57B, or 38.1% of the $25.1B+ raised across 96 startups.

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Late-stage deals, defined as Series C onwards plus PE, made up 98.6 percent of October's capital. Early-stage rounds got just 1 percent, and seed got...

Two separate items stand out here, and the excerpt doesn't connect them:

• A PitchBook dashboard tracks European investment in female-founded...

Applied Compute reached a $3.25 billion valuation after raising $350 million, led by Elad Gil with Nvidia, Shopify Ventures and HubSpot Ventures...