Revolut confirms $115B valuation after secondary share sale, prepares US bank launch
The fintech giant's valuation jumped 53% in a secondary sale led by Glade Brook, Coatue and T. Rowe Price as it moves toward a US banking license.
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AI inference startup fal raises $1.3B Series F at $16B valuation, doubling its value
Bessemer led the round with participation from NVIDIA, Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price as demand for generative media inference surges.
TechCrunch · +13 outlets
Anthropic raises $17B in quarterly revenue as dollar growth stalls for first time
Anthropic's amended S-1 shows Q3 revenue of $16.96 billion, up 1,127% year over year, but its quarterly dollar add shrank as top AI spenders peaked in July.
Saastr · +1 outlets
Canva lays off over 1,200 staff, cutting 22% of workforce amid slowing growth
The design software company says it is facing its hardest year yet as growth decelerates.
TechCrunch · +9 outlets
Salesforce acquires AI startup Cresta for $2.7 billion
The deal adds conversation intelligence technology to Salesforce as it continues spending on AI amid a market selloff.
The Information · +8 outlets
Sequoia to close London office and cut its Europe team
The move marks a pullback by one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture firms from its European operations.
Sifted · +13 outlets
Global venture funding hits $59B in October, lifted by China's record DeepSeek round
October funding rose 45% year over year, driven largely by a $15.9 billion round for China's DeepSeek.
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India's EloElo raises $80M Series C led by NBCUniversal for microdrama push
The round values the short-drama platform as its StoryTV app reports more than 33 million monthly active users.
TechCrunch · +9 outlets
Return secures €835M in portfolio financing to expand German battery storage
Deutsche Bank and Rabobank underwrote the financing for the Amsterdam-based energy storage startup's large-scale battery systems.
Eu-startups · +1 outlets
CrowdStrike to pay nearly $500M for AI security startups Fiddler AI and Dreadnode
The acquisitions target AI agent observability and automated AI security testing as demand to secure agents grows.
TechCrunch · +4 outlets
Traversal raises $120M Series B at $1B valuation for AI site reliability engineering
The autonomous SRE startup helps engineering teams find the root cause of production outages.
SiliconANGLE · +9 outlets
Northwood Space raises $375M at $2B valuation for satellite ground stations
The Ex-Disney star's startup was backed by a16z and DFJ Growth to expand satellite infrastructure rather than build rockets.
Tekedia · +12 outlets
Reed Jobs's Yosemite raises $350M second fund targeting cancer therapies
The fund continues the biotech investor's mission to make cancer non-lethal.
Fortune · +4 outlets
Titan OS raises €40M ($46M) to expand its smart TV operating system internationally
The Barcelona-based smart TV OS company has now raised $110 million to date as it builds an alternative to Roku and similar platforms.
TechCrunch · +1 outlets
AI spend hit $177B in 2026, with only 22% coming from software budgets
Menlo Ventures' fourth annual State of Enterprise AI report found deployment spend up 5.4x year over year.
Saastr · +3 outlets
Peppermint Robotics raises Rs 100 Cr in pre-Series B led by Pi Ventures, Crane
The IIT Bombay cleaning robot maker operates across nine countries and will use the funds to expand industrial automation.
Entrackr · +6 outlets
Tutor Intelligence raises $75M Series B for robot-by-the-hour model
The startup will expand robot production and AI training with the new capital.
Wowtale · +1 outlets
Most US venture capital goes to companies founded or led by billionaires, Crunchbase finds
More than half of US seed-to-growth venture funding in 2026 went to seven companies founded or led by existing billionaires.
Crunchbase