GALLOS Technologies has raised $50m (GBP35m) in a still-open round led by Ventura Capital and Aberdeen Investments, funding the UK venture studio's next cohort of defence, security and resilience startups - a build-then-spin-out model distinct from ordinary VC deals.
SK hynix is spending $28.6 billion buying back shares instead of racing to add new HBM capacity, a signal that elevated AI memory prices may persist into 2027.
QuantumLight, the AI-driven venture firm co-founded by Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky, closed a 500 million dollar second fund, twice its debut vehicle, to fund its algorithm, Aleph.
Deutsche Telekom is buying Fiberhost and Inea from Macquarie for about EUR 1 billion, folding an open-access Polish fiber network into T-Mobile Polska - a consolidation risk for any business that relies on neutral wholesale pricing.
Unitree priced Shanghai's STAR Market IPO at a $9 billion valuation, raised $904 million 8,000 times oversubscribed, and debuted up 629 percent - proving China's own capital markets can now fund frontier robotics without a US listing.
Mindgard and Cytix raised Series A rounds a day apart in August 2026. One secures the AI model, the other secures the pipeline around it - and owners now need both.
Oceanloop, Computomics and LITILIT all raised capital this week - and each leaned on EIB debt, InvestEU backing or a national development-bank loan instead of pure venture equity.
Terra Industries closed a 52 million dollar seed round, the largest by an African startup, to build autonomous systems protecting 11 billion dollars in infrastructure.
Wispr Flow raised 280 million dollars at a 2 billion dollar valuation, three times its price nine months ago, and is expanding from dictation into meeting notes.
Jane Street tested Etched's AI chip in production, then led its $700M round at a $21B valuation. Here's the real signal for AI infrastructure buyers.
The Wall Street Journal reports that hedge fund Situational Awareness shopped a slice of its Anthropic stake at a 20 percent discount to raise cash. That discount is the most concrete price anyone has put on Anthropic outside a funding round.
SweGaN, a Linkoping wafer maker that already supplies Ericsson and Saab, closed a 14 million dollar Series B on August 17, taking its total funding to 41 million dollars. The bet is on a European source for the gallium nitride wafers that power EV chargers, 5G base stations and data-center supplies.
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