Verdane has bought out Northzone, AirTree Ventures and management to take full majority control of HappyOrNot, the Finnish maker of the Smiley feedback terminals used by 4,000+ customers in 135 countries. The company is now pivoting from feedback collection to AI-driven operational intelligence.
INLEAP Photonics closed a EUR 20 million seed round on September 1, 2026, four months after signing a defense partnership and weeks after an explosive drone hit Leipzig Halle Airport.
PLD Space added EUR 108 million on September 1, 2026, taking total funding to EUR 488 million, while lead investor Mitsubishi Electric already holds priority access to Miura 5's first launches.
Cloover's EIF-backed financing capacity grew from EUR 1.04 billion to EUR 1.12 billion in eight months, funding solar and heat pump loans in Germany, the UK, France and Poland.
Nvidia put $3.5 billion into MediaTek's convertible bonds on August 31, 2026, to deepen NVLink Fusion adoption. Alphabet bought into the same round, undisclosed size.
Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1 billion betting AI's real constraint is power and hardware, not code, with server racks headed to 1 megawatt within three years.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open source AI hub, for 12.9 billion dollars. Here is what that means for anyone using open models.
Advent and Stripe walked away from a $53 billion PayPal buyout with $50 billion in bank financing already arranged. Why the board said no, and what it means for anyone who assumes secured financing means a deal is basically done.
Madison Air agreed to buy Germany's ebm-papst, maker of fan-motors used in data-center cooling, for $5.4 billion. Here is what changes for buyers over the next year.
Pasqal's SPAC merger with Bleichroeder closed on 27 August 2026, and PSQL shares began trading the next day with about $360 million in cash. The Paris listing is still ahead.
NTT DATA is buying Stockholm's Netgain AB, its second Nordic ServiceNow acquisition in eight months. What EU and UK buyers mid-contract with independent ServiceNow shops should check now.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, turning the neutral hub rival labs use to distribute open models into one chip vendor's asset. What EU and UK operators should audit before the deal closes.
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