News•Jan 9, 2026
Orca Bio Banks $250M Series F Funding
Orca Bio, a late‑stage biotech focused on high‑precision cell therapies, closed a $250 million Series F round in December 2025, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing includes an amendment to its Silicon Valley Bank credit facility that adds up to $100 million of liquidity. Combined, the new equity and credit resources give Orca Bio the financial muscle to scale commercial operations and accelerate its clinical pipeline. The round underscores strong investor confidence in the company’s therapeutic platform.
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Last Chance to Exhibit: Money Expo Mexico 2026 Nears Full Capacity with Top-Tier Sponsors Onboard
Money Expo Mexico 2026 is now 90% sold out, leaving only a handful of exhibition stands available. The two‑day event on February 18‑19 at Centro Banamex will host global brokers, fintech innovators, liquidity providers, and trading platforms targeting Latin America’s...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
BV Investment Partners Closes Fund XII, At $2.465 Billion
BV Investment Partners announced the close of its twelfth private‑equity fund at $2.465 billion, surpassing its prior fund’s hard cap. The capital pool draws from sovereign wealth funds, pensions, financial institutions and family offices across East Asia, Latin America, Europe and...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Rain Raises $250M in Series C Funding
Rain, a New York‑based stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, closed a $250 million Series C round that values the company at $1.95 billion. The round was led by ICONIQ and featured a roster of venture firms including Sapphire Ventures, Bessemer and Lightspeed. Rain plans...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Sirion Receives Majority Investment From Haveli Investments
Sirion, a Salt Lake City‑based contract lifecycle management software vendor, has secured a majority investment from Haveli Investments. Although the financial terms were not disclosed, the transaction is slated to close in the first quarter of 2026 pending customary clearances....
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Encoord Raises $2M in Seed Funding
encoord, a Colorado‑based grid‑planning software firm, announced a $2 million seed round led by KittyHawk Frontier. The investment brings new board observer Paul Burgon from KittyHawk Frontier onto encoord’s governance structure. The capital will fund expansion of operations and accelerate development...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Biller Genie Raises $22M in Series B Funding
Biller Genie, an Orlando‑based cloud AR automation platform, secured $22 million in Series B funding led by Radian Capital. The capital will fund expansion into the United Kingdom and other international markets, as well as growth of its engineering and leadership teams....
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Onsetto Raises $2.2M in Seed Funding
Onsetto, a Minneapolis‑based fintech startup, announced a $2.2 million seed round led by EJF Ventures with participation from Idea Fund, The Perch Fund, Daren Cotter and Bobby Astrup. The capital will fuel product development, especially AI‑driven features for account switching, activation,...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
BlueNalu Raises $11M in Funding
BlueNalu, a San Diego‑based cell‑cultured bluefin tuna startup, closed an $11 million financing round. The round was co‑led by Agronomics, Siddhi Capital and Lewis & Clark AgriFood, with roughly 40 existing investors participating. Steven Finn of Siddhi Capital joined the board, and the capital...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
Canopy Raises $22M in Series B Funding
Canopy, a San Francisco‑based connected safety platform for U.S. health systems, closed a $22 million Series B round co‑led by 111° West Capital and ACME Capital. The funding will accelerate the nationwide rollout of its Canopy Find and Canopy Track solutions, aiming to extend real‑time...
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News•Jan 9, 2026
FineHeart Raises €35M in Series C First Closing; Receives €48M in Grants
FineHeart, a French clinical‑stage med‑tech firm, announced €83 million in total financing. The round includes a €35 million Series C first closing led by new investors such as Groupe Pasteur Mutualité and the EIB fund. Additionally, the company secured €48 million in grants from...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
Valinor Enterprises Scores $54M Series A
Valinor Enterprises announced a $54 million Series A round, raising its total capital to over $85 million. The financing was led by Friends & Family Capital, with existing backers General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and Red Cell Partners increasing their stakes, alongside new investors...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
Presto Lands $10M Funding Round
Presto Phoenix, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in enterprise‑grade Voice AI for quick‑service restaurant drive‑thrus, announced a $10 million funding round. The round was led by Metropolitan Partners Group with participation from Remus Capital, Link Ventures, and strategic angels including the...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
JetZero Lands $175M Series B Financing Round
JetZero, a Long Beach‑based aerospace startup, announced a $175 million Series B round led by B Capital, with participation from United Airlines Ventures, Northrop Grumman, 3M Ventures and RTX Ventures. The financing brings the company’s total capital commitments to over $1 billion, including...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
PureSpectrum Receives Investment From TA Associates
PureSpectrum, a Westlake Village market‑research technology firm, secured a strategic investment from private‑equity firm TA Associates. The capital will accelerate product innovation and scale the platform’s infrastructure. PureSpectrum’s programmatic marketplace connects brands, research agencies, and institutions with a global pool...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
Global Technical Realty Receives $1.9 Billion From KKR and Oak Hill Capital
London‑based Global Technical Realty (GTR) secured $1.9 billion in financing. Private‑equity firm KKR committed $1.5 billion in equity, while Oak Hill Capital added roughly $400 million. The capital will fund expansion of GTR’s build‑to‑suit data‑center platform for hyperscalers. Founded by Franek Sodzawiczny, GTR...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
Enodia Therapeutics Raises €20.7M in Seed Funding
Enodia Therapeutics, a Paris‑based biotech, secured €20.7 million in seed funding led by Elaia, Pfizer Ventures and Bpifrance. The capital will accelerate its machine‑learning‑driven small‑molecule platform that selectively modulates the SEC61 translocon to degrade target proteins at synthesis. By intervening upstream...
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News•Jan 8, 2026
Vizgen Raises $48M in Funding
Vizgen, a Waltham‑based spatial multi‑omics firm, announced a $48 million financing round. The investment was led by ARCH Venture Partners, M Ventures and Northpond Ventures, with participation from existing backers. The capital will fund global researcher support and scale manufacturing capabilities....
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News•Jan 7, 2026
Discord and Mercor Investor Niko Bonatsos Departs General Catalyst, Plans New VC Firm
Niko Bonatsos, who built General Catalyst’s seed strategy and backed Discord and the $10 billion AI startup Mercor, announced his departure in January 2026. He plans to start a new early‑stage venture firm with a group of top founders and investors,...
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News•Jan 7, 2026
STRM.BIO Raises $8M in Series Seed 2 Financing
STRM.BIO, a Cambridge‑based biotech specializing in non‑viral delivery platforms for cell and gene therapies, announced an $8 million Series Seed 2 financing. The round is led by Recordati and includes continued participation from Boehringer Ingelheim Ventures and Delos Capital, with new capital...
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News•Jan 7, 2026
DayOne Raises US$2.0 Billion in Series C Funding
DayOne Data Centers Limited announced a US$2 billion Series C funding round. The round was led by Coatue with participation from Indonesia Investment Authority, Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund. Combined with the earlier US$1.9 billion equity raises and a €1 billion mezzanine facility, total capital...
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News•Jan 7, 2026
Sigrid Raises USD5M in Funding
Swedish consumer‑health startup Sigrid announced a $5 million financing round, though the investors remain unnamed. The capital will fuel both operational scaling and intensified research and development. Sigrid’s core offering is its patented SiPore technology, a non‑systemic, mechanically active platform that...
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News•Jan 7, 2026
Filtrabit Raises €2M in Funding
Filtrabit, a Finnish cleantech firm specializing in dust‑extraction systems, secured €2 million in a financing round led by Ajanta Innovations 2 Ky. The capital will accelerate research and development while funding geographic expansion across the Nordics, Central Europe and India. The technology removes...
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News•Jan 7, 2026
Linker Vision Raises US$35M in Series A Funding
Linker Vision, a Taipei‑based AI software platform, closed a $35 million Series A round led by Abico Group, with participation from NVIDIA and several Taiwanese venture funds. The capital will fund a rapid global expansion into the United States, Latin America, Asia,...
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News•Jan 6, 2026
Interos Lands $20M Funding Round
Interos.ai announced a $20 million funding round led by Blue Owl Capital and Structural Capital. The new capital will accelerate development of its AI‑powered Operational Resilience Cloud, which visualizes and monitors global supply chains down to individual suppliers. The platform also...
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News•Jan 6, 2026
How World Cup Champion Mario Götze Built a Parallel Career as an Angel Investor
Mario Götze, the 2014 World Cup hero, has built a parallel career as an angel investor through his vehicle Companion M, which now backs more than 70 startups. Two of those companies, Danish fintech Flatpay and German AI firm Parloa,...
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News•Jan 6, 2026
Meritz Securities Selects WNSTN as Strategic AI Partner for Next-Gen Investing Platform
Meritz Securities announced a strategic partnership with AI‑focused firm WNSTN to embed compliant, infrastructure‑grade artificial intelligence into its next‑generation digital investing platform. The collaboration makes Meritz the first major Korean brokerage to deploy WNSTN’s real‑time, multi‑agent financial AI across client‑facing...
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News•Jan 5, 2026
Insight Partners Sued by Former Vice President Kate Lowry
Kate Lowry, a former vice president at Insight Partners, filed a lawsuit in San Mateo County alleging disability discrimination, gender discrimination, and wrongful termination. She says her supervisor demanded constant online availability, subjected her to harassment, assigned redundant tasks, and...
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News•Jan 5, 2026
Azimuth AI Raises Funding
Azimuth AI, a semiconductor firm operating out of Sacramento and Hyderabad, closed an undisclosed‑amount funding round led by Jetha Global, with participation from Moneta Ventures, AUM Ventures, and new investors. The company specializes in custom edge‑AI system‑on‑chips targeting smart utilities,...
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News•Jan 1, 2026
The Longevity Startup That Already Has the Data Altos Labs Is Seeking: Hidden in Plain Sight
Celljevity, a low‑profile biotech, has treated over 1,000 patients for seven years, amassing Phase‑3‑level safety and efficacy data at a fraction of the cost of its high‑profile rivals. The company’s small‑molecule epigenetic reprogramming avoids the tumor‑formation risks associated with Yamanaka‑factor...
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News•Dec 30, 2025
Almost 80 European Deep Tech University Spinouts Reached $1B Valuations or $100M in Revenue in 2025
Europe’s deep‑tech and life‑science university spinouts have coalesced into a $398 billion pipeline, with 76 companies reaching either $1 billion valuations or $100 million in revenue, according to Dealroom’s 2025 Spinout Report. New funds PSV Hafnium and U2V each aim to raise €60 million...
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News•Dec 29, 2025
Traini Raises $7.5 Million
Pet‑emotional‑intelligence startup Traini announced a $7.5 million financing round. The round was led by Banyan Tree, Silver Capital, ZhaoTai Group and NYX Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA VPs, Anthropic staff and other high‑profile investors. Existing backers such as Xiaomi co‑founder Feng...
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News•Dec 27, 2025
Investors Share What to Remember While Raising a Series A
At TechCrunch Disrupt, investors Thomas Green, Katie Stanton, and Sangeen Zeb outlined the new criteria for raising a Series A in an AI‑driven market. They noted that while the number of funded rounds is shrinking, average deal sizes are expanding,...
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News•Dec 24, 2025
The European Startup Market’s Data Doesn’t Match Its Energy — Yet
European venture capital poured €43.7 billion into startups through Q3 2025, keeping the year on track to match 2024 but still trailing U.S. deal volume. Fundraising by European VC firms stalled at €8.3 billion, the lowest in a decade, highlighting a liquidity gap....
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News•Dec 23, 2025
Innovation and Trust: Headway NOVA Honored with Two Prestigious Industry Awards
Headway NOVA, a tokenized real‑estate investment platform, was named the 1st Most Trusted Financial Company – Community Choice 2025 by TrustFinance and Real Estate Investment Firm of the Year by Corporate LiveWire. The dual honors highlight the firm’s secure, user‑friendly...
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News•Dec 22, 2025
Rising Digital Payments: How the ‘BTC to AUD’ Trend Is Reshaping Australia’s Tech Sector
Australia’s digital payments landscape is being reshaped by the surge in Bitcoin‑to‑Australian‑Dollar conversions, turning crypto flows into a strategic data signal for tech firms. Early adoption of Bitcoin exchanges, mining clusters, and university research gave the country a head start,...
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News•Dec 21, 2025
Israel’s Famed VC Jon Medved, Diagnosed with ALS, Backed the Tech that Will Improve His Life
Israeli venture capitalist Jon Medved announced his immediate retirement from OurCrowd after being diagnosed with ALS. Medved, the founder of the crowdsourced VC platform, has overseen a portfolio of roughly 500 companies, 74 exits and a recent $525 million sale. He...
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News•Dec 20, 2025
Sequoia Partner Spreads Debunked Brown Shooting Theory, Testing New Leadership
Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire falsely accused a Palestinian student of orchestrating the December 13 Brown University shooting, despite authorities identifying a Portuguese gunman. His deleted X posts resurfaced via Fast Company, reviving criticism of his anti‑Muslim commentary. The controversy hits...
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News•Dec 19, 2025
Where Are Investors Placing Their Bets Next Year? AI, AI, AI.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, venture capitalists made it clear that artificial intelligence dominates their investment theses for 2027. Speakers from Index, Greylock and Felicis emphasized founder resilience, authentic product‑market fit, and the need for unique data flywheels to stand out in...
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News•Dec 18, 2025
No Keynotes, No BS — Why This Year’s Best Tech Talks Happened over Cocktails at StrictlyVC
TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC series delivered a year‑long circuit of intimate, cocktail‑style events that gathered top venture capitalists, founders, and policymakers across San Francisco, Athens, London, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. The gatherings featured high‑profile speakers such as Kirsten Green, Pat Gelsinger,...
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News•Dec 18, 2025
CranioSense Receives $5.5M in Federal Grants
CranioSense, a neurotechnology startup, secured roughly $5.5 million in non‑dilutive federal funding from the NIH Blueprint MedTech Program and the DoD’s Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program. The grants will finance development and pivotal validation of its non‑invasive intracranial pressure monitoring system,...
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News•Dec 17, 2025
Limenet Raises €7M in Funding
Italian startup Limenet announced a €7 million financing round led by CDP Venture Capital and construction group Fassa Bortolo. The capital will be used to cement the company’s market leadership and speed up development of its carbon‑dioxide removal technologies. Limenet, headquartered...
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News•Dec 17, 2025
Ferronova Raises $6M in Funding
Ferronova, an Adelaide‑based medical‑technology firm, closed a $6 million financing round, bringing its total capital to $17.5 million. The round was led by Uniseed/UniSuper, South Australian Venture Capital Fund, Artesian Venture Partners, and Renew Pharmaceuticals. The cash will fund expansion of its...
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News•Dec 16, 2025
Hoboken Farms Scores $4M Funding Round
Hoboken Farms secured a $4 million financing round led by brand‑loyal investors, fueling the launch of its Butter & Calabrian Chili sauce. The new product carries KETO, Gluten‑Free and Seed Oil Free certifications, reinforcing the company’s clean‑label strategy. Nationwide distribution expands...
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News•Dec 12, 2025
Stanford’s Star Reporter Takes on Silicon Valley’s ‘Money-Soaked’ Startup Culture
Stanford senior Theo Baker, already the youngest George Polk Award winner, is turning his investigative chops toward Silicon Valley’s venture‑capital machine. His forthcoming book, How to Rule the World, draws on more than 250 interviews to expose how VCs treat...
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News•Dec 11, 2025
The Market Has ‘Switched’ and Founders Have the Power Now, VCs Say
Venture capitalists are acknowledging a shift in fundraising dynamics, with founders now wielding greater leverage after the 2022‑23 bear market. Leslie Feinzaig of Graham & Walker and Ross Fubini of XYZ Venture describe how they had to market themselves to...
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News•Dec 11, 2025
What Most VCs Won’t Tell You About Raising Capital
Venture capitalists Ross Fubini of XYZ Ventures and Leslie Feinzaig of Graham & Walker Ventures reveal how VCs craft their own go‑to‑market strategies, not just evaluating startups but also courting limited partners and founders. In a TechCrunch Build Mode interview...
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News•Dec 11, 2025
Stic Raises $10M Bridge Round
Stic, a Los Angeles‑based OOH advertising platform, secured a $10 million bridge round led by Accretion Capital and several tech entrepreneurs, bringing its cumulative capital to $200 million. The funding will fuel expansion into more than thirty U.S. states and Canada, deepen...
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News•Dec 11, 2025
Lolli Partners with Spark to Accelerate Bitcoin Rewards and Self-Custody
Lolli, the Bitcoin rewards app acquired by venture studio Thesis* earlier this year, announced a partnership with Lightspark’s Spark platform. The integration enables Lightning Network withdrawals, allowing users to instantly move earned Bitcoin to self‑custodial wallets via Spark’s SDK. Spark’s...
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News•Dec 10, 2025
Erik Nierenberg Joins Invictus Growth Partners as a Partner
Invictus Growth Partners announced that Erik Nierenberg has joined the firm as a Partner, bringing more than 20 years of B2B software leadership. Nierenberg most recently served as CEO of Litmus, scaling direct sales at a 55% compound annual growth...
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