Unitree soars 460% in Shanghai debut, hits $53B on $904M IPO

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics closed up more than 460% in its Shanghai debut Wednesday, having raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in an initial public offering. It is the first publicly traded…

Uber hit with €825M Dutch fine over automated driver suspensions

The Dutch data protection authority has fined Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without properly informing them. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under…

LifeStance revenue jumps 26% to $435M as new investors pile in

LifeStance Health reported second-quarter revenue of $435.35 million, up 26.1% year over year and ahead of the $414.58 million analysts expected. The outpatient mental health provider posted earnings of $0.06 per share,…

Poolside AI’s $6B Nvidia licensing deal reshapes the model-building race

A novel Nvidia–Poolside arrangement. Poolside AI has agreed to a non-exclusive deal under which Nvidia will pay $6 billion to license the startup’s AI model-development software, according to a letter to investors…

Nvidia eyes Korean chip startup Rebellions, valued at $2.3B

Nvidia is in early talks with Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a possible tie-up, ranging from a technical partnership to an investment or even an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter.…

Micron bets $10B on new AI memory research lab in Boise

Micron Technology (MU) said it will invest $10 billion to build Micron Research Labs, a new research institution in its hometown of Boise, Idaho. The lab will focus on future memory technologies, advanced computing…

IEQ Capital takes new $11M stake in cold-storage REIT Lineage

IEQ Capital LLC bought a new position in Lineage, Inc. (NASDAQ: LINE) in Q2 2026, acquiring 254,671 shares worth roughly $11,015,000, according to HoldingsChannel.com.

Morpho's desktop UV printer raises $7M on Kickstarter in 16 hours

Morpho has launched a desktop UV printer on Kickstarter, raising more than $7 million from nearly 2,000 backers in the campaign's first 16 hours. The device is aimed at artists, Etsy sellers, and small business owners…

DexCom posts $1.31B quarter as Silvant Capital opens a $5.4M stake

Silvant Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in DexCom, Inc. (NASDAQ:DXCM) in the second quarter of 2026, purchasing 79,562 shares worth roughly $5,359,000, according to HoldingsChannel.com.

Apollo Atomics raises $31M seed to make nuclear reactors in a factory

Apollo Atomics, an MIT spinoff building the next generation of pressurised water reactors (PWRs), has raised $31 million in seed funding. FCVC led the oversubscribed round, with backing from Y Combinator, Telesoft…

Alibaba's AI revenue run rate on track to hit $10B by September

Alibaba expects the annualised revenue run rate for its AI-related products to reach $10 billion in the quarter through September, chief executive officer Eddie Wu said on an earnings call Thursday. That would be up…

Rothschild holding buys $2.65M Nova stake as chipmaker beats Q2 estimates

Edmond de Rothschild Holding S.A. bought a new stake in shares of Nova Ltd. (NASDAQ:NVMI) during the second quarter of 2026, according to its latest Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund bought 5,007 shares of the…

NEOM secures SAR10B credit facility to fund giga-project push

NEOM has secured a revolving credit facility worth SAR10 billion to cover short-term financing needs, as the Saudi giga-project advances developments including Trojena, THE LINE, Oxagon, and luxury island Sindalah. The…

Sumitomo Life increases stake in Equinix

Sumitomo Life Insurance Company acquired 1,395 shares in Equinix, valued at approximately $1.454 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing reported on 22 August 2026.

Gates Foundation buys $352M Home Depot stake, trims $818M from Berkshire

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust built a new $352.7 million position in Home Depot, buying 1 million shares during Q2 2026. To fund the move, it cut its Berkshire Hathaway holdings by roughly $818 million.

Idler raises $9M seed from Paradigm to build RL environments

Idler launched on 19 August 2026 as a frontier data research lab with a $9 million seed round led by Paradigm. It sells evals, benchmarks and reinforcement learning environments to the labs training frontier AI models.

Varma buys $15.84M Synopsys stake as revenue jumps 42%

Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co bought a new stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) during the second quarter of 2026, according to HoldingsChannel. The Finnish pension insurer purchased 35,515 shares of the…

Blank Street raises $75M Series B at $650M valuation for west coast push

Blank Street, the six-year-old coffee chain that began as a single cart in Brooklyn, has raised a $75 million Series B led by General Atlantic. The round values the company at about $650 million, up from $500 million in…

Gossamer Bio secures up to $250M to push seralutinib toward FDA approval

Gossamer Bio, a San Diego clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has entered a structured private placement expected to provide up to $250 million in gross proceeds. The financing backs seralutinib, its treatment for…

Samsung SDI sells 5% Samsung Display stake for 4.445T won

Samsung SDI has agreed to sell roughly 5% of its stake in Samsung Display back to Samsung Display for 4.445 trillion won in cash. The company's board approved the transfer of 13,088,235 shares on 21 August 2026.

EP Wealth adds $15.19M Travelers stake as insurer beats profit estimates

EP Wealth Advisors LLC bought 68,909 shares of Travelers, creating a new stake worth about $15.19 million in Q2 2026, according to HoldingsChannel.com.

Trillium takes new $20M stake in AutoZone as analysts turn cautious

Trillium Asset Management acquired a new position in AutoZone, buying 6,269 shares worth roughly $20,047,000 during the second quarter, according to its latest SEC disclosure. The retailer of automotive parts and…

Expeditors tops estimates as institutional investors add positions

Expeditors International reported $2.03 earnings per share for the quarter ended August 4, beating the consensus estimate of $1.69 by $0.34. That marked a jump from $1.34 a share in the same period a year earlier.

IEQ Capital buys $10.5M stake in Everest Group

IEQ Capital LLC bought a new $10,503,000 position in Everest Group, Ltd. during the second quarter, according to its latest 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm picked up 29,403 shares…

China's Xinjie Energy raises $100M Series B for solid-state batteries

Shenzhen Xinjie Energy Technology has raised more than $100 million in a Series B round led by Puhua Capital. The company develops lithium-metal solid-state batteries.

Vessev raises $19M Series A, enters US with FlyTahoe deal

Vessev, an Auckland-based marine technology company, has raised a $19 million Series A led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from other institutional and angel investors. Alongside the round, it is entering the…

Y Combinator to sell up to 1.05% of Meesho for ₹957.5 crore

Y Combinator is set to sell up to 1.05% of its stake in Meesho for ₹957.5 crore through a block deal, sources told CNBC-TV18. The floor price was set at ₹197.5 per share — up to a 4% discount to the previous close.

Banco do Brasil pays $38M, TIM launches $193M buyback, BlackRock cuts Gerdau stake

Three large Brazilian companies made shareholder decisions in the same week. Banco do Brasil approved a cash payout, TIM Brasil approved a buyback, and the asset manager BlackRock trimmed its holding in steelmaker…

Siemens Healthineers wins $31.1M ARPA-H grant for stroke robotics

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded Siemens Healthineers up to $31.1 million over five years to develop autonomous, remote endovascular robotics. The grant targets neurovascular robots…

Commerce Bank buys new $60.25M stake in Keysight as AI demand lifts revenue 37%

Commerce Bank has bought a new $60,253,000 stake in Keysight Technologies, acquiring 172,117 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company during the second quarter, according to HoldingsChannel.

Elevation Point opens $3M position in Honeywell Aerospace as blue-chip funds pile in

Elevation Point Wealth Partners LLC acquired a new position in Honeywell Aerospace (NASDAQ: HONA) in Q2 2026, buying 13,182 shares worth roughly $2,951,000, according to its latest Form 13F filing with the Securities…

William Blair opens $23M position in NWPX Infrastructure

William Blair Investment Management LLC bought a new stake in NWPX Infrastructure during the second quarter, according to HoldingsChannel.com. The firm acquired 469,008 shares worth approximately $23.01 million.

Commerce Bank buys $28.9M stake in SS&C Technologies

Commerce Bank bought 465,048 shares of SS&C Technologies worth roughly $28.9 million in Q2 2026, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Daiichi Life takes new $10.06M stake in Roper Technologies

Daiichi Life Insurance Co. Ltd. bought a new stake in Roper Technologies (NASDAQ:ROP) during the second quarter of 2026, according to HoldingsChannel. The Japanese insurer acquired 29,718 shares of the industrial…

Woodward taps debt market with $450M private note placement

Woodward (WWD) has agreed to a private placement of senior unsecured notes totalling $450 million. The controls supplier framed the financing as a post-IPO debt raise, giving investors fresh insight into its capital…

Alibaba raises HK$80B in equity, all earmarked for AI

Alibaba Group Holding will issue HK$80 billion — roughly US$10.3 billion — in new shares, with all proceeds directed to artificial intelligence. The company announced the raise on 23 August 2026 and said the money will…

Willow Voice raises $4.2M seed to turn voice into a computer interface

Willow Voice, an AI dictation startup led by 20-year-old Allan Guo, has raised a $4.2 million seed round. BoxGroup led the deal, with Goodwater Capital, Burst Capital, and Liquid 2 Ventures participating. Guo has since…

Stone Point Capital acquires Kessler Financial Services Australia

Stone Point Capital has completed its acquisition of Kessler Financial Services Australia from ECN Capital. The target operates in the financial services and advisory space.

EdgeTier receives Claret Capital Partners investment to scale agentic AI

EdgeTier, the Dublin-based customer conversation intelligence platform, has received an investment from Claret Capital Partners through its Fund IV. The announcement does not disclose the transaction size.

Weltman acquires Nathan & Nathan to expand in the Southeast

Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA has acquired Nathan & Nathan, P.C., a Southeast-based creditors' rights law firm, with Benesch serving as legal counsel to Weltman. Terms were not disclosed.

Osmo Studio lands $5M seed for AI video tools that keep creatives in control

Osmo Studio has launched and raised a $5 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Basis Set Ventures, MVP Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and investor Scott Belsky also participated. The startup makes AI animation…

AmpIn Energy lands $195M green financing for hybrid renewables

AmpIn Energy has secured $195 million in green financing from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and Rabobank. The financing will support a large-scale hybrid renewable-energy project in India, combining solar…

Swarmer backs new air defence venture led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince

Drone swarm software company Swarmer has made an equity investment in Vectus Air Defense Systems, a new company led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince. The early-stage round was announced in August 2026.

HCA Healthcare beats estimates with $20.23B in quarterly revenue

HCA Healthcare reported $20.23 billion in revenue for the quarter ended July 24, 2026, beating the consensus estimate of $19.76 billion. Earnings came in at $7.59 per share, ahead of the $7.56 analysts expected.

Westpac buys $3.23M Kroger stake as grocer's shares slide

Westpac bought a new stake in Kroger during the second quarter of 2026, according to its latest Form 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Australian bank bought 58,083 shares worth…

Zero Zero Infinity's HoverAir Versa tops $230K on Indiegogo

Zero Zero Infinity, the company behind HoverAir, has launched the Versa, a flying pocket camera, on Indiegogo. The campaign has raised over $230,000, with 59 days left to run. Backing starts at $449 for the Pocket-Only…

Danske Bank buys $9.9M Tyler Technologies stake as EPS beats estimates

Danske Bank bought a new stake in Tyler Technologies during the second quarter of 2026, acquiring 33,789 shares worth about $9.88 million, according to Holdings Channel.

Be Clinical raises ₹21 Cr for clinical skincare expansion

D2C skincare startup Be Clinical has raised ₹21 Cr (about $2.2 million) in a seed extension round led by Sauce, with participation from existing investor V3 Ventures. Angel backers included Sangeet Agrawal, Navin Parwal…

Uttar Pradesh and Yamanashi launch ₹600-crore fund for MSMEs

Uttar Pradesh and Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture unveiled a ₹600-crore fund to support Yamanashi-based Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that invest in the Indian state. The announcement came at the UP-Japan…

Thirona lands €7.5M to scale its AI lung-imaging platform

Nijmegen-based Thirona has raised €7.5M in an early-stage round to advance AI-powered analysis of thoracic CT images. The round combines a €5M investment from HERAN Partners and Dutch-based Borski Fund with a €2.5M…

Cumming Group merges with Dublin's OutForm to build out infrastructure advisory

Cumming Group has merged with OutForm Consulting, a Dublin-based advisory firm serving the water, transport, and energy sectors across Ireland and the UK. Terms were not disclosed.

Aditya Infotech raises ₹1,500 crore to expand surveillance capacity

Aditya Infotech has raised ₹1,500 crore (about $157 million) through a qualified institutional placement to expand manufacturing capacity for its security and surveillance products. The post-IPO equity raise, announced…

Gate.io opens prediction-market toolkit with $3M developer grant

Gate.io has launched Event Contracts Builder, a white-label toolkit that lets third parties run their own prediction markets, alongside a $3 million grant programme for developers who build on it. The product, announced…

EP Wealth Advisors buys $12.87M stake in Ecolab

EP Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) in Q2 2026, acquiring 46,202 shares worth roughly $12,872,000, according to Holdings Channel.com. The move adds to heavy institutional ownership of the…

Qben Infra raises SEK 73.4M in convertibles to fund Power platform

Qben Infra, a Nordic energy-infrastructure group, is strengthening its capital base with two convertible loans totaling approximately SEK 73.4 million from shareholders. The capital will support further growth and…

Self-Help Credit Union and partners launch a $20M Jacksonville housing fund

A coalition of private and philanthropic investors on Thursday launched a $20 million loan fund to spur $80 million worth of new affordable apartment construction in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Growth and…

PATEO CONNECT acquires 20% of Guangzhou Seagull for RMB800M

PATEO CONNECT Technology (Shanghai) Corporation has conditionally agreed to acquire a 20% stake in Guangzhou Seagull Kitchen And Bath Products for approximately RMB800 million. The transaction, announced on 21 August…

Korea's three Hanjin budget carriers to merge into 58-plane airline by 2027

Jin Air, Air Seoul and Air Busan — the three budget carriers under Hanjin — will merge into a single airline under the Jin Air name on 17 March 2027. The boards approved and signed the merger agreement in August 2026.…

Avudari group makes ₹8.76 cr open offer to take control of Aar Shyam

Radha Krishna Avudari and associates have launched a mandatory open offer to buy up to 58,43,327 shares of Aar Shyam India Investment Company Limited — 26% of its emerging paid-up equity capital. The offer is priced at…

OpenAI buys InstantDB team to power agent infrastructure

OpenAI has acquired the team behind InstantDB, a real-time database and backend platform serving over 17,000 users and powering 400,000 applications. The deal, announced on August 22, brings backend infrastructure…

Yingxin completes ¥520M semiconductor deal as tourism losses widen to ¥294M

Yuanxing Intelligent Manufacturing (000620) has completed its ¥520 million acquisition of a 60% stake in Guangdong Guangzhou Semiconductor, fully consolidating the chip business into its accounts. The move, disclosed in…

Profusa converts $6.1M debt to equity, issues new $650K note

Profusa (NASDAQ: PFSA) has issued a new $650,000 senior secured convertible note to Ascent Partners Fund, its primary secured lender, alongside a deal to convert $6.14 million of existing debt into preferred stock. The…

Global Water raises $10M in private placement

Global Water agreed to issue 1,129,944 new common shares to accredited investors at $8.85 per share, for aggregate proceeds of approximately $10 million. The Securities Purchase Agreement was dated 20 August 2026 and…

Brumby raises A$1.2M for AI drones that herd cattle

Brumby, an Australian startup, has raised A$1.2 million (about 13,800,000 ZAR, or roughly $861,476) in a seed round to build AI-powered drones that move, monitor, and manage cattle without traditional herding teams.…

DayOne secures $237M debt facility for Hong Kong data centre

DayOne has secured a US$237 million syndicated term loan facility to finance a hyperscale data centre in Hong Kong. The debt was announced on 22 August 2026.

Northino wins top $15K grant in Nigeria's iHatch programme

Northino won the top $15,000 prize at Cohort 3 of iHatch, a free five-month incubation programme run by Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency…

Starling Oncology secures $25M revolving credit line for working capital

Starling Oncology, Inc. 's wholly owned subsidiary, Starling Oncology Management, Limited Liability Company, entered into a revolving credit facility of up to $25 million with Gemino Healthcare Finance, doing business…

Evgen Pharma (TheraCryf) raises £1.05M to advance addiction treatment into clinical trials

AIM-listed biotech Evgen Pharma (TheraCryf) is raising £1.05 million to finish development work on its lead addiction treatment and find a commercial partner. The Cheshire firm is placing 416,388,888 shares and issuing…

NITDA backs startups through iHatch funding programme

Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are running iHatch, a free five-month incubation programme that pairs seed funding with…

Scope Technologies (Quantum Secure Encryption) closes C$6M private placement

Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) has closed the second and final tranche of its non-brokered private placement, bringing the total raised to C$5,999,999.85. The Vancouver-based company issued 13,333,333 units…

Sax Wealth Advisors adds $350M in Florida deal for Lighthouse Financial

Sax Wealth Advisors, the wealth management arm of Top 100 Firm Sax Advisory Group, has acquired Florida-based Lighthouse Financial. The deal, which closed at the end of June, adds $350 million in assets under management…

Rōmy acquired by The FOCUS Group

The FOCUS Group (TFG), a 40-year-old fundraising consulting firm based in St. Augustine, Florida, has acquired Rōmy, an AI-powered donor prospect research platform. The deal closed August 14, 2026; terms were not…

Fifth Third invests in embedded payments firm Payload

Fifth Third has made a corporate investment in Payload, an embedded payment firm that has found demand in real estate and is expanding into other multi-party industries such as law firms, property managers, construction…

Nvidia takes minority stake in power firm Cloverleaf to fuel AI data centres

Nvidia has made a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data centre power company, the chipmaker announced in August 2026. Terms weren't disclosed, but Nvidia is expected to invest several hundred million…

Synektik CEO sells 7.2% stake for 215M zł after 1,500% share surge

Cezary Kozanecki, founder, chief executive officer, and largest shareholder of Polish medical equipment distributor Synektik, sold 615,000 shares — 7.2% of the company's share capital — for slightly over 215 million zł.…

Denge Yatirim greenlights TL 3B private placement to fund asset buys

Denge Yatirim Holding, an Istanbul-listed investment holding company, has approved a TL 3 billion (roughly $62 million) capital increase via private placement to finance the acquisition of financial fixed assets. The…

MicroCloud takes $15.76M Strategy stake in Bitcoin push

MicroCloud Hologram (NASDAQ: HOLO) has acquired 140,268 shares of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) worth about $15.76 million, deepening its move into Bitcoin-linked investments. The shares came through the maturity and…

Anthropic launches $35M fund for open-source cyber defence

Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, a collaborative cybersecurity initiative backed by a $35 million fund for open-source security projects, plus up to $100 million in model usage credits and $4 million in direct…

Atlas Quant closes oversubscribed seed round to verify quant strategies

Atlas Quant, a London-based startup building an independent verification layer for investment strategies, has closed an oversubscribed SEIS tranche of its seed round in under seven weeks. The company is now finalising…

Light Origins raises hundreds of millions in Pre-A round

Chinese startup Light Origins has raised several hundred million yuan in an early-stage funding round, it announced on 14 August 2026. Guoke Investment led the round, with China Merchants Venture and Xianghe Capital…

Nscale eyes $3B US IPO in AI data center listing rush

London-based Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3 billion in a US initial public offering that could take place as soon as September, according to people familiar with the matter. The AI cloud firm is working with…

Newtrace raises $6.3M to cut green hydrogen costs with rare-earth-free electrodes

Newtrace, a Bangalore-based deep-tech climate startup founded in 2021, has raised $6.3 million in a pre-Series A round. The company builds advanced electrode and stack technologies designed to make green hydrogen…

Absolics raises 400B KRW to commercialise glass substrates

Absolics, the SKC subsidiary developing glass substrates for semiconductor packaging, is raising about 400 billion KRW (≈$289 million) through a rights offering to fund commercialisation. SKC, which owns 70.05% of…

Alychlo takes majority stake in Amadeus, eyes one new site a year

Alychlo, the holding company of Belgian entrepreneur Marc Coucke, has taken a majority stake in Amadeus, a restaurant chain known for its all-you-can-eat ribs. The chain runs five locations, including one in Brussels.

BDO raises record P115B in Philippines' largest corporate bond sale

BDO Unibank, the Philippines' largest lender, raised P115 billion (about $1.87 billion) from its latest ASEAN Sustainability Bond offering — the country's largest corporate bond sale. The 1.5-year bonds carry a fixed…

Horizon Equity Partners acquires 80% of Geralseg and ITELSIS

Portuguese fund manager Horizon Equity Partners has acquired 80% of the capital of Geralseg and Vitelsis (ITELSIS), two companies in the technology and security sector. Law firm Antas da Cunha Ecija advised Horizon on…

HSBC Asset Management backs financial AI platform Model ML

HSBC Asset Management has invested in Model ML, a financial AI platform.

Epicrispr raises $90M Series C to push FSHD epigenetic therapy toward pivotal trials

Epicrispr Biotechnologies has closed a $90 million oversubscribed Series C to advance EPI-321, its lead candidate for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a genetic muscle-wasting disease. The round was co-led…

Bay Area Lyme Ventures backs LymeLess Health's AI companion for tick-borne disease patients

LymeLess Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, has raised seed funding led by Bay Area Lyme Ventures, the venture philanthropy arm of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. The company builds software to help people with…

CUREator+ awards A$13.5M in grants to six Australian health startups

Six Australian biomedical and health technology startups have been awarded a combined A$13.5 million through the second funding round of CUREator+, a non-dilutive commercialisation program delivered by Brandon…

Grown Rogue enters New York with $15M PharmaCann deal

Grown Rogue International has taken the first steps towards acquiring PharmaCann 's New York licence and assets, closing initial transactions backed by project-based capital commitments of $15 million. The Medford,…

Ninepoint Partners LP: Canadian Large Cap Leaders Split Corp. raises C$34.45M

Canadian Large Cap Leaders Split Corp. has raised C$34.45 million through an overnight offering of preferred and Class A shares. The fund sold 1,675,300 preferred shares at C$10.70 and 1,155,300 Class A shares at…

Zhongke Digital closes C+ round, valuation nears ¥7B

Chinese chip developer Zhongke Digital has closed a C+ funding round, lifting its post-money valuation to nearly ¥7 billion. The round drew industrial capital and policy funds including Yangtze River Capital, Taiping…

819 Capital backs Bedrock 3D

Bedrock 3D, the Dutch 3D-printing filament maker spun out of BASF, has taken a strategic investment from 819 Capital Partners. Announced in August 2026, the investment places Bedrock 3D in 819's Private Equity Fund I.

Sentinel Net Lease closes $101M Opportunity Fund I

Sentinel Net Lease has completed the final closing of Sentinel Opportunity Fund I, its first commingled investment fund, after assembling a $101 million portfolio of single-tenant properties across the US. The fund…

Pet Media Group buys world's largest horse marketplace ehorses

Pet Media Group, a European group of digital pet marketplaces, has acquired ehorses, the world's largest digital horse marketplace. The transaction closed on 1 August 2026, with law firm YPOG advising the buyer.

Greenjoules raises $6.5M Series B from Amazon, Singularity for green fuels

Pune-based green energy startup Greenjoules has raised about ₹62 crore ($6.5 million) in an apparently ongoing Series B round. Amazon 's investment arm, Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings, led the round, with Singularity…

Colter Bay's first deal: a A$115M loan to helicopter operator Vertical Aviation

Colter Bay Capital has made its debut investment, providing a A$115 million (≈$82.4 million) senior secured loan to Perth-headquartered Vertical Aviation. The debt deal was announced in August 2026.

Cyncly acquires imos to expand furniture manufacturing software

Cyncly has completed the acquisition of imos, a Germany-based provider of CAD/CAM, integration and automation software for furniture manufacturing. Financial terms were not disclosed.

BitVault raises CHF 500K to launch worldwide Bitcoin self-custody app

Lugano-based BitVault has raised CHF 500,000 (≈$625,532) in a seed round to launch its Bitcoin security app, now available worldwide on the App Store. The round was backed by Basel-based Le Chêne Family Office and…

Kerno adds chairman Thomas McKinney as Blair Street Advisors invests

Kerno has named Thomas McKinney as chairman of its board, alongside a strategic investment from Blair Street Advisors. McKinney is the firm's managing member and brings more than 25 years of experience across…

The Metals Royalty Company raises US$165M to buy extra Mesabi iron ore royalty

The Metals Royalty has secured a US$165 million financing package to fund the purchase of an additional 1.0% production royalty in the Mesabi Metallics iron ore project in Nashwauk, Minnesota. The package combines a…

Broadcom seeks over $60B in debt to bankroll AI chips for Anthropic

Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt to finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Blackstone and Apollo Global Management are in talks to take…

Kerno brings in Blair Street investment as Thomas McKinney joins as chairman

Kerno has received a strategic investment from Blair Street Advisors, whose managing member Thomas McKinney has joined the company's board as chairman. The investment amount was not disclosed.

Trinity Bank raises CZK 1.6B in second 2026 share issue

Trinity Bank raised CZK 1.6 billion through a second share issue in August 2026, after a spring issue of about CZK 1.18 billion. The latest issue sold out in roughly one month.

Concord Holdings acquires Paramount Placements

Concord Holdings has acquired Paramount Placements, a US skilled-trades talent platform, with debt and equity backing from Route 2 Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Battery Smart raises $19.5M Series C at $430M valuation

Indian EV battery-swapping startup Battery Smart has raised $19.5 million (Rs 185.5 crore) in a Series C round led by existing backer Rising Tide Ventures. The company is valued at around $430 million post-money,…

First State Bank to be acquired by HBT Financial for $204.6M

HBT Financial has agreed to acquire Tri-County Financial Group, the parent of First State Bank, in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $204.6 million.

Oxford's Arcturis and Akrivia merge in £140M deal to challenge Palantir

Oxford-based NHS patient data firms Arcturis Data and Akrivia Health have agreed an all-share merger worth £140m, aiming to build greater scale against US software giant Palantir Technologies. The transaction is…

Selkie lands four Dragons in £40,000 haircare deal

Refillable haircare brand Selkie Hair has secured £40,000 from four investors on BBC's Dragons' Den. Founder Cicely Coops gave away a combined 20% equity stake to Deborah Meaden, Jenna Meek, Peter Jones, and Steven…

AmeriHealth Caritas backs Deon Health to expand disability care

AmeriHealth Caritas has made a strategic investment in Deon Health, a Michigan-based specialty managed care organisation serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The investment will support Deon…

Ambros Therapeutics to merge with Werewolf Therapeutics in all-stock deal

Werewolf Therapeutics and Ambros Therapeutics have signed a definitive all-stock merger agreement to form a Nasdaq-listed, late-stage biotech developing neridronate for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 (CRPS-1).…

MPACT secures S$100M post-IPO debt facility

Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT) said its subsidiaries entered a S$100 million (approximately US$78.8 million) multi-currency facility on 21 August 2026. The facility is guaranteed by DBS Trustee Limited,…

Bunker Hill to buy Silver47 at 38% premium, forming US silver player

Bunker Hill Mining has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Silver47 Exploration in an all-share merger, creating a combined company called Bunker Hill Silver Corp. Silver47 shareholders will receive a 38%…

Waiis buys corporate mobility startup SharetoGo to target business market

Catalan shared-mobility platform Waiis has acquired SharetoGo, a startup specialising in mobility solutions for companies. Waiis confirmed the deal in a statement on Friday but did not disclose the amount.

Ripple pushes RLUSD into institutional credit with Clearpool, Cicada fund

Ripple has partnered with Clearpool and Cicada to launch a credit fund for institutional investors, using its RLUSD stablecoin as the underlying asset. It marks a new use for RLUSD, which Ripple has marketed mainly as a…

DBAG exits foundry group Silbitz to Germany's VTC

Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG), together with DBAG Fund VI, has sold foundry group Silbitz to VTC, a German independent investment firm. The transaction closed in August 2026; the parties did not disclose the purchase…

MIDF provides RM13.4M Islamic financing to Gapima

Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad (MIDF) has provided RM13.4 million in Islamic financing to Gapima to part-finance the acquisition of a new industrial property in Klang, Selangor. The facility has a total…

Oshen lands £3.65m seed to triple ocean-robot production

Oshen, a Plymouth-based marine robotics startup, has raised £3.65m in a seed round led by Lunar Ventures. AlbionVC, Twin Track Ventures, Concept Ventures, and several angel investors also participated.

Nanolope raises $872K pre-seed to turn ceilings into thermal batteries

Nanolope, a Berlin deep-tech startup, has raised $872,000 in a pre-seed round led by IBB Ventures through its B# fund. Business angels and industry specialists also joined the round.

The Economist: Britain would be bonkers to ditch Palantir

An August 20, 2026 leader in The Economist argues that Britain should retain Palantir 's public-sector contracts despite the company's controversial politics, work with American border authorities and Israeli forces,…

Cicada Partners launches RLUSD-based credit fund with Ripple

Ripple is backing a new institutional credit fund that will issue working-capital loans in its RLUSD stablecoin to fintech and payments companies on the XRP Ledger. It is partnering with lending platform Clearpool,…

Gumi and SBI launch ¥3B crypto fund to prep for Japan's ETF era

Gumi Inc. and SBI have launched SBI Crypto Fund I, a three-year private fund with about ¥3 billion (around $18.3 million) in committed capital, according to a 28 July company announcement. The vehicle begins operations…

Goldman Sachs takes 8% stake in EFOR through structured deal

Goldman Sachs International acquired 175 million shares in Efor Yatırım Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş. (EFOR), representing an 8.03% stake, in a structured transaction on Borsa Istanbul. The counterparty was Efor Capital Teknoloji…

Tata Steel completes TM International Logistics stake acquisition

Tata Steel has completed its acquisition of a 23% stake in TM International Logistics for INR 3.4 billion, increasing its shareholding to 74%.

Netmarble's chairman buys 13.4% stake for 374B won as Tencent trims holding

Netmarble Chairman Bang Jun-hyuk has agreed to acquire 13.4% of the South Korean gaming company's shares for 374 billion Korean won. The stake comes from the 18.1% held by Han River Investment, an affiliate of China's…

ADB raises $2B in 10-year global bond, part of $45B 2026 plan

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised $2 billion through a 10-year global bond, its second 10-year US dollar benchmark of 2026. BMO Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura managed the transaction,…

Samsung SDI raises 4.45T won to grow US energy storage output

Samsung SDI has raised roughly 4.45 trillion Korean won in cash to expand energy storage system (ESS) production in North America and fund next-generation batteries. The company disclosed on August 21 that it will sell…

Knights buys 220-year-old law firm Moore Barlow in second deal this week

Legal and professional services group Knights has acquired Moore Barlow, a 160-strong law firm and one of the South East's largest regional practices. The firm employs specialists across corporate, dispute resolution,…

Kyoei Medical Instruments to be acquired by Kurihara Medical Equipment

AMiquam leads €2.2M Eurostars grant for defect-spotting 3D printing

Swiss startup AMiquam has won a €2.2 million Eurostars grant to lead a four-partner consortium developing precision metal 3D printing. The company, founded in 2020 and based in Gland, brings together Neuchâtel's Gravity…

Cornaro family takes near-full control of Cornèr Bank

The Cornaro family has acquired the 19.6% stake in Cornèr Bank previously held by the Piotrkowski-Dollfus family, lifting its holding to roughly 99.7% of the Swiss private bank's share capital. The move gives the…

Austria's Invest AG buys 11% of TTTech to keep space tech in local hands

Austrian private equity firm Invest AG has acquired an 11% stake in Vienna-based TTTech Group, the two companies said. Neither the price nor the seller of the shares was disclosed. Both sides describe the move as a…

Aprogen raises KRW 2 billion in convertible bond issuance

Aprogen, a South Korean biotechnology and pharmaceutical company, has raised KRW 2 billion (roughly $1.4 million) through a private placement of convertible bonds. The company completed the issuance and payment of its…

Omega Seiki Mobility raises ₹50 crore to expand electric mobility

Omega Seiki Mobility, an Indian electric commercial vehicle maker, has raised ₹50 crore (about $5.2 million) in a late-stage round at an undisclosed valuation. The financing was led and managed by Abhishek Misra, SKG…

Soglowek acquires 70% of Plant & Bean

SwiftScale lands Tencent-linked angel funding for AI model routing platform

SwiftScale, an AI infrastructure startup, has secured angel investment from Tiliang Investment and other Tencent-affiliated investors in August 2026. Its intelligent distribution platform routes requests across multiple…

NICE I&T buys 93% of Vietnam's EasySalon in first local deal

South Korea-listed NICE Information & Telecommunication (NICE I&T) has acquired more than 93% of Vietnamese beauty software platform EasySalon, buying out the stake held by its founder and chief executive officer.…

NE1 Fitness Club lands £20K Start Up Loan, tops 100 members

Newcastle-based NE1 Fitness Club has secured a £20,000 Start Up Loan through the British Business Bank to fund its expansion. The debt financing was delivered with support from Business Enterprise Fund North East (BEF…

NEXON & Partners Center launches Kona Global IP Investment Fund

Nexon has launched a long-term investment program worth up to ₩250 billion, aiming to back innovative intellectual property (IP) from early-stage developers and scale it into global brands. Through its new investment…

Yojee raises A$3.5M in oversubscribed share plan

Logistics technology company Yojee (ASX: YOJ) has raised approximately A$3.5 million through an oversubscribed Share Purchase Plan (SPP), the Sydney-based company announced on August 21, 2026. The post-IPO equity raise…

Arabica Star lands $4M shariah-compliant facility from Saudi National Bank

Arabica Star has secured a 15,000,000 SAR ($4 million) shariah-compliant credit facility from Saudi National Bank, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Saudi Exchange. The five-year line is structured…

AgDevCo Ventures hits $49M first close for East African agribusiness

AgDevCo Ventures has reached a $49 million first close to finance early-stage farming and food-processing companies in East Africa. The Nairobi-based vehicle, led by Christine Mwangi, will write cheques of $1 million to…

FilingRamp buys longtime partner Multiplayer to speed up its InsurTech push

FilingRamp is acquiring Multiplayer, the maker of application-monitoring and AI debugging technology. FilingRamp announced the acquisition on August 18, 2026. Terms were not disclosed. FilingRamp automates insurance…

Sisuta raises early VC for care-home AI, eyes bank partnership

Sisuta, a Tokyo-based healthtech startup behind the care-home AI platform "Michicare," has raised an undisclosed early VC round from the Hekishin AOMI Fund. The fund is run by Hekishin Shinkin Bank and Shinkin Capital,…

International Graphite raises A$4.4M to build out graphite processing

International Graphite (ASX: IG6) has completed a A$4.4M private placement, bringing new strategic investors onto its register as it advances graphite processing operations in Australia and Europe. Xcelsior Capital and…

Braemont buys AI-focused consultancy Thought Logic as Renovus exits

Braemont Capital has agreed to acquire Thought Logic, an Atlanta-based consultancy that helps large companies complete complex technology, data, and AI overhauls, from Renovus Capital Partners. Guggenheim Securities…

Energy Vault lands $137.5M loan to fund power generation equipment

Energy Vault has secured a senior secured term loan facility of roughly $137.5 million to fund the purchase of power generation equipment. The NYSE-listed company (NRGV) established the facility on August 14, 2026, and…

Constantinople raises A$62.5M Series B, nears unicorn status

Australian fintech Constantinople has raised A$62.5 million in a Series B round co-led by Airtree Ventures and Square Peg Capital. Both firms are existing backers, having funded the startup's A$32 million seed round in…