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UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf
Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.
Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.
Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak
The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance
Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots
Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce
