ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner
Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres
myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health
French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents
EnerVenue lands $300 million to bring NASA’s space batteries down to Earth
Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play
Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste
Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities
Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete
Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030
Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure
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Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists
Rebellions closes $400M pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation
ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure
Midas raises $50M Series A to solve tokenised finance’s liquidity problem
Uber is acquiring Blacklane, the Berlin chauffeur platform backed by Sixt and Mercedes-Benz
Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre
Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication
