Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch

Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in wh…

Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round
Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round

Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space I…

Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt
Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt

Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at €575M, well past the €500M it set out to raise. The London firm announced the final close today, splitting the total into €440m of Fund IV commitments and €135m of affiliated di…

Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections

Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete s…

Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it
Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it

Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the part worth looking at. The London company announced the partnership on 3 September in a statement also carried on PR Newswire. The d…

Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips
Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips

Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year e…

Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money va…

Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer
Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer

Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an int…

Oura’s $924m loss is the price of buying back its own shares
Oura’s $924m loss is the price of buying back its own shares

Oura filed to go public on Nasdaq on 3 September, and the coverage split within hours. Reuters reported that the smart ring maker had recently turned profitable. The Wall Street Journal told its readers the same. Bloomberg’s Subrat Patnaik led on a los…

Nvidia partner Hon Hai’s sales climb 52% as Europe lines up its own orders
Nvidia partner Hon Hai’s sales climb 52% as Europe lines up its own orders

Hon Hai reported August revenue of NT$921.8B, about $29.1B, up 52% year on year on AI server demand, well ahead of analyst expectations for the quarter. In June it signed a EUR 120M manufacturing partnership with Bull, the French state-owned computing …