Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Sequen raised $16 million in Series A funding to provide real-time personalization infrastructure, aiming to help consumer companies improve revenue without relying on privacy-invasive tracking cookies.
Microsoft has hired the team behind AI collaboration startup Cove, which will shut down its service on April 1 following a $6 million seed round.
Rubi raised $7.5 million to scale its enzyme-based technology that converts captured carbon dioxide into cellulose for the fashion industry, backed by partners like H&M.
GridBeyond raised a €12 million equity round led by Samsung Ventures to expand its virtual power plant software, which helps manage energy loads for data centers.
Apple has acquired Warsaw-based MotionVFX, a move likely intended to integrate new video editing tools into its Creator Studio bundle and compete more effectively with Adobe.
Fuse raised $25 million in Series A funding to help US credit unions replace slow, legacy loan origination systems with its AI-native platform.
Google and Accel selected five India-based startups for their Atoms program, rejecting superficial "wrapper" ideas from a pool of more than 4,000 applicants.
Unacademy is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock, share-swap deal, marking a major consolidation in India’s struggling edtech sector.
Google has closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz, marking the largest acquisition in Google’s history and the largest-ever purchase of a venture-backed startup.
Nyne raised $5.3 million in seed funding to build an intelligence layer that helps AI agents understand human context across their digital footprints.
Former Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin has launched Qutwo, an AI lab building an orchestration layer to help enterprises transition from classical to quantum computing.
Rox, a startup building autonomous AI agents for sales teams, has reportedly raised funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, according to multiple sources.
Webflow is acquiring AI content-generation startup Vidoso to transition its website-building platform into an agentic marketing suite.
Gumloop raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Benchmark to expand its model-agnostic platform for building enterprise AI agents.
Wonderful, an Israeli AI agent startup, raised $150 million in a Series B round at a $2 billion valuation, just four months after its Series A.
Gestala, a Chinese startup developing non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interfaces, has raised $21.6 million, marking the largest early-stage funding in China’s BCI industry.
Global ride-hailing firm inDrive has acquired Pakistan-based quick-commerce startup Krave Mart to accelerate its expansion into grocery delivery services.
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, an agentic AI customer service startup, in a deal expected to close by the end of March; financial terms were not disclosed.
Netflix may have acquired Ben Affleck’s AI startup, InterPositive, in a deal potentially worth up to $600 million to bolster its post-production capabilities.
Quince raised $500 million in a Series E round led by Iconiq, pushing the e-commerce company’s valuation to $10.1 billion as it scales its manufacturer-to-consumer model.