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Meta bought 1 GW of solar this week The social media company inked three deals in the U.S. to power its data centers and offset its carbon footprint. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/meta-bought-1-gw-of-solar-this-week/
AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition — it buys Python notebook Marimo CoreWeave’s failed buy of Core Scientific is another sign of an AI bubble. But it’s still shopping. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/ai-mania-tanks-coreweaves-core-scientific-acquisition-it-buys-python-notebook-marimo/
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Bending Spoons raises $710M at $11BN valuation, one day after buying AOL Bending Spoons, the Italian tech conglomerate which typically acquires and tries to revive tech brands, has raised $710m in an equity fundraising round at an $11bn valuation, it said today. The announcement follows just a day after Bending Spoons said it was acquiring
Swedish legaltech Legora raises $150M Series C Legal technology company Legora has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $1.8 billion. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator. The company
Hyperdrives cracks the ‘holy grail’ of EV motor cooling with manufacturable direct-conductor tech Hyperdrives is a Munich-based deep-tech startup building the next generation of high-performance electric drives — and proving that you don’t need venture capital to achieve commercial traction. Founded in 2021, it moved fast, went to market, and
The biggest European robotics deals in H1 2025 In the first half of 2025, European robotics financing totalled €618.7 million across 33 deals, roughly 1.8 per cent of all European tech capital (€33.7 billion) and 1.7 per cent of deal volume (1,941 deals). While robotics remains a focused slice of
Solidatus raises £5M from Salica Investments London-based Solidatus, a provider of data lineage solutions, has secured a £5 million loan from the Growth Debt Fund at Salica Investments to support R&D and drive growth. The global data governance market is projected to approach $20 billion by 2032, with data lineage
Ukrainian Fozzy Group Accelerator. Which startups made it through the selection process? Fozzy Group has wrapped up the second wave of its corporate accelerator, Fozzy Venture Studio, in which nine startups tested their solutions in the company’s real business processes, Fozzy Group reports. This year, the team received 60 applications,
Polish-American startup SalesPatriot secures $5M to expand AI-driven defense procurement platform SalesPatriot, a Polish-American startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to modernize procurement for defense and aerospace. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Pear VC, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid2, Uncorrelated Ventures, and several angels.