Swap Raises $100M in Series C Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Swap, a NYC-based provider of a commerce operating system, raised $100m in Series C funding. The round was co-led by DST Global and ICONIQ. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach, as well as to invest …
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Cisco Eyes $2 Billion Purchase of Cybersecurity Firm Axonius
PYMNTS / pymnts - Cisco is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Axonius for $2 billion. That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 4) from Calcalist, which noted that Axonius was previously valued at $2.6 billion. However, the company denied th…
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Britain’s Octopus Energy To Spin Off AI Arm Kraken At $8.65 Billion Valuation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - British renewable-energy startup Octopus Energy is spinning off its utility management platform, Kraken Technologies, with a valuation of $8.65 billion. The move follows Kraken’s first standalone $1 billion equity raise, led by D1 Capital Partners and joi…
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ServiceNow to Acquire Cybersecurity Startup Armis for About $7.75 Billion
Nicholas G. Miller / wsj - ServiceNow agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for about $7.75 billion in cash in a move intended to take advantage of growing demand for AI security.
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Omnidocs acquires majority stake in Switzerland’s officeatwork to deepen DACH presence
Cate Lawrence / tech - Danish software company Omnidocs has acquired a majority stake in officeatwork, a Switzerland-based provider of document creation solutions with a strong foothold in the DACH region. Omnidocs is a do...
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Neural Concept Raises $100M in Series C Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Neural Concept, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based provider of an AI platform and a company which specializes in engineering intelligence, raised $100M in Series C funding. The round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with existing investo…
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Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation to turn non-developers into software builders
Cate Lawrence / tech - Lovable has raised $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation, led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund. Additional investors in this round include the venture arms of lead...
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Oracle stock dips 6% on report Blue Owl Capital won't back $10 billion data center
cnbc - The cloud company later said the project was moving forward and "on schedule," but that Blue Owl was not part of equity talks.
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Databricks Raises >$4B Series L at $134B Valuation
FinSMEs / finsmes - Databricks, a San Francisco, CA-based Data and AI company, raised a >$4 billion Series L investment, valuing it at $134 billion. The round was led by Insight Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management with additiona…
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London-based PolyAI raises €73.2 million to scale its enterprise conversational AI platform
Antonio L. Escárzaga / eu-startups - PolyAI, a UK-based enterprise conversational AI company founded in 2017, has raised €73.2 million ($86 million) in Series D funding to develop its technology further and expand its global footprint. The round was co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia and Khosla …
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ServiceNow Eyes $7 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Armis
PYMNTS / pymnts - Workflow automation platform ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase cybersecurity startup Armis. The deal, which could be worth up to $7 billion, could be announced in the coming days and comes in the wake of Armis’ preparations for …
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Oracle reportedly delays several new OpenAI data centers because of shortages — tight material and labor supply frustrate expansion plans, possibly by a year or more
tomshardware - Oracle reportedly delays some of the data centers for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028, citing labor and materials shortages.
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Google Releases Gemini 3 Powered Deep Research Agent to Developers via API
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has released its Deep Research agent to developers via the Interactions API, undercutting OpenAI with low pricing and open-sourcing the DeepSearchQA benchmark.The post Google Releases Gemini 3 Powered Deep Research Agent to Developers via API appea…
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Harness raises $240M to lead AI-powered DevOps beyond the code editor
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that integrates artificial intelligence tools into DevOps workflows, today announced it has raised $240 million in a Series E funding round. The round was comprised of a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sach…
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Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - OpenAI says that Dresser will be responsible for the company's revenue strategy in enterprise and customer success.
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Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
cnbc - IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Confluent.
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AWS needs you to believe in AI agents
Theresa Loconsolo / techcrunch - AWS announced a wave of new AI agent tools at re:Invent 2025, but can Amazon actually catch up to the AI leaders? While the cloud giant is betting big on enterprise AI with its third-gen chip and database discounts that got developers cheering, it’s still…
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Anthropic and Snowflake launch 200 million dollar AI partnership
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic and Snowflake have signed a multiyear, 200 million dollar partnership.The article Anthropic and Snowflake launch 200 million dollar AI partnership appeared first on THE DECODER.
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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Emma Roth / theverge - Micron is retiring the Crucial brand, marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state drives (SSDs) and RAM kits, as reported earlier by VideoCardz. In an announcement on Wednesday, Micron says winding down its consumer-focused business will “i…
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Saporo Raises €7 Million To Tackle Identity-Based Cyber Attacks
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Lausanne cybersecurity startup Saporo, which helps companies see their IT environments the way attackers do, has raised €7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by TIN Capital, with G+D Ventures, CDP Venture Capital (through its Corporate Partner…
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