OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.

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Procure Ai Raises $13 Million to Expand Procurement Automation Solutions in Europe

PYMNTS / pymnts - Procure Ai has secured $13 million in a seed round to expand its engineering organization, strengthen its go-to-market teams and enter more European countries. Currently focused on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the company aims to expand to the United…

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Monq Secures $3M To Scale AI-Powered Enterprise Negotiation Platform

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based startup Monq has come out of stealth, raising $3 million in pre-seed funding to launch its AI-powered strategic negotiation platform. The round was led by Outward VC, with participation from Cornerstone VC, Portfolio Ventures, Octopus Venture…

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Kovant wants to become the nerve center of enterprise agentic AI operations after pre-seed funding

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Swedish agentic operations startup Kovant, officially known as Kovan AB, today is launching its platform globally after closing on $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by J12 Ventures. The round also saw participation from Ampli, Green Ventures an…

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Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing

Russell Brandom / techcrunch - AI testing startup Momentic has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Dropbox Ventures. Existing investors at Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform and Karman Ventures also participated.

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Google Says Hackers Stole Data From Over 200 Companies Following Gainsight Breach

msmash / slashdot - Google confirmed in a statement Friday that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack. TechCrunch reports: On Thursday, Salesforce disclosed a breach of "certain customers' Salesforce data…

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Numeric Secures $51M In Series B Round

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Numeric, a San Franciscoand London, UK-based-based AI accounting automation platform founded in 2020, has raised $51M in a Series B round to accelerate its evolution from close management software to a full-scale finance operations platform. The funding w…

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Adobe to buy Semrush for $1.9 billion, sending marketing platform's shares up 70%

cnbc - Adobe said Semrush's search engine and marketing tools can help brands engage and grow customers, especially in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Lative Raises €6.4M To Expand AI-Powered Sales Planning Platform

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Dublin-based Lative, an AI-driven sales planning platform for sales and go-to-market teams, has raised €6.4 million to accelerate product development and expand its market reach. The funding round was co-led by Act Venture Capital and Senovo VC, with addi…

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Microsoft Accelerates AI Chip Strategy by Licensing OpenAI’s Custom Hardware IP

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft is licensing proprietary chip and system designs from OpenAI to fast-track its in-house AI accelerators, a move confirmed by CEO Satya Nadella that deepens their partnership and aims to create a vertically integrated hardware stack.The post Micr…

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Cronvall Raises €3.9M To Modernize Industrial Procurement In Europe

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Cronvall, a Finnish tech company modernizing industrial procurement, has raised €3.9 million from Greencode Ventures, Stephen Industries, Innovestor, and leading industrial family offices. Cronvall’s platform brings transparency, efficiency, and better da…

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Arkyn receives €4M financing to accelerate growth and expand product suite

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Copenhagen-based enterprise software company Arkyn has closed a €4 million financinground co-led by Compounding Capital and Trifork Labs. As part of the round,Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard, owner of Comp...

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Aspirity Partners secures €875 million for debut fund, one of Europe’s largest new private equity launches of 2025

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Aspirity Partners, a London-based private equity firm focused on Financial and Enterprise Technology Services, has announced the final close of its inaugural fund, Aspirity Partners I (AP I), at over €875 million. The fundraise reached its hard cap within…

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Tsuga emerges from stealth with $10M to modernise observability in the AI era

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - France-based observability platform Tsuga has closed a$10 million seed round and emerged from stealth. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Singular, alongside angel investors...

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Windows 10 update incorrectly tells some users they've reached end-of-life, despite having extended support — Microsoft confirms message sent to Enterprise, Pro, and Education users in error

tomshardware - Users over the weekend reported seeing incorrect end-of-life messages on Windows 10 despite either being enrolled in the ESU program or running Enterprise/LTSC versions of the OS that are automatically set to receive security updates for a few more years.…

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AI analytical agent caps a wave of new and enhanced Snowflake products

Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today announced the general availability of Snowflake Intelligence, the centerpiece of the company’s latest wave of artificial intelligence-driven products aimed at allowing employees across skill levels to derive insights from enterprise d…

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Microsoft Inks $9.7 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With IREN in New Outsourcing Push

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft continues its AI infrastructure outsourcing strategy, signing a $9.7 billion, five-year deal with IREN for NVIDIA GB300 GPU cloud capacity.The post Microsoft Inks $9.7 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With IREN in New Outsourcing Push appeared fir…

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Octonomy Raises $20M To Scale Agentic AI That Tackles Complex Enterprise Workflows

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Octonomy, a German-founded AI company developing agentic systems for complex enterprise support and service workflows has raised $20 million in a new seed round led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, with participation from Capnamic, NRW.Bank, and the …

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Amazon beats the Street's expectations as its cloud finds altitude

Shannon Carroll / qz - AWS grew 20% to $33 billion, its fastest pace in over a year — still trailing Microsoft’s 40% and Google Cloud’s 34%, but closing the gap

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