BRKZ Raises $31M as Aramco’s Wa’ed, 500 Global Back a Data Moat
Riyadh's BRKZ secured $31 million on September 14, 2026 — $13 million in Series B equity co-led by Aramco's Wa'ed…
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Chift Raises €10.5M Series A Led by BlackFin for EU Financial Data Plumbing
Brussels-based Chift raised a €10.5 million Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners, reported September 14, 2026, to scale its…
CDW Pays $525M for Databricks Shop Lovelytics, Chasing AI’s Data Gap
CDW agreed to acquire Databricks-backed data and AI consultancy Lovelytics for approximately $525 million, a deal expected to close in…
Snowflake Jumps 23% on $6.07B Guidance Raise as AI Tools Scale
Snowflake shares surged 23% to $377.11 on September 3, 2026 after fiscal Q2 revenue hit $1.55 billion and management lifted…
Zeit AI Bags €5M Seed With Lindner, Götze as Angels for AI Data Engineer
Munich-founded Zeit AI raised €5 million on September 3, 2026 from Y Combinator, Oxford's Seed Fund, Sequoia's Scout Fund and…
Nvidia Pays $12.93B for Hugging Face — 86x Its Revenue
Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, the chipmaker's second-largest deal ever, according to…
KKR-Singtel’s S$6.6 Bil STT GDC Buyout Closes — Deal Terms Check Out, Timeline Barely
The Edge Singapore reported August 31, 2026 that KKR and Singtel completed the S$6.6 billion (US$5.1 billion) buyout of the…
Nasuni Buys DryvIQ, Betting Unstructured Data Cleanup Is the New AI Moat
Cloud data platform Nasuni acquired unstructured-data classification vendor DryvIQ, PR Newswire reported August 27, 2026, folding DryvIQ's governance tools into…
Abacus Data Buys Probe Research, Makes Winnipeg Its Prairie HQ
Abacus Data acquired Winnipeg's Probe Research on August 27, 2026, folding the 32-year-old, roughly eight-person firm's full team into a…
Instinct Raises $250M at $2.5B Days After AI Assistant’s Privacy Blowup
Spear Street Technology's Instinct wrote itself a "perpetual and irrevocable" license to users' email and calendar data and sent an…