Mercor Acquires Deeptune After Founder Brendan Foody Backed It as Investor
AI recruiting unicorn Mercor has acquired Deeptune, a startup its own founder Brendan Foody had previously invested in personally, Fortune…
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NaaS Technology Inks $15M Related-Party EV Data Deal
NaaS Technology has signed a $15 million agreement to acquire EV data from a related party, according to TipRanks on…
MDA Space Snaps Up France’s CLS in EO Data Push
The Canadian satellite hardware maker is buying into downstream analytics, picking up CLS's ocean and maritime monitoring expertise. Deal terms…
Two Billion-Dollar Rounds Anchor Another AI-Heavy Funding Week
Crunchbase's weekly tally shows AI claiming half the top 10 deals, with cybersecurity player Keyfactor and AI infrastructure shop SambaNova…
Data I/O Eyes IAR’s Device Security Assets in In-House Push
Data I/O has floated a deal to absorb IAR's embedded software security technology, a move that would pull key device-security…
Fincrime Startup Tangos Banks $20M Seed, With Bright Data In Tow
Tangos AI's outsized seed round pairs a roster of VC names with a strategic check from web-data giant Bright Data,…
Mercor’s CEO Invested in Deeptune, Then Bought It. He Says That Was Always the Plan.
The AI training-data unicorn snapped up a reinforcement-learning environment startup its own founder had quietly funded three months earlier, tightening…
DigitalOcean Lands Nine-Figure AI Deals, Talks Up 10x RPO Surge
The budget cloud provider says it's signed multiple nine-figure customer agreements for inference and cloud services, with remaining performance obligations…
Oxylabs Becomes a $3.6B Unicorn, Lawsuits and All
Warburg Pincus writes a $130 million check into the web-scraping infrastructure firm AI labs quietly depend on, even as Reddit…
Mercor Reportedly Doubling Its Valuation to $20B in Months
The AI-data-labeling upstart is said to be in talks for a valuation that would double its October price tag —…