Google Nears $1.5B+ Hire-and-License Deal With Coding Startup Mechanize
Google is negotiating to hire staff from and non-exclusively license AI coding technology from San Francisco's Mechanize in a deal…
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Google’s $1.5B ‘Mechanize Deal’ Isn’t an Acquisition, Despite the Headline
Google is negotiating a deal valued at more than $1.5 billion for AI coding startup Mechanize, but independent reporting from…
Google Weighs $1.5B+ Mechanize Deal as It Loses Jeff Dean to Rival Startup
Google is negotiating a talent-and-licensing deal worth more than $1.5 billion with AI coding startup Mechanize, Business Insider reported August…
Oxylabs Takes First Outside Money Ever: $130M From Warburg Pincus at $3.6B
After a decade of bootstrapping, Vilnius-based web-scraping and proxy infrastructure firm Oxylabs accepted its first external investment on July 2026…
Perceptron Raises $6.5M to Sell Crypto-Crowd Data to AI Firms
Dubai-based Perceptron closed a $6.5 million strategic round on July 30, 2026, from Web3 investors including Sigma Capital, QCP Capital…
DataBahn Raises $40M Series B as Enterprises Rethink What a Data Pipeline Is For
Insight Partners leads a $40 million round for the Dallas startup's "agentic data control plane," a bet that enterprises will…
Scale AI Taps Google Cloud’s deSouza as CEO, Confirms Its Pivot to Apps
Scale AI named Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO effective August 10, 2026, replacing interim chief Jason Droege as…
TA Associates Takes Undisclosed Stake in Private Credit Vendor Oxane
Oxane Partners, which builds data and reporting infrastructure for private credit funds, announced a "strategic growth investment" from PE firm…
Terminal Raises $20M Series A for Telematics Data Platform
Pulse 2.0 reported July 29, 2026 that startup Terminal closed a $20 million Series A to build a unified telematics…
Ropedia Raises $22M to Scale Human-Experience Data for Robots
The Singapore startup says its headsets capture first-person video, depth, motion and audio for robot training. The round brings disclosed…