DeepSeek’s $7.4B Round Powers Asia’s $42.8B Q2 Funding Peak
Crunchbase data show Asia-wide startup funding hit $42.8 billion in Q2 2026, the highest quarterly total in more than three…
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Deals & Funding
Anaconda Buys Kilo Code, an Open-Source AI Coding Tool Used by 3M Devs
Anaconda has acquired Kilo Code, a model-agnostic, open-source AI coding platform with more than three million developers, as the Python…
Apaluma Raises $5.55M Seed to Build Unified Gov-Data Platform
Apaluma announced a $5.55 million seed round on July 16, 2026, to scale a platform that stitches together disparate government…
Nebius Locks $1B+ Reflection AI Deal Through 2029, Goes Asset-Light
Nebius is pivoting from capital-heavy buildout to partnership-based expansion, anchored by a Reflection AI contract eciks.org values at over $1…
TRG Screen Buys Market Data Consultancy BST America
TRG Screen, a subscription and market data spend management vendor for banks and law firms, has completed its acquisition of…
Fourthline to Merge With BBVA-Backed Veridas on Identity Platform
KYC orchestration vendor Fourthline is merging with Veridas, the Spanish identity-verification firm backed by BBVA, to build a combined compliance…
SAP Buys German AI Startup Prior Labs for €1B+, 18 Months In
SAP has acquired Prior Labs, a Germany-founded frontier AI company, for more than €1 billion just 18 months after its…
Float Raises €4.5M Series A Led by CHAPTERS Group for SME Financing
Stockholm-founded revenue-based financing platform Float has closed a €4.5 million Series A led by Hamburg's CHAPTERS Group AG, according to…
Nous Research Raises $75M+ at $1.5B Valuation for Hermes Agents
Nous Research, maker of the open-source Hermes agent models, is in talks to raise at least $75 million led by…
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…