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Category: Capital Flows & Deals
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Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up
Capital Flows & Deals this week: European venture funding hit $24 billion in Q2 2026, the region’s strongest quarter in four years, driven by large; and North American startup funding hit a record $392 billion in the first half of 2026…
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AI Regulation, Clean Energy Prices, White House accelerates plans AI model standards, and more.
AI Regulation, Clean Energy Prices, and Data Center Conflicts this week: Imminent federal AI standards signal regulatory capture risk for foundational model developers; and Signals continued executive resistance to centralized AI…
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Venture Capital, IPOs, and Hedge Fund, DeepMind trio who built poker AI are now, and more.
Venture Capital, IPOs, and Hedge Fund Moves in Tech and Finance this week: EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three former DeepMind researchers, has raised a Series A at; and Copper Sky Capital, a Phoenix-based VC…
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Comcast’s NBCUniversal Spin-Off and, Comcast Bosses Say NBCU-Cable, and more.
Comcast’s NBCUniversal Spin-Off and Its Ripple Effects on Media M&A this week: Comcast announced it will spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone entity, reversing its long-held belief; and Comcast announced a tax-free spin-off of…
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Ex-Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Targets $30 Billion Valuation With $3 Billion Raise As Meta (NASDAQ
Crusoe, which supplies AI computing power to major tech firms like Meta, is negotiating a $3 billion funding round aiming for a $30 billion valuation.
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Ex-Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Targets $30 Billion Valuation With $3 Billion Raise As Meta (NASDAQ
Crusoe, which supplies AI computing power to major tech firms like Meta, is negotiating a $3 billion funding round aiming for a $30 billion valuation.
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Startup M&A & Market Trends, Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker, and more.
Startup M&A & Market Trends this week: The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker for the week ending June 24, 2026, reports nearly 3,000 U.S; and U.S.
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Media & Entertainment Deals, David McIninch appointed General, and more.
Media & Entertainment Deals this week: BMI has appointed David McIninch as General Manager of Soundmouse, the AI-driven cue sheet platform it acquired from; and Hagens Berman, a law firm with a history of massive class-action victories…
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AI & Tech Funding Rounds, Exclusive XCures Lands 46M Series B Clean Up, and more.
AI & Tech Funding Rounds this week: XCures, a healthcare data infrastructure startup, raised a $46M Series B led by Innovius Capital at a $127M; and Patronus AI, a startup founded by former Meta AI researchers, has raised a $50 million…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower
Capital Flows & Deals this week: This week’s top U.S. venture deals totaled $1.1 billion across 10 rounds, led by Odyssey’s $310 million Series B for; and NBCUniversal is merging its two scripted television studios, UCP and Universal…