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Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up

  Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow […]

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Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre developer, has signed a roughly $2bn energy-supply agreement with Casa dos Ventos, Brazil’s largest independent renewable-power generator, according to Reuters. The contract […]

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NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever

The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy for about $67bn in an all-stock deal, Bloomberg reported on Monday, in what would be the […]

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Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips

Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and world models, announced on Monday it had raised $300m in new funding led by Radical Ventures. The […]

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Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era

The Paris- and San Francisco-based platform’s Series B is co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake and Datadog participating. Total funding is now north of $60m. Dust, the Paris- and San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform, has raised a $40m Series B co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog, the company said […]

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Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset

L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era’s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer apparel brand, from majority owner L Catterton, according to reports in Bloomberg. The transaction values Everlane […]

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Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line

The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has acquired Tangent, the London-based digital experience consultancy, the company said on Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Tangent will continue to operate […]

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HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global

Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Chinese clean-technology companies expand overseas, the bank said on Monday. The ‘Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility’ covers […]

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Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering raised $5.55 billion, making it the largest US tech IPO since Snowflake’s $3.8 billion debut in 2020. CEO Andrew Feldman rang the bell […]

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RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three startups, and investors are still queueing up

RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT, is now simultaneously running an electric vehicle manufacturer, an autonomous micromobility company, and an industrial AI robotics startup, each attracting capital at a speed that […]

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