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The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.

Dreame Technology, a Chinese maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, and pool cleaners, is considering a Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as next year, according to Bloomberg. The company is working with advisers and could raise several hundred million dollars. The potential listing would add to a surge of Chinese tech companies choosing Hong […]

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SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.

SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX after raising $75 billion in the largest initial public offering ever completed. The previous record holder, Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing, raised $29.4 billion, making SpaceX’s offering roughly 2.5 times larger. A regulatory filing on Friday confirmed that Japanese investors accounted for $2.2 billion of the […]

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BlackRock ordered $5 billion in SpaceX shares as IPO demand hit $250 billion, nearly 4x oversubscribed

BlackRock submitted an order to buy at least $5 billion in SpaceX shares ahead of Friday’s debut, the Wall Street Journal reported. That single order is nearly as large as the entire $5.5 billion Cerebras IPO, the biggest of 2026 so far. SpaceX has told banks it will not budge from its $135 per share […]

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Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job

THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. It marks Samsung’s first-ever investment in a Spanish […]

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Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general […]

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Coram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigators

Coram AI has raised $35m to turn the security cameras already bolted to walls into something closer to an autonomous detective. The Series B is co-led by the new investor Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with UP Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures joining. It takes the San Francisco company’s total funding to $66m. Coram’s pitch […]

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Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US

An Irish company that uses AI to stop crashes before drivers see them coming has raised up to €49m to expand in North America and Europe. CameraMatics, founded in Dublin in 2016, makes a video-telematics platform for commercial fleets. Its cameras and software watch the road and the cab at the same time. The system […]

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AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever

On the day SpaceX prices the largest stock-market debut in history, the market underneath it has a case of nerves. The cause is not rockets. It is AI. Several warning lights are flashing at once. Together they amount to the first serious test of a trade that has carried global markets for two years. The […]

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Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf

One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe’s largest early-stage deep-tech funds, quietly incorporated its UK entity back in October 2024, some 18 […]

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What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going public may have little to do with rockets, or with Musk. It is what […]

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