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Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company that sharpens, upscales and restores images and video. The two firms signed a definitive […]
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Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the global payments platform, has raised $320m in a Series H round. The deal values the company at $11bn, up from $8bn in December […]
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French insurtech Alan has raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation, just months after its last round. The Paris company is betting that AI-driven prevention can reshape health insurance. Alan, the French health insurance company, has raised €480m ($550m). The deal values the Paris firm at €5.5bn ($6.3bn). Dutch investor Prosus led the […]
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Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon’s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barely changed in decades. A surgeon stitches the two frayed ends together under a […]
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Superhuman, the company that used to be Grammarly, just bought GPTZero, the startup that catches AI writing. The contradiction is the point. As the internet fills with machine-made text, proving something is human is becoming a product. There is a neat irony at the centre of this deal. Superhuman’s biggest product helps people write with […]
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Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that “inaccurate”. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US reindustrialisation have become. Here is a number, and a denial, in the same breath. Hadrian Automation has discussed a new funding round […]
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While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 years buying software that almost nobody finds exciting. Think hospital appointment systems, municipal tax […]
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Menlo Ventures has raised $3bn, the biggest haul in its 50-year history. It is funded, in effect, by a single bet on Anthropic that is now worth about $14bn. Most venture funds are sold on a promise. Menlo Ventures’ new $3bn is sold on a receipt. The firm announced the raise on Tuesday, its largest […]
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Walmart is paying a reported $1.4bn for a connected-TV ad startup worth $410m nine months ago. The price tells you how far retailers will now go to catch Amazon in advertising. Walmart has agreed to buy Vibe.co, a connected-TV advertising platform. Two reports peg the deal at $1.4bn. It would be the retailer’s biggest acquisition […]
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For most of Luminvera’s short life, the pitch came with an AR wearable. The company, incorporated in March 2026 and run out of Silicon Valley, started as a bet that the right device could pull an industrial engineer out of what its founder, Lu Yang, likes to call the “2D Stone Age.” A flat monitor […]
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