🧑‍🚀 Top 3 Deals You Can’t Miss

1️⃣ PostHog – $75M Series E at $1.4B valuation, cementing its place in the unicorn ranks.

2️⃣ Vibe Coding Anything – Hits $100M valuation just 2 weeks post-launch with $2M ARR.

3️⃣ Firehawk Aerospace – $60M Seed to scale hybrid rocket engines for the next wave of space tech. Backed Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital.

4️⃣ Betr – Sports gaming and media platform secures investment + partnership from Lonzo and LiAngelo Ball.

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🌳 Series B+ & Growth

• PostHog (San Francisco, CA) – $75M Series E led by Peak XV; open-source product analytics platform, now a unicorn.

• SINGAUTO (Singapore) – $50M funding; cold chain logistics tech company.

• OXCCU (Oxford, UK) – $28M Series B; converts waste carbon into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

🚀 Series A

• RDS (Strasbourg, France) – $16.6M Series A; medtech company developing innovative devices.

• GoodFit (London, UK) – $13M Series A; AI-driven data platform for smarter decisions.

🌱 Seed & Early Rounds

• Firehawk Aerospace (Dallas, TX) – $60M Seed; hybrid rocket engine developer.

• Paid (Seattle, WA) – $21M Seed; AI agent for results-based billing, founded by Outreach’s Manny Medina.

• Anode (San Francisco, CA) – $9M Seed led by Eclipse; battery-native, mobile microgrids.

• Maximor (Boston, MA) – $9M Seed; workplace performance and productivity platform.

• Chickapea (Ontario, Canada) – $4.25M Seed; organic, high-protein pasta brand.

• Swish (Detroit, MI) – Undisclosed Seed; programmatic product trial platform.

🤝 Strategic, M&A & Undisclosed

• Avanoo (France) – Undisclosed; maps enterprise app usage and workflow patterns.

• CORE Transformers (Seneca, SC) – Strategic investment from Emerald Lake Capital; reconditioned transformers and repair.

• Thermae Retreat (Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Strategic investment from Signal Rock Capital; holistic wellness retreats.

• Betr (Miami, FL) – Strategic partnership + investment from Lonzo and LiAngelo Ball; sports gaming/media.

📈 IPOs / Direct Listings / Issuances / Block Trades

• Sony Financial Group (Japan) – Spinoff debut at $6.7B market cap; Sony to focus on entertainment and sensors.

• NOBA (Sweden) – $807M IPO, 20x oversubscribed; Nordic financial services group.

• Advanta (India) – $500M IPO planned at $4B valuation; KKR-backed seed producer.

• Rockpoint Gas Storage (Canada) – $347M IPO planned at $2.1B valuation; Brookfield-backed natural gas storage platform.

• BFA (Angola) – $240M IPO, largest-ever in nation; leading lender.

• Ethos (USA) – Filed for IPO; Google Ventures-backed insurance platform.

• Rogers Communications (Canada) – Exploring IPO or stake sale; media and telecom giant, owner of Toronto Raptors.

• RWE (Germany) – $33B utility; Capital Group acquired 3% stake.

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• Beco Capital (Dubai, UAE) – $370M raised across two new funds; investing in Gulf-region tech.

• Presight & Shorooq Partners (Abu Dhabi, UAE) – Launch $100M global AI innovation fund.

• Expeditions (Warsaw/London) – €100M+ Fund II for European security startups.

• Gabriel Jarrosson (YouTube-to-YC) (France) – $12M new fund backing Y Combinator startups.

• Breachway Capital (Boston/NYC) – New firm launched; early-stage and growth equity focus.

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📚 Read of the Day

Anthropic Drops Claude Sonnet 4.5 🚀

Best-yet AI model aimed at coding dominance

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, calling it its most powerful AI model to date and one fine-tuned for developer workflows. The upgrade boosts performance in coding, reasoning, and agentic use cases, positioning Claude directly against OpenAI’s GPT-4.

The Product Pitch

Claude Sonnet 4.5 promises faster, more accurate code generation, with improved debugging and multi-file handling. Anthropic says it can handle longer context windows and more complex reasoning tasks — making it a stronger fit for enterprise deployments.

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The model builds on Anthropic’s Constitutional AI framework, giving it guardrails for safer deployment. Its advancements also lean on the company’s close partnerships with cloud providers like AWS and GPU access from its major backers.

The Backstory

Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI researchers, has raised nearly $10B and is now valued at $170B+, making it one of the most heavily funded frontier AI startups. Each new release has been framed as a step toward safe, general-purpose AI agents.

Why It Matters

For developers, Claude Sonnet 4.5 could lower friction in enterprise software buildouts, while for investors, it signals Anthropic’s intent to stay at the frontier of applied AI. The model release also escalates competition with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in the high-stakes AI coding assistant market.

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📰 News You Don’t Want To Miss

🤖 Anthropic drops Claude 4.5 — its best AI yet, built to crush coding tasks.

🍏 Apple is cooking up a ChatGPT-style app to finally make Siri smarter.

⚡ NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang says China is just “nanoseconds behind” in the chip race.

💼 Microsoft adds new “Vibe Working” AI features into Word, Excel, and more.