🧑‍🚀 Top Deals You Can’t Miss

1️⃣ Blackstone & TPG – To acquire Hologic in an $18.3 billion take-private deal, one of the largest healthcare buyouts of the year, expanding both firms’ medtech portfolios.

2️⃣ L’Oréal – Acquired Kering’s beauty business to expand its dominance in luxury cosmetics, marking one of the biggest beauty M&A moves of the year.

3️⃣ OpenEvidence – Raised $200M at a $6B valuation, powering the next wave of AI for healthcare.

4️⃣ Coinbase – Announced a $375M acquisition of Echo, reinforcing its crypto infrastructure and market share.

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🌳 Series B+ & Growth

• OpenEvidence, a San Francisco, CA-based AI platform building “ChatGPT for doctors,” raised $200 million at a $6 billion valuation. Google Ventures led the round, joined by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and others.

• Moniepoint Inc., a Nigeria-based financial platform for businesses and customers, raised over $200 million in Series C funding.

• Spiro, a Dubai-based e-mobility company operating across Africa, raised $100 million led by FEDA.

• Findem, a San Francisco, CA-based AI talent platform, raised $51 million led by SLW Capital.

• Chemify, a Glasgow, UK-based automated molecule design startup, raised $50 million in Series B led by Triatomic Capital.

• Defakto, a Palo Alto, CA-based identity security platform, raised $30.75 million in Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital.

• CoMind, a London, UK-based neurotechnology company, raised $60 million in funding.

• MATR Foods, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based maker of fermented plant-based meat alternatives, raised €40 million.

• Faeth Therapeutics, an Austin, TX-based biotech targeting tumor metabolism, raised $25 million.

• knownwell, a Boston, MA-based obesity medicine and primary care startup, raised $25 million.

🚀 Series A

• Finster AI, a London, UK-based AI platform for investment banks and asset managers, raised $15 million in combined Series A/Seed funding.

🌱 Seed & Early Rounds

• 1001.AI, a London- and Dubai-based AI infrastructure startup serving critical industries in MENA, raised $9 million in Seed funding led by General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and CIV.

• Fourier Health, a Miami, FL-based clinician-in-the-loop AI platform, raised $8.4 million in Seed funding led by Yosemite.

• Adaptyx Biosciences, a Menlo Park, CA-based biowearables startup, raised $14 million in Seed funding.

• AdsGency, a San Francisco, CA-based LLM advertising platform, raised $12 million in Seed funding.

• Armstrong, a San Francisco, CA-based robotics company building general-purpose kitchen robots, raised $12 million to date.

• Magic, a New York, NY-based AI company creating real-world experiences, raised $10 million in Seed funding with Mario Carbone among investors.

• Avid, a Dallas, TX-based AI-powered fundraising OS provider, raised $6.5 million.

• Casium, a Seattle, WA-based AI immigration and mobility platform, raised $5 million.

• Andel, a NYC-based platform improving pharmacy benefits, raised $4.5 million.

• Logic, a Seattle, WA-based no-code business automation platform, raised $4.3 million.

• Golpo, a San Francisco, CA-based AI explainer video platform, raised $4.1 million.

• Chatfuel, a San Francisco, CA-based communication automation startup, raised $1.5 million.

• Lette AI, a Dublin, Ireland-based AI operating system for property teams, raised $1.4 million.

• Real Fun Group, a Staffordshire, UK-based gaming company, secured a six-figure funding deal.

🤝 Strategic, M&A & Undisclosed

• Coinbase, a San Francisco, CA-based crypto exchange, announced plans to acquire Echo in a $375 million all-cash deal.

• Kering, the Paris-based parent of Gucci, sold its beauty business to L’Oréal for an undisclosed amount.

• KittyHawk, a Los Angeles, CA-based tech investment firm, acquired Exit Ventures, a renewable- and AI-focused venture firm.

• PortX, a Mercer Island, WA-based AI-powered data integration platform for banks, closed a strategic round backed by Allied Solutions and the American Bankers Association.

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• Diversis Capital Management, a Los Angeles, CA-based private equity firm, closed Diversis Capital Partners III with $1.2 billion in commitments.

• Lifeline Ventures, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture firm, launched Fund VI, a €400 million vehicle for Europe’s next wave of startups.

• MTX Group, a Dallas, TX-based digital transformation company, launched MTX Ventures, an investment arm focused on enterprise AI startups.

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📚 Read of the Day #1

⚡ When the Cloud Goes Dark: AWS Outage Ripples Across the Globe

Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage that disrupted apps, e-commerce, and enterprise systems worldwide. The incident, traced to a misconfigured update, lasted nearly five hours and reignited concerns about overreliance on single-cloud providers.

Why It Matters: Expect renewed investor focus on multi-cloud, edge computing, and resilience startups as the outage highlights systemic dependence on AWS.

👉 Read The Whole Story Here

📚 Read of the Day #2

🎬 Warner Bros. Discovery Weighs Its Future Amid Buyout Interest

Warner Bros. Discovery has begun a strategic review exploring potential restructuring and sale options amid reported acquisition interest from global media and tech companies.

Why It Matters: A possible sale or merger could reshape the entertainment landscape, marking one of the decade’s largest media deals and pulling tech giants deeper into Hollywood.

👉 Read The Whole Story Here

📰 News You Don’t Want To Miss

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🎬 Warner Bros. Discovery Launches Strategic Review Amid M&A Buzz — The media giant explores restructuring and sale options amid acquisition interest.

🚀 NASA Eyes SpaceX Alternatives for Astronaut Flights — NASA seeks backup partners beyond SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

🤖 Amazon Leak Reveals Massive Warehouse Automation Push — A leaked report shows Amazon’s plan to automate 75% of fulfillment operations.

🎭 OpenAI Tightens Deepfake Rules After Hollywood Backlash — OpenAI introduces watermarking and stricter controls for generated media.

💻 Anthropic Launches Claude Code on the Web — Developers can now access Anthropic’s AI coding assistant directly in-browser.