Stripe Just Offered $53 Billion for PayPal. The Company It Once Competed Against as a Startup.
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International made a joint $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, backed by roughly $50…
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A Home Battery Startup Just Raised $1 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation Betting the Grid Can’t Keep Up
Base Power raised a $1 billion Series D at a $13 billion valuation to scale manufacturing of residential backup batteries,…
Klaviyo Just Bought Back One of Its Own Earliest Investors — and Made Him Chief Product Officer
Klaviyo acquired Agency, the AI-native customer success startup founded by Drift co-founder Elias Torres — who was also an early…
Amazon, Nvidia, and Bosch Just Backed the Same Robot Startup — Now It’s Worth $7 Billion
Neura Robotics raised up to $1.4 billion in a Series C led by Tether, with Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch, and…
Visa Just Paid $2.4 Billion for a Company That Catches Fraud by Watching How You Type
Visa agreed to acquire behavioral biometrics company BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, betting that AI-powered scams have gotten cheap…
A Filipino VC Just Backed a B2B Sales-AI Startup Betting the Entire Enterprise Sales Stack Is Broken
Kickstart Ventures joined True Global Ventures and Accel in a $9 million pre-Series A for Sprouts.ai, an AI-native platform building…
Asana Just Finished Buying Its Way to Becoming an ‘Operating System’ for AI Agents and Employees Working Together
Asana's completed $75 million purchase of no-code agent-builder StackAI is the last piece of a deliberate bet on orchestrating human…
A Weather-Balloon Startup Just Raised $37 Million to Out-Forecast the National Weather Service
WindBorne Systems raised an oversubscribed $37 million Series B at a $250 million valuation to expand its balloon-fed atmospheric sensing…
AMD Just Bought Its Fourth AI Chip Startup in Nine Months. Nvidia Should Be Paying Attention.
AMD's acquisition of Taalas, a startup that bakes AI model weights directly into custom silicon, marks its third major AI…
Schneider Electric Just Paid $350 Million to Predict Which Power Lines a Storm Will Take Down Next
Schneider Electric's $350 million purchase of satellite-and-AI risk startup AiDASH is one of climate adaptation's biggest exits — and a…