India’s Equirus weighs a fundraising round of up to $60m
India’s Equirus weighs a fundraising round of up to $60m

The Mumbai investment bank is considering raising fresh capital through new shares and stake sales, a bet on the strength of India’s public-listing pipeline. India’s capital markets have been busy enough lately to make the firms that arrange the deals …

China’s Nexchip seeks up to $890m in Hong Kong share sale
China’s Nexchip seeks up to $890m in Hong Kong share sale

Nexchip Semiconductor is China’s third-largest pure-play foundry, a sentence that until recently would not have led to a Hong Kong listing. It does now. The Hefei-based, state-backed chipmaker is seeking to raise up to HK$6.98 billion, or roughly $890 …

Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space
Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space

The space industry can build rockets. Moving money around them is the hard part. A new startup called Nebex wants to fix that, and Google’s venture arm is backing it with $30mn. GV, formerly Google Ventures, led the seed round, Bloomberg reported. Nebe…

Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company
Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company

AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in. The Series A was revealed first by Axios. It takes…

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, just became a 100 million dollar business
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, just became a 100 million dollar business

Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that started as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, has reached 100 million dollars in annualized revenue just eight months after launching its first commercial product. The platform is best known for letting …

Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres
Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres

The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. That…

Rocket Lab buys Iridium for $8bn in a bet to become a smaller Starlink
Rocket Lab buys Iridium for $8bn in a bet to become a smaller Starlink

For most of its life Rocket Lab has sold the picks and shovels of the space economy: small rockets, satellite buses, components for other people’s missions. It has now decided that selling the tools is not as valuable as owning the mine. The company ag…

Self-driving firm Momenta opens $752mn Hong Kong IPO
Self-driving firm Momenta opens $752mn Hong Kong IPO

Momenta is heading to the public markets. The self-driving software firm has opened its Hong Kong IPO, seeking up to $752mn to pour into AI research and robotaxis. The Momenta IPO would value the GM-backed company at close to $9bn. The Suzhou-based com…

DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge
DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge

China’s AI sector is not short of cash. If anything, American pressure is pumping more in. DeepSeek shows the pattern best. The Hangzhou lab closed a $7.4bn round, the biggest first-time raise by a Chinese startup, at a valuation above $50bn. It had ru…

OpenAI may delay its IPO to 2027 to hold out for $1tn
OpenAI may delay its IPO to 2027 to hold out for $1tn

Patience has a price, and someone else is paying it. OpenAI may wait until 2027 to go public. The wait is meant to buy a bigger number. OpenAI is weighing a listing as late as 2027, Bloomberg reported. That timeline could see it go public after its riv…