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Runway, the New York-based generative AI video platform valued at roughly $5.3 billion, has secured a minority investment from Monashees, one of Latin America's oldest and most influential venture capital firms. The deal size was not disclosed. The move is designed to accelerate Runway's
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Cascade, a New York-based startup founded in 2025 by CEO Hannia Zia and CTO Joana Ferreira, announced on July 22 that it raised US$3.5 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun program. Ada Ventures, Snowball VC, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital Partners, shuckerVC,
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Berkshire Hathaway, the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate led by CEO Greg Abel, completed its acquisition of Taylor Morrison Home Corporation on July 24, paying US$72.50 per share in cash. The deal values Taylor Morrison's equity at roughly US$6.8 billion and its enterprise value, including
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Imagi, an edtech company based in Stockholm and New York, announced on July 23 that it raised US$4.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to expand its platform for teaching K-12 students how to use artificial intelligence safely, including AI-assisted "vibe coding." The round
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Notion has acquired ZeroEntropy, a San Francisco-based AI search infrastructure startup co-founded by Moroccan engineer Ghita Houir Alami, who serves as CEO, and CTO Nicholas Pipitone. The entire ZeroEntropy team is joining Notion, with Houir Alami taking charge of a newly formed Model Research group at the productivity
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Siigo, the Colombian enterprise software company that serves small and mid-sized businesses across Latin America, has secured a $103.5 million multicurrency credit facility to strengthen its balance sheet and support its regional expansion plans. The financing was structured in Colombian pesos, Mexican pesos, and U.S. dollars and
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Stripe is negotiating to buy OpenRouter at roughly US$10B, nearly eight times its May valuation, and it matters because a payments company is paying an extraordinary premium to own the layer where enterprises choose their AI models.
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American Express beat Wall Street on profit and raised its revenue outlook, yet the stock fell, and the gap between those two facts is the most instructive thing in the report.
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Brazil's financial infrastructure operator is buying an antifraud startup to attack the seconds between detecting a scam and freezing the money, in a market where Pix and boleto fraud drained nearly R$29B in a single year.
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Paper has raised a US$34M Series A to build design software for a world where AI agents write the code, and it matters because the company grew ARR 25 times since launching in early 2026.
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ABSeed has launched Winners, a US$19.7M evergreen vehicle that removes the exit clock from venture investing, and it matters because 80% of the capital came from existing backers in a market where raising has gotten measurably harder.
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Elio has raised US$21M to build sensors designed for machines rather than human eyes, and it matters because it treats hardware like software, an asset class investors price very differently.