Western Hemisphere

Western Hemisphere delivers concise, curated news and insights on capital markets, investment trends, and venture activity across the Americas for forward‑looking investors.
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Sep

Prosus Backs Emilia AI to Turn Restaurant Cameras Into Sales Coaches

Emilia AI, a startup that turns the security cameras restaurants already have into an operations and fraud-detection system, raised
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16
Sep

Profound Raises US$180M to Make AI Assistants Recommend Your Brand

Profound, a New York software company that helps brands track and influence how artificial intelligence assistants describe them, said on
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16
Sep

A5X Lands US$70M to End B3's Monopoly on Brazilian Derivatives

A5X, the Brazilian startup building a derivatives exchange to compete with B3, said on September 14, 2026 that it had
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14
Sep

Archy Raises US$50M to Replace Dentistry's Closet-Server Software

Archy, a San Jose, California company that sells cloud practice management software to dental offices, announced a US$50 million
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11
Sep

Positron AI Raises US$875M at US$5B Valuation to Scale AI Inference Chips

Positron AI raised US$875 million in Series C financing at a US$5 billion post-money valuation to accelerate
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11
Sep

Blackstone to Acquire Flow Control Holdings as AI Drives Liquid Cooling Demand

Blackstone agreed to acquire Flow Control Holdings, a Cincinnati-based manufacturer of engineered components used in liquid cooling systems for
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10
Sep

Kapital Raises US$125M to Take Its Invoice-Data Lending to the US

Kapital, a Mexico City-based bank and software platform for small and mid-sized businesses, said on September 9, 2026
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10
Sep

Bluecore Raises US$50M to Float Small Nuclear Reactors Into Ports

Bluecore Energy, a nuclear startup headquartered inside the Port of Long Beach, California, said on September 8, 2026 that it
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10
Sep

TwoStep Raises US$62.5M to Send a Peptide Where Antibodies Can't Reach

TwoStep Therapeutics, a clinical-stage oncology company based in San Carlos, California, said on September 10, 2026 that it had
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09
Sep

BrainChild Bio Raises US$116 Million to Test CAR T in Childhood Brain Cancer

BrainChild Bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company with offices in Seattle and Cambridge, Massachusetts, said on September 8, 2026 that
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