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Malachyte, a New York company applying real-time behavioral AI to online retail, has raised a US$10 million seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient Ventures, with participation from Harpoon Ventures. The company was founded by CEO Sidd Motwani, CTO Ian Anderson, and COO Shivaditya Sinha,
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The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) completed its full launch on July 31 2026, with a bell-ringing ceremony at its temporary Dallas headquarters marking the end of a phased rollout that brought all National Market System symbols onto its trading platform. The exchange built a custom order-matching engine over
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Advocate Technologies emerged from stealth on August 4 with US$18 million in seed funding to build what it describes as the commercial insurance industry's first standardized pricing and coverage benchmarks. Vestigo Ventures, Brewer Lane, and MetaProp led the round alongside several family offices. Founded in 2020, the
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Robinhood plans to list Robinhood Ventures Fund II on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RVII on August 13, at US$25 a share, seeking up to US$200 million and potentially more than US$230 million if underwriters exercise their options. Goldman Sachs leads the syndicate, joined
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RWX, a Columbus, Ohio company building cloud infrastructure for testing and validating software written by AI coding agents, has raised a US$12 million Series A led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. Existing investor Quiet Capital participated alongside The O.H.I.O. Fund, R1 Capital, and DV, with angel
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Ambrook, a financial software company built for small businesses in agriculture and other physical industries, has raised a US$30 million Series B led by Lachy Groom, bringing total funding to US$59 million. Thomson Reuters Ventures, Thrive Capital, Field Ventures, and Cameron Ventures also participated, along with angel investors
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Bending Spoons, the Milan-based software conglomerate led by co-founder and CEO Luca Ferrari, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Airtable in an all-cash transaction valuing the company at US$1.285 billion in enterprise value, or roughly US$2.25 billion in implied equity value once
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Deel, the global workforce and payroll platform co-founded and led by CEO Alex Bouaziz, announced on August 3 that it is acquiring Clarity, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity startup specializing in identity verification and deepfake detection. Terms were not officially disclosed; Israeli outlet Calcalist reported the deal at US$40
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Decade, a wealth management platform combining artificial intelligence with human financial advisors, emerged from stealth on August 4 announcing an US$85 million seed round, roughly R$440 million, described as the largest ever raised by a Latin American startup. Greenoaks, Benchmark, and Diffusion led the round, with participation from
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TecsPal, a Montevideo-based company that manages the full lifecycle of technology equipment for distributed workforces, has sold 80% of its equity to Vensure Employer Solutions, the Chandler, Arizona-based HR services group led by CEO Alex Campos. The transaction closed in June 2026 after roughly a year of negotiations;
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Freehand, a San Francisco company building autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spending for large enterprises, announced on July 29 that it has raised US$75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and PSP Growth, the
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P-1 AI, a San Mateo, California startup building an artificial intelligence engineer for physical systems, announced on July 29 that it has raised a US$50 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates. The round follows a US$23 million seed led by Radical Ventures in April 2025