Startup Acquisition Frenzy and Major Funding Rounds
This week witnessed a flurry of startup acquisitions and significant funding rounds across various sectors.
Key Acquisitions
- Cellebrite acquired mobile testing startup Corellium for $170 million. Learn more.
- IBM acquired Seek AI, an AI platform for natural language data queries, to bolster its Watsonx AI Labs. Learn more.
- Collibra acquired data access management startup Raito. Learn more.
- AMD acquired stealth AI software optimization startup Brium to challenge Nvidia. Learn more.
- Snowflake is set to acquire Postgres-focused startup Crunchy Data. Learn more.
- Scale AI hired the team from Pesto AI, a remote developer recruiting platform. Learn more.
Notable Funding Rounds
- Defense tech startup Anduril raised $2.5 billion in Series G funding, reaching a $30.5 billion valuation. Learn more.
- AI coding assistant Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation. Learn more.
- Elon Musk's Neuralink secured $650 million in Series E funding. Learn more.
- Insurtech company Bolttech closed a $147 million Series C round, achieving a $2.1 billion valuation. Learn more.
- Speedata, an Nvidia competitor, raised $44 million in Series B funding. Learn more.
- Fintech startup Nomupay raised $40 million in Series C funding for international expansion. Learn more.
- Obvio, focused on driver safety, secured $22 million in Series A funding. Learn more.
Other Key News
- Airtime conducted layoffs. Learn more.
- KiranaPro suffered a data breach. Learn more.
- Deel and Rippling's legal battle continues. Learn more. And more.
- North American AI startups dominated VC funding. Learn more.
- Elad Gil discusses his AI investment strategy. Learn more.