Zhipu weighs multibillion-dollar raise after 2,000% surge
Zhipu weighs multibillion-dollar raise after 2,000% surge

A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing’s Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic’s vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese …

SK Hynix sets a $29 billion US listing that could top every ADR deal ever done
SK Hynix sets a $29 billion US listing that could top every ADR deal ever done

SK Hynix has filed to raise up to 45.45 trillion won, roughly $29bn, through a listing of American depositary receipts on Nasdaq, the South Korean memory maker disclosed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The company has tentatively set July 10 for t…

SpaceX draws $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, one of the largest US offerings this year
SpaceX draws $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, one of the largest US offerings this year

SpaceX has drawn roughly $89 billion in investor demand for its debut US bond sale, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for one of the largest investment-grade offerings this year. The company is seeking to raise between $20 billion and $2…

Stark Defence raises €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund at a valuation above €3.5 billion
Stark Defence raises €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund at a valuation above €3.5 billion

Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The deal values the company at more than three and a half bil…

HaloBraid raises $7M to build the first robotic braiding assistant for hair salons
HaloBraid raises $7M to build the first robotic braiding assistant for hair salons

HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. The device works alongside professional …

Astral Systems raises £23M to make cancer isotopes by fusion
Astral Systems raises £23M to make cancer isotopes by fusion

Bristol fusion startup Astral Systems has raised £23mn to scale the medical isotopes that cancer scans depend on. The Astral Systems £23M round backs a rare fusion company that already runs reactors and earns revenue. Most fusion companies promise clea…

Groq’s $650M raise: rebuilding after the Nvidia deal
Groq’s $650M raise: rebuilding after the Nvidia deal

Groq has confirmed a $650mn raise to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia paid out its investors and hired away its founder. The Groq $650M round is a bet that purpose-built chips still beat GPUs. Groq spent years as one of …

Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round
Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round

Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, and sovereign funds are paying close attention. Everyone knows the headline na…

Qualcomm nears $4bn Modular deal to rival Nvidia
Qualcomm nears $4bn Modular deal to rival Nvidia

Qualcomm is closing in on a deal to buy AI-software startup Modular for about $4bn. The Qualcomm Modular deal would hand the chipmaker fresh ammunition in its fight to rival Nvidia. Qualcomm has entered advanced talks to acquire Modular, according to B…

MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it
MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it

Abu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly $50…