Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty
Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty

Oura has postponed its Nasdaq IPO, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market”. The Finnish-founded smart ring maker said so in a statement on Tuesday, a week after it launched the offering. It said it is postponing “despite strong demand”, and gave no new …

ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22bn in a $300m share sale
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22bn in a $300m share sale

ElevenLabs is now worth $22bn, double its $11bn valuation in February. Employees and existing investors sold $300m of shares, the voice AI company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Wellington Management and T. Rowe Price led the deal. Six investors bou…

Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off
Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off

Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer the question that determines what happens next: which AI initiatives are…

Aspirity to buy majority stake in Danish IoT company Onomondo
Aspirity to buy majority stake in Danish IoT company Onomondo

London-based private equity firm Aspirity Partners has agreed to buy a majority stake in Onomondo, a Copenhagen firm that runs its own network to connect machines and sensors. The deal, announced on Wednesday, is part of a combined investment of more t…

Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports
Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports

Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may not lead to any deals, according to the FT. TNW has not independently verif…

AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says
AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says

The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain & Company makes the estimate in its Global Technology Report, published on Tuesday. Existing AI products could bring in only $1.2tn t…

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports
Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter of that revenue came from just two customers. Reuters did not name them….

Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting
Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting

Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific rules get built into the software. When something breaks, the answer is rar…

Rayon raises €10M to bring AI and 3D to its interior design software
Rayon raises €10M to bring AI and 3D to its interior design software

Rayon, the Paris-based startup that has created software allowing interior designers to draw floor plans in a web browser, announced that it has raised 10 million euros in its Series A financing round, with Partech as the lead investor. Northzone, Foun…

Marble raises €6.5M Series A led by Smartfin for its open-source fraud and AML platform
Marble raises €6.5M Series A led by Smartfin for its open-source fraud and AML platform

The Paris-based company Marble, which develops open-source software for fraud detection and anti-money laundering compliance, raised €6.5 million in its Series A round, with Smartfin as the lead investor. This brings the total funding to €9 million, wi…