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Funding & fundraising· News

Mural raises $15 million led by Tether to expand payments infrastructure

Mural says it completed a $15 million Series A led by Tether to expand the accounts, payments and compliance infrastructure it sells to fintechs. The company names Deel, Opera and Axexo as customers, but its $2.1 billion payment-volume figure is company-reported, not independently verified.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Daytona announces $60 million Series B at $1 billion valuation for AI-agent sandboxes

Daytona says FirstMark Growth led the financing, bringing its total funding to $91 million. Writer lists Daytona as an infrastructure supplier, while the customer workload and growth figures cited by Daytona remain company-reported.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Humand begins forming Brazil-only product team for local HR platform work

Humand is forming its first country-specific product-management team in Brazil, Startups reported on October 19. The team is intended to adapt its employee communications and HR platform to local requirements. A previously reported plan to grow total Brazilian staff to 40 is a separate target, not the product team’s headcount.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business & growth· News

NVIDIA says Revolut is scaling PRAGMA in production to serve an initial 80 million customers

NVIDIA’s October 21 disclosure states a production-service scope for Revolut’s transaction model. It does not say how many customers have received a PRAGMA-assisted decision, and earlier accounts had already described production-scale infrastructure.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Hyperlayer raises £19.5 million Series A2 to expand banking software

Hyperlayer announced a £19.5 million Series A2 led by returning investor Flintlock Capital at a £195 million post-money valuation. The banking-software company plans to expand its teams and international activity, but has not identified the banks behind its reported customer mandates.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

LemFi rebuilds app around transfers, UK savings and credit

LemFi announced a rebuilt app on October 21, bringing its cross-border transfers, UK savings and credit, and mobile-data eSIMs into one product experience. Earlier records show that savings, credit applications and eSIM instructions predate the announcement; the change is not a first launch of every service.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

ASI raises $325 million to expand infrastructure AI beyond aviation

ASI announced a Series C at a stated $3 billion valuation. It plans to expand its operational-planning software in energy, logistics and military operations in the field. The FAA has begun limited use of one ASI-linked aviation tool, but the financing announcement does not disclose revenue from its cited contracts.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Photon Bridge raises €10 million to develop lasers for AI chip links

Photon Bridge says new investors co-led a €10 million financing for its multi-wavelength laser sources. Customer qualification and manufacturing preparations are still ahead.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Flapping Airplanes announces $1 billion Series A for AI efficiency research

Flapping Airplanes announced a $1 billion Series A led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital. Bloomberg reports a $6 billion post-money valuation and says the AI research lab had not introduced a commercial product.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business & growth· News

Walmart plans shopping-agent profiles and a developer gateway

Walmart says customers will be able to give each AI shopping agent its own purchase controls. Agent Profiles are planned for the month following its October 21 announcement, while a gateway intended to connect outside agents to Walmart and Sam's Club will begin with a developer beta.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

Business & growth· News

Omise opens limited Mirai Flash signup as it expands into enterprise AI

Omise has opened signup for the first 100 users of its Mirai Flash desktop AI coworker and introduced an enterprise integration service. Its payment merchants are a prospective market, not evidence of Mirai Flash adoption.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Hologic agrees to acquire Reveal Genomics and add its breast cancer test

Blackstone- and TPG-backed Hologic has agreed to acquire Reveal Genomics, whose HER2DX test addresses a different breast cancer treatment decision from Hologic’s existing Breast Cancer Index. The deal awaits approval in Spain, and its price was not disclosed.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Legora raises $550 million Series E to expand legal AI platform

Legora announced a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation. The legal-software company plans geographic and product expansion; its reported recurring revenue had reached $200 million before the round was announced.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

AuxoAI raises $20.7 million Series A to expand enterprise AI delivery teams

AuxoAI announced a $20.7 million Series A led by NTTVC. It plans to expand the teams that build AI systems alongside enterprise customers and invest in its delivery technology, including the Damia workbench.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Peak Energy closes $108 million Series B led by GM Ventures

Peak Energy says its closed financing will support sodium-ion battery-storage manufacturing and a move into data-center power. Its reported customer orders exceed $1 billion, but the planned Sacramento factory has not begun production.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business & growth· News

Waymo adds Las Vegas airport rides, initially for current riders

Waymo began pickups and drop-offs at Harry Reid International Airport on October 21, 2026. Current Waymo riders in Las Vegas have access first; the company plans to admit more riders gradually.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Blacksmith announces $66 million Series C after similar-sized August SEC sale

Blacksmith announced a Sequoia-led Series C on October 21. A Form D for Blacksmith Software Inc. reports $66,264,021 sold after an August 13 first sale, but does not identify the offering as the Series C. The company says the financing will help expand the computing capacity behind its software-build and testing service.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Foursquare co-founder says Infillion sale left preferred and common shareholders with nothing

Dennis Crowley says Foursquare’s sale to Infillion produced no payout for preferred or common shareholders. His assessment draws on an earlier investor’s account of sale paperwork, not a publicly available agreement. The buyer’s purchase price remains undisclosed.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Sunlight AI launches with Bradford acquisition as seed figures conflict

Sunlight AI announced its launch and acquisition of medical-billing company Bradford Medical Associates. Axios reported that the deal closed the preceding week. Sunlight calls its seed financing $17.4 million, while Axios attributes a $10 million figure to its CEO.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Mach9 raises $34 million for AI drafting software after hardware pivot

Mach9 announced a $34 million Series A to expand software that drafts civil-engineering drawings from existing scans. The company reports use on more than 2,500 projects; TechCrunch reported nearly 100 private-beta customers.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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