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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Basware closes Trustpair acquisition, plans to keep payment-verification business independent

Basware says its purchase of Trustpair is complete after an August agreement. Trustpair is expected to keep selling its payment-verification software across customers' existing systems, including outside Basware. The companies have not disclosed the price in their transaction announcements.

6 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Fleuret AI closes €4 million pre-seed round for AI penetration testing

Fleuret AI says its €4 million pre-seed round will support hiring and platform development. Its listed €4,000 one-off test and quote-priced annual enterprise plan offer different routes to sales, but the reviewed sources do not disclose revenue or renewals.

6 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Pandektes raises €13.5 million to expand legal research and open its data API

Scale Capital says Pandektes raised a €13.5 million Series A led by Alstin Capital. The Copenhagen company plans to expand its legal-research business and offer its underlying data to other software builders, but has not disclosed API sales.

6 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

BT Group buys TalkTalk and PlatformX out of administration as UK review opens

BT Group says it has acquired TalkTalk's consumer and PlatformX wholesale businesses through administrations. BT estimates approximately £400 million in total FY27 cash impact, not a separately disclosed purchase price. The UK Competition and Markets Authority has opened an inquiry into the completed acquisition.

6 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Mutares receives offer to sell control of Lapeyre Group and retain minority stake

Mutares said on October 5 that an Italian-backed investment vehicle had offered to acquire a controlling stake in French home-improvement group Lapeyre. Mutares would retain a minority stake. The seller expects a fourth-quarter closing, subject to the employee representatives’ opinion, but disclosed neither a price nor the precise stake.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

AKASA announces autonomous inpatient coding platform, with wider rollout ahead

AKASA announced autonomous inpatient coding and clinical documentation software on October 2, 2026, moving beyond staff-reviewed prebill tools. Its reported processing growth does not establish adoption of the new platform.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

5E Advanced Materials closes Searles Valley asset purchase with $7 million bridge draw

5E Advanced Materials completed its purchase of specified Searles Valley assets on October 1, 2026. The buyer received $7 million at closing under a $10 million secured bridge facility, separate from the cash, shares and seller-lender note used as purchase consideration.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Celaid Therapeutics adds ¥400 million in Series B second close with Shionogi and Teikoku Ventures

Celaid Therapeutics says it raised ¥400 million through newly issued shares, with Shionogi and Teikoku Ventures joining its Series B. The company plans to use the proceeds for U.S. clinical-trial preparations for CLD-001. Its separate ¥3.42 billion cumulative funding figure includes grants.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Nova Capital acquires BMP Group and RB Medical from Andrew Industries

Nova Capital Management announced on October 2 that it had acquired industrial-components maker BMP Group and healthcare-products business RB Medical from Andrew Industries. Nova says their existing management structures will remain. It disclosed neither a purchase price nor quantified commitments for further investment.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Asimov and Lonza announce feasibility-first lentiviral manufacturing collaboration

Asimov and Lonza announced a collaboration on October 2, 2026, to explore lentiviral-vector manufacturing for emerging in vivo applications. The proposed work pairs Asimov’s LV Edge cell-line technology with Lonza’s development and manufacturing capabilities. The partners are still defining a feasibility-first framework and disclosed no named customer program, financial terms or deployment date.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Six healthtech companies paired with Singapore healthcare clusters for funded test-beds

Singapore’s Healthcare InnoMatch named six winners on October 2, 2026, pairing two companies with each of its three public healthcare clusters. The organisers announced up to S$3 million in total support for test-bedding and evaluation. Individual awards, pilot results and adoption have not been reported.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Montagu completes Helix majority acquisition, creating standalone ServiceOps company

Helix said on October 2 that Montagu had completed its majority-stake acquisition through a carve-out from BMC Software. KKR-managed funds retain a minority interest, but the company announcements do not specify the final equity split or confirm a purchase price.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Decagon announces OpenAI Marketplace partnership, with pricing details still to come

OpenAI lists Decagon in its Marketplace directory, but eligibility for a purchase depends on the customer and product. On October 2, Decagon said deployment options and pricing details would follow.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Roland Foods agrees to buy Savor Brands; Dot Foods to take Roland stake

Roland Foods has agreed to acquire Savor Brands from Dot Foods. Dot is to become a Roland shareholder and distribute both brands under a separate commercial agreement. The acquisition has not closed, and the companies did not disclose financial terms.

5 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Warburg Pincus invests in Awayday as Ares and LightBay retain control

Warburg Pincus's Capital Solutions Founders Fund has closed an investment in vacation-rental manager Awayday. An Ares fund and LightBay remain controlling shareholders. Awayday says proceeds will go to existing equity investors, local operators and team members; transaction terms were not disclosed.

4 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Trendspek raises A$6 million led by OIF Ventures for infrastructure software expansion

Trendspek says it raised A$6 million in an OIF Ventures-led round to expand overseas support and develop its infrastructure-inspection software. An NSW Ports case study describes how a customer uses its shared 3D records, while earlier company notices show that AI defect detection predates this raise.

4 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Silicon Box says Singapore factory has shipped more than 1 billion units

Silicon Box reported more than 1 billion cumulative shipments from its Singapore semiconductor-packaging factory on October 2, up from the 500 million it reported in August. Its projection of 2 billion by year-end is not an achieved total, and the October update does not establish whether an earlier 1.5-billion-unit expectation has been met.

4 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Meridian Space says first communications payload powered on in orbit; first link still ahead

Meridian Space reported initial activation of its first communications payload after an October 1 launch. The company plans its first link using the payload in the coming weeks; its stated downlink capability has not been reported as a measured in-orbit result.

4 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

BioOra reports NZ$30 million in Series A2 commitments, signs definitive CAR-T licence

BioOra says it secured NZ$30 million in commitments at the first close of its Series A2 and signed a definitive licence for WZTL-002 rights outside China and India. Its NZ$45 million round target and expected second close remain future plans.

3 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Samfara completes first buyout of Chr. Olesen Synthesis as CEO co-invests

Samfara's first acquisition brings in a Danish drug-ingredient manufacturer whose audited accounts show a fire-hit 2025 loss and negative equity. Seller counsel says all its shares were sold; the buyer has not disclosed the purchase price.

3 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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