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Latest edition 23 Oct 2026

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Funding & fundraising· News

Plinto announces €2.9 million pre-seed for financial checks

Plinto’s €2.9 million pre-seed backs software for checking business transactions. A Nordic9 listing dated April 30 had described a pre-seed involving the same named firms, without resolving its relationship to the October announcement. Tech.eu reports paying customers and pilots, but has not established customer counts or independently measured savings.

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23 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

iFood Benefícios agrees to acquire Caju to add HR and expense tools to benefits business

iFood Benefícios signed an agreement to acquire Caju on October 20, 2026. The proposed purchase would connect its corporate-benefits offering with Caju’s expense and people-management tools, but requires Brazilian regulatory approvals. The purchase price was not disclosed.

23 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Brevel and The Wave Group plan India plant with a 100,000-liter first phase

Brevel has announced a 50:50 joint venture with The Wave Group for a planned fermentation plant in India. Its 300,000-liter design is larger than the 100,000-liter first phase described by Brevel’s CEO to AgFunderNews; published investment figures also differ in scope.

23 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Cellbox Solutions closes €5 million Series A to expand live-cell logistics

Cellbox Solutions said its October 20 final closing brought its Series A proceeds to €5 million, including approximately €3.5 million announced in March. It plans to expand rental and managed-shipment services around its portable incubators.

23 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

IFM-managed fund agrees to buy control of Associated British Ports group from CPP Investments and OMERS

CPP Investments and OMERS agreed to sell their controlling stake in the group containing Associated British Ports to a fund managed by IFM Investors. ABP Finance puts the stake at 63.88%; the deal remains subject to approvals and financial terms were not disclosed.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Vintage Investment Partners says it raised $920 million for venture investing

Vintage Investment Partners says it raised $920 million and now manages more than $4.8 billion. It invests across venture funds and venture-backed companies, including purchases of existing stakes; its October 21 announcement does not break down the new capital among those strategies.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business & growth· News

Aikido launches Noon to extend security from software to employees

Aikido’s new workforce-security offering combines email and device protection, AI-use controls and attack simulations. Noon advertises early-access plans, but the launch does not establish how many customers use it.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Commerce proposes up to $389 million for Helion and three others, with equity stakes

Commerce signed four letters of intent for semiconductor R&D awards totaling up to $389 million. The amounts are proposed ceilings, not final awards or proof of payment.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

QIAGEN agrees to EQT-backed €46.50-a-share takeover offer, subject to approvals

QIAGEN has agreed to support a planned cash offer from Crown NL Bidco. The company estimates the transaction’s enterprise value at about €10.8 billion, but the tender offer has not begun and full ownership would require further shareholder and board decisions.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Motion Equity Partners buys majority stake in Capsum from Chanel

Motion Equity Partners says it has acquired control of beauty-product manufacturer Capsum from Chanel, which retains a minority stake. The buyer plans to build on Capsum’s U.S. operations and broaden its offering beyond microfluidics. The price and exact stake were not disclosed.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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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

Conceptual illustration of two people using phones across a globe-linked transfer route, with a piggy bank and payment card beside LemFi’s name.

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

Conceptual illustration of four colored laser beams converging into a glowing optical cable beside semiconductor chips, with the name Photon Bridge.

Funding & fundraising· News

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

Conceptual illustration of a shopper beside a basket-carrying robot selecting groceries in a Walmart aisle.

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

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