Flex, a 3-year-old startup offering artificial intelligence-powered banking solutions for medium-sized business owners, was valued at $1.2 billion in a funding round, Reuters reported Tuesday (July 14), citing an unnamed source. The B1 round more than doubled Flex’s valuation from six months ago, according to...
Auger raised $50 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate its build of an autonomous operating system for supply chain operations, Auger Founder and CEO Dave Clark said in a Thursday (July 9) post on LinkedIn. The company is “reinventing the operating systems of the physical economy,” Clark said in the...
Gauntlet Networks, a digital asset risk and optimization firm, raised $125 million in a Series C funding round to support its continued development into a global organization. The company is a cryptocurrency industry yield curator that helps capital allocators, FinTechs, financial institutions and stablecoin issuers...
South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix raised $26.5 billion in its U.S. market debut Friday (July 10), completing the largest-ever U.S. listing by a foreign company, the Financial Times reported Friday. The company’s U.S. market debut followed a first quarter in which SK hynix saw its revenue nearly triple year over...
U.K. digital lender Lendable finalized a deal Thursday (July 9) in which it will raise 500 million pounds (about $670 million) to support its effort to push further into lending, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. In the deal, Lendable will sell securities backed by a portfolio of unsecured...
GrubHub/Blue Apron owner Wonder is reportedly arranging hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding. That’s according to a Wednesday (July 8) report from The Information, which said the round—potentially Wonder’s last before going public—could value the company at $9 billion. Wonder has arranged to...
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in a Series A funding round to scale its tech stack and target new problems with its “open superintelligence stack.” The company trains open frontier models and provides customers with the compute, large-scale reinforcement learning (RL), environments, sandboxes, evaluations and...
Federal securities regulators are exploring ways to encourage more companies to go public. To that end, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee said it will hold a meeting this month to examine “ways to modernize public market access and encourage...
Cryptocurrency-focused venture capital firm Paradigm raised $1.2 billion in a new fund to invest in spaces like artificial intelligence and robotics, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (July 8). “Crypto was the first frontier for us, and it continues to be a really exciting one,” managing partner...