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Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos
October 09, 2026

Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health systems manage labor and capacity, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The Vitalize platform is designed for the...

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Revolut CEO Targets Wall Street IPO
October 08, 2026

If Revolut pursues an initial public offering, CEO Nik Storonsky wants the primary listing to be in the United States, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 8). During an interview with Bloomberg TV, Storonsky said, per the report: “That was always the target, given the deep liquidity of the U.S. market.” Storonsky had...

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Manus Raises $500 Million After China Blocks Meta’s Acquisition
October 08, 2026

The parent company of artificial intelligence agent startup Manus, Butterfly Effect, has raised $500 million in a funding round, months after the Chinese government blocked Meta’s acquisition of the company, according to multiple media reports. Butterfly Effect announced the round in a post on Chinese...

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Nvidia-Backed Firmus Grid IPO Reveals Investors’ AI Jitters
October 08, 2026

Firmus Grid, a Nvidia-backed Australian data center company, is having trouble generating support for its stock market listing, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 8). The development reveals a new weakness in the artificial intelligence funding boom, the report said. Firmus’ planned $5.5 billion initial public offering...

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Lambda Targets $14.5 Billion Valuation in Final Pre-IPO Round
October 06, 2026

Cloud computing company Lambda is raising as much as $4 billion in a funding round that will value the company at $14.5 billion, excluding the money raised, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Oct. 6), citing unnamed sources. Lambda is raising this funding in a final round before a...

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Valon Hits $2.3 Billion Valuation as Mortgage Servicers Swap Mainframes for AI
October 05, 2026

Valon Technologies raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for mortgage servicing, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. The round doubled Valon’s valuation to $2.3 billion, according to the release....

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Nubank Alum Launches Decade to Give Money an AI Copilot
October 05, 2026

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Decade’s Vitor Olivier Vitor Olivier spent years building the infrastructure behind Nubank, the Brazilian digital bank that gave roughly 100 million people a cheaper, simpler way to handle everyday transactions. Now he is going after the part of financial life...

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OpenPayd Sets Groundwork for 2027 US Stock Market Listing
October 04, 2026

Payments infrastructure firm OpenPayd is reportedly setting the stage to go public in the U.S. The U.K. company expects to list on the Nasdaq by the year’s end as it prepares to enter the America market and embark on new acquisitions, CEO Iana Dimitrova said...

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Armadin Raises $255 Million to Scale Agentic Cybersecurity Platform
October 01, 2026

Cybersecurity firm Armadin says it has raised $255.5 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Thursday (Oct. 1), values Aramdin at more than $2.5 billion and will help it scale its agentic security platform, research, training and go-to-market efforts. “Seven months after emerging from stealth, Armadin...