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Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 10th October
Manus raises $500M+ after China blocks Meta acquisition. India deploys $300M in week one. Singapore holds 91.5% of SEA c…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 10th October
MENA tracks toward $785M for October as debt financing dominates. Property Finder's $525M and Guardio's $40M unicorn rou…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 10th October
Spiko's $90M Series B for tokenised cash funds leads a European week spanning biotech, quantum computing, clean energy, …

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 10th October
Mecka AI's $60M Sequoia-led Series B headlines a US week dominated by physical AI training data, AI-powered invoicing, a…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 2nd October
GPU compute leads the week as GMI Cloud raises $668M. PaleBlueDot AI, NorthStar Medical, and defence tech round out a st…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 2nd October
Milan's Complaion lands the largest Italian seed of the year at EUR13.5M. Lithuanian space tech and Manchester AI GTM jo…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 2nd October
Riyadh fintech Erad raises $22M Series A for revenue-based SME financing across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 2nd October
GMI Cloud's APAC-weighted raise signals GPU compute demand across Taiwan and South Korea. Japan's Heartbeats raises $15M…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 25th September
Enveda raises $311m Series E for AI drug discovery out of Boulder. Biotech and defence tech lead a $800m+ US week.

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 25th September
Tekever's $580m Series D makes Lisbon's defence tech darling the week's standout. Europe clears $900m across 12+ deals.

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 25th September
PayTabs acquires Amazon Payment Services in a $100m+ deal reshaping MENA's payments infrastructure.

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 25th September
D-Robotics raises $400m Series C for robotics infrastructure out of China. APAC clears $700m+ across 12 deals.

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 18th September
Crusoe raises $3.9bn Series F at $30.9bn valuation for AI-optimised compute. Temporal, Factory, and Profound add another…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 18th September
ByteDance spin-out Anew Labs raises $290m at $1.5bn. CADDi and SF Express-linked robotics add depth to an $800m+ APAC we…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 18th September
Starroad Financial Technology raises $10m+ A+ round backed by HSBC. A quieter MENA week anchored by fintech infrastructu…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 18th September
EUCLYD secures EUR200m+ Series A backed by Samsung for European semiconductor manufacturing. Defence, sovereign AI, and …

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 11th September
US startups raised approximately $9.3bn across 16+ major rounds. The Boring Company led with $3B. Cognition AI hit $48B …

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 11th September
Mistral AI's record EUR3bn Series D dominated Europe. The Exploration Company raised $450m for reusable spacecraft. Defe…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 11th September
The Boring Company's $3bn UAE-led round made MENA the week's largest sovereign capital source. Guardio hit unicorn statu…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 11th September
Pixxel's $100m became India's largest-ever space tech round. VAST raised $446m for generative 3D in China. Metacognition…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 4th September
Odyssey raises $310M Series B at $1.45B for AI world models. Owner.com, Felix, and Chronograph add another $700M+ to a $…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 4th September
DeepSeek closes $7.4B pre-IPO at ~$74B valuation, the largest private AI round outside the US. VAST adds $446M for gener…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 4th September
COFE Tech closes pre-IPO at $178M valuation on the LEAP 2026 stage in Riyadh. A quieter MENA week anchored by conference…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 4th September
Amsterdam's Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B for enterprise AI. HyImpulse and Conveo round out a EUR700M+ European…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 28th August
Socure raises $156M at $5.2B valuation and acquires Fravity on the same day. Lambda adds $962M in debt. A $2.4B US week …

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 28th August
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B, the week's defining EU headline. VC deals were smaller as Europe rebounded from…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 28th August
Stellaria raises $6.8M seed at $114.4M valuation for AI geospatial after rebranding from Farmin. A domestic-focused MENA…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 28th August
XPeng Dogotix raises $900M+ Series A at $6.3B for humanoid robotics, spun out from China's listed automaker. Wrtn adds $…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 25th August
Kedaara-Tynor closes $200m in India. South Korea's Wrtn raises $72.2m at $722m for AI entertainment. An India-heavy $780…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 25th August
QIA co-led Gatik's $200m Series D, deploying sovereign capital outbound to US autonomous trucking. No major domestic rou…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 25th August
A thin bank holiday week with no round exceeding $100m. Callosum's £73.5m carried over from the prior week. 18 deals acr…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 25th August
Anthropic raises $65bn Series H at $965bn valuation, dwarfing every other round this year. The remaining US rounds total…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 21st August
Castelion raises $800m at $13bn led by JPMorgan and a16z, the first time defence tech took #1. Non-VC leads are reshapin…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 21st August
Blackbird closes AUD 1.05bn, the largest ANZ VC fund on record. A capital formation week dominated by funds and IPO fili…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 21st August
Callosum's $100m Atomico-led seed becomes the UK Sovereign AI Fund's first investment. ENPULSION raises and acquires in …

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 21st August
Gathern raises $72m PIF-backed Series B at $266m+ valuation, eyeing a Tadawul IPO. Prosus appeared in two MENA deals. So…

Short-form video in B2B: why it wins deals
Short-form video in B2B is now a buying channel, not a brand play. The data on why it closes deals faster than any other…

Consumerisation of B2B buying: what the data shows
The consumerisation of B2B buying is no longer a prediction, it is the operating reality of every deal. What the data sh…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 14th August
US startups raised $9.84bn across 16 rounds. AI infrastructure and defence tech dominated the week's deals.

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 14th August
European startups raised across defence, fintech, and deep tech. A steady week of mid-market EU rounds.

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 14th August
MENA's sovereign capital continued deploying outbound while domestic rounds remained modest in a quiet regional week.

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 14th August
APAC saw a mix of AI, robotics, and consumer platform rounds across China, India, and Southeast Asia.

B2B buying committee: the new social proof
The B2B buying committee has changed, and so has the proof it accepts. How social proof now drives enterprise decisions.

Gen Z B2B buyers: the new decision-makers
Gen Z B2B buyers are now the decision-makers. Your marketing has not caught up. Here is what the data says.

Founder-led marketing: the B2B trust shift
Founder-led marketing is reshaping B2B trust. Why buyers trust your face more than your brand, and what to do about it.

Founder-led marketing: why buyers trust your face more than your brand
Buyers trust founders more than brands. The data behind founder-led marketing and parasocial trust in B2B, and how to tu…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 7th August
US funding rounds this week: $4.75bn across 14 disclosed deals, led by Hadrian's $1.37bn Series D at $7.87bn. Every roun…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 7th August
European funding rounds this week: €1.8bn across 20 disclosed deals, led by ICEYE's €1bn Series F at a €10bn valuation, …

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 7th August
MENA startup funding rounds this week: $259m across 3 disclosed deals, led by Moove's $250m Series C at a $2.1bn valuati…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 7th August
APAC funding rounds this week: $2.65bn across 27 disclosed deals, led by Firmus's $2bn raise at a $10.5bn valuation. Eve…

Dark social B2B: how young buyers research
Dark social is where your next B2B buyer actually researches you. How young buyers build shortlists before you know they…

Dark social B2B: where your next buyer actually researches you
B2B buyers now research in DMs, Slack groups and communities your analytics cannot see. The data behind dark social B2B,…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 31st July
US funding rounds this week: $1.5bn across 26 disclosed deals, led by Antares' $470m Series C. The biggest US rounds and…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 31st July
European funding rounds this week: €831.6m across 17 deals, led by Multiverse Computing's €500m Series C. The biggest EU…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 31st July
MENA startup funding rounds this week: $20.4m across 6 deals, led by Epic Markets' $10m pre-seed, plus PIF and OIA sover…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 31st July
APAC funding rounds this week: $450m across 21 deals, led by HiDream.ai's $221m Series C in Beijing. The biggest APAC ro…

AI vendor shortlists: how Gen Z B2B buyers decide
94% of business buyers now use AI in their buying process. How Gen Z B2B buyers build vendor shortlists with AI tools.

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 24th July
Atoms takes $1.7bn, Etched hits a $10.3bn valuation and US startups raise $3.8bn in total. The biggest US funding rounds…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 24th July
CuspAI's $450m round takes the UK to 89% of Europe's week. The biggest European funding rounds this week, the €600m tota…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 24th July
Damascus lands the week's biggest MENA equity deal as Labby raises $10m. Full MENA startup funding rounds, the $87.5m to…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 24th July
Ant International's $1.2bn raise powers a $1.5bn week. The biggest APAC funding rounds this week, India's 11-deal surge …

The Stealth Launch Playbook: Proof vs Pedigree, Lessons From Walden and Glow
Two startups left stealth as unicorns in one week. Walden launched on proof, Glow on pedigree. Steal the right stealth l…

AI agent fundraise: Lyzr's $100M launch lesson
Lyzr let its own AI agent run a $100m Series B, fielding questions from 130+ investors. The launch lesson from the fundr…

AI coding unicorn Emergent: the launch lesson
Emergent raised $130m at $1.5bn just one year after launch. How an Indian AI coding startup reached unicorn in 12 months…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 17th July
This week's MENA startup funding rounds, led by Think's record $8 million pre-seed, plus ORA, Mylerz, Uvera and Ignita's…

Rational B2B buyer myth: what the data shows
The rational B2B buyer is a myth. Data from CEB, Gartner and Forrester shows emotion drives business buying. Here is wha…

Rational B2B buyer myth: what the data shows
The rational B2B buyer who scores vendors on spreadsheets does not exist. Two decades of behavioural research prove it.

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 17th July
The biggest US funding rounds this week: Fireworks lands $1.5bn at a $17.5bn valuation, Chai Discovery raises $400m, plu…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 17th July
PixVerse's $439M round, Emergent's unicorn raise and Korea's Dnotitia led the APAC funding rounds this week. Deal breakd…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 17 July
European funding rounds this week were led by microagi's $55m seed, Germany's largest ever, plus Nopan and Float. The br…

Neko Health $700m raise: the waitlist playbook
Neko Health raised $700m at nearly $7bn before opening a single US clinic. The waitlist playbook behind the raise.

Even Realities $150M teardown: a unicorn in a day
How Even Realities turned a $150M pre-Series B into unicorn status coverage across CNBC, TechCrunch, and Road to VR in a…

Biggest MENA funding rounds, week ending 10th July
MENA startup funding rounds, week ending 10th July: Keyper's $11m Series A leads a UAE-heavy week, with Aramco's LAB7 an…

The Even Realities funding announcement: why timing is everything
Even Realities turned a $150M pre-Series B into a one-day sweep of CNBC, TechCrunch and the AR trade press. The exact pl…

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 10th July
APAC funding rounds this week: China's Even Realities and India's Yotta each raised USD 150 million, tying at the top of…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 10 July
European funding rounds this week topped EUR 2.8bn, led by Proxima Fusion's record EUR 411m raise backed by Google and R…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 10th July
US funding rounds this week were led by twin $1bn raises at Keyfactor and SambaNova, plus deals for Oratomic, Quaise Ene…

Gen Z B2B buyers now run the deal: what changes
Gen Z B2B buyers and millennials now make up 71% of buying committees. Here is how consumer psychology is rewriting B2B …

Biggest APAC funding rounds, week ending 3rd July
APAC funding rounds this week hit US$1.7bn, led by Airwallex's US$320m Series H and Meta's US$900m CRED deal, with India…

Biggest MENA funding rounds: week ending 1 July
MENA startup funding rounds, week ending 1 July 2026: Agenz leads with $5m, Foodics buys Norma AI, plus the announcement…

Biggest US funding rounds, week ending 1 July 2026
US funding rounds this week, ending 1 July 2026: LeapXpert leads at $180m ahead of Beeline, Higharc and Flare. Who raise…

Biggest EU funding rounds, week ending 29 June
European funding rounds this week hit over EUR 2.1bn across 75+ deals, led by Stark's EUR 500m defence raise. Full break…

Why VCs Stopped Funding AI Wrappers in 2026
New June 2026 funding data shows VCs only backing AI that owns a workflow. If you are launching an AI startup, fix your …

What the Anthropic ban means for AI startup launches
The Trump export order that pulled Claude offline just rewrote the launch playbook. What every AI founder should do this…

The biggest AI funding rounds, week ending 19 June 2026
AI startups raised about $1.17bn across the week's top US rounds ending 19 June 2026. Odyssey led with $310m. The deals,…

Lovable Hits $500M ARR: What Founders Should Learn
Lovable just hit $500M ARR and 1M projects a week. Here is what its run means for AI founders launching now, before the …

What SpaceX's $60bn Cursor Deal Means for AI Founders
SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60bn days after its IPO. Here is what the deal signals for AI startups raising and launchin…

The biggest AI funding rounds, week ending 12 June 2026
The week's biggest AI funding rounds: NEURA Robotics' $1.4bn, Cyera's $600m, PhysicsX's $300m and more, plus how each co…

How to Launch an AI SaaS Product in 2026
Most guides tell you how to build an AI SaaS product. This is how to launch one: narrative, press, Product Hunt and the …

B2B Influencer Marketing: What Works in 2026
B2B influencer marketing has changed. Learn what actually works in 2026: operator networks, micro-influencer commentary,…

What Is a Launch Narrative and Why Your Startup Needs One
A launch narrative is the strategic story that makes your market care. Learn how to build one for your AI or SaaS startu…

How to Get TechCrunch to Cover Your Startup Launch
Learn exactly how to pitch TechCrunch and get press coverage for your startup launch. Actionable steps from operators wh…