It is rare to report an 11 -thread -up acquisition, not to say many offers of high value in one week. There are more subtle signs that things look surprisingly optimistic in the startup land.
The most interesting stories of startups from the week
This week he brought us a few acquisitions, recent startups, and sometimes heated competitions.
Bet paid: The magic required a serious nerve to depart the Google offer price $ 23 billion last 12 months, but it was price it. Google has now agreed to pay a record of $ 32 billion in money for buying a startup in the field of cloud security, in addition to one other $ 1 billion at retention premiere.
This exit can be a large event of liquidity for many, but especially in the case of VC Cyberstarts from Israel, which can receive a huge 200-fold return on early investment in Wiz.
Strengthened: The SoftBank Group acquires computers launching the Ampere Chip in a contract price $ 6.5 billion, which is to be closed in the second half of 2025.
Again: The launch of Insurtech Next Insurance is purchased by the German Munich Re for $ 2.6 billion.
Synthetic dreams: NVIDIA reportedly purchased a synthetic data startup at a nine -digit price exceeding the last valuation of USD 320 million.
Bits and screws: It was the role of Bolt CEO with one click, starts a recent e-commerce startup. Spangle AI, because it is called, creates non -standard landing pages for buyers based on what they were looking for or clicked.
General works: The key senior scientist in Deepmind left Google to create general artificial intelligence, a start-up in hiding robotics, which is already supported by NVIDIA, with the ambition “realization of general purpose robots”.
Replaced: Shortly after IPO, the Swedish clarine scaling announced that it’s going to now be the sole partner of BNPL Walmart as an alternative of the AFIRM competition.
Freightnemies: Logistics Unicorn Flexport suits two former employees who created a competitive start -up Freightmate AI, claiming that they have stolen documents and code that the couple definitely denies.
HR Drama: The HR Tech Ripling company sucks the Competitive Deel in a lawsuit largely focusing on an worker who worked as a spy for Deel. Deel denied the allegations.
The most interesting VC messages and financing this week
Here are some messages that, perhaps unexpectedly, suggested trust this week.
European cloud: Evroc, a Swedish startup aimed at building a “safe, sovereign and sustainable hyperskal cloud” from Europe, collected $ 55 million in financing of the A series.
Without divorce: The Spanish HR Unicorn Sactial secured $ 120 million from General Catalyst. It is neither capital nor the debt of the enterprise, but somewhat a loan absent.
Supporting programming: Graphite, AI code reviewing platform, secured the B -series round with a value of $ 52 million run by ACCEL, with the participation of Anthropic’s Anthology Fund and others.
AI-Hungry: Grubmarket, startup of e-commerce food, raised the round of capital G series with a value of $ 50 million for a quote after purchase of over $ 3.5 billion and said that he would finance the implementation of more technologies, including AI.
Raising your hand: The VC Capital company oriented on FinTech collects $ 500 million for a recent fund in one other positive signal for the sector.
Climate investments: Just Climate, a branching of investments of generating Al Gore, collected $ 175 million from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund and Calstrs.
No less essential
Shortly after the DEMO W25 Y Combinator and a few weeks before the spring party, the accelerator once announced the departure of Michael Seibel, who has already gone to the role of a partner of a less operational group and now he can be a “retired partner”.