London and San Francisco-based Metaview has raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners, taking total funding to $110 million. Used by more than 7,000 companies, the recruiting platform will launch its autonomous coworker, fillmore, and nearly triple its headcount.
Hatch Blue and Conservation International Ventures have opened applications for the 2027 Women in Ocean Food Innovation Studio in Latin America and the Caribbean. Companies led by alumni of its first three regional cohorts have raised $11.7 million.
China cut its one-year pledged supplementary lending rate to 1.5% and will subsidise mortgage interest for eligible first-time homebuyers from 1 October, covering 1 percentage point a year for up to five years, in its first nationwide measure of its kind.
The Reserve Bank of Australia lifted its cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.60%, its fourth increase this year and the highest level since 2011, citing higher global energy prices, AI-driven technology inflation and domestic capacity pressures.
SiMa.ai, the physical AI chip and software company founded by Krishna Rangasayee, has raised $150 million in a Series C co-led by Fidelity and Amplify Partners, valuing it at $1.45 billion and taking total funding to $500 million.
Samsung Electronics and five affiliates are investing $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the AI infrastructure company launched by KKR with the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia and Vistra, and led by former AWS chief Adam Selipsky.
AstraZeneca will invest $2 billion in Summit Therapeutics for rights to about 12% of its stock and launch a clinical collaboration pairing Summit's PD-1/VEGF bispecific ivonescimab with AstraZeneca cancer drugs, starting in gastrointestinal cancers. Summit shares jumped about 23% premarket.
SEBI has closed proceedings against Gautam Adani, four Adani Group companies and 13 individuals over alleged minimum public shareholding violations after they paid ₹1.48 crore to settle, without admitting or denying the findings.
Pediatric healthcare brand Primerry has raised ₹7.1 crore in pre-seed funding from investors including Ashish Kacholia and Lashit Sanghvi. It will launch eight products for children aged 2 to 14, priced between ₹499 and ₹1,499.
Seed-stage investor WEH Ventures has announced the first close of its third fund, which targets ₹250 crore. The firm plans to back 20 to 25 early-stage startups across AI, healthcare, fintech and advanced manufacturing, with a final close expected by mid-2027.