PhonePe processed more than 11 billion Unified Payments Interface transactions in August 2026, extending its lead over Google Pay in India's digital payments market as UPI volumes continue to set new records.
Retham Technologies, a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin-based clinical diagnostics company, has raised a new seed funding round to advance its platform for platelet-related testing, addressing a persistently underserved corner of laboratory medicine.
Bay Area biotech Circle Pharma has raised $92.5 million in Series E funding from The Column Group, RA Capital Management and Eli Lilly, extending a strong week for global biotech venture financing.
Jinjing Technology, also known as Goldenscope Tech, has raised RMB 300 million in Series B funding to scale production of its electron-beam lithography systems and cathodoluminescence imaging equipment used in semiconductor research.
Noetive, an AI startup building an industrial world model for factories, logistics sites and construction environments, has emerged from stealth with $41 million in seed funding led by Eclipse, backed by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth and Airbnb CTO Ahmed Al-Dahle.
Japanese manufacturing-technology company CADDi has raised ¥17.7 billion in Series D funding, taking cumulative equity financing past ¥36 billion and valuing the company at ¥182 billion, with Toyota-backed Woven Capital and Salesforce Ventures joining as new investors.
AI biotechnology company Anew Labs has raised $290 million in its first external financing round, backed by a consortium of leading Chinese venture and growth-equity investors, at a valuation of $1.5 billion.
Bengaluru-based fashion discovery platform Slayd has closed a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage investor ajvc, adding to a wave of capital flowing into India's consumer-tech and D2C discovery layer.
Global technology markets diverged sharply this week, with AI-linked stocks sinking on renewed fears of a development slowdown while cybersecurity shares rallied, as investors recalibrate exposure to different corners of the AI-driven technology trade.
Shanghai AI Laboratory has released Atria Dawn Preview, a 744-billion-parameter agentic mixture-of-experts model built on GLM-5.2 and trained via a Verifiable Experience Pipeline that grounds tool use in executable environments.