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 stock markets extended their decline as bond yields continued to climb, with strategists warning that fixed-income markets are entering a 'new era' of risk that could pressure equity valuations well beyond the current selloff.
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.
Cornelis Networks, an Intel spinoff, has closed a $205 million funding round led by IAG Capital Partners and unveiled Active Compute Fabric, an open-architecture, GPU-agnostic networking layer aimed at challenging Nvidia's InfiniBand and NVLink, alongside a strategic collaboration with Qualcomm.
Yincheng Intelligence, a Shanghai-based robotics startup building general-purpose picking robots for logistics environments, has raised nearly RMB100 million in Series A funding co-led by Huamintou and Shanghai Semiconductor Industry Investment.
Nutshell Therapeutics, also known as Yudao Bio, a Shanghai-based AI biotechnology and drug discovery firm, has closed a Series C1 funding round backed by Trustbridge Capital, Decheng Capital and other investors.
EUCLYD, an Eindhoven-based semiconductor and AI-infrastructure startup, has raised over €200 million in Series A funding from investors including Samsung, EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund, Innovation Industries and imec.xpand.
HDFC Bank shares rose roughly 1.3 percent on September 15, among the few gainers in an otherwise weak session, after the lender submitted two candidates to the Reserve Bank of India as part of its chief executive succession process.