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.
Palo Alto-based CScale has exited stealth with a $145 million Series C led by Atreides Management, with Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest as co-leads and Nvidia and Intel Capital as new strategic investors. The startup is building fault-tolerant optical links for AI systems spanning dozens of racks.
New York startup Origin Genomics, led by founder and CEO Cathy Tie, is testing AI-designed gene editors on cells carrying disease-causing mutations, with the long-term aim of correcting them in human embryos. The work is legal as research but US law bars editing embryos for reproduction.
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.
Luxembourg-based ANote Music has raised €2 million led by Seventure Partners and ScaleFund to expand its marketplace for music royalties, which now lists more than 100,000 songs and has recorded over €28 million in cumulative transactions.
Romanian startup Kyndred has closed a €500,000 pre-seed round from Early Game Ventures to build AI companions with persistent memory, voice and facial animation. Its first companion, Maya, passed 150 paying users within three months.
Paris-based Rayon, which makes browser-based drawing software for interior designers, has raised a €10 million Series A led by Partech. Customers include Virgin Atlantic, which uses Rayon to design airport lounges.
Marble, a Paris startup building a no-code, open-source platform for fraud and anti-money-laundering compliance, has raised a €6.5 million Series A led by Smartfin. It runs in more than 100 institutions across 25-plus countries.