Space robotics startup Cosmochute, co-founded by Janhavi Gore, Amit Chowdhary and Dhruv Alok Sangal, has raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round led by Accel and Prosus Ventures to build LEAP, a modular rover platform for the emerging lunar economy.
TSMC's third-quarter net profit jumped nearly 70% to about NT$763 billion on surging AI chip demand, and the company raised its full-year growth forecast, but softer margin guidance and heavy capital spending weighed on its shares.
Oxford spinout OMass Therapeutics, led by chief executive Ros Deegan, has raised an oversubscribed $310 million Series C co-led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, Forbion and Novo Holdings to take its rare-disease drug OMS1620 into and through Phase 2.
Hamburg-based Rabot Energy has raised a $50 million Series B led by Endeit Capital to connect home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps into a virtual power plant, as Europe looks to flexibility to make renewable power cheaper and more reliable.
The UK's state-backed British Business Bank is investing £180 million across six AI and deeptech venture funds, including Entrepreneurs First, Headline, Intrepid Growth Partners and Evantic, as Britain seeks to close the growth-capital gap for its AI companies.
Philadelphia non-profit Upstart Impacts, led by Karina Sotnik, has opened applications for an equity-free Women's Health Innovation Program for 10 early-stage life sciences and medtech startups, building on a 2025 cohort whose companies have raised $7.4 million.
Defence technology company Anduril is letting current and former employees sell up to about $1.3 billion of stock at $94.80 a share, a price that implies a valuation of roughly $90 billion, up from $61 billion in May.
African startups raised $2.49 billion across 315 disclosed deals in the first nine months of 2026, up 7.8% year on year, with a $1.025 billion third quarter as investors wrote fewer but larger cheques, led by Nigeria, Egypt and Benin.
European solar generation avoided more than €40 billion of gas imports between 1 March and 15 October 2026, according to SolarPower Europe, which is urging an emergency EU package to expand self-consumption, battery storage and electrification.
More than 830 organisations, including investors managing over $26 trillion and listed companies worth $10.5 trillion, have committed to reporting nature-related risks under the TNFD framework, as biodiversity moves up the corporate risk agenda.