Basel-based Nouscom has raised €120 million in an oversubscribed Series D co-led by M Ventures and Revelation Partners to fund a global registration-enabling study of NOUS-209, an experimental immunotherapy intended to prevent cancer in people with Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition that sharply raises the risk of colorectal and other cancers.
Countries in the Global South have spent more than $235 billion on Chinese-made clean energy technology since 2024, according to a Reuters analysis published on October 19. They now account for over half of global spending on Chinese transformers, switchgear and solar arrays, while electric vehicle imports have jumped from $6 billion in 2023 to $73.2 billion in 2026.
The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded SEK 9.3 billion in state support to Renova, SYSAV and Öresundskraft for projects to capture and permanently store a combined 5.75 million tonnes of biogenic carbon dioxide. It is Sweden's second reverse auction for bio-CCS, a technology central to its goal of net-zero emissions by 2045 and negative emissions thereafter.
Tradeweb Markets has agreed to acquire Trumid, an electronic corporate bond trading platform, for about $1.97 billion, including $1.75 billion for the core business and about $220 million for tax assets. The deal, funded mainly from cash, is expected to close in the first half of 2027 and deepens Tradeweb's push into electronic credit trading.
Amazon's Annapurna Labs has unveiled TorchNeuron, free and open-source software that lets PyTorch code run on Amazon's Trainium AI chips with a single configuration change. More than 30 early customers in robotics, world models and voice AI are using it, as Amazon targets the software moat behind Nvidia's dominance.
AI chip company Tenstorrent, led by veteran chip designer Jim Keller, has raised $1.5 billion in a Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, more than double its December 2024 level. ARK Invest, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price and Morgan Stanley joined the round.
Indian auto tech startups raised $1.3 billion across 97 rounds between January and mid-October 2026, according to Tracxn, well short of the $2.1 billion raised in all of 2025. Rapido, Simple Energy and Rideriver led the largest deals, Bengaluru took about 70% of funding, and no new unicorns emerged.
Zerodha has launched US stock investing in beta on its Kite platform, giving resident Indians access to about 2,000 US-listed companies and 1,000 ETFs through BSE's India INX Global Access in GIFT City. Fractional investing starts at $1, with brokerage of 0.1% capped at $10, as rivals Groww and Upstox race into the same market.
Bengaluru-based Tonbo Imaging's ₹852 crore IPO closed on October 19 with bids for nearly 136 times the shares on offer, led by qualified institutional buyers at 293.56 times. The thermal imaging and weapon-sight maker drew more than 55 lakh applications, despite a 22.7% fall in FY26 revenue blamed on delayed West Asia orders.
India's smartphone shipments fell 26% year on year to 35.6 million units in July-September 2026, the steepest decline since 2016, according to Omdia, as rising memory chip prices forced repeated handset price increases. Samsung overtook Vivo for the top spot, and full-year shipments are forecast to fall to 132-133 million.
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Behind every successful startup is a journey filled with challenges, failures, lessons and moments that nobody sees.<div><br></div><div>In this insightful conversation, Divanshu Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO of Solinas Integrity, shares the real story behind building a startup — the struggles he faced, the lessons he learned and the experiences that shaped his entrepreneurial journey.</div><div><br></div><div>From an idea to creating real-world impact, discover what it truly takes to build something meaningful.</div><div><br></div><div>#DivanshuKumar #SolinasIntegrity #StartupJourney #Entrepreneurship #TheImpactfulGlobalIcon</div>
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