Investment

The Singapore-based AI workforce platform grew H1 revenue to $32.7m but saw gross margin compress sharply as labour costs outpaced billing rates.

Pine Labs is partnering with Google Cloud to build Gemini-powered agentic commerce infrastructure aimed at India's 60 million small businesses.

ASX-listed Stakk has completed its $63m purchase of AI document-intelligence firm ParaScript, creating a platform processing 110 billion digital interactions annually.

Akamai and Anthropic have agreed a seven-year, $11.6bn cloud infrastructure commitment, with a potential expansion to $20bn in total.

Ando, founded by Sara Du, has raised $20m from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence Capital for a messaging platform built around AI agents as first

Iridium's shareholders have overwhelmingly approved Rocket Lab's acquisition, valuing Iridium shares at a notional $54.00 each, with closing expected by mid-2027.

Island's enterprise browser and agentic control plane has more than doubled its valuation since 2024, led by Evolution Equity Partners.

Liberty Defense has agreed a non-exclusive US distribution deal with VMI Security, adding HEXWAVE to VMI's threat-detection portfolio across airports and critical

NYSE-listed Mistras Group has deployed Sidetrade's autonomous AI cash-collection agent, Aimie, marking one of the first US enterprise adoptions of agentic finance

Abu Dhabi nature-tech firm Nabat has been named an UpLink Venture by the World Economic Forum for its NabatOS ecosystem assessment and restoration platform.

Nutanix has bought French compute orchestration startup Ryax Technologies to integrate GPU scheduling into its Kubernetes and Enterprise AI platforms.

The Nucleus Group subsidiary will provide custody and platform services to the newly launched discretionary investment manager under its Model B proposition.

Cambridge-based Ekai has closed a $1.7m pre-seed round led by Misneach to build a human-verified semantic layer for enterprise AI deployments.

The NASDAQ-listed robotics and AI services firm grew revenue to $18.3m but saw its net loss widen to $3.1m as SG&A

The Qingdao-based AI infrastructure operator will use the proceeds to scale its Star distributed computing nodes and commercialise its Lingyan MoE large language model.

Polaris I/O has named Carahsoft as its master government aggregator, opening federal contract vehicles to its AI-driven decision intelligence platform.

Quadient has signed a €65m deal to sell its UK parcel-locker network to IDS Holdco as part of a broader exit from its Lockers

The French MBE equipment maker returned to net profit in H1 2026 and secured €6m to industrialise its ROSIE II oxide-on-silicon photonics platform.

Drone autonomy firm Swarmer will manufacture Gatling-cannon air-defence systems in Poland under a nonbinding deal with Vectus, priced at $5m to $6m each.

The US critical-materials firm will acquire a 4.99% equity stake in Vietnam's Masan High-Tech Materials, locking in long-term tungsten supply