XDOF Nears Series B at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Robotics data startup XDOF is in talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion, with 8VC expected to lead the round.
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Robotics data startup XDOF is in talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion, with 8VC expected to lead the round.
BUUU Group agreed to acquire a 60% stake in modular data center provider Brightray Science and signed private placements that could help generate more than $60 million.
CollPlant Biotechnologies has completed its acquisition of LightSolver, an Israeli company developing a laser based computing platform.
Consumer cybersecurity company Guardio has raised $40 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $167 million.
Flex has agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, adding power conversion technology for AI data centers and grid applications.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion and says the platform will continue supporting models, hardware, cloud services, and inference providers across the AI ecosystem.
The Series B financing will support a Phase 1 trial of a treatment for rare genetic forms of obesity by the end of 2026.
MulticoreWare has acquired Simulus Automation to add semiconductor design and verification capabilities for SoCs, chipsets, and accelerator technologies.
Konko AI raised $6 million to expand its AI platform for healthcare clinics and hospitals in Latin America.
Airbility raised $4.7 million in Series A funding led by Sazze Partners, bringing its total funding to $7.6 million. The company plans to use the funding for counter drone eVTOL aircraft and production capacity.
Thyme Care raised over $125 million in Series E funding led by Morgan Health and formed Thyme Companies, a parent entity for new oncology businesses.
HiddenLayer raised a $100 million Series B round led by Delta-v Capital to expand its AI security platform and runtime protections for enterprise AI systems.
Plan A Technologies acquired a stealth AI assessment tool to expand its technical M&A due diligence practice. The tool is intended to help assess complex technology environments and identify risks, patterns, and opportunities during transaction reviews.
Aitan has emerged from stealth with $41 million in new funding for robotic defense systems. The round was co led by Deep33 and Dell Technologies Capital, bringing total funding to $54 million.
Aranya raised $11 million to expand its team and develop its infrastructure software for GPU clusters. The company says its platform converts bare metal servers into custom clusters in under 48 hours.
LeanTaaS has acquired Aidin, adding care transition coordination to its iQueue for Inpatient Flow platform. Aidin serves more than 200 hospitals and coordinates more than two million referrals each year.
S&P Global has completed its acquisition of datacenterHawk, adding data center, fiber optic, and related infrastructure intelligence to S&P Global Energy.
Salute has agreed to acquire T5 Operations, a data center operations unit of T5 Data Centers, in a deal that would expand its management footprint to more than 15 GW across over 150 markets.
Palo Alto Networks has acquired Console, an AI native platform for agentic enterprise operations, to expand agentic capabilities in Cortex.
New Constructs says investors should separate AI infrastructure spending from profit, after Morgan Stanley estimated that five major cloud operators could spend $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure in 2027.