Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew Scarcer

How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture Capital

Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently, argues Nacho De Marco, who draws on his experience bootstrapping BairesDev, to emphasize financial…

Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend.

‘The true barrier to entry is scale’: Inside the new frontier of European fintech’s AI arms race

Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027

Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin.

Revolut app down in widespread outage

Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet

Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.

LatAm Startup Funding Jumps 26% In Q3 As VCs Begin ‘Rediscovering’ The Region

A continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture investment in Latin America for the third quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows.

The FDE Bubble: Silicon Valley’s Most Expensive Game Of Pretend

Enterprise AI companies relying on armies of forward deployed engineers are disguising labor-intensive services as scalable software, inflating recurring revenue and valuations while falling short of autonomy claims, argues Anurag Gurtu, co-founder and CEO of Airrived.

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup Batch

Startup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the multiple hundreds of millions.

Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI

Overall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian startups in Q3, per Crunchbase data. Of that, a majority went to AI-focused companies, echoing the trends we’ve seen globally.