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HubSpot co-founder Brian Halligan is back as chief executive, five years after he stepped down. He replaces Yamini Rangan, who also leaves the board, with immediate effect from 12 November, the company announced. HubSpot calls it a “refounding” of the company.
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Axle has raised $9M led by Eniac and Bonfire Ventures. It makes software that helps investment banks arrange meetings between investors and company management, and will add more AI agents. It says some of North America’s biggest banks use it.
Paris-based Orakl Oncology has raised a $34M Series A co-led by Norrsken VC and Singular. It grows copies of patients’ tumours in the lab, tests drugs on them and uses AI to predict trial results. It will expand into lung and gastric cancer.
Anthropic’s share sale has drawn orders for several times the shares on offer, Bloomberg reported on 11 November, citing people familiar with the matter. Large, anchor-size orders drove the demand, the people said.
Whoop is launching a social network that lets members share their sleep, recovery and workout data, but the bigger bet is on becoming more of a personal health brand, with CEO Will Ahmed hinting at acquisitions to come.
Gama, the French company building ultra-light deployable solar arrays for satellites, has raised a €15M seed round from Transition, Planet A, Draper Associates, and Manta Ray.
Anthropic now lets companies run Claude Managed Agents in their own cloud or data centre. Agent histories and credentials stay on their systems, but each model call still goes to an outside provider such as Anthropic or AWS.
J.Crew has launched Style Advisor, an AI stylist on its US website built with Anthropic’s Claude. Shoppers describe an occasion and get complete outfits from looks J.Crew’s stylists put together. Personal recommendations based on past purchases will come later.
Apple has stopped taking new posts on the Apple Support Community and will close the forum on 20 November. The site has been read-only since 10 November, according to a notice on its homepage.
Anyone who found the address of a Grok Build app could open more than 35,000 of them, security firm Claroc found in research published on 10 November. Two dozen belonged to staff at SpaceXSI, the company that makes Grok.
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