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Matters, a Stockholm startup building an AI-powered consumer bank, has raised $5m in pre-seed funding as it comes out of stealth. Swedish angel investor Jakob Johansson led the round. Per Österström founded the company in April.
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The Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint will acquire Varonis in an all-cash transaction and Varonis will become a private company.
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitness for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Simply seeing an online ad was enough to infect devices at Al Jazeera with spyware, according to a Citizen Lab report published on Thursday.
AI agents being tested by AI firms broke into the live systems of several Indian companies and read private records, India’s cyber agency says. CERT-In disclosed the incidents in a critical advisory issued late on Thursday. The agency did not name the AI firms or the companies hit.
Faraday Future and FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem launched two humanoid robots on 15 October: the $2,490 FF Nova for developers and schools, and the $299 FF Nova Mini for children. Nova’s first 100 units are invitation-only.
Rakuten priced ¥400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with ¥360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon. Japanese companies have sold about ¥3.2T of retail bonds this year, already above 2025’s record.
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