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EQT is a Swedish private equity and investment firm managing funds across buyout, growth, infrastructure, and real estate strategies globally.
Foreign buyers acquired 326 Japanese companies for 6.2 trillion yen from January to September, more than they spent in all of last year. The yen and a tax change get the credit, but succession sales and corporate carve-outs also feed the supply.
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The 5 billion euro fund the European Commission set up and EQT manages has made its first healthcare investment, in a Stockholm company whose three modules each carry Class IIa device certification. The valuation was not disclosed.
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Samsung led the 3bn euros at a mark above 21bn, ASML extended High NA commitments to Samsung and TSMC on schedules running out to 2033, and neither disclosure says how large Samsung's cheque actually was, which is the number this turns on.
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ElevenLabs is valued at $22 billion, double its February mark, after employees sold $300 million of shares to investors led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. Its usage evidence is a self-reported conversation count, and teams sizing voice automation still need completion rates the announcement did not include.
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Samsung has co-led a EUR 200m round for Euclyd, an Eindhoven chip company founded in 2024, and the chief executive says the Korean group's memory manufacturing and supply-chain reach matter as much as its cash.
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Mistral AI raised 3 billion euros in a Series D led by Samsung Electronics, at a post-money valuation above 21 billion euros. Buyers who choose it for data residency get a label that covers where models run, on an API priced at 11 to 19 times the open-model median.
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Samsung led the €3bn Series D at more than €21bn, a year after ASML led the €1.7bn Series C, and the European Commission's Scaleup Europe Fund co-led it. For buyers, the change shows up in supplier risk before it shows up in the product.
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By Mistral's own account, agents handed one Fortran subroutine each returned working C++ that preserved the old design, and the multi-agent run stalled on hard bugs until a human operator unblocked it and reviewed the pull requests.
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Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3bn valuation on the promise that whoever owns a problem can build the software for it. That leaves boards deciding who owns those apps once the builders move on.
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The $2.3B valuation sits on 25 people. The binding constraint is manifest space, and Starcloud-3 is designed around a vehicle its founder expects to reach commercially in 2028 or 2029.
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The continuation fund buying Lightspeed's OpenAI stake will be managed by Lightspeed. Coller Capital's cheque is the only outside check on the transfer price.
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