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Newest story built on tech.eu reporting: Intuit pays a reported $200 million for Sequence, five times the capital the startup raised (October 16, 2026). tech.eu reporting informs the Invest, Product, Build, and Leadership desks, most often on AI Venture Funding, Cybersecurity Venture Funding, and European AI sovereignty. 28 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from September 2, 2026.
Intuit is buying London-founded Sequence to add billing and revenue recognition to QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite. The Times put the price near $200 million, Tech.eu reported, about five times the roughly $40 million Sequence raised.
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Nvidia values its UK AI safety pledge at $250 million of compute over five years, about $50 million a year, none of it cash. It also named five UK startups for planned stakes, including Boltz, Foresight and Hiverge.
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Nvidia expects to unveil $2 billion of European AI deals within a week, on top of $8 billion over the past year, Jensen Huang said in Paris. The four Paris stakes came without disclosed terms, so the $10 billion cannot be sorted into equity and other money.
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Salience Labs, an Oxford chip startup, raised $125m in a Series B led by Bullhound Capital that included AMD Ventures and Intel Capital. City AM reports the switches could reduce power consumption but gives no measured figure.
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Causa Prima raised a $20 million seed round led by Base10 Partners for software agents that resolve billing disputes between companies. Fortune reported that it earns a cut only on negotiated early payments and declined to disclose a valuation.
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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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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said on October 6th that the company's newest model beats unnamed Chinese rivals on cybersecurity. He gave no tests or scores with the claim, so buyers looking for a supplier outside the US and China cannot yet use it to choose one.
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Oura postponed its Nasdaq IPO in the week it was slated to list, while reporting a profit and projecting 90% revenue growth for fiscal 2026. Bloomberg ties a run of delayed deals to a market waiting on Anthropic, so the test for Oura is whether it comes back on the same terms after that listing.
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Universal Quantum, a University of Sussex spin-out, raised more than $100 million in a Series A co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures. The money goes into commercialising hardware at a company already delivering a $77 million contract for Germany's DLR, startup.eu reported.
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The $12.93 billion price works out to roughly $4,300 per model and $862,000 per integrating enterprise. The asset those numbers describe is the default place teams go for weights they could copy anywhere.
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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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Amsterdam's Hadrian raised $40 million, bringing its total funding to $65 million, to sell exposure monitoring and AI-run penetration tests as one platform. For the security team asked to buy it, the case comes down to sorting real flaws from scanner noise, and almost every number behind that case comes from Hadrian.
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ElevenLabs' $300 million employee tender, led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, values the London voice AI firm at $22 billion, double its February price. The company raises no new cash, so the doubled price comes from roughly 1.4% of its stock changing hands.
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Spiko, a Paris issuer of tokenized money market funds, raised a $90 million Series B led by NEA after reaching about $2.6 billion in assets. The figures put Spiko at the front of Europe's tokenized fund issuers and show little so far about whether it can win cash away from incumbents such as BlackRock.
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Verda's $189 million Series B puts its valuation above $1 billion on a $165 million annualised run rate, or about 0.28% of the AI cloud infrastructure market it says it undercuts by up to 90%.
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Restate, the Berlin startup built by Apache Flink's creators, raised a $20 million Series A led by Singular, lifting its total funding to $27 million. The money pays for engineers and a San Francisco commercial hub to sell software that lets AI agents resume work after a crash.
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Rome's Exein says its valuation is up thirtyfold in two years and first-half recurring revenue up fourfold, and its first foundation models are due in the first quarter of 2027, two quarters after the round closed.
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Nearly ninety percent of the money this company has ever raised arrived in one round. What the syndicate got to underwrite was a customer list rather than a disclosed revenue line.
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A 50-person Paris company with more than 30 clients has convinced Bpifrance's defence fund and Xavier Niel that the way to compete with American compute is to change the mathematics rather than match the budget.
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Unit1 Studio has raised £20 million in equity and production money for avatar concerts it says cost a fraction of ABBA Voyage's £140 million. Its evidence so far is a demonstration show moved between two London venues in four days.
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