Deals - SiliconSnark (Page 11)

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Lovable Raises More Money to Vibe Even Harder

Lovable Raises $200M to Become Europe’s First Vibe Coding Unicorn

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CoreWeave Buys the Plug: $9B Deal Sparks AI Power Grab

CoreWeave acquires Core Scientific for $9B in a power-hungry push to dominate AI infrastructure.

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Florida Man Sells Quantum Lasers to China, Still Can't Explain What They Do

Orlando-based tech octopus ships laser gizmos to Shanghai for science, probably not for world domination.

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SkyWater Turns Vintage Chip Plant into ‘Open-Access’ Savior of U.S. Manufacturing

SkyWater rebrands an aging chip fab as a cornerstone of national security, proving that with enough buzzwords and debt, even legacy silicon can shine.

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Xero Drops $2.5 Billion on Melio, Because “3x3 Strategy” Sounds Way Better Than “We Just Really Wanted to Be Cool in the U.S.”

Xero is acquiring U.S. bill pay platform Melio for a casual $2.5 billion, or as it’s known in startup land, “a Series Z round in disguise.”

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Chime IPO: The Neobank That Prints Money Without Being a Bank

Chime filed to go public with an S-1 that’s equal parts alphabet soup and fintech fever dream.

Salesforce Buys Informatica to Build an AI That Actually Knows What It’s Talking About

Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8B to boost agentic AI, metadata, and data governance. Here’s why Marc Benioff is betting big on context.

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eToro Lists on Nasdaq: Now You Too Can Buy the Hype and Hold the Bag

eToro is officially IPO-ing at $52 per share, because clearly the market was missing one more way for retail investors to feel clever before being humbled.

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Yamaha Launches $50M Music Innovation Fund, Because What’s a 137-Year-Old Piano Company Without a VC Arm?

Yamaha’s gone full Silicon Valley with a shiny new $50M music tech VC fund. Because why just make pianos when you can make portfolio companies?

SignalFire Raises $1B to Let AI Replace Gut Instincts in Venture Capital

SignalFire raises $1 billion for a new AI-focused venture capital fund backing applied AI startups, even as markets cool. Here’s how it plans to invest.

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Elon Announces Acquisition of X by xAI on X, Breaking the Space-Time Continuity

A snarky take on Elon Musk’s latest bid to collapse the universe into a recursive branding singularity of X.

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TechCrunch Got Acquired Again, So We Did a Pitch Deck Teardown Of Their Press Release

Pour one out for the Disrupt-branded hoodies and whatever shred of independence TechCrunch still had left in the Yahoo basement. The tech media institution just got scooped up by yet another private equity firm.

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