Week in Review

September 21, 2026September 27, 2026

22
Stories
$88M
Tracked Funding
5
Categories
Google
Most Covered (3)

Top Stories

1
FUNDING$10M Series ASep 21

Sprive Raises $10M Series A For Mortgage Overpayment App

Sprive raised a $10 million Series A led by Wealth Club, Active Partners and Rank Ventures to grow its cashback-funded mortgage-overpayment app, which now supports £42 billion of UK mortgages for 567,000 users.

2
FUNDING$18M debt (additional)Sep 21

Spiro Secures $18M More In Debt For African E-Mobility

Spiro secured an additional $18 million in debt financing from the Africa Go Green Fund, taking AGG's total commitment to $36 million, to expand electric-motorcycle and battery-swap infrastructure in Uganda and Rwanda.

3
FUNDING$35M pre-Series CSep 21

Paymob Raises $35M Pre-Series C For MENA Payments Push

Paymob raised a $35 million pre-Series C co-led by Mubadala and the EBRD to expand its MENA payments platform, as its Gulf revenue grew sevenfold in 18 months and now accounts for roughly half of total revenue.

4
BIG TECH$110.9B mergerSep 21

Paramount Settles State Suits, Clears $110B WBD Deal

Paramount Skydance settled antitrust suits with California and eleven other states over its $110.9 billion Warner Bros Discovery deal, agreeing to independent editorial boards for CNN and CBS.

5
FUNDING€49M Series ESep 21

Amber Electric Raises €49M To Expand Automated Home Batteries

Amber Electric raised a €49 million Series E led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management's 1GT climate strategy to expand its automated home-battery and energy-retail model from Australia, where it holds over 50% share, into Europe and the US.

6
BIG TECH$75.7M purchaseSep 21

Strategy Buys Bitcoin Again As Rally Tops $85,000

Michael Saylor's Strategy purchased 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million as the price rallied above $85,000, its highest level since January, marking the company's first new purchase since a weeks-long pause in buying.

7
IPO$2.2B IPO / $15.62B valuationSep 21

Oura's $2.2B IPO Is Mostly A Payday For Insiders

Oura set terms to raise up to $2.2 billion at a $15.62 billion valuation, but 36.5 million of the 50 million shares on offer are being sold by existing investors and employees, not the company.

Biggest Deal of the Week
$110.9B merger
Paramount Settles State Suits, Clears $110B WBD Deal

Coverage by Category

FUNDING
6
27%
BIG TECH
6
27%
AI
5
23%
REGULATION
3
14%
IPO
2
9%

All 22 Stories

DateCategoryHeadlineAmountSource
Sep 21FUNDINGSprive Raises $10M Series A For Mortgage Overpayment App$10M Series AFinextra
Sep 21FUNDINGSpiro Secures $18M More In Debt For African E-Mobility$18M debt (additional)EVreporter
Sep 21FUNDINGPaymob Raises $35M Pre-Series C For MENA Payments Push$35M pre-Series CWamda
Sep 21BIG TECHParamount Settles State Suits, Clears $110B WBD Deal$110.9B mergerBloomberg
Sep 21FUNDINGAmber Electric Raises €49M To Expand Automated Home Batteries€49M Series ECapital Brief
Sep 21BIG TECHStrategy Buys Bitcoin Again As Rally Tops $85,000$75.7M purchaseBloomberg
Sep 21IPOOura's $2.2B IPO Is Mostly A Payday For Insiders$2.2B IPO / $15.62B valuationTechCrunch
Sep 21BIG TECHApple's $250M Siri Settlement Opens To iPhone Owners$250M settlement9to5Mac
Sep 21BIG TECHCrowdStrike, Okta Trade Rich On An Unproven AI PayoffThe Information
Sep 21FUNDINGA Rare Quiet Week For AI MegadealsPulse Funding Tracker
Sep 21REGULATIONTrump Rejects AI Slowdown, Vows New 'AI Force'Axios
Sep 21FUNDINGCorridor Raises $25M To Rebuild SMB Health Benefits$25M seedTechCrunch
Sep 21BIG TECHGoogle's $899 Googlebook Bets You'll Upgrade For Gemini$899+TechCrunch
Sep 21AIOpenAI, Anthropic Near Deal To Stress-Test Rival AIThe Information
Sep 21IPOADARx Sets Terms For $350M IPO, AbbVie Buys In$350M IPOBloomberg
Sep 21BIG TECHAmazon Locks Out Meta's Muse Shopping AgentGeekWire
Sep 21AIThe Real Cost Of AI Tokens Is Nothing Like The List PriceHPCwire
Sep 21AIOpenAI Builds Features To Counter Grok Bot And MuseThe Information
Sep 21REGULATIONGoogle Fined $463M By EU Over Location Data Practices€403M ($463M) fineTech Startups
Sep 21AIDeepSeek Bets 160,000 Huawei Chips On Beating Export CurbsThe Information
Sep 21REGULATIONUS Pitches China An AI Risk Alert SystemCNN
Sep 21AIGoogle Confirms Gemini Breached Three Companies In MayCNBC

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