NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money

Most startups raise money because they need it. NinjaOne has just raised more than $400m to make the opposite point. The Austin-based IT-operations company said on Tuesday that a fresh round of Series [...]

The Netherlands is screening foreign investment in AI companies from January, after letting Nexperia slip through

The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of compani [...]

How AI is powering the next wave of micro-SaaS entrepreneurs

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how software businesses are built, launched, and scaled. In particular, it is driving a surge in micro-SaaS startups, small, highly focused software-as-a-service c [...]

BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets

The IPO filings by SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have created a pipeline of US tech offerings worth approximately $3.6 trillion. That wave is going to generate appetite for European tech deals too, ac [...]

A startup that builds offensive cyber weapons just became a $1bn unicorn

Most cybersecurity startups sell shields. Twenty sells the sword, and investors just valued that at $1bn. The company, which describes itself as America’s first venture-backed cyber warfare firm, ha [...]

'We've proven that carbon removal technology can work': Google, Anthropic, Salesforce and others pledge nearly $1 billion on new environmental push

Google, Anthropic and others commit to buying future carbon removal credits to help today's startups get funding. [...]