1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1128+ words) Francisco Partners and KKR have agreed terms to acquire minority stakes in Italian business software company TeamSystem from majority shareholder Hellman & Friedman, in a transaction valuing the company at between €8 billion and €10 billion, according to Reuters. Francisco Partners is expected…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (303+ words) Discovery Loop, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Jeff Dean, a former chief scientist at Google, is seeking to raise funds again at a valuation of $50 billion. According to the report, the terms of the deal remain subject to…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (468+ words) It's time to add another word to the founder dictionary. The term "LARP" started as an acronym for live action role play. LARPers wore costumes and adopted characters, imagining a video game-like world in real life. Then the internet adopted…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (26+ words) Gary Anderson joined the firm at the beginning of September after previously serving as CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners from 2024 to 2025....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (438+ words) In August, the Financial Times reported that Apple had started capping how many vulnerability reports individual researchers could submit to its bug bounty program, after a wave of fabricated findings — what security researchers now call “AI slop” — overwhelmed Apple’s review…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (539+ words) Beelzebub has raised €3 mn in a seed funding round led by United Ventures. The financing brings total funding to €3.3 mn following an earlier €300,000 pre-seed round. The Milan-based company develops an AI-native cybersecurity platform designed to detect and respond to attacks…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (141+ words) FinSMEs Carputty Closes Series B Funding Carputty, an Atlanta, GA-based fintech company optimizing vehicle financing and ownership, closed its Series B financing. Backers included TTV Capital, Fontinalis Partners, and Kickstart Fund. The raise brought the total amount to over $40M. The…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (59+ words) Telecompaper Cybersecurity company ZeroRisk raises USD 10 million Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk has raised Series A funding of USD 10 million (EUR 8.6 million), reports the Irish Times. This will be used to support its worldwide expansion, project development, expansion of its workforce,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (118+ words) DLA Piper Enlists Venture Capital Lawyer Brittany Turner in SF Bloomberg Law News Brittany Turner joined DLA Piper as a partner in its emerging growth and venture capital practice in San Francisco, the firm announced Wednesday. Turner advises venture capital…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (224+ words) Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk has raised $10 million (€8.6 million) in funding to support its global expansion. The series-A funding will also be used for product development, expanding its team and support its deployment with major payment providers. The round was led…...