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US company Venus Aerospace has announced the close of a USD 91 million Series B financing led by Mercury Fund, a Houston-based venture capital firm, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, MESH, PEAK6, Draper Associates, Starboard Star Venture Capital, Green Sands Equity and other new and existing strategic and institutional investors. The round will fund…

Auckland startup Hyades, which helps companies build AI models from map-based data, such as satellite images, drone footage and radar, has banked a NZ$1.1 million (A$990k) pre-Seed round. The raise was led by Icehouse Ventures, supported by K1W1 and angel investors Tony Falkenstein and Tim Brown. On top of the VC investment, Hyades also scored…

IKS Health, a Dallas-based healthcare software company, completed its $557 million acquisition of TruBridge on Thursday. The deal, first announced in April, brings the Mobile, Alabama-based company — which sells EHR and revenue-cycle tools to hospitals — under IKS’ umbrella. The deal combines TruBridge’s medical record-keeping technology with IKS’ tools for handling hospital paperwork and…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. After more than a decade of bootstrapped growth, Oxylabs is taking outside capital for the first time as the rapid development of AI agents accelerates the growing demand for the web data infrastructure the company has spent years building. The Lithuania-founded technology company has received a $130…

South Korean nuclear fusion startup EternaFusion has raised roughly $1.49 million (KRW 2.3 billion) in a seed round. Company K Partners, Bluepoint Partners, and Seoul Techno Holdings participated in the round.  The proceeds will go toward proof-of-concept work and early-stage validation of EternaFusion’s proprietary current-drive technology, called Tokamak Injection. Nuclear fusion recreates the reaction that…