Venture Dispatch

Ecosystems

  1. DOJ clears Paramount’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions
  2. OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO
  3. 80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes
  4. Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
  5. Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
  6. SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
  7. UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
  8. US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
  9. OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt
  10. Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists
  11. Shield AI raises $2 billion to scale its autonomous combat pilot Hivemind
  12. Automate ISO 27001, SOC 2, and DORA compliance with expert CISO support, starting at -2,999/year
  13. Herbalife acquires Bioniq in a deal worth up to $150M
  14. Uber, Pony.ai, and Rimac’s Verne announce Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service
  15. OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform
  16. Giraffe360 raises $10M Series B to expand AI property media platform
  17. SOUS raises €4M to power culinary entrepreneurs