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Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange raised $155M, pushing total funding to $430M, after pulling its first listings off Nasdaq and giving the NYSE-Nasdaq duopoly a credible third rival.
Dave Duffield built PeopleSoft and Workday. His third act, Ridgeline, just raised $250M at a $1.425B valuation to replace the six-to-nine legacy systems running the back office of asset managers with one AI-native platform.
A $115B fintech giant got breached without a line of malware: an attacker spoofed a real government email domain, and Revolut mailed back passports, selfies, IBANs, and full Bitcoin transaction histories.
Miami's Felix closed a $200M Series C led by a16z and General Catalyst at a ~$1.4B valuation, moving $8B in remittances for 6M+ users through a WhatsApp chat.
Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and bought agentic-AI startup Fravity to fight machine-speed fraud with AI agents of its own.
Stripe is paying more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, a ~50-person startup that routes 400+ AI models and skims about 5% off every request. Here's why the payments giant just bought the AI tollbooth.
Erebor, Palmer Luckey's crypto-friendly startup bank, nearly quadrupled deposits to $4.05B in a quarter and is raising $1.5B at an $8B valuation. The SVB-shaped hole, filled fast.
Stripe never went public — now it and Advent International are bidding $53 billion ($60.50/share, a 28% premium) to take PayPal private. The real prize: Venmo.
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