@kurtsh@mastodon.social"Private equity believes Americans will pay anything to save their pets."
- The rise of Big Vet
▶️ Wall Street's Shocking Plan For America's Pets - More Perfect Union
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Po6muzvQgEk&si=LGhx3dY2u6Yw2kEt
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSlice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60 countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)
https://www.thisweekinfintech.com/slice-ra
@brichapman@mastodon.socialGermany just committed €3 billion to help lower-income families afford electric vehicles. This is a game-changer for EV accessibility—making clean transportation a reality for people who've been priced out of the electric transition. It's not just about climate goals anymore; it's about equity.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US SEC clarifies its tokenized stock rules, saying they are subject to securities and derivatives rules and issuer approval is required for true ownership (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/29
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialI guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eaad78f4-b52c-4116-ad1b-3e79694ebeed
@servelan@newsie.socialSanders Slams Private Equity Scrooges Ending Paid Holidays for Walgreens Workers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-walgreen-workers
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMembers of UK performing arts union Equity vote overwhelmingly in favor of refusing to be scanned while on set to prevent their likeness being used by AI (Lanre Bakare/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@UP8@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialEU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@markhburton@mstdn.socialChancellor of the Exchequer Reeves with not one but 2 imperial flags and the lectern slogan, "Strong Foundations | Secure Future", neither of which can be claimed in any sense, either as the present reality or as the result of whatever 'tough choices' she will trail.
The only tough choices that matter are to reduce material and energy usage coupled with a massive redistribution of wealth to secure a 'strong foundation' of security and equity, in terms of ecolog…
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.socialProfitmaschine Pflegeheime
Senevita gehört Tertianum. Tertianum gehört Capvis AG. Die Private-Equity-Firma Capvis in Baar macht mit der #Altenpflege Geld.
#Pflege #Kapital
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/exclusive-cubby-raises-63-million…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRedBird Capital drops its £500M bid for the Telegraph Media Group, after intense pressure from the Telegraph newsroom and allies over the group's links to China (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/14/redbird-ca…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIsrael-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk00v9g9e11g
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaNow that the Vondelkerk has burned down, they can finally bulldoze the site and build high-rise luxury housing in central Amsterdam to sell to foreign investors and private equity. It's a great opportunity for the market!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are "on schedule" and Related Digital will be its development partner (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@boris@cosocial.caIn Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating.
It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.
Very excited to see!
https://gandersocial.ca/blog/just-giver-why-were-inviting-canadians…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSamba TV raised up to $60M in venture debt to scale through acquisitions and new AI-powered measurement tools; Samba previously raised $69M in equity funding (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/samba-tv-measurement-venture-debt
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGeneral Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: DMGT has locked down funding for its £500M acquisition of the Telegraph, in a funding package expected to comprise equity and debt (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/beff1427-c291-496b-8823-457f01e293f8
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDutch government has let all messages within the judicial system run via Solvinity, a company now about to be sold by a UK-based private equity firm to US-based Kyndryl. Which brings the data within reach of the Trump regime.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMarketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@cdarwin@c.imWhy donate to SEEC PAC?
The Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition Political Action Committee
exists to support SEEC members in Congress and candidates who fight for clean energy, climate change solutions, environmental justice, and protection of our nation’s clean air, water, wildlife, and natural environment.
https://seecpac.org/<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUniversal Music India acquires a 30% equity stake in Mumbai-based Excel Entertainment in a deal valuing the Indian production house at $290M (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe University of Alabama suspends two student-run magazines, one focused on Black students and another on women's issues, citing federal anti-DEI guidance (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/university-of-alabama-dei-tru…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/warren-buffetts-berkshir…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-agrees-buy-ai-healthcare-app-1…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSnap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTebra, which offers practice management tools for private healthcare providers, raised $250M led by Hildred, mostly in equity, to accelerate its AI capabilities (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/12/tebra-receives-250m-in-funding.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBlockchain-based lender Figure unveils the On-Chain Public Equity Network to issue, trade, and lend stocks natively on a blockchain, not as tokenized replicas (Kyle Baird/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/385595/figure-onchain-equi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ch
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others (Denise Wee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which helps spot abnormal cloud infrastructure behavior, raised $75M led by Evolution Equity, taking its total funding to $120M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI told staff it was ending the six-month "vesting cliff" that required new employees to work for at least six months before their equity vests (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/fireblocks-tres-finance-acquisition-130-million/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-reserves-50-billion-sto…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBrookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-administration-to…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBeacon Software, which buys niche software businesses and uses AI to transform them, raised a $250M Series B led by GC, Lightspeed, and D1 at a $1B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/beacon-…
