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Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/30/76-european-deep-tech-uni…

Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025 | TechCrunch
According to Dealroom’s European Spinout Report 2025, 76 European deep tech and life sciences spinouts have either reached $1 billion valuations, $100 million in revenue, or both.

SpaceX and Blue Origin both submitted plans to get astronauts back to the moon faster: #Artemis

US Spends Millions on Warehouses in Historic Expansion of ICE Detention (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p110#a260129p110

Reminder: Ihr könnt jetzt noch schnell für gemeinnützige und für Diskurs, Kultur und allgemeines Nicht-Verrücktwerden wichtige Vereine #spenden. Viele haben durch immer strenger werdende Auflagen und die allgemeinen Kostensteigerungen kein gutes Jahr hinter sich - jeder Euro zählt. Und falls ihr Steuern in relevanter Höhe zahlt: Spenden an viele Vereine lassen absetzen.

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli

California Crypto Billionaires Plan to Spend Tens of Millions on Moderate Candidates
Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.

Democrats Block Spending Package as D.H.S. Talks Continue (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/politics/democrats-dhs-spending.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p99#a260129p99

Some Republicans Lament the Spending Deal Trump Has Blessed (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/senate-republicans-trump-spending-bill.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p131#a260130p131

In their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/b…

White House bullish on economic growth as Thanksgiving spending rises (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/white-house-economic-growth-thanksgiving-spending-00671109
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p38#a251130p38

Trump, Schumer reach government funding deal, sacrifice DHS spending bill in the process (Alex Miller/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-schumer-reach-government-funding-deal-sacrifice-dhs-spending-bill-process
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p134#a260129p134