Financial Updates – Page 7 – Financial Updates

AI Investment in 2025 Is Becoming Riskier: Megadeals, Geography & What’s at Stake

AI dominates 2025 venture funding, with a han...

North America, especially the Bay Area, captu...

Capital is concentrated in fewer, larger late...

Strategic and non-traditional investors power...

Penn Launches $10M Fund to Fuel Faculty Spinouts & Boost Philly Tech Growth

Americas Tech Technology

Penn has launched a $10 million StartUP Fund,...

The fund offers up to $250,000 per startup vi...

It fills a pre-Series A funding gap for unive...

The fund enters a rebounding but still tight ...

Broadcom’s Stock Drops But Morgan Stanley Sees $462 Target on AI Demand & Margin Risks

Americas Markets Technology

TheStreet’s headline is misleading, as Morgan...

Broadcom beat Q4 expectations and guided Q1 r...

Management warned of about 100 basis points o...

Broadcom shares fell roughly 11% on margin fe...

Huge US TMT M&A Boom in 2024: Software Leads in Deal Value Despite Fewer Transactions

Americas M&A Technology

The U.S. TMT sector was the second-largest in...

TMT led all sectors by deal value at roughly ...

Within TMT, technology—especially software—do...

Overall TMT deal volume fell from 2023, but a...

Standard Bank’s $138M Boost for Safaricom Ethiopia Spawns Digital Opportunity

Global Firms Telecom

Standard Bank has provided a USD 138 million ...

The bank is sole arranger, lender, facility a...

STEP has grown to 10.1 million active custome...

The funding underpins Ethiopia’s broader push...

KANZHUN Strengthens Leadership & Board Governance in China Tech Pivot

Asia Firms Technology

Kanzhun Limited announced board and senior ma...

Xu Chen was promoted from Chief Marketing Off...

Independent director Hongyu Liu assumed leade...

These leadership and committee shifts align w...

How STMicroelectronics’ €500M EIB Tranche Fuels Europe’s Tech Sovereignty

Europe Policy & Regulation Technology

STMicroelectronics secured a €500 million fir...

About 60% of the funds will expand high-volum...

This is the ninth EIB financing for ST since ...

The funding eases capex pressure but comes am...

STMicro-EIB Credit Deal Spurs Europe’s Semiconductor Push and Strategic Autonomy

Europe Firms Technology

STMicroelectronics secured a €1 billion credi...

About 60% of the funds will expand high-volum...

This ninth EIB-ST deal brings total financing...

The financing advances EU goals for semicondu...

EU Pledges €20B for AI Gigafactories: Scaling Compute, Control, and Capital

Europe Policy & Regulation Technology

Gist On 4 December 2025, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to back the development of up to five AI “gigafactories” in the EU via the InvestAI programme, mobilising €20 billion for the infrastructure build-out. [1][2][3] Each proposed gigafactory will host about 100,000 advanced AI …

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Bank of America Splits TMT Leadership: Co-Heads Rise in Tech & Media/Telecom

Americas Firms Technology

Bank of America has restructured its TMT inve...

Matthew Sharnoff and Johnny Williams will co-...

The changes follow the departure of former gl...

This leadership shift aligns with BofA’s broa...