Startups Weekly: Wiz’s commitment was worth a week rich in M&A

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It is rare to inform about a 11 -digit starting acquisition, much less multiple high value agreements in a single week. And there are more subtle signs that things are surprisingly optimistic in the starting earth.

More interesting starting stories of the week

This week brought us some acquisitions, new startups and sometimes heated rivalries.

Bet worthwhile: Last year he took some nervous nerve to get away from the offer of $ 23 billion of Google, but it was worth it. Google Now agreed to pay a record of $ 32 billion in cash to buy the start of cloud security, plus another $ 1 billion in retention bonds.

This exit will be a great liquidity event for many, but particularly for VC Cybersarts, based in Israel, which will obtain a massive return of 200x of its early investment in Wiz.

Amped: SoftBank Group will acquire the calculation of chips start amps in a $ 6.5 billion agreement for all in cash that is expected to be closed in the second half of 2025.

Reinsurance: Insurtech Startup The next insurance is being acquired by the Munich Re of Germany for $ 2.6 billion.

Synthetic dreams: According to the reports, NVIDIA acquired the Synthetic data startup Gretel for a nine -digit price label that exceeds its last valuation of $ 320 million.

Bits and bolts: The former Startup Bolt CEO of a single click is launching a new electronic commerce startup. Spangle ai, as it is called, creates personalized destination pages for buyers based on what they were looking for or clicking.

Generalist robots: A Deepmind senior research scientist left Google to create a generalist AI, a stearly stertup of stealthy robotics who is already backed by NVIDIA, with the ambition “to realize the general use robots.”

Replaced: Shortly after his presentation as IPO, Klarna, Swedish, Klarna announced that he would now be Walmart’s exclusive BNPL partner instead of the statement of the competition.

Freightnemies: Logistics Unicorn Flexport is demanding two former employees who formed their competitive iron company, AI, claiming that they stole documents and code, which the couple denies strongly.

Human Resources drama: The Rippling Human Resources Company is demanding the competitor of the in a demand centered largely on an employee who states that Rippleing was working as a spy for Deel. Deel denied the accusations.

VC news and more interesting financing this week

Here are some financing news that, perhaps unexpectedly, hints confidence this week.

European cloud: Evro, a Swedish startup with the objective of building “clouds of safe, sovereign and sustainable hypersal

No dilution: The Spanish unicorn factorial of HR obtained $ 120 million from Catalyst General. This is not capital or risk debt, but rather a noilutive loan.

Assistance program: Graphite, a AI code review platform, said a $ 52 million series round directed by Accel, with the participation of the Anthrope Fund of Anthrope and others.

Ai-Hunger: The Startup of Electronic Commerce of Foods Grubmarket collected a capital round of the G series of $ 50 million to an assessment after money from more than $ 3.5 billion and said it will finance the implementation of more technology, including AI.

Optimistic: The VC firm of VC focused on Fintech is raising $ 500 million for a new fund in another positive signal for the sector.

Climatic investments: Just Climate, a branch of Al Gore’s generation investment management, raised $ 175 million from the Microsoft and Volest Climate Innovation Fund.

Last but not least

Shortly after the day of demonstration of the W25 of and Combinator and a couple of weeks before its spring lot, the accelerator announced the game at once CEO Michael Seibel, which had already made a transition to a less operative group role and now it will simply be a “socio -emerit.