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This week showed more optimism among startups than in other corners of the world, with entrepreneurs full of confidence to obtain other companies, raise new financing and even say no to more money.

The most interesting boot stories out of the week

Not quite four weddings and a funeral, but almost.

Hinge: Hinge Health, a virtual physical therapy that technology uses to treat chronic musculoskeletal conditions, submitted to publicly and hopes to raise up to $ 500 million through this offer.

Diligence: Fervo Energy, a well -financed startup that works with Google at a first -class geothermal power station, is reportedly planning after the bursary trading within the next two years.

Selected: Peak.ai, a startup founded in Manchester, England, which builds ‘decision -making’ AI, was obtained by UIPATH, the now Public Robotic Process Automation (RPA) business. Peak raised $ 121 million, including a $ 75 million round supported by Softbank in 2021.

Butterfly -effect: Manus, the ‘Agentic’ AI platform launched by Chinese Startup Butterfly Effect, delivers a large amount of buzzing, although some early users have warned that it is no wonderful, writes TechCrunch’s newly appointed AI editor Kyle Wiggers. But the butterfly effect is still there: the use of browser, one of the tools that manus uses, also becomes viral.

The end: Swedish battery manufacturing Startup North volt applied for bankruptcy in Sweden this week. It has already applied for Chapter 11 banking in the US in November.

The most interesting VC and financing news this week

Many transactions, but also another week in which the rounds’ size does not tell the round’s letter.

Ditto: San Francisco-based startup Ditto raised a series B of $ 82 million B on a $ 462 million valuation to make sure that corporate customers can gain access to data on Edge devices, even if connectivity is unstable.

Good karma: Nirvana, an AI-based insurance platform that uses telematic data to build and manage insurance policies for trucks, raised a $ 80 million financing round in a $ 830 million valuation.

Bi: Omni, an operating intelligence platform that helps organizations analyze their data better, has closed a range of $ 69 million. The company also expects its annual recurring turnover to triple this year, rising from almost $ 10 million.

Pentest: Pentera, a startup of cyber security founded in Tel Aviv, but now based in Boston, raised a series of $ 60 million D at a valuation of more than $ 1 billion. It plans to use the financing for M&A and product development.

Problem Zolved: Zolve, a Neobank for highly competent foreigners who moved to the US without credit history, raised $ 51 million to equity for its series B round. It also has $ 200 million in debt and plans to import new geographical areas.

New name, new money: Estonia-based startup Blackwall, formerly known as Botguard, collected a series of € 45 million B (about $ 49.2 million) to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic via the host platforms and other service providers.

Predictive maintenance: Indian boot Infinite Uptime, which helps factories optimize the use of equipment thanks to a sensor-based predictive maintenance solution, raised a $ 35 million C funding financing round to expand to the US and other markets.

Italians do it better? The early stage Italian VC firm Vento launches a € 75 million fund to support Italian founders of the beginning, including those living abroad. This is Vento’s second fund; The portfolio already contains about 100 startups.

Last but not the least

According to a regular participant, the latest Demo Day’s latest demo day was a ‘vibe’. Terrence Rohan, an investor with another fund investing in Y Kombinator since 2010, has noted that it is now common to see that founders are raising less money -and not due to a lack of VC interest. It has elicited discussion whether it is a good idea.