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Newest story built on startup.eu reporting: Intuit pays a reported $200 million for Sequence, five times the capital the startup raised (October 16, 2026). startup.eu reporting informs the Invest, Leadership, and Product desks, most often on AI Agents, AI data centre networking, and AI Penetration Testing. 7 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from October 6, 2026.
Intuit is buying London-founded Sequence to add billing and revenue recognition to QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite. The Times put the price near $200 million, Tech.eu reported, about five times the roughly $40 million Sequence raised.
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Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33, a $330 million private placement that lifts its stake to 4%. CNBC reported the shares rose 35% on the filing, so the $33 price was set before the market reacted.
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Salience Labs, an Oxford chip startup, raised $125m in a Series B led by Bullhound Capital that included AMD Ventures and Intel Capital. City AM reports the switches could reduce power consumption but gives no measured figure.
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Causa Prima raised a $20 million seed round led by Base10 Partners for software agents that resolve billing disputes between companies. Fortune reported that it earns a cut only on negotiated early payments and declined to disclose a valuation.
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Universal Quantum, a University of Sussex spin-out, raised more than $100 million in a Series A co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures. The money goes into commercialising hardware at a company already delivering a $77 million contract for Germany's DLR, startup.eu reported.
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Amsterdam's Hadrian raised $40 million, bringing its total funding to $65 million, to sell exposure monitoring and AI-run penetration tests as one platform. For the security team asked to buy it, the case comes down to sorting real flaws from scanner noise, and almost every number behind that case comes from Hadrian.
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Spiko, a Paris issuer of tokenized money market funds, raised a $90 million Series B led by NEA after reaching about $2.6 billion in assets. The figures put Spiko at the front of Europe's tokenized fund issuers and show little so far about whether it can win cash away from incumbents such as BlackRock.
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