Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset
Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset

L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era’s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Fra…

Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line
Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line

The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has …

HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global
HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global

Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Ch…

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.
Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering raised $5.55 billion, making it the largest US tech I…

RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three startups, and investors are still queueing up
RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three startups, and investors are still queueing up

RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT, is now simultaneously running an electric vehicle manufacturer, an…

Eighteen48 raises EUR175 million to back the private equity deals no one else sees
Eighteen48 raises EUR175 million to back the private equity deals no one else sees

  Eighteen48 Partners, the London-based alternative asset manager co-founded by Julien Sevaux, Tarek AbuZayyad, and Edward Clive, has closed €175 million for the first tranche of its inaugural private equity fund. The fund is targeting €350 million in …

Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe
Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe

The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by E…

STT Global Data Centres lines up a $500m Mumbai listing, in front of a crowded 2026 IPO queue
STT Global Data Centres lines up a $500m Mumbai listing, in front of a crowded 2026 IPO queue

The Singapore-controlled, Tata-minority data-centre operator has invited banks to pitch this month. The listing would slot in ahead of Sify and Yotta in India’s first wave of pure data-centre IPOs. STT Global Data Centres India is preparing an initial …

Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do
Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do

Barclays Climate Ventures and Two Seas Capital led the British precision-liquid-cooling company’s Series B, with existing backers ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, Edinv, and British Patient Capital all returning Iceotope, the British precision-liquid-co…

Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock
Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised …