Crypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B+ in assets in September
FalconX considers IPO as cryptocurrency deals boom — FalconX, a crypto-trading firm, agreed to acquire 21shares …
Kraken acquires US-licensed futures exchange Small Exchange from IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent company's Payward stock, before an IPO
Kraken has acquired a US-licensed futures exchange from IG Group as the crypto heavyweight seeks to broaden the range of products it can offer directly to US customers.
Sources: Yahoo nears a deal to sell AOL to Italian app developer Bending Spoons for ~$1.4B; AOL.com's traffic has recently grown 20% YoY among users aged 25-54
- Bending Spoons in advanced talks to buy AOL from Yahoo, sources say — The Italian unicorn has been on an acquisition spree, may IPO
The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M-$250M
its largest deal ever —The company, which owns sites like @PlayersTribune & @FanSided, has quietly grown a massive sports tech publishing biz —Company valued at over $1B, no IPO plans right now @axios...
Sources: Nasdaq agrees to buy $50M in shares of the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange in a private placement at the time of Gemini's IPO this week
Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor …
Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, seeking at least $5B, the valuation it is targeting in a potential IPO
but talks with Coinbase and Ripple could mean a sale, sources say r/AMPToken : What does this mean for Amp/Flexa if Coinbase buys Circle?
Filing: CoreWeave secures a deal worth ~$4B to provide cloud computing capacity to OpenAI through 2029, in addition to a $12B deal announced before its IPO
The data center builder said in a filing Thursday that OpenAI will pay the sum through 2029. CoreWeave had disclosed a $4 billion deal …
Sources: Klarna has halted its planned IPO in the wake of Trump's tariffs turmoil; StubHub has also delayed its IPO plans
Klarna, the specialty lending and online payments provider, has halted its planned initial public offering, the latest IPO casualty in the wake of Trump administration's sweeping tariff announcement.
Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42
G42 also planned to buy more than 22 million shares in Cerebras. The Sunnyvale, California-based company had said the arrangement …
How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display
Even by Sebastian Siemiatkowski's standards, it's been a wild month. — The chief executive officer of buy now …