Celestial AI, an AI-accelerator company with a proprietary hardware and software platform for machine learning chipsets, has raised USD56 million in a Series A investment round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT).

WestBridge portfolio company APEM has completed its second acquisition in seven months, as it pursues ambitious growth.

Midas, a retail investing startup that gives access to US and Turkish equities in Turkey, has raised USD11 million in equity funding in a round led by Spark Capital and Earlybird Digital East Fund.

An investment consortium led by Signet Healthcare Partners, Bionpharma, Inc and GMS Capital Partners has formed Pharma Nobis to acquire Fagron’s US contract manufacturing business.

Pillow, a DeFi (decentralised finance) startup that helps generate yields on crypto, has raised USD3M in seed funding led by Elevation Capital and a host of prominent crypto angels, including Scott Lewis (Co-founder, DeFi Pulse), JD Kanani & Sandeep Nailwal (Co-founders, Polygon), Prabhakar Reddy (Co-founder, FalconX), and Aniket Jindal (Co-founder,

A CC Capital Partners-led investor group is looking to acquire market-research firm Information Resources Inc (IRI), according to a report by Bloomberg.