Spotify Finished 2025 on a High Note

In its Q4 earnings report, the audio streaming service said it’s gained 38 million monthly active users (MAU) and nine million paying subscribers since its last quarter. Spotify now has 751 million MAUs and 290 million subscribers globally.

Tem raises $75 M to automate energy markets with AI-first platform

London-based energy software company Tem has closed a $75 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with additional funding from AlbionVC, Atomico, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital, Voyager Ventures, Allianz, and others.

Crypto.com laid off 260 employees

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How Flippa Is Removing the Language Barrier from Global Deal-Making

For decades, access to high-quality deal flow and sophisticated M&A infrastructure has been largely designed for well-connected investors and industry giants. Small businesses and independent founders, particularly those operating outside English-speaking markets, may often find the barriers even higher. Language, geography, and limited access to networks could mean that opportunity stops at the border.

Ben Sibbald

Hahnair’s Head of Payments, Ben Sibbald, discusses how the leader in airline distribution is transforming payment into a strategic pillar across 190 market

Kembara Closes €750M First Close to Fuel Growth of European Deep Tech Startups

Europe’s largest dedicated deep tech growth fund has taken a major step forward after closing the first tranche of its fundraising effort at €750 million.

Is the SpaceX / xAI / X public offering just going to be a bailout funded by index funds?

Maybe combining Musk’s companies is really about space AI data centers. But reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal indicate that SpaceX’s IPO pursuit includes a push to have major index providers find a way around the usual waiting periods before they’ll add newly listed companies.

AI SRE Resolve AI confirms $125M raise, unicorn valuation

The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.

Bye-bye corporate conglomerates. Hello personal conglomerates.

Elon Musk's reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla harkens back to the heyday of General Electric — or maybe the robber barons of the Gilded Age.

How Deloitte Deploys AI for Industrial Carbon Capture

Daniel Gribbin, Director of Sustainability at Deloitte Middle East, guides clients to leverage AI and hydrogen technologies to accelerate net zero goals

Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent

More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025

The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.