Private Equity 8 Hours

Last updated: July 31, 2026, 5:30 PM ET

Venture Capital and Startup Funding

Venture capital firm Index Ventures has raised $2 billion across three new funds, bringing its total available investing capital to $3.5 billion . In a significant funding round, Safe Superintelligence secured a reported $5 billion investment backed by Nvidia . Another startup, Smallest.ai, raised $13 million to develop voice AI models designed to pass the Turing test .

Private Equity Deal Activity

Sterling Group has Tangent Technologies, a manufacturer, to Platinum Equity . AEA Enterprise-backed Meritus has a distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and welding supplies . In the senior care sector, Goldman Sachs, Brightstar, and Health Wave are actively pursuing deals, driven by supply and demand imbalances is also finalizing a €1.5 billion transaction in medical packaging, influenced by sustainability trends .

Fraud in Venture-Backed Startups

New research from Imperial College and Emlyon Business School indicates that venture-backed startups are committing more fraud suggest a connection between the methods used by Silicon Valley founders to commit fraud and the role investors play in the process .