RubyPlay builds on strong growth momentum with Splash Tech acquisition

July 8, 2026

RubyPlay has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Splash Tech, marking a strategic expansion of its offering beyond content and into platform-level engagement tools. The move adds one of the industry’s strongest jackpot solutions alongside free-to-play casino and sports capabilities to RubyPlay’s wider engagement suite, which already includes free spins, rewards, missions and tournaments.

The addition of Splash Tech’s capabilities significantly strengthens RubyPlay’s offering, providing operators across regulated iGaming markets worldwide with new ways to increase ROI and revenues, and to sharpen player acquisition, engagement, retention, cross-sell and monetisation.

TensorWave Raises $350M Series B at $1.55B Valuation to Grow Its AMD Instinct AI Cloud

July 7, 2026

TensorWave has closed a $350 million Series B round at a $1.55 billion valuation to expand its AMD-based AI cloud infrastructure. The round, announced June 10, was co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, with participation from existing investors Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Partners, and Western Frontier.

The new capital will fund deployment of next-generation AMD Instinct MI355X GPU clusters optimized for memory-intensive AI workloads, including large language model training, high-throughput inference, and generative AI applications. TensorWave said the expansion aims to meet growing demand for AI compute while offering an alternative to vertically integrated GPU cloud platforms through an open, AMD-based ecosystem.

Argentina’s Uala raises $195 Million in Funding

March 11, 2026

Argentine fintech Ualá has secured $195 million in a new equity funding round led by Germany’s Allianz X, taking the company’s valuation to $3.2 billion.

Founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri, the company has rapidly evolved into one of Latin America’s most influential digital financial platforms, capitalizing on the region’s long-standing gaps in financial inclusion.

The fresh capital is expected to support Ualá’s continued expansion across Latin America. The fintech already operates in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, and is likely to use the funds to deepen its presence in these markets and enter additional countries in the region.

The Plaintiff Bar Has Weaponized AI

January 27, 2026

…Tools like Voltaire, an AI platform built specifically for insurance correspondence, represent a new category of defensive AI. These systems create draft claim letters designed to support accuracy, compliance, and consistency across adjusters and eliminate the manual gaps that AI-assisted claimants target.

Las Vegas tech CEO lands on Forbes 30 Under 30

January 1, 2026

Founder and CEO of TensorWave, Darrick Horton, 28, found his way onto the Forbes 30 Under 30 for artificial intelligence. Horton has set out on a seemingly impossible mission: to challenge NVIDIA’s dominance in the infrastructure landscape. His company TensorWave is building a cloud computing platform that only uses AMD’s chips. Founded in 2023, TensorWave has raised some $160 million in capital from asset management giant Magnetar, AMD Ventures and others. Outside of his professional work, Darrick has served as President of Engineers Without Borders and as a licensed EMT

Simple Ventures announces $15 million to bring innovation and talent back to Canada

September 23, 2025

As domestic entrepreneurship declines and many founders are tempted to move to the United States (US), Simple Ventures hopes to bring innovation and talent back to Canada.

Backed by big-name Canadian tech entrepreneurs and institutions, Simple Ventures was spun up early last year by CEO Rachel Zimmer (ex-partner at Entrepreneur First and co-founder of 5Crowd) and chair Michael Katchen (co-founder and CEO of Wealthsimple).

“As Canadians, we do two things: we take things out of the ground, and then we finance that activity,” Zimmer told BetaKit in an interview. “And if that’s the story we tell our kids and our grandkids, we are on a very scary trajectory.”

Venture firm raises $15 million from tech leaders to support new Canadian businesses

September 22, 2025

A venture firm backed by a who’s who of the tech industry says it’s raised $15 million in funding with the aim of building a new generation of Canadian companies.

Simple Ventures says the cash came from a division of TD Bank, insurer Sun Life Financial Inc., grocer Sobeys, Wealthsimple founder Mike Katchen and Shopify Inc. president Harley Finkelstein.

Rounding out the list of backers is Knix founder Joanna Griffiths, serial investors Joe Canavan and Sam Duboc and an unnamed group of Canadian angel investors and family offices.

Flawless – Time100 Most Influential Companies 2025

June 26, 2025

…Co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann and tech veteran Nick Lynes, Flawless aims to eliminate the mismatched mouth movements, lost-in-translation dialogue changes, and distracting subtitles that “pull the viewer’s eyes away from where the story is unfolding,” Mann says. The company also hopes that its consent-based approach to AI—including giving performers approval rights over edits—is a blueprint for ethical AI in filmmaking and beyond.