Important News Overnight and This Morning (May 21–May 22)
Summary
This digest aggregates multiple tech and crypto developments across funding, product launches, regulatory moves and corporate actions. Manus founders plan to raise about $1 billion to repurchase the agentic AI business from Meta and pursue a Hong Kong listing while negotiating complex separation issues. MoonPay acquired cross-chain routing firm Decent and launched MoonPay Trade, a unified institutional on-chain trading API, while Blockchain.com filed a confidential S-1 for a US IPO. AI startup Hark closed a >$700M Series A at a $6B valuation to build a personal AI assistant with custom hardware, and the US Commerce Department awarded $2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies, taking equity stakes as part of the initiative.
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industries
Fintech & Banking
applications
Accounting and Taxes
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AI Software
Developer Tools
MLOps
Linked Companies
NVIDIA Corporation
$1B+
AMD
$25M to $50M
Blockchain
$10M to $25M
Securitize, Inc.
$25M to $50M
SendHark
$1M to $5M
MoonPay
$50M to $100M
Foundation Devices, Inc.
$1M to $5M
Cycles
$1M to $5M