Monthly report · October 2026
Startups news in October 2026
Startups coverage in October 2026: 1 news event, drawn from 2 outlet reports.
Few events were recorded on the desk this month: GetYourBrief's intake of reports was interrupted, so the count reflects the record, not how much news there was, and it is not compared with other months.
- news events1
- outlet reports2
- days with news6
How many events, day by day?
The week of September 28 to October 4, 2026: 0 events
A quiet week on the desk, so its events are kept here in full rather than in a week brief.
The week of October 5 to 11, 2026: 0 events
A quiet week on the desk, so its events are kept here in full rather than in a week brief.
The week of October 12 to 18, 2026: 1 event
A quiet week on the desk, so its events are kept here in full rather than in a week brief.
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Berkshire adds $330 million to its Bending Spoons holding
Machine summary CNBC reported the shares rose 35% after the filing surfaced, and Reuters reported the transaction takes Berkshire's holding to 4%, following an earlier $600 million investment made at the company's July 2026 Nasdaq listing.
- Under the arrangement, CNBC reported that 10 million ordinary shares of Bending Spoons will be issued to Berkshire at a price of $33 each.
- Berkshire's stake in the company stands at 4% following the investment, according to the filing cited by the reports
- Berkshire had previously invested $600 million in Bending Spoons in July 2026, when the company went public on the Nasdaq, CNBC reported
- Bending Spoons shares rose 35% after the filing was revealed, according to CNBC
- Nasdaq
- Bending Spoons
What kind of news was it?
Categories come from the pipeline's classifier; how they are assigned.
Week by week
Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).