TrustList daily digest · Funding and deals

Friday, 9 October 2026

Funding and deals: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

Funding and deals3

1Funding news
Arena raises $200M Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla
The AI model leaderboard began as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023 and says it now logs tens of millions of monthly visitors from more than 150 countries.
2Funding news
Henry raises 1.2 billion yen from regional banks for hospital software
Shizuoka Bank arranged 1.1 billion yen of the round as a syndicated loan from five regional banks; two bank-linked venture funds added 100 million yen of equity.
3Funding news
Klarent raises $8m to bring AI-written software tests to the US
The Zurich company bills customers only for verified test outcomes and counts JD Sports, NZZ and Sixt as customers; its founders are ex-Google engineers.

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