TrustList daily digest · Funding and deals

Saturday, 10 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 deals4

1Funding news
Ocean takes Global Brain funding for Japan's switch to tax-free refunds
Global Brain's KURONEKO Innovation Fund 2, whose limited partner is Yamato Holdings, invested an undisclosed sum in the Tokyo company behind Ocean Tax Refund, which charges visitors 1.55% and shops nothing to start.
2Funding news
TypeSafe raises $870M Series A at $7.5bn for its Jev model
Jev answers with yes or no, a pick from a list or a score instead of prose. Andreessen Horowitz leads; Martin Casado joins the board; the company says a third of the Fortune 500 use it.
3Funding news
OllyGarden raises $4m seed to clean up OpenTelemetry data
Founded in 2025 by OpenTelemetry contributors, the company launched Minimum Viable Instrumentation with the round. Next Frontier Capital, Grand Ventures and ACTAI, with Datadog, Grafana Labs and Dash0, are the backers.
4Funding news
Wiremind raises €35m to take rail pricing software beyond Europe
The Paris company was founded in 2014, self-financed and profitable until now. Its founders stay majority shareholders, and the money goes to South America, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and AI research.

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