Munich-based smart thermostat startup tado raised €43M led by Trill Impact Ventures, after its plans to go public via a SPAC merger fell apart in September 2022 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Munich-based smart thermostat startup tado raised €43M led by Trill Impact Ventures, after its plans to go public via a SPAC merger fell apart in September 2022  —  Smart home energy startup Tado has raised €43 million ($46.9 million) in a round of funding led by Trill Impact Ventures …

Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Malaysian payments technology company Super Apps Holdings plans to go public in the US via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.1B valuation, listed on the Nasdaq under TETE  —  Super Apps Holdings will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal …

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Thiel-backed conservative video platform Rumble is up 37% after going public via SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation, raising $400M  —  Rumble Inc., the conservative video network backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, became a publicly traded company Monday through a deal with a blank-check firm …

Alex Harring / CNBC:
LGBTQ dating app Grindr closed up 213.84% at $36.50 per share in its NYSE debut under the new ticker GRND following its SPAC merger  —  – Grindr surged in trading Friday in its first day under a new ticker following its merger with blank-check company Tiga.

Jack Stebbins / CNBC:
Digital World Acquisition Corp., seeking to take Truth Social public via a SPAC, fails to gain shareholder approval and sets an October 10 deadline for a vote  —  – Digital World Acquisition Corp. adjourned its shareholder meeting for over a month as its planned merger with Donald Trump’s media firm hangs in the balance.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Banyan, whose network of item-level purchase data helps customers automate expense management, has raised a $43M Series A, $28M in equity and $15M in debt  —  Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management …