Startup &amp; VC

economictimes.indiatimes.com

Artmarket.com: tendenza al rialzo nel secondo trimestre del 2026, dalla…

Artprice trasforma database proprietari in IA verticali specializzate (Intuitive Art Market® e Blind Spot®), supportato dall'aumento azionario della…

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Business AI startup

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast - The…

Anthropic's IPO valuation rests on $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast—4x current run rate—using forward-looking multiples rarely applied before.…

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economictimes.indiatimes.com

startup Business Spazio

Kushner’s Thrive Fund grows sevenfold to $3.7 billion on AI bets - The Economic…

Thrive Capital's 2022 fund grew 7x to $3.7B by concentrating 90% of $516M in top-15 bets: OpenAI, SpaceX, Anduril. For tech leaders: concentrated…

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benzinga.com

Business startup AI

Anthropic Projects $200 Billion 2028 Revenue: Report - Palantir Technologies…

Anthropic projects $190–200B revenue by 2028 from $47B run rate (10x annual). Valuation benchmarks (Palantir 53x 2026 revenue) suggest AI foundation…

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forbes.com

How Olix’s 25-Year-Old Founder Became Europe’s Richest Self-Made Billionaire

Olix, founded by 25-year-old Dacombe, raised $312M to a $3.3B valuation, making him Europe's youngest self-made billionaire. The photonic chip…

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techcrunch.com

AI startup Tech

Thrive's Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria | TechCrunch

Joshua Kushner criticized Silicon Valley VCs' AI hype, advocating concentrated bets (90% top 15) over spray-and-pray. For tech leaders: disciplined…

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spectator.com

startup AI

Dario Amodei’s wife emailed Epstein for sex blog seed round

Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, previously edited online publication Eddice and sought Epstein funding for pornographic content in…

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morningstar.com

Business startup Tech

ELEKTROS Advances Its Critical-Minerals and EV Infrastructure Vision Amid…

ELEKTROS advances lithium mining in Sierra Leone and U.S. EV charging patents as 30% of 2026 cars are electric vehicles. Tech leaders recognize…

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morningstar.com

Business startup Crypto

ELEKTROS Highlights Lithium, Critical Minerals and EV Charging as Technology…

ELEKTROS advances Sierra Leone hard-rock lithium and US EV charging patents as EVs reach 30% of 2026 vehicle sales. AI and data-center expansion…

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asia.nikkei.com

startup Tech Business

VC firm with ties to Siri to launch Japan fund for AI, space startups

Global Innovation Labs and Z Venture Capital launch fund for Japanese early-stage startups in AI, space, and defense. Marks US strategic bet on…

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channelnewsasia.com

Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital discloses $215 million Amazon stake

Thrive Capital disclosed a $215 million Amazon stake, marking expansion into large-cap tech holdings. For tech leaders, the move signals elite VC…

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newcomer.co

Business startup AI

Thrive Capital Finds its Lane as a New Kind of Venture Investor

Thrive Capital closes $2B fundraise for AI holding at $12B valuation, moving beyond software toward enterprise transformation. Signal that top VCs…

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thenextweb.com

Arm co-founder: AI is a revolution, and a rollercoaster

Arm co-founder warns AI revolution real but valuations inflated; flags circular financing as structural risk, Nvidia's $6.5bn photonics bet signals…

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investorplace.com

Spazio Business startup

5 Space Stocks Ready to Rocket Higher After the SpaceX Hangover

SpaceX Q2 $7.8B (+92%), EBITDA +191%, AI $1.1B EBITDA-positive. IPO drawdown reversing on earnings and lockup passage. Orbital AI infrastructure now…

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thenextweb.com

The consumer AI gap: 159 of 175 YC startups were enterprise

159 of 175 Y Combinator startups target enterprise, not consumer AI; ChatGPT is the sole consumer win. Enterprise buyers pay recurring fees while…

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cnbc.com

startup AI Tech

Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser’s AI warning: The revolution is real, but so is…

Hauser (Arm co-founder): AI is the biggest technology revolution ever, but valuations have gotten ahead of themselves with circular financing risks.…

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axios.com

OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh

OpenAI's CRO Denise Dresser, ex-COO Brad Lightcap, and ethics/safety leaders exited within a month; Greg Brockman now leads a pre-IPO reorg toward…

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yourstory.com

How Fabindia sees itself at 66; Life at Tata after Chandra

Google appoints Koray Kavukcuoglu new AI chief to accelerate Gemini and close the foundation model gap with OpenAI and Anthropic. The leadership…

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rnz.co.nz

AI accounting startup Sterling raises $3.8m seed round

Sterling closed $3.8M seed for AI accounting automation, completing 1,200 hours of work in 10 months. The trend enables finance teams to shift from…

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theinformation.com

startup Business Tech

Y Combinator Startups Get a New Backer: Robinhood

Non posso creare il TLDR: il corpo fornito contiene solo il template di navigazione del sito The Information (menu, link, sezioni), non il contenuto…

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techcrunch.com

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a…

Databricks closed $5B at $190B (investors wanted $15B vs. $1B target). ARR $7B, 80% growth. Data infrastructure is now core to AI deployment.…

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thenationalnews.com

UAE's MGX co-leads Databricks strategic funding round | The National

Databricks raised $5B at $190B valuation (80% YoY growth, $7B run-rate) backed by MGX and tier-1 investors. For enterprise teams, the deal signals…

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siliconangle.com

AI Tech startup

Mindgard raises $30M to handle security for AI models and applications -…

Mindgard raises $30M to handle security for AI models and applications - SiliconANGLE

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cityam.com

Legora eyes $10bn funding valuation four months after last raise

Legora eyes $10bn valuation (doubling April's $5.6bn raise) with Nvidia, Atlassian backing. Kirkland & Ellis $500m proprietary AI platform signals…

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endpoints.news

Zealand's royalty deal; Khartis raises money for TED drug

Khartis raises $50M Series B; Zealand sells rusfertide royalties to Royalty Pharma for $100M; MapLight gets $150M placement…

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newcomer.co

Business startup Tech

AI Frenzy Brings Dual Valuation Deals into the Mainstream

Starcloud raised $170M at dual valuations: Benchmark at $250M, co-investors at 4x; structures like this now appear in 25% of AI rounds. For tech…

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lastampa.it

Democrazia artificiale

Anthropic si prepara per IPO con valutazione >2 trilioni di dollari, ricavi $100-120B entro anno ma senza profitti. Goldman Sachs stima $1B…

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thehindubusinessline.com

gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com

T-Hub picks 14 start-ups for Blueprint cohort

T-Hub launches Blueprint, a 12-month program for 14 deep-tech startups with CXO mentorship and VC-ready pitch prep. Addresses technical founders'…

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Google’s AI reshuffle puts Gemini at the centre of its fight for AI supremacy

Google restructures DeepMind with Kavukcuoglu taking control as Gemini loses ground to OpenAI and Anthropic. The shift prioritizes commercial…

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thequantuminsider.com

Guest Post: Why Quantum Readiness Is Becoming a Venture Capital Question

Post-quantum cryptography is becoming infrastructure priority; blockchains face unique challenges with decentralized control. Moon Pursuit Capital's…

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sifted.eu

startup Business Tech

Legora in talks to raise at a $10bn valuation, according to reports

Legora, Swedish AI legal startup, is raising at $10bn+ valuation, nearly double its $5.6bn March Series D. Legal tech AI is attracting major capital;…

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siliconrepublic.com

gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com

Nvidia-backed CodeRabbit valued at $1.5bn after $143m funding round

CodeRabbit raised $143m Series C at $1.5bn valuation to expand AI code review across Europe and Asia. Independent, model-agnostic code validation by…

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Jeff Dean’s Next Move: Google AI Veteran Targets $10 Billion Startup Valuation

Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with other AI veterans, targeting $1 billion funding at $10 billion valuation to…

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businessinsider.com

AI startup Business

Garry Tan says founders who tokenmaxx on AI agents will be 2 years ahead

Y Combinator's Tan recommends "tokenmaxxing" AI agents ($50-100k/year) to reach 2028-level capabilities now; codify successful tasks as reusable…

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afr.com

Bids for unicorn Employment Hero test $2b value in Seek sell-off

Employment Hero retains $2 billion valuation as Seek exits $1 billion portfolio stake; bidders confirm late-stage SaaS stays firm. For tech leaders:…

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siliconangle.com

AI Tech startup

Skan AI raises $63M to give AI agents a map of enterprise work - SiliconANGLE

Skan AI raised $63M for workflow intelligence feeding AI agents; one bank achieved 32% cost reduction and 41% throughput lift. Process intelligence…

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fiercehealthcare.com

UC San Diego Health, West Health launch $40M accelerator for 'tech-forward'…

UC San Diego Health and West Health invest $40M to build coordinated care with wearable devices and EHR data integration. Signals healthcare…

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yourstory.com

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

AstroTalk turns unicorn via ESOP buyback

AstroTalk reaches $1B via ESOP buyback self-funded; Rs 1.176 crore revenue (+81% YoY), commerce Rs 140 crore. Signals how India vertical apps scale…

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Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

Charity Majors identifies November 2025 as AI's inflection (Opus 4.5, Claude Code)—equivalent to cloud's 2010. Code review is obsolete; testing…

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cryptonomist.ch

Truffa acquisizione VideoVerse: da sogno a incubo finanziario

Minute Media rescinde il deal VideoVerse (250M$) per documenti falsificati dal fondatore Shrivastav, scoperto 8 mesi dopo l'acquisizione. Due…

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endpoints.news

AbCellera, Silence and InduPro all raise significant funding

AbCellera raises $200M after Phase 2 win; Silence Therapeutics raises $175M post-Phase 2 success in rare blood cancer; InduPro…

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theinformation.com

AI Tech startup

OnlyFans Investor Says Company Will ‘Never’ Use AI to Replace Creators

Non posso completare il riassunto: il corpo fornito contiene solo il menu e gli header HTML del sito The Information, non il testo editoriale…

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qz.com

Kevin Weil raising $150M for AI science startup after OpenAI

Kevin Weil (ex OpenAI CPO) raises $150M for AI science startup at $750M valuation, leveraging scientific data for model training. Capital pivot from…

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securityweek.com

AI startup Business

Mindgard Raises $30 Million to Protect AI Systems

Mindgard raised $30M Series A for AI red-teaming, discovering 150+ vulnerabilities including zero-day flaws in Cursor IDE. Enterprise AI agent…

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cryptonomist.ch

Workflow AI aziendale: Skan AI ottiene 63 milioni di dollari

Skan AI raccoglie 63 milioni in Serie C per automatizzare i workflow osservando come lavorano i dipendenti dai desktop, non la documentazione. Il 95%…

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scmp.com

Tech innovator uses AI to rebuild David Webb’s Hong Kong database

Keith Li rebuilds Webb's 27-year Hong Kong governance database with AI, preserving public domain access. Board composition and corporate transparency…

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