Digital Asset Holdings is betting $2 billion that privacy-first tokenization infrastructure is worth more than the entire market currently thinks it is. Digital Asset Holdings is raising $300M at a $2B valuation, with a16z Crypto leading the round
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The company that made OpenAI sweat is about to raise money at a number that would have seemed delusional six months ago. DeepSeek is reportedly raising its first investment round at a $45 billion valuation, more than double the $20 billion figure floated just weeks ago
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The real story isn't another unicorn birth. It's that enterprises are now betting billions on AI doing the work humans can't scale fast enough to do. Blitzy raised $200M at $1.4B valuation, joining the wave of AI coding platforms capturing enterprise attention
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The market's new all-time high is really just seven companies wearing a trench coat. The S&P 500 climbed 54 points to 7,391, powered by AI and tech stocks riding strong earnings reports
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The guy who made his fortune calling the '87 crash just told gold to step aside. Paul Tudor Jones calls Bitcoin "unequivocally the best inflation hedge" during a CNBC interview, marking a definitive shift from his traditional gold positioning.
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The people who used to pitch private equity as the promised land are now the ones getting outbid. Investment banks are projected to increase bonuses 39% from 2022 levels, outpacing wealth management (29%) and hedge funds (24%), per Johnson Associates
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The biggest crypto exchange operator just made its entire ownership structure readable on a public blockchain, because apparently "trust us" isn't good enough anymore. Bullish tokenized all 151 million shares of its equity on Solana, making the full cap table visible and verifiable on-chain
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The trial depositions are revealing that OpenAI's 2024 leadership crisis was less corporate governance, more group chat disaster.
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The market punished Coinbase for missing earnings, but the smart money is betting on a different revenue stream entirely. Coinbase missed earnings expectations, yet analysts remain bullish on the company's long-term prospects.
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Wall Street just bet a billion dollars that the future of finance looks more like PredictIt than the NYSE. Kalshi closed a $1B Series F led by Coatue, doubling its valuation to $22B and marking one of the largest fintech raises in 2026.
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The Valley's most crypto-committed VC firm just made the biggest bet on blockchain infrastructure since the last bubble popped. Andreessen Horowitz raised $2.2 billion for Crypto Fund 5, targeting stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, and on-chain financial markets
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The company that plans for 10x growth and gets 80x instead has a different kind of problem than most AI startups—too much demand, not enough compute.
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The AI lab that raised $7.3 billion in 2024 is now spending $1.8 billion with a CDN company, and that tells you everything about where the compute bottleneck really is. Anthropic signed a $1.8 billion cloud computing deal with Akamai to handle AI inference demand
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Peter Thiel just took the performance-enhancement debate out of the shadows and onto the NYSE. Enhanced Games, an Olympics competitor allowing performance-enhancing drugs, went public via SPAC at a $1.2B valuation with backing from Peter Thiel and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan
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A public university just turned $20 million into what could become the greatest endowment ROI in higher ed history, and the playbook was simpler than anyone wants to admit.
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The AlphaFold company is about to become one of the most valuable drug discovery startups in history without a single drug on the market. Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind's AI drug discovery spinout, is raising over $2 billion in what would be one of the largest biotech AI rounds ever
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The evidence Musk is dragging into court might matter more than the verdict itself. Greg Brockman wrote "what will take me to $1B?" in his diary two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity, a diary now unsealed as trial evidence showing the nonprofit-to-profit arc wasn't exactly organic
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When your collateral is so cutting-edge that banks aren't sure how to price it, you get a 40% haircut on day one. SoftBank slashed its planned margin loan from $10 billion to $6 billion after creditors balked at the OpenAI equity backing it
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The data center fundraising cycle used to move on quarterly earnings calls — now it moves at the speed of insomnia. Principal Financial is raising $3 billion across two funds targeting US and European data centers, signaling institutional capital is chasing AI infrastructure at scale
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Anthropic just handed AI agents something they've never had before: the ability to wake up smarter than they were yesterday.
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