Europe's rocket startups are learning Silicon Valley's playbook: raise fast, launch faster, and hope the trajectory holds. Isar Aerospace is raising €250 million just as they prep for a critical launch this week
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Michael Saylor just switched funding mechanisms mid-playbook, and the choice itself is the signal. Strategy Inc. bought $76.5 million in Bitcoin using common stock, pivoting away from preferred shares after just one week
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SoftBank just bet $225 million that the next AI infrastructure play isn't about training models—it's about moving data faster between chips. Kandou AI raised $225 million from SoftBank, Maverick Silicon, and Synopsys for AI chip interconnect technology
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A German observability startup just hit unicorn status by promising to make AI agents actually debuggable. Dash0 raised $110 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Balderton Capital, to expand its monitoring platform in the US
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Across Protocol just floated selling equity instead of tokens, and the DAO world is having an identity crisis. Across Protocol proposed a "temp check" to raise funds by selling equity rather than tokens, signaling potential fatigue with pure token models
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China's Unitree just filed to raise $610 million in Shanghai, and the number that matters isn't the fundraise, it's what they're actually selling.
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Software companies are bleeding 13.8% of revenue on stock comp while the rest of corporate America spends 1.1%, and with AI threat vibes rising, that gap just became indefensible.
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Nvidia is about to show us where the AI money is really moving: from teaching models to running them at scale. Nvidia will unveil new AI inference chips at GTC next week, targeting the shift in enterprise spending from model training to deployment
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Nvidia threw a party, and Wall Street left early. Nvidia's latest conference failed to move investors despite the industry shrugging off AI bubble fears The disconnect: builders are bullish, capital allocators are hesitant
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The price of access just got a blockchain receipt. Trump's crypto gala has tiered access starting at $70,000, with top lunch slots costing up to $6 million, determined by timing and strategy, not just holdings
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While AI companies cry poverty over compute costs, they're dropping five figures on backwards menus and caviar. Vercel threw a private dinner at an unopened SF restaurant featuring caviar, lobster, and mirrors required to read the menu, right after tripling valuation to $9 billion
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Michael Saylor's Strategy just crossed $54 billion in Bitcoin holdings, and the story isn't the number—it's how a software company turned itself into the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury on Earth.
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The President of the United States is now running a loyalty program for his memecoin holders, and the token pumped 50% on the news. $Trump memecoin surged over 50% after promoters announced a Mar-a-Lago VIP event for top 300 holders with promised presidential attendance
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The Pentagon just made Palantir's AI a permanent fixture of American warfare. The US Defense Department designated Palantir's Maven AI system as a "program of record", cementing its role in combat operations beyond pilot status.
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A top-tier VC just said the quiet part out loud: AI is a bubble forming in real time, and most companies raising on the hype won't make it. Arun Mathew of Accel warns "bubble tendencies" are forming in AI, signaling a coming shakeout in valuations
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Bluesky just admitted it raised $100 million a year ago and said nothing until now. Bluesky disclosed a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto that closed in April 2025, eleven months before announcement
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Corporate treasuries are buying Bitcoin by the billion while AI agents prepare to break DeFi. 18 projects raised $1.20 billion this week, with prediction market Kalshi ($1B) and decentralized social network Bluesky ($100M) leading the pack
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Tom Lee isn't just watching the agent economy from the sidelines anymore. Eightco doubled its OpenAI equity stake to $40 million, with Fundstrat's Tom Lee now on the board A crypto-native treasury holder is betting bigger on foundation models, not just infrastructure
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Prediction markets just got a $22 billion reality check, and the regulatory fight isn't slowing anyone down. Kalshi raised over $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in a Coatue-led round, despite mounting legal and regulatory pressure on prediction markets
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SpaceX is prepping what could be the largest IPO in history, and the real question isn't whether Elon can sell the vision—it's whether the numbers can carry the weight. SpaceX is targeting an IPO this summer that could raise tens of billions and potentially set records for offering size
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