Scoop out: Prediction-market platform Kalshi is raising about $1 billion in a funding round that values the startup at $22 billion, according to people familiar with the information wsj.com/articles/kalsh… via @WSJ
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Yuliya Chernova
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Reporter @WSJ @WSJVC. Startups, VC, tech. Living it up in Brooklyn, the immigrant parts. [email protected]
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Scoop on Kalshi’s $22 billion valuation on Dow Jones Newswires. More coming
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Fundrise Innovation Fund is putting its public listing on hold due to the volatility caused by the Iran war, CEO Ben Miller says. “I’m watching the Strait of Hormuz like everyone else" wsj.com/articles/iran-… via @WSJ
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Friday night scoop: Crypto firm Paradigm expands mandate to invest in AI and other frontier tech, sources say. The firm is raising up to $1.5 billion for its next fund, sources say. wsj.com/articles/crypt…
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Scoop: Thrive Capital invested about $1 billion into OpenAI at a $285B blended valuation, a fraction of the price in the LLM company's ongoing round wsj.com/articles/thriv… via @WSJ
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Every venture firm now says it invests in "early-stage startups that are harnessing artificial intelligence to let people perform more productively." Basis Set's website said this in 2017! Now @xuezhao raised her firm's 4th fund, at $250M. wsj.com/articles/basis…
brexton@brexton
This entire fundraise took less than a day, one of the wildest things I’ve seen on the LP side Lan has been deep in AI since ‘18 and back then, AI startups had a hard time raising (unlike marketplaces/b2b SaaS/etc) BSV is *the* OG AI fund, the market has just finally caught up
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I asked a16z's @DavidGeorge83 what's the upside for a private investment in OpenAI at a valuation approaching a trillion dollars. It's all about monetization of the huge user base, he said. Here's more of what he told me: wsj.com/articles/andre…
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Great mention of @ArrivedHomes in WSJ today, by @ychernova.
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“We think it’s healthier when homes are owned more directly by individuals even if they’re
rentals, rather than being concentrated inside massive funds,”
said Ryan Frazier (Arrived CEO)
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Anthropic plans to raise $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion, nearly doubling its value from four months ago, scoop by @KateClarkTweets wsj.com/tech/ai/anthro…
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SF Compute, an AI Computing Marketplace, Raises $40 Million wsj.com/articles/sf-co… via @WSJ
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Bryan Rosenblatt to Leave Craft Ventures, Set Up Standalone Firm wsj.com/articles/bryan… via @WSJ
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Global investors were already stepping up their dealmaking in Israel. The current cease-fire is bringing more from the sidelines, Israeli VCs say. wsj.com/articles/cease…
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The number of companies hiring forward deployed AI engineers soared this year, per Job.zip. FDEs help enterprises customers adopt AI but they raise the cost of running an AI startup. We delve into the details of the trend here.
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What’s old is new again in Silicon Valley. Startups fighting for an edge in the AI race are embedding “forward deployed engineers” with customers to ease the transition. wsj.com/articles/ai-st… w/@marcvarta via @WSJ
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What’s old is new again in Silicon Valley. Startups fighting for an edge in the AI race are embedding “forward deployed engineers” with customers to ease the transition. wsj.com/articles/ai-st… w/@marcvarta via @WSJ
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Great scoop from @ychernova: AI Venture Firm Gradient Ventures Spins Out of Google wsj.com/articles/ai-ve… via @WSJ
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Venture-backed startups say the new $100,000 fee on H-1B visas will get them to hire contractors overseas, or in their foreign offices. A few firms may even pay it as a way to attract talent. wsj.com/articles/high-… via @WSJ
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Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M for a new fund to lead more Series A rounds at AI startups, a jump from the $150M fund it closed in February 2024 (@ychernova / Wall Street Journal)
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Jack Altman collected his $275 million Alt Capital II in a month. That compares to the median time to raise a venture fund in 2025 of 15.3 months, a 10-year record, per PitchBook. The bifurcation in the market is happening with both startups and VC funds. wsj.com/articles/jack-…
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