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Venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, known for early bets on companies like Facebook and SpaceX and continued investment across tech and AI startups.
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Saronic's $1.75 billion Series D is about 58% of the nearly $3 billion venture investors put into marine startups over the past year. In Crunchbase's count the rest of the sector shared about $1.25 billion, so the headline figure mostly tracks one Navy supplier's fundraising.
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Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners co-led an initial close of $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation. One of Crusoe's six contracted gigawatts is running today.
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The investor sold out of the Starburst accelerator and has backed 14 industrial and hard-tech companies since January 2023, on a screen that pairs commoditized hardware with software talent and skips science.
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The Series F closed at a $30.9bn post-money valuation on one operating gigawatt and $140bn of contracted value spread across six. Turning the other five gigawatts into cash is what the new money bought.
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The Series E takes company-reported run-rate from $492M to close to $900M in four months, but nothing in the announcement says how much of that is Devin agent work and how much is Windsurf editor seats.
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Roughly 10% of the nearly $15bn portfolio sat in one pre-listing position, and even a year at 30% leaves the big-endowment cohort's three-year record a long way behind the S&P 500's.
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Accel is paying for the claim that a multi-week industrial bid can become a repeatable workflow. Whether the hours it frees turn into won orders or into headcount arguments is the part the customer disclosures leave open.
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The round is still under negotiation, but the multiple it implies will outlast the negotiation. That multiple is the figure every seller of coding agents will get measured against the next time procurement asks why the seat price moved.
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Lenders price collateral and contracted cash rather than addressable markets, which makes the split the story here, because REGENT has $15M of contracted Marine Corps work sitting behind $120M of borrowing and a $9bn pre-order book that pays nobody yet.
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A $3.5 billion week came almost entirely from Ether being remarked to $2,440. The last 187,000 tokens cost more than the cash the company reports holding.
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A preliminary $250 million commitment from Anthropic is reportedly carrying a British inference-chip startup from about $1 billion in May to $6.5 billion, with silicon due in 2027.
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The British inference startup is in talks at a $6.5bn pre-money valuation three months after a $1bn round, Bloomberg reports. The signal is the buyer, not the multiple.
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