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Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a global venture capital firm backing early- and growth-stage technology companies in Europe, the US, Asia and Latin America.
Rome's Exein says its valuation is up thirtyfold in two years and first-half recurring revenue up fourfold, and its first foundation models are due in the first quarter of 2027, two quarters after the round closed.
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The Australian AI scribe company reached a $1.26 billion valuation with only US$100 million of new equity. The rest is a General Catalyst facility restricted to sales and marketing and repaid out of the revenue it buys.
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The Series A funds a second-generation platform. The only measured result the company has attached to it is a benchmark of its own showing 45% fewer tokens than uncustomized frontier models. Tokens are a compute cost.
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Exein's valuation is thirty times what it was two years ago on technology already inside more than two billion devices, and the foundation model that telemetry is meant to train is not due until the first quarter of 2027.
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Goldman Sachs led the $240 million round at a $2.3 billion valuation. What the money funds is one vendor holding the website, the third-party listings, the till and the app that routes orders around delivery platforms.
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At $2.3bn on more than $100m of recurring revenue, the $240m Series D buys roughly a tenth of Owner, and the disclosures that would test the price, retention and location count, are the two the release skips.
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