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New York investment firm founded by Josh Kushner, headquartered in the Puck Building, running venture, roll-up and cultural-asset strategies.
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Alec Tarashansky, lead engineer on Anthropic's Claude Science, has joined OpenEvidence, the physician search company valued at $12 billion in January. The part of Claude Science's design that fits most directly into a doctor's search tool is its citation-checking agent.
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Four raises worth $7.7 billion landed in one week, and the largest is not a fund with an exit clock. Thrive's roll-up vehicle sold roughly a sixth of itself at a $12 billion valuation.
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Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia put $600m into Mach Industries at $3.7bn, three months after $300m at $1.8bn. On those marks the second cheque takes 16.2 per cent of the company and the first took 16.7.
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Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia have put another $600m into Mach Industries at more than double the valuation they themselves set three months ago, lifting the Series C to $900m and lifetime funding past $1bn.
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Thrive would have paid as much as $4.2 billion for about 20% of a FIFA subsidiary it would not have controlled, in a structure where the approval that mattered sat with confederations that say they were never asked.
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The Machine Age Fund goes to chips, memory, networking, data centers and robotics rather than models or apps, which is a working judgment that what slows AI products now is rack power and lead times.
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European startups raised $24bn in Q2 2026, but the concentration underneath the topline turns growth-stage exposure into an access problem and early-stage diversification into a much harder trade.
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SpaceX paid $60 billion in stock for Cursor and Stripe agreed to about $8 billion for OpenRouter. Roughly $320 million of a16z money became more than $8 billion, with no IPO involved.
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Fortune reports a tax logic under the Thrive founder's franchise purchase. On one analyst's allocation estimate, the deal implies roughly $750 million a year of deductible amortization.
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Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger's record bid is being read by outside analysts as a non-passive shield against carried interest. The pricing logic may sit in the tax code.
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Thrive Capital was lined up and JPMorgan was advising. Three confederations and the threat of a World Cup boycott ended it anyway, which tells you what actually gates capital in sports rights.
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The continuation fund buying Lightspeed's OpenAI stake will be managed by Lightspeed. Coller Capital's cheque is the only outside check on the transfer price.
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