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Corporate equity investments and exclusive licensing arrangements between incumbents and hardware startups.
An SEC filing shows Nvidia holding 122.8 million SpaceX Class A shares while SpaceX commits to buying Vera Rubin GPUs exclusively. The purchase order and the equity now sit on one balance sheet.
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Worth roughly two fifths of HiBob's annual sales, the cheque is all primary and almost all strategic, which says something about how comfortable private capital has become funding the agent-workforce build.
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The $180 million Series B final close includes $35 million from Nabors plus a framework agreement handing Quaise rig time and well-design tooling, which is the one part of Project Obsidian a power buyer can check today.
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A $76M Series B puts four rights holders on a generative-media vendor's cap table. What it does not put anywhere is a disclosed spending commitment, valuation, or revenue figure.
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A $150mn Series A backed by Nvidia, Siemens, RWE and GE Vernova prices workload curtailment as the cheap answer to interconnection queues. The demonstrated evidence is one cluster.
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The investment targets active liquid cooling meant to fit existing halls rather than new builds. Missing: any figure for heat removed, any price, any ship date.
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