Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics
Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.
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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.
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Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
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Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
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VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.
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Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
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The Startup Behind The Pill For Sleep Apnea Raises $192 Million In IPO
Apnimed got a new CEO in anticipation of its public offering. Its pill for sleep apnea could receive approval early next year.
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