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- Six Deals Add $62.6 Million to $1.7626 Billion Funding Tally
Eight financing disclosures from Oct. 17-23 totaled $1.7626 billion, with Tenstorrent and Whop accounting for 96.4% of the amount.
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- Robinhood Ventures Invests $10 Million in AI Firm Cognition
Robinhood Ventures previously invested $75 million in OpenAI in April.
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- FTX’s Former Anthropic Stake Would Reach $117.6 Billion at $1.5 Trillion
The bankruptcy estate received about $1.3 billion from its 2024 sale. The hypothetical estimate excludes dilution from later funding rounds.
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- Mave Raises $34 Million to Build AI Tools for Security Operations
The Israeli startup will fund AI research, enterprise products and international growth, and plans to more than double its team.
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- Legora’s Daily Active Users Spend More Than Two Hours on Its Platform
The legal AI company serves more than 140,000 legal professionals across over 80 markets and has more than 2,400 law firm and in-house legal team customers.
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- a16z Raised $2.2 Billion for Its Fifth Crypto Fund.
The fund raised about half the $4.5 billion raised for its fourth fund in 2022. Across five funds, a16z has raised nearly $10 billion.
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- Fireworks AI Discusses Funding at Valuation of Up to $40 Billion
The talks follow a $1.505 billion Series D in July 2026 that valued the AI infrastructure company at $17.5 billion.
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- Public Token Sales Raise $40 Million, Their Lowest Quarterly Total in Four Years
Private crypto and blockchain companies drew $5.683 billion in venture investment across 384 deals in Q2 2026.
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- Masia Closes €18 Million Debut Fund for Barcelona-Linked AI and Frontier Tech Companies
More than 70 limited partners backed the fund, and Masia opened a four-floor hub in Gràcia with workspaces, meeting rooms, investor lodging and an event terrace.
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- Whop Raises $200 Million in Series D at a $5.1 Billion Valuation
Sequoia Capital and Shopify Ventures jointly led the round. Whop’s valuation is more than triple the $1.6 billion level tied to Tether’s investment in February.
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- Legora Raises $550 Million at an $8.8 Billion Post-Money Valuation
Annual recurring revenue topped $200 million, and the United States is Legora’s largest market by revenue.
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- Andreessen Horowitz Tops AI Venture Ranking With 22,509 Points
The top 10 firms earned 60% of the top 100’s points, and investments made in 2023 or later generated 80%.
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- Ayesha Arora-Hughes Seeks Over $100 Million for AI Venture Fund
Palo Alto Networks Chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora is advising the firm. The fund had recorded no sales as of its Sept. 18 filing.
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- Inspired Capital Closes $450 Million Fourth Venture Fund
The New York firm’s existing portfolio includes blockchain infrastructure company Syndica and crypto operations platform Utila.
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- Daytona Raises $60 Million at $1 Billion Valuation for AI Agent Cloud
FirstMark Growth led the Series B, bringing Daytona’s total funding to $91 million. The company plans to expand its sandbox service with browsers and storage.
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- Paradigm Joins SendCutSend Series B at $2.1 Billion Valuation
Paradigm also helped lead a $110 million financing announced in May, when SendCutSend was valued at $1.01 billion.
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- Nvidia CEO Says Company Put Nearly $1 Billion Into Germany in a Year
Jensen Huang described Nvidia as one of Germany’s larger venture investors and pointed to the country’s growing number of AI businesses.
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- Jenny Lee Says Some Asian Startups She Sees Are Preparing for IPOs Earlier
Lee put the average holding period before a company goes public at eight to 10 years. Granite Asia made more than 40 equity investments in the past two years.
· People
- Town's Paying Customer Count Quadruples as Paying Teams Rise Ninefold
Town raised $108 million in a Series B that values the workplace AI startup at $1 billion.
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- Tom Lee Says Venture Capital Friends Wish They Had Bought Bitcoin
He recounted a Taiwan dinner with investors he had known for about a decade, saying he expected their venture investments to outperform Bitcoin.
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- Town Raises $108 Million in Series B at $1 Billion Valuation
The round brings Town’s total funding to at least $160 million. Its Townies connect to workplace systems and share approved information across teams.
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- Multicoin Says Hyperliquid (HYPE) Is Its Largest Hedge Fund Holding
Spencer Applebaum put the firm’s assets at $2.7 billion and said its $422 million venture fund takes longer to deploy through the seed rounds he saw in 2023.
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- Multicoin Capital Rules Out Pure AI Investments, Keeps Crypto Focus
The firm raised a $422 million venture fund in 2022 and has deployed it gradually. It manages $2.7 billion in assets.
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- Gaming Venture Deals Reach $13.7 Billion as AI Firms Land Large Rounds
Game-content startups raised $270.7 million in the third quarter, their lowest quarterly total since the fourth quarter of 2017.
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- Crypto dealbook: October funding reaches $436.9 million as Strive raises $208 million
Crypto ventures raised $436.9 million across 27 October rounds as of Oct. 18. Strive led the latest week with a $208 million Post-IPO round.
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- Benchmark Says AI Growth Is Straining Venture Firms' Exclusivity Rules
Partner Chetan Puttagunta expects startup overlap to increase as software becomes cheaper to build. Benchmark says exclusivity matters most at a company’s earliest stage.
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- Catalio Targets $500 Million for Its Next Health Care Venture Fund
The planned launch moved forward from its previous 2027 plan, but the new timing is unspecified. Five existing investments, including Doctronic and Basecamp Research, are expected to move into Nexus V.
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- Andreessen Horowitz Cuts Most of Its 34-Person Recruiting Team
Remaining staff are slated to join specialized investment groups, which will organize recruiting support around their own needs.
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- Social Graph Ventures Founder Joins Colosseum as Principal
Jakub Rusiecki will review submissions to the organization's Solana hackathons.
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- Pear VC Raises $333 Million for Fifth Fund as Assets Surpass $1.1 Billion
The firm named Arash Afrakhteh, Ajay Kamat and Shravan Reddy as general partners and operates programs for early-stage founders.
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- CoinSwitch Ventures Rebrands as BlackLane Capital, Targets $100 Million
The firm plans to shift most of its capital allocation to direct equity and raise its maximum investment per deal to $5 million.
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- Sprints Raises $810 Million for Fifth Venture Fund After Yearlong Raise
The European venture firm has deployed more than half of the fund across new companies and existing portfolio holdings.
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- DeepSeek Plans to Double Funding Round to 100 Billion Yuan
The AI company’s second funding round is expected to include roughly equal contributions from new and existing shareholders while maintaining a pre-money valuation of about 500 billion yuan.
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- DeepSeek Plans $14 Billion Funding Round at $70 Billion Valuation
The planned round would be DeepSeek’s second, with new and existing investors expected to contribute roughly equal amounts.
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- Median 2017-Vintage VC Fund Returned 0.37x by Q2 2026
The median fund distributed 37 cents for every dollar of paid-in capital, while top funds posted higher unrealized portfolio values.
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- Swedish Startups Project $5.6 Billion in 2026 Venture Funding
First-half funding reached $2.8 billion, putting Sweden on track for a 75% increase from 2025’s $3.2 billion total.
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- Crypto Funding Shifts Toward Regulated Infrastructure in Q3 2026
Early-stage deals contracted as debt financing, public listings, infrastructure and acquisitions gained ground during the third quarter of 2026.
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- Union Square Ventures Announces $900 Million in New Funds as AI Shifts Focus
The New York venture firm will emphasize AI applications, physical intelligence, consumer and enterprise intelligence, and energy while expecting to make roughly the same number of investments.
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- Deus X Capital Stops Operations, Plans Formal Liquidation by Jan. 31
The crypto investment firm’s backers will pursue separate strategies after the company winds down. Its formal liquidation is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2027.
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- Manus Raises More Than $500 Million After Meta Deal Collapse
The funding gives the AI-agent developer fresh capital as it resumes independent operations following the blocked acquisition.
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