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AI compute company Crusoe completes $3.9 billion Series F funding, valued at $30.9 billion
AI compute infrastructure startup Crusoe has completed a $3.9 billion Series F funding round, with a post-investment valuation of approximately $30.9 billion. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Mubadala Investment Company, with participation from Founders Fund, TPG, and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), among others.Founded in 2018, Crusoe initially provided services to cryptocurrency miners before pivoting to AI compute infrastructure. The company previously spent two years building a large-scale AI data center in Abilene, Texas, to provide compute power for OpenAI and Microsoft. The company is now shifting toward producing a compact data center called "Spark," which involves loading prefabricated facilities onto trucks and deploying them to locations with idle power capacity to more quickly meet AI inference compute demand. (WSJ)
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AI chip startup Positron raises $875 million at $5 billion valuation
Odaily News: Positron, an AI chip startup focused on designing hardware that helps AI models run faster, said it has raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation, with the company's value surging significantly over the past six months. The round was co-led by venture capital firms NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, analyst Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis Capital, and Netscape co-founder Jim Clark.Positron raised $230 million in its most recent funding round in February of this year at a $1 billion valuation. Positron said it has delivered approximately 50 Atlas server racks of its previous generation to Oracle, with other customers including financial firm Jump Trading and AI company Parasail. Positron is trying to gain an edge in the crowded chip industry by bringing its chips to market as quickly as possible. (The Wall Street Journal)
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AI chip startup Celero raises $275 million, co-led by CapitalG and others
: AI chip startup Celero Communications announced the completion of a $275 million funding round, bringing the company's valuation to over $3 billion. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet.Founded in 2024, Celero develops coherent digital signal processors (DSPs) for optical data transmission in AI systems, improving high-speed data transfer efficiency between data centers and across server racks within a single data center, thereby enabling the construction of larger-scale AI chip clusters. Atreides Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer Gavin Baker is set to join Celero's board of directors. (Bloomberg)
Coinbase Founder's New Company NewLimit Raises $435 Million in Series C Funding, Valued at $3.1 Billion
: NewLimit, a longevity technology startup co-founded by Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong, announced the completion of a $435 million Series C funding round, achieving a valuation of $3.1 billion. The round was led by Peter Thiel's fund, Founders Fund, with continued participation from Abstract Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, NFDG, Eli Lilly Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and others. New investors introduced in this round include Thrive Capital, Greenoaks, and Quiet Capital.In 2021, Brian Armstrong, along with former GV partner and bioengineer Blake Byers and stem cell biologist Jacob Kimmel, jointly invested $110 million to establish NewLimit in South San Francisco.
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a16z Leads Special’s Funding Round; Former DOGE Team Bets on AI-Driven M&A Cost Reduction
According to Tech in Asia, Special, an AI-powered M&A firm co-founded by Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox—both former staff members of the U.S. government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—has announced a funding round of undisclosed amount, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Investors include Antonio Gracias, founder of Valor Equity Partners; Anthony Armstrong, former CFO of xAI; Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase Global; and Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir Technologies. Special plans to acquire service-based businesses by automating workflows with AI to reduce costs, and has already reached an agreement to acquire a Texas-based healthcare company, which will be integrated into Figure Health—the company’s business line focused on aging populations.
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Elon Musk’s close friend may amass over $100 billion in wealth from SpaceX’s IPO, sparking corporate governance concerns over related-party transactions
According to Fortune magazine, Antonio Gracias, founder of Valor Equity Partners and a close confidant of Elon Musk, stands to amass over $100 billion in wealth from SpaceX’s anticipated IPO. Valor reportedly holds more than 500 million shares of SpaceX’s Class A stock. If SpaceX goes public at the rumored valuation of $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion, the value of Valor’s stake could reach $90 billion to $140 billion. Meanwhile, related-party transactions totaling approximately $20 billion between SpaceX and Valor have sparked corporate governance concerns. Documents reveal that xAI-related subsidiaries under SpaceX signed three GPU infrastructure leasing agreements with Valor, all backed by payment guarantees from SpaceX. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the auditing firm, contends that these transactions are substantively closer to loans than standard sale-and-leaseback arrangements and has therefore required that roughly $9 billion in associated debt be recorded on SpaceX’s balance sheet.
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