Today's stories
OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round
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The Next Web This week
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives A Varied Lineup Of Large Financings
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Crunchbase In AI, it’s a tale of two diverging investor classes
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SiliconANGLE Andreessen Horowitz Renames a16z Crypto, Expands Fund Beyond Crypto
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Unite.AI Acquirers Are Snapping Up Boom-Era Startups That Haven’t Raised Funding In Years
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Crunchbase Jon Gray Rebuts AI Bubble Warnings, Calls Demand ‘Parabolic’
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Bloomberg Whop's Sequoia-Led Funding Pushes Its Value to $5.1 Billion
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Bloomberg ‘Weird And Maybe Uninvestable’: How Reach Capital Spots Its Venture Winners
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Crunchbase When A Startup Sells, Its Employees’ Equity Plans Can Change Overnight
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Crunchbase AI Had Better Work Out
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Where's Your Ed At Ken Griffin Says AI ‘Almost Certainly’ in a Bubble Right Now
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Bloomberg US Sanctions Chinese Venture Firm in Google AI Secrets Case
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Bloomberg Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew Scarcer
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Crunchbase How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture Capital
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Crunchbase Top venture capitalist Jenny Lee says Asian startups are speeding toward IPOs
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CNBC LatAm Startup Funding Jumps 26% In Q3 As VCs Begin ‘Rediscovering’ The Region
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Crunchbase Using AI to find good Manifund projects
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LessWrong This month
I went to see why Silicon Valley can't stop laughing at Elizabeth Holmes
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Business Insider Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
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Crunchbase Want to work for a billionaire investor? Vinod Khosla is hiring.
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Business Insider 38 Companies Join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In Blockbuster September, Led By Semiconductor, Fintech And Space Tech Companies
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Crunchbase Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace On Why The Best Proptech Bets May Not Look Like Proptech
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Crunchbase EIF’s incoming chief says Europe’s Tech Champions funds hold 15 unicorns
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The Next Web Gen Alpha founders are already pitching VCs. Here's what investors want them to know.
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Business Insider Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next
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The Next Web Priya Saiprasad, General Partner at Touring Capital – Interview Series
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Unite.AI Active Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell
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Crunchbase One of Anthropic's earliest backers shares where he's investing now, and offers advice to founders
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Business Insider Union Square Ventures Doubles Fund Size, Shrinks Team for AI Era
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Bloomberg Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist
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The Next Web Europe Posted Its Strongest Quarter In Q3 In 4 Years, As Its Venture Ecosystem Expands Beyond The UK
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Crunchbase Europe’s startups had their best quarter in 4 years, Crunchbase data shows
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The Next Web US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace
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SiliconANGLE ByteDance Intern’s $200 Million AI Lab Takes On Fei-Fei Li
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Bloomberg Anthropic's secret weapon is its CEO's charm, one of its earliest investors says
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Business Insider The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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TechCrunch Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market
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The Next Web Venture Firm Behind Chip Startup Groq Targets $10 Billion Megafund
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The Wall Street Journal Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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TechCrunch Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
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Crunchbase American investors are touring China’s robot factories to size up the competition
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Business Insider SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with final $10bn payment
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Covered by 2 sources Nautical And Marine Startups See Stepped-Up Funding
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Crunchbase IMC 2026 to put DeepTech at centre of startup programme ASPIRE
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ET AI (The Economic Times) MuleSoft founder’s DIG Ventures closes $120M fund for AI infrastructure
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The Next Web The IPO Window Is Opening Selectively; Readiness Will Decide Who Gets Through
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Crunchbase Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
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TechCrunch Next 5 VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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TechCrunch This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets To Fail
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Crunchbase The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cybersecurity, AI And Health Take The Lead
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Crunchbase Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
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TechCrunch Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
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TechCrunch Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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TechCrunch Tech Industry ‘Fumbled’ AI Messaging, Vinod Khosla Says
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Bloomberg Software Investor Warns About Flawed Billion-Dollar AI Valuations
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Forbes Gaming Startup Funding Levels Up A Bit In 2026
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Crunchbase Jumbo-Sized Series A Rounds Are On The Rise
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Crunchbase StrictlyVC at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Inside the changing rules of venture capital
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TechCrunch Khosla Ventures Taps Ex-OpenAI Executive Tal Broda for Infrastructure Investing
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The Wall Street Journal Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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