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Coatue Management is a crossover investment firm investing across public and private markets, backing tech companies from startups to pre-IPO giants.
Firmus Grid scrapped its Australian IPO after investors balked at a $30 billion valuation, Mint reported. Listed rival CoreWeave is still worth $37 billion, so the sources show a failed price more clearly than a failed sector.
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Battery Ventures led a $40 million Series B in Miter, a construction payroll and workforce software company, lifting its total raised to $78 million. The round is larger than all of Miter's earlier funding combined and pays for a push from paying crews into contractors' payables, safety and project data.
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Low-rated companies have raised $88 billion for AI deals this year, Goldman Sachs figures show, and lenders now check revenue before they lend. Credit goes first to borrowers with long contracts and hard assets, so a small AI vendor's cost of debt shows buyers how lenders rate its staying power.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, four times the price TechCrunch reported for its August round. Its agent works through users' own screens and accounts, so permission and recovery are Instinct's to engineer before any app maker is asked.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation on September 28, four times the $2.5 billion it carried a month earlier while still in early access. The mark repriced faster than any metric the company has published.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, four times the $2.5 billion it was valued at a month earlier. Its agent runs errands by operating other companies' websites, apps and phone lines, so single-task apps end up serving software that acts for the user.
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Crunchbase put the chipmaker among August's highest-spending lead investors on $1.3 billion of led rounds, a total built from Poolside's $1 billion and Volta's $300 million, and Andreessen Horowitz is credited with that same Volta round.
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The Kaggle founders have raised $38.5M from Coatue and Canaan for an account-intelligence graph priced at $99 a month. At that list price it takes roughly 32,400 subscription-years to book the round back.
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Lightfield says legacy CRM fields were written for humans and confuse agents, and its own record is open over the Model Context Protocol, which is also the cheapest way to leave Salesforce exactly where it is.
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Andreessen Horowitz led the $47m round on the argument that agents cannot reason from fields a human typed after the call, which is a thesis about who ends up owning the customer record rather than a demonstration that anyone will pay for a new one.
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Two Malaysian sites take Firmus past 900MW of contracted capacity, though five of its seven data centres are still unbuilt, which puts the scarce input in this trade on the grid side rather than the silicon side.
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The Series G prices Claude at roughly 27 times a run-rate figure Anthropic reports itself. The enterprise buyers supplying that growth have no public view of what the new shareholders received.
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Nineteen days after the same model name produced repetition loops and phantom missing files, the served checkpoint refused 59.2% of concealed-hazard tasks. That makes third-party refusal testing a running job, not a procurement step.
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Universal, Sony and Warner all took equity in Stability AI's $76 million Series B. Two years after suing AI song generators, the majors are buying the toolmakers.
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Universal, Warner and Sony Music now own a piece of the company selling licensed music models. The money funds a narrower Stability: professional tooling, sold through a plugin.
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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 September listing with a large secondary component would price the smart ring maker about 47% above last year's private mark. Revenue and membership numbers are still undisclosed.
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The Australian AI cloud company is acquiring Benmax's fabrication, design and projects business, doubling its own headcount to 340 and taking mechanical manufacturing in-house.
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Coatue's round values the company at roughly 27 times a self-reported $7 billion run rate, about what December's round paid. What changed is that the acceleration has stopped.
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