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Pre-revenue private marks, small rounds at large valuations, and the multiple of valuation to total capital raised.
Polymarket is weighing an IPO and a native token as routes to capital, Bloomberg reported, with valuation talks reportedly above $20 billion. Its spending so far points toward equity, and neither route has a timetable.
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Ramp raised about $1.85 billion at a $60 billion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reported, up from $44 billion in June. Forkast frames it as spend software turning into an agent platform. The price is under 40 times the annualized revenue Ramp reported in June.
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RobCo staff sold most of a $40 million share block at terms valuing the Munich robot maker above $1 billion, twice January's price. Most of the cash went to the sellers, so the figure measures demand for physical AI more than it funds RobCo.
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Forbes puts the 18-month-old training-data startup at $3.2bn against the $300m it carried five months ago. Most of that move is multiple rather than growth, and the round has not yet closed or named a lead.
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The Korean AI service platform raised 100 billion won in August at a valuation above 1 trillion won, roughly 4.3 times all the money ever invested in it, and is targeting a preliminary review filing next year.
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The scrutiny centres on revenue booked through data collection centres and joint ventures that local governments capitalised. One person familiar with the review put the valuation impact at 60 to 70 percent if that revenue is stripped out.
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The New York Times reports OpenAI is weighing one more private round at about $1.5tn before it lists, roughly double its last valuation. It points to demand for its Codex coding tool to justify the number.
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Carta's Q1 2023 medians put Series D 58% below a year earlier and seed down 14%. Portage's Stephanie Choo calls the last round's valuation close to irrelevant, and the negotiating has moved to deal terms.
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Three rounds in eight weeks carried the San Francisco startup insurer Corgi from $1.3bn to about $4bn of paper value, on $266m of disclosed new cash, no published premium figure and a growing chain of free 24-hour cafes.
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Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia put $600m into Mach Industries at $3.7bn, three months after $300m at $1.8bn. On those marks the second cheque takes 16.2 per cent of the company and the first took 16.7.
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Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia have put another $600m into Mach Industries at more than double the valuation they themselves set three months ago, lifting the Series C to $900m and lifetime funding past $1bn.
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Wellington Management led $115M into a business whose mark went from $3.1bn to a $5bn employee tender to $7.1bn in thirteen months. The customer count is the only operating figure disclosed alongside it.
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A reported sale would end the arrangement where rivals held stakes in the Hub and none held control. Downstream of it, that is a dependency question rather than a valuation one.
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The spinout's valuation is 63 times every dollar of capital it has ever taken, on datasets gathered for de-extinction work. Anyone holding irreproducible data has an unpriced clause in a contract.
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