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In 2013, rapper Nas invested in Coinbase when the crypto exchange was valued at $150 million; 8 years later, his stake was worth at least $40 million

Rapper Nas' venture firm, QueensBridge, invested in Coinbase in 2013. This early bet occurred when Coinbase was valued at approximately $150 million. Eight years later, Coinbase's public trading valued Nas' stake at over $40 million. QueensBridge Venture Partners was founded by Nas in 2013. The firm has since invested in…

The Economic Times

World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds

Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

The Guardian - US

Junior Bankers Spend Hours Building Models And Pitchbooks. OpenAI Wants ChatGPT To Do That Work.

Morgan Stanley and Evercore helped shape the specialized ChatGPT product as OpenAI pushes deeper into work traditionally handled by Wall Street analysts.

International Business Times

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OpenAI Just Built 'ChatGPT for Finance Bros' That Could Cut Down the 100-Hour Work Week: Here's How

OpenAI's ChatGPT for Financial Services automates research, modeling, and pitchbooks, helping cut down the 100-hour workweek and boost productivity with AI-driven financial analysis.

International Business Times UK

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for financial services industry

The product, ChatGPT for Financial Services, was developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners ‌to help ⁠shape the ⁠offering, OpenAI said in a blog post.

The Economic Times

Half of remote IT job applications now carry North Korean fraud patterns, startup Endorsed finds

Fake job applications are surging just as Mythos fear narrows the investment field.

Fortune

Private equity’s $860 billion zombie company problem

The zero-interest-rate era left private equity with thousands of companies it can't exit, can't sell, and can't quite kill.

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$860 Billion Stuck: Private Equity’s Zombie Problem Deepens

Private equity firms are sitting on more than $860 billion in buyout assets in funds at least 7 years old, as thousands of portfolio companies linger beyond traditional exit windows, trapping capital for sponsors and investors.

Benzinga

Stripe, Databricks And Anduril Top PitchBook's Next Big Secondary Trades

Blockbuster names like OpenAI and Anthropic may still dominate the venture secondary market, while SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) has until recently been another major source of investor demand. But as those companies move closer to the public markets, a new group of private startups is emerging as the next potential drivers of…

Benzinga

OpenAI’s $1 Trillion IPO Ambition Faces New Timing Test as Anthropic Gains Ground

OpenAI may be pushing back its public debut as it weighs whether market conditions can support its reported goal of a $1 trillion valuation. The company confidentially filed draft IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators last month, but subsequent reports suggest it could wait until 2027 before going public.

Benzinga

Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet's business model

Multiple cyber firms agree: bots outnumber humans online, challenging advertising, analytics and security systems designed around human visitors.

Fortune

In 2026 so far, U.S. VCs have deployed a record-shattering $412.7 billion. Almost none of it is trickling down.

In the first half of 2026, U.S. VCs deployed $412.7 billion, a record that surpasses the full year of 2025 by 30%, according to PitchBook’s new report.

Fortune

SpaceX’s IPO Hasn’t Solved Venture’s Bigger Problem: Liquidity Beyond The Mega Winners

SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO gave venture investors a rare liquidity win in 2026, but it also exposed what one expert called "the biggest contradiction in the VC market so far this year": value creation is accelerating, yet liquidity remains concentrated among only a handful of companies.

Benzinga

The defense tech boom has become a bubble—or it will be soon

Defense tech was once considered, at best, a fringe area for traditional VCs. Now, there could be a bubble.

Fortune

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Why BlackRock, Nvidia, and Temasek are betting billions on quantum computing

Geopolitical competition and meaningful exits are convincing Wall Street the technology may finally be nearing its moment.

The Guardian - UK

Nurseries, vets and shops: the sectors where private equity plays a big role

Private equity has a significant stake in many day-to-day services across the UK – including essentials such as elderly care and funerals

Fortune

As mega-funds grab 72% of all capital raised, the gap between VC's haves and have-nots keeps widening

PitchBook's midyear data shows an increasingly skewed VC ecosystem.

Fortune

The key disclosures missing from SpaceX’s S-1

PitchBook points out SpaceX’s S-1 doesn’t get as granular as you might hope on some key metrics.

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MarketBeat

StepStone Group Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP) reported record fee-related earnings and fundraising in its fiscal fourth quarter 2026, even as GAAP results were weighed down by accounting related to its StepStone Private Wealth profits interests. The private markets investment firm reported a GAAP net loss attribut

Fortune

DeepSeek and China’s AI boom are increasingly powered by state money

Government-linked investors in China went from backing fewer than 10 AI deals annually before 2018 to more than 140 in 2025, reshaping who controls the future of AI.

TechRadar

War, drones, and the energy reckoning: How the Iran war is reshaping tech investment

The Iran war is turning autonomous systems and energy resilience into key investment themes.

Euronews

Musk’s path to $1 trillion: SpaceX files for IPO, reports say

Elon Musk’s space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing — a blockbuster offering that would likely rank among the largest ever and could make its founder the world’s first trillionaire.

Fortune

The ‘death of SaaS’ could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A

While public software multiples compress, private dealmakers are feasting. 2025 was the biggest year for enterprise SaaS M&A since 2021—and the chaos isn't over yet.

Fortune

SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could be 3 of the biggest venture-backed IPOs of all time

If all three went public it could “conceivably create more value than all VC-backed IPOs since 2000 have collectively.”

Fortune

AI is reviving tech sectors that VCs had all but forgotten

PitchBook data shows early-stage money surging back into healthtech, cybersecurity, biotech, and SaaS.

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