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The oxymoron of Mira Murati’s reported $2 billion seed round

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has reportedly doubled the amount of funding she’s seeking to raise for her startup Thinking Machines Lab.

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Mira Murati’s reported $2 billion 'seed' funding suggests the AI boom is alive and well, even after a week of economic chaos

Former OpenAI Chief Tech Officer Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines, is looking to raise a massive $2 billion seed round, according to Business Insider. If true, it’s a jarring number that could reframe the debate about the AI boom.

Fortune

History suggests a tariff-induced downturn may cause a reckoning in the venture capital industry

The venture market has been reorienting itself the last three years. It may just be getting started.

Fortune

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There are 372 AI unicorns right now, according to PitchBook. Here’s what that means

Right now, in the tech industry paddock, there are 372 AI unicorns, according to PitchBook.

Fortune

Foodtech deal count hit a record low in Q4 2024, says PitchBook

Q4 2024 was a rather limited time for foodtech funding, according to new PitchBook data.

Fortune

Female founders feel less supported, optimistic

VC gender gaps affect founder optimism, support, and mental health.

Fortune

Venture capital continued its slump in 2024—with Asian deals hitting their lowest count in a decade

Just over 27% of all deals happened in Asia last year, according to PitchBook, amid geopolitical tensions and a sluggish China.

Fortune

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Here’s what you need to know about Turo, the car rental app allegedly used in the New Orleans attack and the Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel

The Turo app is like Airbnb for renting vehicles.

Fortune

Three charts explaining where the AI frenzy is right now

PitchBook recently released its Q3 AI and ML report.

Fortune

Insight Partners has paid out nearly $8 billion this year—but returns for its giant 2021 fund have mostly come up dry

The lack of distributions is leading to a rise in continuation funds in private equity

Fortune

For AI agent startups, deal count is up 81.4% year over year, says PitchBook

Per PitchBook, YC is the leading investor in LLM agents, by all-time number of investments. In the trailing 12 months, there have been 156 deals in the space.

Fortune

Mobility tech deal value was up 13.9% quarter over quarter, led by autonomous driving startups, according to PitchBook

Q2 saw some green shoots for mobility tech as a sector, as VCs invested $6.7 billion in mobility tech, marking a 13.9% quarter-over-quarter increase in deal value, according to PitchBook.

Fortune

VCs invested $1.2 billion in insurtechs in Q2 2024, according to PitchBook

Today, the insurtech sector is still attracting investment, albeit pulled-back and with asterisks. In the second quarter of 2024, $1.2 billion in VC money was invested across 106 insurtech deals, a recent PitchBook report showed.

Fortune

Flat and down rounds have hit a decade high, according to new PitchBook data

PitchBook just released its quarterly U.S. Valuations Report, and its data isn’t surprising—but it is cryptic. Flat and down rounds hit a decade high, while median late-stage valuations (this year to date) are surpassing the 2021 bull market.

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AI startups raised $24 billion globally in Q2, but the question remains: Where will value in AI accrue? Here’s one VC’s (slightly) contrarian take.

PitchBook isn’t ready to call a comeback, but deal counts are looking up: In Q2 this year, U.S. VCs invested $55.6 billion in 4,226 deals, marking the highest quarterly deal count since Q2 2022. Meanwhile, AI startups raised $24 billion globally in Q2, Crunchbase says.

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For U.S. VCs, average fund size this year hit $153.5 million. But fundraising is only going well for a select few, PitchBook data shows.

Data pretty clearly suggests that, for lots of fundraising VCs right now, it is brutal out here. But there are nuances to this, as illustrated in PitchBook’s just-published mid-year update to its 2024 U.S. Venture Capital Outlook.

Fortune

What I learned about dealmaking (and mascots) in Japan

In 2023, total VC deal activity in Japan shook out to $5.1 billion in value, across 1,213 deals, according to PitchBook.

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Evening Standard

Legal tech firm Farewill sees value written down more than £50 million by shareholder Daily Mail

Legal tech firm Farewill has seen its valuation slashed by more than £50 million by one of its major shareholders, the Standard has learnt, amid growing signs European tech firms are struggling to hold on to the heady valuations they attracted during the height of the pandemic.

International Business Times UK

Kiln Emerges Victorious Amid Crypto Downturn, Secures $17M Funding in 2023

According to data from PitchBook, VC investments in crypto companies witnessed a staggering 68% drop in 2023 compared to the robust figures seen in 2022.

Fortune

AI is so indispensable for this profession that nearly 60% of the workers who use it say they’d rather take a 10% pay cut than go without the technology

Many market intelligence researchers have become reliant on AI to do their jobs—it could be a sign of what's to come across the economy.

Evening Standard

European tech valuations fall again as storm clouds gather for start-ups

Valuations of European tech firms continued to decline in the third quarter, figures out today show, as start-ups battled for survival amid weaker consumer sentiment, scant venture capital investment and slower growth.

Fortune

The new realities of venture capital, in 3 charts

PitchBook data shows that seed and pre-seed fundraising have been resilient to the downturn.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s just a matter of time’: why AI could help Europe create its own Apple or Google

Silicon Valley overshadows its transatlantic rivals. But as artificial intelligence grows – and with a global summit on it this week – some think it could offer a Euro startup the chance to become a new Google

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The congressman investigating four VC firms with ties to China has a message: This is just the beginning

In an interview with Term Sheet, Representative Mike Gallagher said that these letters to venture capital firms were just the beginning of the Committee’s investigation.

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