The venture fund that spent $4.6 billion in a year just raised $6 billion more
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, closed a $6 billion growth fund on 1 May, its largest ever and its fourth dedicated late-stage vehicle. The majority of the capital, $4.5 billion, came from limited partners including sovereign wealth funds. The remaining $1.5 billion came from the firm’s own partners and employees, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China
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Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale
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Arcee AI spent half its venture capital to build an open reasoning model that rivals Claude Opus in agent tasks
US start-up Arcee AI spent roughly half its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model with 400 billion parameters designed to take on Claude Opus in agent tasks.&l [...]
Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI
Gigascale Capital, the venture firm led by former Meta chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, has raised a $250 million fund to invest in energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals startups [...]
Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.
Founders Fund’s SpaceX bet has become one of the great venture trades. Peter Thiel’s firm put around $600m into the rocket company. At the IPO price, that stake is worth more than $50bn. That is r [...]
Nvidia teams up with venture capital firms to find and fund India's next wave of AI startups
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Meta will fund seven new natural gas plants to power its biggest data center yet
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Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis
The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages €2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on [...]