Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of November 13, 2023. Enable Raised $120M Series D

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This week, San Francisco is hosting the highly anticipated Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit!  Alfred and I will be attending the APEC CEO Summit. Perhaps catching up with some of you there? 
 

P.S. Congrats to Databricks for closing additional funding for their Series I round from AT&T Ventures, Sanabil Investments, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and more!

Here are a few great reads, watch, etc for this week:

  • 🇨🇳 APEC 2023 101 - APEC is made up of 21 member economies, including the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and Canada. The members account for nearly 50% of global trade and 40% of the global population, giving the U.S. a big platform.  Read more
  • 😂 Can we take Elon Musk's new chatbot seriously? The chatbot, named “Grok” (pronounced graw-k), is trained on “real-time access” to information pulled from X. Haters be warned—don't use the "Grok" if you can't take a joke.  Read more
  • 🌏 Leadership in a Fragmenting World - I really enjoy this conversation hosted by Asia Society with Morris Chang of TSMC and Joe Tsai of the Alibaba Group. It's cool to learn that Joe's father was the very first person that Morris met when he first moved to Taiwan. Watch here
  • 💻 OpenAI DevDay Keynote - The launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, 2M developers, 100M active developers.  Truly impressive considering it's only been one year since launch.  Watch here
  • 🏠 How WeWork Went From $47B Startup to Bankrupt Penny Stock  What Went Wrong?  Watch WSJ for serious analysis or funny comment by Ronny Chieng's on "The Daily Show". 😂

This week a total of 12 startups raised $243.7M in funding, 1 M&As:

  • $158.1M goes to 5 Enterprise startups
  • $3.1M goes to 1 FinTech startup
  • $2.8M goes to 1 Crypto startup
  • $7.5M goes to 1 Marketplace startup
  • $60M goes to 1 BioTech startup
  • $5.3M goes to 1 Health Tech startup
  • $6.9M goes to 2 Climate Tech startups
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