14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $429.1M - Week of June 10, 2024
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $429.1M - Week of June 10, 2024📢 How to Pitch Your Fund to LP Apple-OpenAI deal sets Microsoft back 🏎️ Tesla’s Multibillion-Dollar Pay Package for Elon Musk 🧑🤝🧑 Databricks brought 16000 to SF Apple valued $3.26T
Happy Monday! Summer is here and Silicon Valley is keeping busy! 🧑🤝🧑 Databricks bought Tabular (data management) and then, brought 16000 people to San Francisco for a huge Data+AI Summit. Meanwhile, Apple hosted WWDC 2024 at Apple Park with all kinds of Apple Intelligence (AI) announcements and pushed its stock value to over $3.26T. Trillion! Here are a few great things to read/watch this week: 📢 How to Pitch Your Fund to LPs - I presented this report including my 7 Fundraising Habits of Effective GPs. Enjoy reading! 💰 How to Pitch Your Startup to US Investors - I am hosting this Webinar for FoundersHK this coming Wednesday 6 pm PST / 9 am HKT Thursday. My talk is geared towards helping founders in Asia who want to pitch investors in Silicon Valley. I will focus my conversation on cultural differences in terms of fundraising. Join me. Apple-OpenAI deal sets Microsoft back? - CNBC's Deirdre Bosa gives the Apple/Open AI’s ChatGPT partnership a new perspective. Apple to "Pay" OpenAI for ChatGPT through distribution, is a huge win for OpenAI being able to tap the world’s largest pool of user data for training. 🏎️ Tesla’s $46 Billion Pay Package for Elon Musk - To get individuals voting shares, the company offered a raffle for fans of Elon: a chance for a tour of its Texas production plant with him. This is for sure a super creative way to get your shareholders to vote for you! Take a listen 🇨🇳 China Has Become a Scientific Superpower - China now contributes to ~40% of the world’s research papers on AI, compared with ~10% for America and 15% for the EU/Britain combined. One of the most highly cited research papers of all time, demonstrating how deep neural networks could be trained on image recognition, was written by AI researchers working in China, albeit for Microsoft, an American company. Read more on the Economist. 💸 Tempus AI went IPO and now valued at $6B - Tempus AI is a healthcare data AI company based out of Chicago that went public on Friday. I am bullish on AI applying to healthcare and it’s great to see Tempus AI rise as much as 15% during its market debut on the Nasdaq. Read more on CNBC This week a total of 13 startups raised $409.1M in funding, 4 M&As:
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