14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $592.4M - Week of July 15, 2024
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $592.4M - Week of July 15, 2024👉 How to Build and Scale an Open Source Company 💰 Sequoia Capital's Stake in Stripe and Wiz Valued at $8.6B & $3.2B ⛓️💥 Faulty CrowdStrike Update Impacted 674,000 Enterprise CustomersHappy Monday! If you are in San Francisco, join us for this developer event on Wednesday 👉👉 How to Build and Scale an Open Source Company: JSEE, WebRTC, Agora.io, BEA Systems and more. 💰 Sequoia Capital Offers to Buy $861M of Stripe Shares from Investors at $70B Valuation. This represents only around 10% of Sequoia's total FMV of Stripe shares (~$8.6B). Read more on Axios Meanwhile, their Wiz’ $21M investment returned 153X (~$3.2B)! 💪 a16z Now Supports Trump - Marc and Ben hopped on the Trump train, pledging to funnel substantial funds into PACs supporting his candidacy. Meanwhile, Elon Musk said Donald Trump has to win. On another note, Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance is gaining traction among tech investors, thanks to his deep ties to Peter Thiel. Read how PayPal founder boosted Vance’s political career. 🔨 Why FTC Needs to Rethink Tech Regulation - The current regulatory system isn’t set up to consider regulations in a long-term fashion in our technology-driven world. Regulators need to start rethinking what constitutes a monopoly. In Microsoft’s case, regulators incorrectly decided that “desktop” was the monopoly. It was “developers” where Microsoft enjoyed a real edge. Regulators should have been pushing for change around that advantage. Read this opinion by Om ⛓️💥 Faulty CrowdStrike Software Update Caused Global IT Outage - Microsoft is advising clients to try a classic method to get things working - turning it off and on again - in some cases up to 15 times. At least 674,000 enterprise customers are at risk of disruption globally. Questions we should as ourselves as Bill Gurley suggested:
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10 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $295M - Week of July 8, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
🏋️ FTC's Take On Open-Weights Foundation Models 💰 Goldman Sachs to Launch 3 RWA Token Projects 🧠 Apple Watch for Your Brain 💰 Silicon Valley Wins Few Government Contracts ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
2 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $17.1M - Week of July 1, 2024
Monday, July 8, 2024
📢 What Do You Read, Listen and Follow? 💰 Coachella of Deal Making 🎂 Amazon Turns 30 🇨🇳 List of China LLMs 💪 How Investors Are Navigating Geopolitics ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
What Would John Wooden Look for in a President?
Monday, July 1, 2024
💰 12 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $545.5M - Week of June 24, 2024 👓 How to Read a Founder? ✨ Are these new innovations or distractions for VC? 🗺️ The Enterprise AI Roadmap ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
19 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $541.3M - Week of June 17, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
💸 Edith on Bloomberg Speaking on Stablecoin 💰 AI's $600B Question ☁️ 50% of Top 10 Most Funded Cloud Infrastructure Startups Are in SF 👩🏻⚕️ Ray Kurzweil on How AI Will Transform Physical World ͏ ͏
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $429.1M - Week of June 10, 2024
Monday, June 17, 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 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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