12 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $466.9M - Week of September 9, 2024
12 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $466.9M - Week of September 9, 2024Launch of 🍓 Unicorn Founders’ Average Age is 35 💰 Tech for America Recap 🇺🇸 What Kind of Founders I Want to Invest In? 💪 SB-1047 for AI ️👮Happy Monday from Singapore! Last week, in the Bay Area, over 6,000+ people attended the sold-out Acquired event at the Chase Center featuring Mark Zuckerberg. The All-In Summit, the live version of the podcast, hosted Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Sergey Brin. SaaStr attracted over 13,000 B2B founders. And I hosted the Tech for America event featuring Intel, Hanwha, MLtwist, Google, Microsoft and the FBI. This week I’m in Singapore for Solana's Breakpoint, PayFi Summit, Asia PE-VC Summit, Milken Institute, SuperReturn Asia, Web Summit Qatar in Singapore, F1 activities plus more! Looking forward to connecting with many of you there and hopefully get a chance to catch up! P.S. Big congrats to Huma Finance team (a Race Capital portfolio company) for raising Series A! The future of PayFi is very bright ☀️ Here are a few great things to read/watch this week:🍓 Launch of OpenAI o1 — Last week, OpenA launched o1 (also named Strawberry), a new LLM trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. Strawberry thinks before it answers — it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user. Meanwhile, OpenAI aims to raise at least $6.5B at a $150B valuation and Oprah interviewed Sam Altman on ABC News! 💰 Unicorn Founders’ Average Age is 35 — One of the most common stereotypes about unicorn founders is that most of them are 20-something Stanford dropouts. However, that’s not what data tells us. According to Stanford University Graduate School of Business’ research, 2,732 US-based VC-backed unicorn founders shows that their average age is 35. 1% of unicorn founders started during their teenage years and another 1% during their 70s. Most unicorn founders started when they were in their 30s. Plus, 25% in their 20s, and 20% in their 40s. Read more by Ilya Strebulaev. ️👮 The AI Bill Driving a Wedge Through Silicon Valley — The SB-1047 Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act would require developers building LLMs to:
The bill would apply to all companies doing business in California, regardless of where they are based. This bill would introduce civil penalties of up to 10% of the cost of training a model against developers. Failure to do so could result in fines of up to $10 million. Read more on the FT. 🇺🇸 Tech for America Recap — The future of Tech in America has room to improve, but it is very exciting and going in the right direction. Last Thursday, we covered so many topics from:
💪 What Kind of Founders I Want to Invest In? Founders that have Grit and Stamina. Building a company is a marathon, not a sprint. This TED talk by Angela Lee Duckworth is a great reminder. This week a total of 12 startups raised $466.9M in funding, 0 M&As:
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