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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14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $677.4M - Week of September 2, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
📺 Solana vs Ethereum is like Android vs iOS 💪 Founder's Mode by Paul Graham 💰 Magnificent 7 are Distorting VC market 🤼♂️ Clash of the Tech Titans ⛓️ Pavel Durov's Declaration ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $369.4M - Week of August 26, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
👨👦👦 Unit 8200 is the Silicon Valley's Hot Talent Pipeline 💰 Are NFTs Securities? 🖥️ Keep Code Behind AI Open 🇺🇸 Tech for America 👮 Pavel's Arrest Boosted Telegram Downloads ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $393M - Week of August 19, 2024
Monday, August 26, 2024
💰 Microsoft's $260 Billion in ARR 🔪 Kill Switch' for $100M Millionaires 💰 Enterprise Sales Tips for Founders 🍔 The Adoption of ChatGPT 🇨🇳 Six “Little Artificial-Intelligence Dragons” of China ͏
8 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $295M - Week of August 12, 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
😮 The Next President Needs Social Media to Win 💰 Co-Founder Equity Mistakes to Avoid 🤛 Databricks & Snowflake Both Fear Microsoft 🎤 Eric Schmidt Walks Back His Google Claim Google ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
13 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $1.98B - Week of August 5, 2024
Monday, August 12, 2024
😢 RIP Susan Wojcicki 🚫 Google's Default Search Deal is Now Illegal 💰 Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup 💱 Understanding Carry Trade 🎉 Congrats to Placer.ai team for raising $75M at $1.5 Billion ͏ ͏
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