Three questions to ask before buying a stake in a private company
The nature of the valuation, share transfer restrictions and the age of the last round: three questions to ask before buying a stake in a private company.
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Crusoe Heads Into Latin America With a Paraguay AI Cloud and Expands in Norway
Crusoe will build its first Latin American AI cloud next to Paraguay's Itaipú dam, has a 12 MW hydro-powered site live in Norway and unveiled Spark Liquid modular data centers.
Building the infrastructure for AI will cost the US 3.6% of its GDP annually, while venture capital in Europe has grown by 77%
Let’s kick off the week with some figures on where money is currently flowing within the AI sector.
Hark has launched its AI assistant, Hark Pro, for everyone
Last week, Hark—a deal we opened to our investors at the end of September—launched its first application for a general audience. Hark Pro is available for free on the web, iOS, and Android.
Johns Hopkins has selected OpenEvidence, which is already used by 1.12 million medical professionals in the U.S.
Johns Hopkins Medicine is launching a partnership with OpenEvidence focused on clinical practice and physician training, reports Fierce Healthcare.
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Pre-money and post-money: why a single round has two valuations
Pre-money is a company's value before a round, post-money is its value after. Form Energy shows how to calculate stakes, dilution and compare rounds.
Lambda raises the bar ahead of IPO: funding round of up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation
Lambda is negotiating up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a 2027 IPO, after its backlog rose to $50 billion and a $1 billion GPU loan.
Big Tech profits from private AI companies twice — as a supplier and as a shareholder
Some analytical information on external (non-portfolio) companies for our readers
OpenEvidence and Anthropic launch medical AI in 100 countries
Anthropic and OpenEvidence are set to provide doctors in approximately 100 low- and middle-income countries with free access to an AI-powered clinical decision support tool, Reuters reports. The list of countries incl...
Eight banks are providing financing for the Form Energy plant - $270 million, with the potential to increase to $1 billion
Form Energy has secured a $270 million credit facility. Barclays structured the deal, with a syndicate comprising Citi, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Jefferies, RBC, Société Générale, and Stifel.
AI data centers will require $31.6 trillion by 2050, with the bulk of the spending going toward chips and servers
PwC, one of the world's "Big Four" audit firms, has published a forecast for AI infrastructure through 2050. Cumulative capital expenditure on data centers is estimated at $31.6 trillion, a figure that approaches $50 ...
Investing in startups for private investors: where the chance is, and where the trap is
In public markets, an investor at least sees the noise: candles, news, reports, the crowd’s reaction. In startups there is less noise — and that is exactly why silence can be confused with safety. A company may be gro...
How investors value startups: why revenue alone proves nothing
Investors like simple answers: revenue is growing, so the company is expensive; the market is large, so the upside is huge. In startups, this logic breaks quickly. Two companies with the same revenue can be worth comp...
Alternative investments for private investors: when they make sense
When public markets get nervous, an investor naturally wants to step away from the noise. Stocks move on rates, bonds argue with inflation, currencies live their own life — and against that backdrop, alternative inves...
Hark, the AI lab of Figure founder Brett Adcock, is valued at $6 billion
Figure founder Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark is valued at $6 billion after a Series A of over $700 million. Who invested, what it has released and the risks.
Revolut received its sixth banking license and applied for a seventh the very next day
Colombia’s financial regulator, the SFC, has granted Revolut an operating license—the final authorization needed for launch.
Crusoe has signed a multi-year agreement with Perplexity
Perplexity is moving its entire model workflow to Crusoe Cloud
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