Peter Sarlin's QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round | TechCrunch
… QuTwo’s valuation and round size are somewhat modest in comparison but will let it pursue its roadmap under less pressure. …
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SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith | TechCrunch
… The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American history. …
Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026 | TechCrunch
… It ended the day at $311 and a $66 billion valuation, according to Yahoo Finance. But the price was rising again in after-hours trading. Even at the IPO price of $185, the company entered its first day of trading at a fully diluted valuation of $56.4 billion meaning, accounting for all shares . …
India's first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality | TechCrunch
… The startup raised $50 million at a $1 billion valuation in January 2024, reflecting early investor enthusiasm for India’s homegrown AI ambitions, even as AI funding in the country remains far smaller than in the U.S. …
Are orbital data centers all hype, or an actual AI infrastructure solution? | TechCrunch
… Listen to the full episode to hear about: OpenAI’s $122 billion fundraise and what its near-trillion-dollar valuation says about expectations for AI. …
Is xAI a neocloud now? | TechCrunch
… As recently as the February all-hands , xAI had real ambitions in software. …
Meridian Ventures launched a $35M fund with a focus on MBA-deferred founders | TechCrunch
… The average check size will be $500,000 for pre-seed and $750,000 for seed, and the capital hopes to be deployed over the next three years. “We saw an expanding gap between ambitious founders building frontier technologies and the capital required to help carry those ambitions forward,” Gethers sai… …
Microsoft's AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals | TechCrunch
… But Microsoft’s rush to build AI data centers has apparently sparked debate within the company about whether the pledge has become an impediment to its ambitions. …
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27 | TechCrunch
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xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over | TechCrunch
… While AI competitors OpenAI and Anthropic are also eyeing public debuts in 2026, SpaceX’s is expected to be one of the largest in history with a potential $1.75 trillion valuation. …