Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, closed a $6 billion growth fund on 1 May, its largest ever and its fourth dedicated late-stage vehicle. The majority of the capital, $4.5 billion, came from limited partners including s…
The alternative asset manager’s co-CEO disclosed the returns on a Q1 earnings call, framing the SpaceX gain as a hedge against potential software credit losses from AI disruption, a revealing window into how private credit firms are navigating the AI e…
The Next Frontier AI Challenge, announced at EurIPS in December, explicitly tells applicants not to try to catch up with OpenAI, but to leapfrog to the next architectural S-curve, with up to €1 billion in follow-on funding dangled for the three winning…
HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Intesa Sanpaolo are among eight institutions that have submitted commitments as sub-underwriters, in one of the largest tests of creditor appetite for AI-linked debt. The $40 billion bridge loan SoftBank signed in March to fund i…
The Stockholm-founded company, which crossed $100m in ARR in 18 months, has now raised $866m in total, and Nvidia’s entry marks the chip giant’s first investment in legal tech. Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $…
The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages €2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on AI infrastructure, foundation models, and deeptech. E…
The deal, Cognizant’s fourth major acquisition in 18 months, is designed to plug a specific gap in its AI builder strategy: the ability to design, build, and run the physical data centre infrastructure that enterprise AI actually runs on. Cognizant has…
The Spanish solar developer is betting that co-locating renewable generation with battery storage adjacent to data centres is the answer to AI’s power hunger, and investors are oversubscribed at 6.7x. Europe has a data centre problem. Electricity grids…
True Anomaly, the Colorado-based startup that builds autonomous spacecraft for orbital combat, has raised $650 million in Series D funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, bringing total capital raised to $1 billion since its founding in August 2022. The r…
For more than two decades, software has defined the trajectory of venture capital. It was efficient, scalable, and, for a long time, unmatched in its ability to generate outsized returns. Investors poured capital into SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and …