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According to Anthropic's S-1, no venture fund owns 5% of the company, while Amazon — through $6.2 billion in convertible notes and $10 billion in preferred shares — has become the largest financial beneficiary of the upcoming offering. Google also expects a substantial gain.
Aziz KarimovNvidia took part in the $14 million Series B round of the Indian startup Simplismart at a valuation of about $100 million. The startup develops software for optimizing the deployment of AI models on existing infrastructure. Separately, talks on a larger round were reported, but the founder denied this.
Otabek YusupovDaytona Platforms announced a $60 million Series B round led by FirstMark Growth at a $1 billion valuation. The company has raised $91 million in total. The round included well-known angels — the founders of Stripe, Shopify, Perplexity, Zoom, Datadog, Quora, and Mercor, as well as Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures. The startup is building a cloud designed specifically for long-lived AI agents.
Javlon TursunovOpenAI, according to CNBC, is working to raise up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation in a round led by Coatue and investors from the UAE. Bloomberg previously reported a $1.4 trillion valuation. Terms are still being negotiated. The company filed confidential IPO paperwork in June and was valued at $852 billion in March.
Javlon TursunovIsraeli-American startup Zenzap, building a corporate messenger with AI features, raised $44 million from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and The Garage. Founder Guy Weiss is raising venture capital for the first time in his career. Clients include FedEx, Starbucks, Taco Bell, and others.
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