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Couchbase news (and my preso) [Thought Palace]
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OpenLight Shines With $50 Million - Silicon Valley Daily
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Lambda Raises $320M to Build a GPU Cloud for AI
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| | Lambda raised a $320M Series C for a $1.5B valuation, to expand our GPU cloud & further our mission to build the #1 AI compute platform in the world.
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Elon Musk's AI startup xAI closes in on $6B funding round backed by Andreessen Horowitz at $18 billion valuation - Tech Startups
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| | TechStartups - Coverage of Technology News, technology startups, Emerging technology, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
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Valuation Policies Are A Mess - VC Adventure
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| Every venture firm reports the "value" of each of its underlying investments. Typically, this is updated quarterly and sent to each of the fund's investors. The idea is that investors will then have a definitive view of the value of the firm's investments. Simple, right? But what is the "value" of a private company? Turns out the answer to that question is not so easy to determine, and, as a result, valuation reporting in venture is a mess. Prior to 2007, most firms held company valuations at the price of the most recent round. This was relatively straightforward and generally pretty consistent across funds. The rationale for this approach was that the best indicator of value was the last "market"...