Instacart prices its 22M shares at $30 a piece, raising $660M in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of ~$10B; Instacart was valued at $39B in 2021
the company isn't just an app. @apoorva_mehta and the team had to build an e-commerce, labor management and ad platform. He also had to construct an enterprise system for retailers + all in a low-marg...
Stability AI raised a $101M seed, a source says at a ~$1B valuation, and its CEO says Stable Diffusion has 10M DAUs and its web app DreamStudio has 1.5M+ users
no billionaires, big funds, governments or anyone else with control of the company or the communities we support. We're completely independent," The future is open-source🔥 https://twitter.com/... Jim ...
Robinhood launches a monthly Investor Index to track the performance of the 100 most popular stocks in its app, weighted by percentage of stocks in portfolios
the “Robinhood Investor Index” Top 5 stocks rn: Tesla Apple Amazon Ford AMC @WSJmarkets @RobinhoodApp @aosipovich https://www.wsj.com/... Parker / @pt : I hope one day we get laws requiring brokerages...
Robinhood launches Investor Index, updated monthly, to track the performance of the 100 most popular stocks in its app, weighting users' “conviction” in them
Robinhood Markets is launching an index to track the favorite stocks of its millions of predominantly young, social-media-savvy customers. Tweets: @anthony , @gunjanjs , @pt , @kopnerd , and @jamespmc...
a16z invests in Adam Neumann's residential real estate management startup Flow, sources say ~$350M at a $1B+ valuation, the firm's largest-ever individual check
Our nation has a housing crisis. — The demographic trends driving … Ryan Deffenbaugh / Protocol : Can proptech go with Adam Neumann's Flow? Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE : NIMBY Marc Andreessen Gives WeW...
After 3AC's collapse, centralized lenders with exposure to 3AC had failed, while their decentralized counterparts liquidated collateral and continued operating
Good morning! An IT head, data scientist, and AI product manager walk into a bar. PYMNTS.com : Today in Crypto: Three Arrows Capital Files for Bankruptcy; Celsius Hits Three Week Mark of Closed Withd...
Parker Conrad's HR software startup Rippling raises a $250M Series D led by Kleiner and Bedrock at an $11.25B valuation, bringing its total funding to $700M
“I don't think Silicon Valley has ever seen a comeback like this before.” — Parker Conrad is fully back. Tweets: @realgenekim and @paulg Tweets: Gene Kim / @realgenekim : “All told, the company spen...
As bitcoin falls to ~$43K, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says the country “bought the dip” and acquired 150 more BTC, taking its total holding to 700
Country Now Holds 700 BTC Livemint : El Salvador buys 150 bitcoins on dips as BTC drops by nearly $4,000 Shaurya Malwa / CryptoSlate : El Salvador buys 150 more Bitcoin as BTC falls to $45,000 Erhan K...
Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's
what?! This story just keeps getting better and better 😂 https://www.coindesk.com/... Christopher Inks / @txwestcapital : I understand the market but still can't help but feel like the spending of suc...
A roundup of the 88 companies that launched at YC's Winter 2019 Demo Day 2, including ride-sharing, insurance, developer tool, and crypto trading startups
TechCrunch : Tweets: @ilan , @garrytan , and @pt Tweets: Ilan Abehassera / @ilan : Most of the YC startups I am seeing from this batch (W19) are super super early, with much later stage valuations. I...