Source: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, founded in April 2024 and aiming to create “spatial intelligence” in AI, raised ~$100M in its latest round at a $1B+ valuation
Stanford computer scientist's ‘spatial intelligence’ venture wins backing from investors including Andreessen Horowitz
Lumos, which helps companies manage employees' identities and access to apps and systems, raised a $35M Series B led by Scale, taking its total funding to $65M+
Andrej Safundzic, Alan Flores Lopez and Leo Mehr met in a class at Stanford focusing on ethics, public policy and technological change.
DoorDash closes at $189.51, up 85% from its $102 pricing, after popping to $182 as the shares began trading, giving a valuation of $60.2B
turning $680m to $11.5b based on today's opening price. https://www.cnbc.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : What I like most about the DoorDash founding story is that it bucks the entrepreneurial...
Profile of Singapore-based Sea Limited, an operator of online gaming, commerce, and financial services, whose market cap has quadrupled in 2020 to over $70B
and fiercer competition with local “superapps.” https://asia.nikkei.com/... Ruri Imahashi / @imaruritokyo : Sea's CEO Li suggested Sea's high valuation is due to its mix of gaming, commerce and financ...
Alchemy, which is building middleware that connects Dapps to underlying blockchains like Ethereum, raises $15M from Pantera, Stanford, Coinbase, and others
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Sources: PlusAI, which develops self-driving trucks and is backed by Sequoia Capital, is close to raising ~$200M at a valuation of $1B+
Bloomberg : Tweets: @drboycewatkins1 and @luluyilun Tweets: Dr Boyce Watkins / @drboycewatkins1 : If you're into trucking, be mindful. This is coming down the pipeline https://www.bloomberg.com/... L...
Cabify founders and early investors in Brazil's 99, who met at Stanford and are compared to the PayPal Mafia, reflect on Latin America's startup revival
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : “It was in one of those houses, about a twelve-minute bicycle ride from @Stanford University, that the seed was planted ...
Multigame esports organization Gen.G raises $46M with investments from Will Smith, Clippers minority owner Dennis Wong, Battery Ventures, Stanford, and others
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Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to other tech startups, raises $125M Series C led by DST Global and Greenoaks, at a valuation of $1.1B
Payments companies are hot, but none are hotter than Brex — Henrique Dubugras, a 21-year-old Stanford freshman and entrepreneur … Thanks: @rafie517
SambaNova Systems, an AI chip startup with tech from two Stanford professors and led by ex-Oracle SVP, raised $56M Series A co-led by GV, Walden International
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