Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M
Silicon Valley has learned how to succeed in Donald Trump's Washington: Spend record amounts. Visit the White House.
Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M
Silicon Valley has learned how to succeed in Donald Trump's Washington: Spend record amounts. Visit the White House.
Trump hosted a gala dinner for the top buyers of his memecoin, including Justin Sun, and reaffirmed his commitment to making the US the world's “crypto capital”
The president hosted the biggest investors in his memecoin at his golf club outside Washington
Washington state lawmakers pass new taxes amid a record budget deficit, targeting Amazon, Microsoft, and others to raise $9B+; Governor Ferguson can now sign
Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg :
Truth Social parent TMTG, which has a $5B market cap, reports Q2 revenue down 30% YoY to $837K and a net loss of $16.4M; Trump owns 59.9% of TMTG's common stock
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q … Claudia Assis / MarketWatch : Trump Media narrows quarterly loss to $16.4 million Rohail Saleem / Wccftech : Trump M...
Washington, DC-based Cape, which is developing a mobile service that doesn't ask for customers' personal data, raised a $40M Series B co-led by A-Star and a16z
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Analysis: SMIC's gross margins halved in H1 2023 as the company poured $345M, or 11.4% of its revenue, into R&D SMIC reported $111M in state grants in H1 2023
and questions for Washington
A look at Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022
and snowballed beginning in 2018 after Scaramucci, back from Washington, hired a friend from Harvard Law School who's been behind the money-losing push into crypto. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @prof...
Washington, DC-based GiveCampus, which offers fundraising tools to education-related nonprofits, raised $50M led by Silversmith Capital Partners
and just secured $50M of its own
Prefect, whose dataflow automation service allows companies to streamline workflows and schedule when apps run, raises $32M Series B led by Tiger Global
Washington, D.C.-based Prefect closed a $32 million Series B led by Tiger Global Management to help eliminate data flow problems for companies' data teams.