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FTX sold its 5% stake in Cursor for $200,000 during bankruptcy proceedings. Today, that stake would be worth more than $3 billion.
SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Cursor developer Anysphere has turned four MIT classmates in their mid-20s into multibillionaires almost overnight.
Early SpaceX investors are poised for historic gains as the company prepares for its highly anticipated IPO.
Project Prometheus, the industrial AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has reportedly reached a $41 billion valuation following its latest funding round as investors bet on AI applications beyond software.
More than 600 OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion in shares in one of Silicon Valley’s largest pre-IPO payouts.
Teen entrepreneur Zach Yadegari sold Cal AI for about $100 million and is now building an anti-doomscrolling startup.
Several major U.S. university endowments are poised to generate massive gains from their early SpaceX investments as the company approaches its highly anticipated IPO.
Founders Fund launched a Mafia-themed game show featuring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other Silicon Valley leaders.
Anthropic surpassed OpenAI to become the world’s highest-valued AI startup with a reported valuation of $965 billion.
Cognition raised more than $1 billion as enterprise adoption of its Devin AI coding agent accelerated.
Ashton Kutcher’s early OpenAI investment reportedly grew from $30 million to nearly $1.3 billion during the AI boom.
Sequoia Capital is an American venture-capital firm founded in 1972. The private partnership invests in technology companies from their earliest stages through later growth, manages investment funds for limited partners, and provides operating support to founders and portfolio companies.
Anthropic is reportedly preparing a $50 billion fundraising round at a $900 billion valuation, potentially surpassing OpenAI in private market value.
Anthropic’s implied valuation climbed to $1.2 trillion in the pre-IPO market, marking a 900% increase since October 2025 as investor demand for AI companies intensifies.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise up to $50 billion at a valuation approaching $900 billion, reflecting surging demand for AI investments.