Tag: Venture Capital
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We Read 500 Pitch Decks So You Don't Have To
We trained an ML model on 500 Series A pitch decks to find what actually correlates with fundraising outcomes. The results challenge conventional wisdom.
Anthropic Just Raised $12B - Mostly in IOUs
Anthropic's latest mega-round signals a new era where compute credits dominate startup balance sheets. What this means for AI competition and the broader ecosystem.
OpenAI's Staff vs. Its President: $215K War Chest Funds Rival Super PAC
OpenAI employees have donated over $215,000 to a political action committee opposing their own company president, Greg Brockman - the starkest signal yet that AI's internal civil war is escalating into the political arena.
Anthropic, Blackstone, Goldman Bet Big on AI Services: Inside Ode - The Startup That Wants to Be Enterprise AI's Systems Integrator
A joint venture backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs is betting that forward-deployed AI engineers - not chatbots - are the real future of enterprise AI adoption.
OpenAI Employees Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Counter Their Own President
Seven current OpenAI employees have donated over $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC fighting the pro-deregulation group backed by the company's president Greg Brockman.
Ode With Anthropic Has a $100M Bet That AI Services Is the Next Big Category
The joint venture backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs is embedding forward-deployed AI engineers inside enterprise firms - and its founders think this will be bigger than selling software.
OpenAI Employees Are Bankrolling a Super PAC to Oppose Their Own Boss
OpenAI staffers have pumped over $215,000 into a rival political action committee opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future. The internal revolt signals a deepening ideological split inside the world's most valuable AI company.
Anthropic and Blackstone Are Betting That Enterprise AI Needs Engineers, Not Consultants
The newly formed Ode with Anthropic - backed by Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and Sequoia - is building a forward-deployed engineering army for enterprise AI. Their thesis: small teams of elite engineers beat armies of consultants.
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