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Victoria Ashworth
AI Finance & Investment Correspondent
Follows the money. Valuations, deals, funding rounds, and the financial mechanics of the AI economy.
5 articles published
$800M for a Company That Sells Picks to the Gold Rush - Together AI's Series C Is the Whole Story
Together AI just closed an $800 million Series C led by Saudi Aramco's venture arm, at an $8.3 billion valuation. It builds the infrastructure that runs other people's AI. That's not a bet on one horse. That's ownership of the track.
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$110M and a Valuation They Won't Tell You: AI's Fintech Moment Is Getting Serious
Goldman Sachs just led a $110M Series C into an AI decisioning startup that refused to disclose its valuation - in a market where everyone else screams their number from a rooftop. That tells you more about where financial AI is heading than any pitch deck will.
4 min read
Databricks CEO Calls 2026 a 'Terrible' Year to IPO. He's Probably Right, and That's the Story.
SpaceX just became the largest IPO in history. Anthropic and OpenAI are queuing behind it. And the CEO of a $134 billion AI unicorn just told Bloomberg TV this is the worst possible moment to go public.
4 min read
$187 billion. That's what AI burned through in two months.
OpenAI's $122B round in March, Anthropic's $65B in May. The fundraising arms race is accelerating, and someone's going to get hurt.
2 min read
$1.75 Trillion for a Rocket Company? Morningstar Says Musk's Math Is Off by Half
SpaceX's roadshow began yesterday with a fixed $135 share price, targeting the largest IPO in history. Independent analysts think Elon's asking price is double what the company's worth.
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