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📈 Unicorn funding hits new highs — again Unicorns are back in force. According to Grid Capital's GP Jackie DiMonte, billion-dollar startups just surpassed 2021 levels in total capital raised over the past three quarters. 🖱 Fewer deals overall — but more capital going to the top 🖱 Average unicorn round has nearly doubled: from $260M in 2021 to $490M today 🖱 The share of unicorn deals remains stable at ~3% of all VC rounds 🖱 Over the last 6 months: ~190 unicorns raised $500M+, vs. only a dozen funds writing checks that large

Despite the broader slowdown, the top of the market is heating up.

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📊 LTV: The Key to Understanding Customer Revenue LTV (Lifetime Value) is the total revenue a customer generates over the entire relationship with your company. It helps you measure not just how fast you're growing, but how well you're retaining and monetizing users.

Formula: LTV = ARPU × LT

ARPU — Average Revenue Per User LT — Customer lifetime (months or years they stay with the product) Why LTV matters: 🖱 Reveals product quality and real user loyalty 🖱 Helps evaluate marketing ROI — if LTV > CAC, your model works 🖱 Critical metric in B2C and SaaS — investors look closely at LTV/CAC 🖱 Prevents over-focusing on growth while ignoring retention In short, LTV shows how well your business turns users into long-term value. ✔️Powered by Trade Watcher

🪙 How Tesla Makes Money Tesla has seen better days. Total revenue dropped by 12%, operating income fell by 42%, and free cash flow plunged 89%. ✔️Powered by Trade Watcher

🪙 Surge AI nears Scale AI with $25B valuation Surge AI is about to land a $1B round at a $25B valuation — putting it neck-and-neck with Scale AI in the race to label the AI world. Profitable from day one, Surge is quietly becoming a heavyweight in one of the most overlooked parts of the AI stack. 🖱 Built a tool that finds human experts to label data better and faster than anyone else 🖱 First-ever fundraise, already playing in the big leagues 🖱 2024 revenue hit $1.2B — with real profits, not just paper growth 🖱 Rival Scale AI raised $14.3B from Meta and sits at $29B 🖱 Surge now looks like the #2 pick for investors betting on AI’s plumbing

Not every AI boom story is about models — some are winning big just by making them smarter.

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🎨 Figma IPO: $60B for a design app? Markets at all-time highs — perfect moment for IPO frenzy. After Circle mooned from $29 to $298, bankers rushed to repeat the magic. Now it’s Figma’s turn: 🟡 Priced at $33 — $20B valuation 🟡 “Adobe tried to buy us” used as justification 🟡 40× oversubscribed 🟡 Opened at $85, halted at $93 🟡 $60B market cap — for a design tool Retail might squeeze a few % from $85–95, but the real upside was eaten on Day 1. For context: 🟡 Nvidia IPO — $474M 🟡 Starbucks — $207M 🟡 Monster Energy — $8M → now worth $60B (7,500×) Monster took 20 years to reach $60B. Figma started there.

What’s the upside from $60B for Figma? And who’s really being greedy here?

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🌍 Venture Events — August 2025 A curated list of key startup and VC events this month. Follow the trends, build your network, and find your next opportunity. 📍 Vntr Investor Roundtable August 2 – Hanoi, Vietnam Regional roundtable on VC trends across Southeast Asia 📍 Enterprise AI Summit Vancouver 2025 August 10 – Vancouver, Canada AI-focused summit with investment panels, use cases, and workshops 📍 VC Fast Pitch August 14 – Online Startup pitch sessions with live feedback from global investors 📍 TechBBQ 2025 August 27–28 – Copenhagen, Denmark Scandinavia’s largest startup+VC conference: 8,000+ attendees, 1,200 investors, 2,200 startups

🤝 Whether you're raising, investing, or scouting trends — August is packed with high-signal VC gatherings.

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🚨 OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation According to the New York Times, OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a jaw-dropping $300 billion valuation — months ahead of schedule. The deal is part of its plan to secure $40B in total funding this year. 🖱 First reported by DealBook, this is OpenAI’s largest round to date 🖱 SoftBank has already committed $30B for the year 🖱 The funding underscores the escalating race for AI dominance 🖱 Wall Street attention has shifted from tech giants to frontier labs like OpenAI

The compute arms race is in full swing — and OpenAI just pulled far ahead.

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🚀 Anthropic set to join world’s top 3 most valuable startups Iconiq Capital is reportedly leading a new $5B round into Anthropic, pushing its valuation to $170B — nearly 3x its March valuation. That would make it the third most valuable private company globally, behind only OpenAI and SpaceX. 🖱 Iconiq manages capital for Zuckerberg, Hoffman, Moskovitz, and other tech billionaires 🖱 Anthropic is now in talks with MGX (UAE) and Amazon 🖱 The company had previously resisted Middle East capital, but CEO Dario Amodei said it’s now a matter of survival 🖱 The AI funding race is intensifying, and top players are reaching megacorp valuations faster than ever

If the deal closes, Anthropic won’t just be an AI lab — it’ll be an economic superpower.

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🐦 Who VCs and founders actually follow on Twitter Want to understand how investors think? Follow who they follow. These accounts shape startup culture — not just react to it. Sharp takes, deep experience, and trend-spotting in real time. 🔗 Shl Founder of Shl.vc and Superhuman investor. Writes about founder mindset, product strategy, and early-stage trends. 🔗 Paul Graham YC cofounder and OG of VC wisdom. Threads read like essays on building, scaling, and avoiding founder traps. 🔗 Sam Altman CEO of OpenAI, ex-YC president. Rare but insightful posts that usually hint at bigger shifts. 🔗 NFX Venture fund known for deep dives on network effects, pitch decks, and startup psychology. 🔗 Balaji Srinivasan Ex-CTO of Coinbase, GP at a16z. Writes about crypto, future states, and alt-institutions — bold and contrarian. 🔗 Ben Tossell Founder of Makerpad (acquired by Zapier). Focused on no-code, MVPs, and launching fast with minimal overhead. 🔗 Chris Messina Invented the hashtag. Talks UX, product ecosystems, and remote team design — especially useful for early-stage. 🔗 Ben Horowitz a16z cofounder. Mix of hard-earned wisdom, company case studies, and straight-up operator truth.

These aren’t just popular accounts — they set the tone for the whole early-stage world. Worth a follow if you build or invest.

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🤖 AI agents are now a real business — not just a demo What started as experimental tools is turning into serious revenue. Five AI agent startups have crossed $100M in ARR: Anysphere, Glean, Mercor, Replit, and Lovable. The agent market is exploding — from $5B to $13B in just a year. 🖱 42% of AI agent startups now operate at commercial scale 🖱 Revenue per employee is catching up with Big Tech 🖱 Valuations go as high as 127x revenue 🖱 Nearly half of the top players were founded in the last 3 years 🖱 Winners solve tasks with clear ROI — coding, support, ops

Next up: dominance will go to those with tight workflow integration, unique data, and high switching costs.

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