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Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

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Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, building over 5 gigawatts of digital infrastructure capacity across multiple states and union […]

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Data-centre developer Switch in talks to raise at $50bn-plus valuation

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Switch is trying to raise money at a valuation that would have looked implausible for a data-centre developer a few years ago. The Las Vegas company is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, according to The Information, as it moves to capitalise on the demand for the […]

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Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

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Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation, selling 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 each in what will be the largest IPO in history. Anthropic has filed at […]

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Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame

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Two years ago, Ramp was a $7.65 billion corporate card company. On Wednesday, it announced a $750 million Series F that values it at $44 billion, a nearly six-fold increase that makes it one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers’ Pension […]

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Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do

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The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should have closed last week slips because nobody acted on the intent signal […]

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Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US

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Perk, the corporate travel and spend management group that until last year traded as TravelPerk, has closed a $300 million private credit facility, money raised as debt rather than equity and at a scale the company says few technology firms have reached in the current market. The facility is led by Neuberger Specialty Finance, the private-credit […]

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Merantix Capital closes a €103m fund to back early-stage European AI

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Merantix Capital has closed a €103m fund to invest in early-stage, AI-native teams across Europe, the Berlin firm announced on 4 June. The fund is more than three times the size of its first vehicle, which co-founders Rasmus Rothe and Adrian Locher raised at roughly €30m, and it widens the firm’s remit from companies built […]

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Benchmark breaks its own rule with a $2bn raise and a first growth fund

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The discipline was the whole identity. For more than twenty years Benchmark kept its funds around $425m and backed only young companies, taking a roughly 20% stake in each and trusting that selectivity, not scale, would produce the returns. That model has now bent. The firm has closed $2bn across two new funds, according to […]

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Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history

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The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity offering of any kind, in any industry, ever. The company had initially planned to […]

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Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print

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Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing confidentially for a listing on Monday. More banks could be added to the lineup, and details of […]

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