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Robinhood added $25 million in bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet to diversify assets and reflect a belief in crypto’s future.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 5h

Mecka AI raised a $60M Series B to scale human-motion data collection for training humanoid and other robots.

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Endeavor Catalyst closed its fifth fund with $320M commitments, raising total AUM above $850M and funding founders outside major tech hubs.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 6h

NEAR surged 122% in a month without a confirmed catalyst, while underwater sellers from 2022 may cap further gains.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 6h

JEPQ’s monthly option-premium payouts reduce total returns versus a Nasdaq-100 index fund, creating substantial opportunity-cost gaps over one year.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 6h

Small- and mid-cap ETFs outperformed large-cap benchmarks over the past year, with SCHA returning 18% versus VB at 14% and VO at 11%.

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Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the performance gap with U.S. frontier systems, but venture funding shortfalls threaten the next wave of growth.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 8h

Nous Research raised a $90M Series B for its open-source Hermes agent, valuing the company at $1.5B and funding enterprise expansion.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 8h

Hyperliquid and Solana were the leading AI favorites for major crypto upside before Dec. 31, with Zcash also selected but requiring verification.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 9h

Six in 10 cryptocurrency investors plan to add more over the next 12 months, and crypto is increasingly seen as a complement to traditional investments.

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Moody’s assigned Sky Protocol a B3 stable outlook, but cited thin capitalization—about $90M equity versus $10B managed assets—as a material credit weakness.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 9h

Open-source AI is the only path for Europe to achieve technology independence and AI sovereignty.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 9h

Seagate’s $1,000 investment grew to about $31,680 over ten years through dividend reinvestment and a shift from PC drives to AI-focused data-center storage.

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AI productivity gains require redesigning workflows from first principles rather than layering AI onto existing teams and systems.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 10h

HPE shares jumped 40% after a $1.2B Helios AI rack order and an upgraded networking revenue outlook, forcing investors to decide between taking profits or buying more.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 10h

Google signed a nuclear power deal with Constellation Energy for 3,590 MW to supply data centers and stabilize electricity amid soaring grid prices.

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Quantus launched QTC token trading via Near Intents and 1Click Swap, enabling swaps from 180+ assets across 30+ chains without centralized exchange listings.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 10h

Server stocks rise as broader tech ETFs fall, indicating rotation into data center hardware across Super Micro, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Dell.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 10h

Space-sector stocks fell sharply while the broader market barely moved, with Intuitive Machines dropping 7% despite scaling satellite manufacturing.

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Paychex’s high dividend yield is supported by recurring payroll revenue and strong cash generation, but cash-flow coverage and payout sustainability risks remain under-addressed.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 10h

401(k) default cap-weighted index funds automatically buy more of the largest companies, increasing concentration risk as norms shift and fast-entry IPO rules accelerate index inclusion.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

European founders can raise at scale when projects are credible, persistent, and well executed, making capital access less of the main obstacle.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Skydance completed the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, trades as SKYD, and plans to unify streaming while prioritizing technology and AI for media productivity.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Marvell received widespread price-target hikes after Investor Day, driven by expectations that its AI connectivity franchise will sharply increase earnings by decade’s end.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Ondas reported over $165 million in new orders and $270 million in bookings, but its stock fell 5% alongside peers amid a sector-wide drone selloff.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Bitmine will stop weekly Ethereum purchases once holdings reach about 5% of circulating supply, triggering declines across Ethereum-focused crypto stocks.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Five dividend stocks target payouts supported by contract-based cash flows to better withstand a 5.31% 10-year Treasury yield environment.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

U.S. commercial revenue growth at 149% last quarter will determine whether Palantir’s premium valuation holds or declines amid rising costs and slowing momentum.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Alphabet is accelerating revenue and cloud growth while maintaining strong margins, profitability, and financial strength, though a key quarterly-report risk warrants caution.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 11h

Microsoft’s Azure and Copilot cash generation outpaces Amazon’s AWS, with higher margins and larger contract backlog supporting a stronger five-year hold.

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Financing-heavy data center builders fell sharply as higher borrowing costs pressured companies still raising capital for AI capacity.

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Oklo’s stock has fallen sharply due to equity issuance and rising cash burn, while a Wall Street target projects over triple returns tied to future reactor milestones.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Marvell must sustain far higher earnings growth and valuation expansion than current analyst targets to reach $1,000 before 2030.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Nous Research raised $90M to build Hermes for Businesses, an open-source AI agent that remembers projects, creates reusable skills, and supports private, model-selectable enterprise use.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Grok Bot will use the best available back-end AI models, including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, and Suno, instead of only SpaceX AI models.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Almost nobody should try to pick stocks, time markets, or use managers; a low-cost S&P 500 index fund is the recommended approach.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Endeavor Catalyst closed Fund V at $320M, doubling down on Europe where it made 12 investments in H1 2026 and aims to expand founder access to capital.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Lucid delivered 3,806 vehicles in Q3 but still posted a $1.26 billion net loss, with shares sliding into penny-stock territory and survival prospects worsening.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Vest Labs uses company capital to let qualifying traders trade perpetual futures in real markets, sharing profits to align incentives.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Robinhood added $25 million of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, marking its first proprietary BTC holding and signaling commitment to the crypto ecosystem.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

American trade receivables total $7.48 trillion, and manual order-to-cash processes cause late payments and large revenue and EBITDA losses.

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Skydance shares fell 8% after closing its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, while Netflix was nearly flat and Disney declined slightly.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Alphabet’s cloud backlog is $514 billion and cloud growth is accelerating, supporting a $434.48 12-month price target and a longer-term path above $500 by 2028.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 12h

Companies backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have secured over $6 billion in active or promised federal contracts after their investments.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 13h

Solana stablecoin holders exceed 14 million, with over $15B supply and $1B+ stablecoin card volume, strengthening Solana’s payments and settlement role.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 13h

AWS revenue growth and AI-driven infrastructure spending are key to Amazon’s potential for renewed compounding despite rising capex concerns.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 13h

Rising Treasury yields above 5% are forcing refinancing of trillions in debt, raising interest costs and straining corporate, household, and government budgets.

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Healthleap raised $38 million to deploy an AI platform that analyzes hospital records and clinician notes to flag patients at risk of undiagnosed conditions.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 13h

A $5,000 Micron investment could be worth $5,661.50 by 2031 under a base-case scenario, with bull and bear outcomes ranging widely.

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Venture Briefly @venturebriefly.bsky.social · 13h

Trump announced a $6.6 billion Anduril investment in Baltimore, with the Navy funding $2.9 billion to build Arsenal-2 for Virginia-class submarine components.

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