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Every weekday we send you summaries of the latest fundraises, interviews and tech news in Silicon Valley from TBPN — technology's daily show.

Tue, Apr 28
Wed, Apr 29

FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Blockworks raises at $192M valuation with 20 customers investing alongside VCs
  • True Anomaly raises $650M Series A to build space-based interceptors and mission software for the Space Force
  • Squads raises $18M to help businesses ditch bank accounts for stablecoin-native financial operations
  • Hightouch raises $150M Series D at $2.75B to become the only on-brand AI platform for marketers
  • Firestorm Labs raises $82M Series A to put mobile drone factories at the edge of the battlefield
  • Rogo raises $160M Series D at $2B valuation as AI reshapes Wall Street knowledge work

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Experimental physicist Maria Spiropulu brings quantum networking out of national labs with 4Quantum
  • Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's 11 revenue lines, the gold card hitting $15B in annual transaction volume, and crypto tokenization roadmap
  • Parag Agrawal's Parallel raises from Sequoia as AI agents drive explosive web infrastructure demand

NEWS

  • Federal Reserve holds rates at 3.5–3.75% as big tech earnings land across the board
  • Big tech earnings beat across the board: Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft all top revenue estimates

COMMENTARY

  • Big tech earnings preview: Can Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft turn AI CapEx into durable revenue?
  • Red vs. blue button: TBPN audience skews red in the viral thought experiment that stumped the internet
  • Quantum computing companies race to go public as market enthusiasm pushes valuations to $1B+ on the name alone