FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Standard Bots raises $200M Series C at $1B valuation, targets 10% of all US industrial robot deployments next year
- Sandstone AI raises $30M Series A led by Lightspeed, grows 40x in 150 days serving Fortune 500 legal teams
- NinjaOne raises $400M at $12.3B valuation, serves ~1M businesses across 140 countries with unified IT management
- Vinyl Equity raises $20M Series A to modernize the transfer agent infrastructure powering complex IPO cap tables
GUEST INTERVIEWS
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- Chip War author Chris Miller: China's $295B AI plan is $59B/year — less than one hyperscaler — and Beijing isn't AGI-pilled
- Alex Heath: Siri still lacks persistent memory, Apple-OpenAI partnership quietly dying, Google is the new default AI partner