This Week in Pre-IPO Stocks

E195: TARIFFS! [1] Pre-IPO stock opportunities, [2] Opportunities w/ Protectionism, [3] Opportunities w/ Manufacturing (robotics?)

E194: CoreWeave IPO disappointing; Model Context Protocol great for AI agents; AI App Cursor $9.6b valuation

E193: CoreWeave prices IPO at $19B valuation; eToro files for US IPO as commissions surge; Crusoe secures $225M to expand AI data centers; OpenAI targets $29.4B in 2026 revenue; Databricks and Anthropic strike enterprise AI deal; Flexport misses profit ta

E192: Exits are back! Wiz, CoreWeave, Klarna; X raise at $44b! back to "par"; Perplexity, an AI app, at $18b

E191: Wiz acquired by Google for $32B in all-cash deal; CoreWeave IPO at $30B, down from $35B; X raises nearly $1B, back to Musk purchase price; Perplexity in talks to raise at $18B valuation; xAI joins $100B AI infrastructure partnership; Kraken acquires

E190: Klarna's IPO is big for venture; Are you ready to give all your personal data to get a proper AI assistant?

E189: Klarna plans NYSE IPO at $15B valuation; Applied Intuition in talks for $15B valuation; Anysphere eyes $10B valuation after rapid ARR growth; Gemini confidentially files for IPO; CoreWeave signs $11.9B AI infrastructure deal with OpenAI; Moveworks a

E188: Are AI Apps now investable?; Pre-IPO stocks that will never IPO?!; Are AI Platform valuations justifiable?

E187: CoreWeave prepares for $35B IPO after 737% revenue growth; Stripe hits $91.5B valuation in tender offer; OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation, partners with SoftBank; plus news from X, Thinking Machines, MrBeast, Shein, SpaceX, ByteDance, Ramp, Sa

E186: Beware of dilution (OpenAI, xAI, Figure); Figure's huge 780% increase to $39.5b; Anduril 2x to $28b

E185: xAI raising $10B at $75B valuation, maybe higher?; Figure AI raises $1.5B at $39.5B valuation; Anduril doubles valuation to $28B with $2.5B raise; Groq secures $1.5B contract from Saudi Aramco; Klarna plans April IPO at $15B valuation; Safe Superint

E184: Klarna April IPO at $15b; Anduril raise at $28b; Groq crushing it w/ $1.5b Saudi deal

E183: Deel valued at $12.6B after $300M secondary sale; Winklevoss’s Gemini crypto exchange eyes IPO; Neuralink expands human trials, valued at $8.7B; OpenAI secures $40B investment at $300B valuation; Thinking Machines Lab seeks $100M

E182: Shein impacted by Trump tariffs; OpenAI o3, Operator, & Deep Research impress!

E181: OpenAI in talks for $40B raise at $300B valuation; Skild AI nears $4B valuation with $500M SoftBank investment; ElevenLabs raises $180M, triples valuation to $3.3B; X’s cash reserves drop 71% as bankers offload $3B in debt; Quince raises $120M as re

The pre-IPO market is experiencing significant valuation surges driven by aggressive investments in artificial intelligence and robotics. OpenAI is currently negotiating a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, aiming for a $300 billion valuation—a 91% increase since late 2024—supported by projected revenues of $12...

E180: DeepSeek shakes up AI stocks, Crypto pre-IPO stocks are back w/ Trump?, Huge $s going into data centers in 2025

E179: OpenAI launches "Operator" for ChatGPT Pro; Together AI hits $3B valuation with $200M raise; ElevenLabs triples valuation to $3.3B in Series C; Phantom doubles valuation to $3B in Series C; Databricks secures $10B round, hits $64.9B valuation; Anthr

E178: Anduril plans $100M tender at $14B valuation; Rokt valued at $3.5B after secondary share sale; Harvey doubles valuation to $3B with $300M round; Shield AI partners with Palantir, targets $5B valuation; OpenAI partners with Axios for local journalism

E177: TikTok US shutting down at $50b valuation?!; xAI launches Grok iOS app; Anthropic raise at $60b

E176: Anthropic targets $60B valuation with $2B raise; Whatnot hits $4.97B valuation with $265M raise; xAI reaches $83B valuation, launches iOS app for Grok; SandboxAQ raises $300M at $5.6B valuation; Wiz prepares for IPO, valued at $20.5B; Cohere launche