Bending Spoons, the Milan-based company known for acquiring and revitalizing stagnant tech brands like AOL, Evernote, Eventbrite, Meetup, and Vimeo, surged nearly 40% on its IPO debut, closing at $40.50 against a $29 offering price. The company reached a $25.7 billion market cap — more than double its last private valuation of $11 billion — and raised $1.68 billion. Its Q1 financials show $601 million in revenue and $27.4 million net income, a sharp turnaround from a $112 million net loss in the same period last year. The company generates 84% of revenue from subscriptions and, unlike private equity, has no plans to sell its acquired businesses.
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SpaceX sẽ thâu tóm Cursor, startup AI lập trình, bằng khoản tiền 60 tỷ USD trả bằng cổ phiếu, ngay sau khi IPO của chính SpaceX. Vụ mua lại nhằm củng cố mảng AI vốn được xây dựng xung quanh xAI của Elon Musk, dù mảng này từng dính tranh cãi vì tạo deepfake không được sự đồng thuận.
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A walkthrough of integrating Standard.site support into a Docusaurus blog using the Sequoia CLI. Covers installing Sequoia via npx, authenticating with Bluesky app passwords, initializing configuration, fixing frontmatter date fields with a Node.js script so only recent posts are published, and wiring the publish and inject steps into a GitHub Actions CI workflow.
Bending Spoons, the Italian company behind acquisitions of Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, WeTransfer, and AOL, went public on the Nasdaq at an $18 billion valuation, with shares rising 40% on the first day. Co-founder Matteo Danieli shares the company's core philosophy: minimizing the role of luck in business success through operational excellence, data-driven experimentation, and rigorous talent hiring. The strategy emerged from the failure of their earlier startup Evertale, which taught them that talent and success don't always correlate due to luck. Bending Spoons uses AI to accelerate feature development and revenue growth, with revenue per employee rising from $1.12M in 2023 to $2.57M in 2025. The company plans to continue acquiring undervalued SaaS brands, viewing current depressed SaaS valuations as a buying opportunity.
Together AI, an AI neocloud specializing in hosting open source models, has raised an $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation, led by Aramco Ventures with participation from Nvidia, General Catalyst, and others. The company last raised at a $3.3B valuation 16 months ago. Together AI reports annual bookings exceeding $1.15 billion, citing tripled open source model usage industry-wide over the past year as companies shift away from expensive closed frontier models. The funding reflects broader VC enthusiasm for AI infrastructure providers, with peers like Upscale AI and TensorWave also raising large rounds recently.
Lime, the scooter and bike-share company backed by Uber, has gone public on the Nasdaq under the ticker 'LIME', raising $167 million at $25 per share and achieving a valuation of approximately $1.66 billion. The IPO comes after years of delays and financial uncertainty, including a going-concern warning in its May filing due to roughly $1 billion in liabilities. CEO Wayne Ting emphasized that Lime waited until it could demonstrate three consecutive years of free cash flow positivity. Revenue has grown from $521 million in 2023 to $886.7 million in 2025, and the company now operates in 230 cities across 29 countries. Lime is the last major micromobility player standing after rivals like Bird went bankrupt and others merged or shut down.
Ashton Kutcher is departing Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded 11 years ago with Guy Oseary, to launch a new early-stage venture capital firm alongside Morgan Beller, former a16z partner and co-creator of Meta's Libra/Diem cryptocurrency project. The unnamed new firm will focus on AI infrastructure, energy, and deep tech investments. Kutcher's move is driven by a desire to return to early-stage backing, as Sound Ventures has shifted toward later-stage deals. The split is amicable, with both sides serving in advisory roles to each other. The new firm enters a crowded field, with Founders Fund, Accel, and Eclipse all recently closing large funds targeting similar sectors, though Kutcher and Beller are positioning themselves upstream of the mega-funds by targeting infrastructure and energy companies before product-market fit is established.
Build, a British-founded startup, has raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Index Ventures to automate data-centre and infrastructure due diligence using AI. The platform pulls from over 1,600 data sources to assess planning, power, and political risks in parallel, cutting due-diligence timelines by 95%. Unlike typical AI startups, Build sells the completed work on a monthly retainer rather than software licences, positioning itself as a consultant replacement. Founded in 2024 by architect-turned-coder James Stirrat-Ellis and AI researcher Ben McClusky, the company has already completed 100+ projects across 15 countries and recently landed its first hyperscaler client. Notable angels include OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Blackstone CTO John Stecher.
IQM Quantum Computers has completed its business combination with Real Asset Acquisition Corp. (RAAQ), a Nasdaq-listed SPAC, and will begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker IQMX on July 2, 2026. The transaction, including a concurrent PIPE investment of EUR 127.7 million, provides IQM with approximately EUR 198.7 million (USD 233.5 million) in net proceeds. Founded in 2018, IQM is a full-stack superconducting quantum systems provider serving enterprises, research institutions, and national laboratories across Europe, North America, and Asia. The funds will support commercialization and global expansion of its quantum computing business.