Thursday, August 20
Boursel
Latest
Personal Finance When driving across town for cheaper gas actually pays offTech OpenAI counters Anthropic with a no-retention approach to AI safety monitoringEconomy Trump pauses 50% tariffs as the US and Canada close in on a trade dealCompanies SpaceX sought to buy AI coding startup Cognition, Bloomberg reports; its CEO says noTech OpenAI slows some frontier AI work after a model nears a critical cyber thresholdCrypto Bitcoin tops $69,000, wiping out roughly $1.7 billion in short betsMarkets Gold jumps to its highest since early June as the Treasury doubles bond buybacksPersonal Finance Treasury moves to deny refundable tax credits to immigrants without qualified statusPersonal Finance When driving across town for cheaper gas actually pays offTech OpenAI counters Anthropic with a no-retention approach to AI safety monitoringEconomy Trump pauses 50% tariffs as the US and Canada close in on a trade dealCompanies SpaceX sought to buy AI coding startup Cognition, Bloomberg reports; its CEO says noTech OpenAI slows some frontier AI work after a model nears a critical cyber thresholdCrypto Bitcoin tops $69,000, wiping out roughly $1.7 billion in short betsMarkets Gold jumps to its highest since early June as the Treasury doubles bond buybacksPersonal Finance Treasury moves to deny refundable tax credits to immigrants without qualified status

Topic: venture-capital

A chemistry laboratory with benches and glassware
Tech
Monday, 7/20, 04:16 PM

Bezos and the UK government back CuspAI at a $2.6 billion valuation

  • The Cambridge materials-discovery startup, founded in 2024, raised a $450 million Series B at a reported $2.6 billion post-money valuation, roughly £2bn.
  • That is about five times its valuation last September.
  • Nvidia's involvement is a research partnership, not an investment, a distinction much of the coverage blurs.
A physical novelty coin representing bitcoin
Crypto 42 d

Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion and Pushes Beyond Crypto Into AI and Robotics

  • Paradigm, one of the best-known venture firms in crypto, has closed a new $1.2 billion fund and made clear it will spend much of it outside crypto, on artificial intelligence, robotics and other frontier technology.
  • The raise, below an initial $1.5 billion target, is a sign of how the biggest digital-asset investors are broadening their bets as the AI boom pulls in capital.

In brief

venture-capital — news and stories on this topic

This page collects all of Boursel's coverage of venture-capital. Follow the topic from one place: new stories appear here automatically as more is published. That way you stay on top of how the situation develops.

Looking for the bigger picture? Browse markets, the economy, companies and crypto, or head back to the front page for the day's top stories.