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Confirmed: Databricks is raising $4B in Series L funding at a $134B valuation. That's the 21st $100B+ company built out of the Bay Area 🇺🇸 since 1990 (with Swedish 🇸🇪 / Iranian 🇮🇷 founder btw).…

Fact check: European VC fundraising isn’t “falling off a cliff”. The data story is more nuanced. Some PitchBook figures have been circulating claiming European VC fundraising is down ~60% in 2025 vs…

Marietje Schaake’s recent FT piece (“Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts”) is getting a lot of pushback in tech circles. I think it’s worth explaining why. First: the piece isn’t entirely…

Nothing creates urgency like an existential threat. When ChatGPT launched in Nov 2022, Google went "Code Red". Sergey Brin later admitted they “messed up” by being too cautious. But he didn't let a g…

The UK has more Unicorns 🦄 and $100M+ revenue Thoroughbreds 🐎 than France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands combined. Yet, the narrative is often one of economic decline. Saul Klein’s latest p…

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 $𝟭 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 🚀 Only 1.6% of funded startups become unicorn. The steepest dropoff is from Pre-Seed to Seed…