Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market, also Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue

Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-c...

Up next

Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M; plus, AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort. Also, MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and S ...  Show more

Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing; plus, Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow

With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular measurement. Also, Stripe and PayPal Ventures have participated in Xflow's $16.6 million round that gives it a post-money valuation ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

#13 Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
Founders

What I learned from reading The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban. In the most recent 1% of our species short existence, we have become the first life on earth to know about the situation (4:38) The total market for satellite manufacturing, the launches that carry ...  Show more

20VC: Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever | Meta and Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down | Cognition Raises at $15BN and Ramp at $22BN | CRV Downsizing and What It Means for LPs and GPs
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Agenda:

00:00 – The Worst IPO Mis-Pricing Ever: What Really Happened at Figma

02:30 – Fidelity vs Founders: How Important is Fidelity When Going Public

07:00 – Why Founders Secretly Want a Pop, Even ...

  Show more

James van Geelen on the Next Phase of the AI Buildout
Odd Lots

Money has been flowing into the AI space, with billions pouring into GPU clusters, data centers, gas turbines, and the infrastructure needed to train and deploy bigger and bigger models. So what comes next? On this episode, we speak with James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Resea ...  Show more

OpenAI Becomes World’s Largest Startup
Bloomberg Tech

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss OpenAI becoming the largest startup after it closed a deal allowing current and former employees to sell shares at a $500 billion valuation. Plus, Tesla's vehicle sales jumped to a worldwide record in the third quarter as US buyers ...  Show more