As the cryptocurrency sector cools, one-time token traders are predicting big things from prediction markets. That’s according to a report Monday (Jan. 26) from Bloomberg News, which says that interest in this space has gone from a fringe activity to an industry in which platforms...
British AI startup Synthesia is now a $4 billion company after raising $200 million. The company, which makes artificial intelligence avatars for businesses to use for in-house and external communication, announced its Series E funding round Monday (Jan. 26), with the venture capital arms of Google and Nvidia...
Ledger, a French company that makes hardware designed to securely store cryptocurrency, reportedly plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States. The company is working with bankers and could launch an IPO as soon as this year, the Financial Times (FT)...
LiveKit raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to accelerate the growth of its developer platform for building voice, video and physical artificial intelligence agents. The round values the company at $1 billion, LiveKit co-founder and CEO Russ d’Sa said in a Thursday...
From a current level of about $2 trillion, assets in the private credit sector are projected to reach roughly $30 trillion by the end of the decade according to some estimates, representing dizzying scale that has turned what was once a specialist corner of finance...
Crypto custody company BitGo has raised $212.8 million in its initial public offering. The IPO, the first by a digital asset firm this year, values BitGo at $2.08 billion, Reuters reported Thursday (Jan. 22). That’s higher than the $1.96 billion the company said it was...
Stripe has no immediate plans to go public, co-founder John Collison told Bloomberg News Tuesday (Jan. 20) in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We’re still not in any rush,” he said, per the report. “It’s very early for us where,...
Insurance platform Ethos Technologies hopes to raise $211 million from its initial public offering. The company and some of its shareholders aim to sell 10.5 million shares at a price between $18 and $20 apiece, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 20) securities filing. The filing...
Brazilian digital bank PicPay is targeting a $2.46 billion valuation when it goes public in the United States. The company aims to raise up to $434.3 million in its initial public offering (IPO) by providing nearly 22.9 million shares priced at $16 to $19 each,...