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Klarna’s IPO pops, raising $1.4B, with Sequoia as the biggest winner

Of the 34.3 million shares Klarna sold, only 5 million were sold by the company, it said. The rest were sold by existing investors.

Replit’s annualized revenue has skyrocketed from $2.8 million to $150 million in less than a year, it said.

I was within a heartbeat of preordering the new iPhone Air. But a closer looks at the specs changed my mind.

Ramp answered any lingering question as to why investors valued the company at $22.5 billion just 45 days after they valued it at $16 billion.

Just months after raising a whopping $10 billion, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation.

In his early 20s, Harry Qi left a million-year hedge fund job to join Y Combinator. His SMB AI agent startup is now growing fast.

Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.

Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And a legion of big names is joining the effort.

Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action.