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Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors

The “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” is intended to allow any retail investor to make money on startups, but the details are scant.

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.