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“a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Coatue, General Catalyst, Peak XV, Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, CRV and Kfund.”
“They've raised $1.5B to date from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, Coatue, Elad Gil, the OpenAI Startup Fund, and GIC.”
“Lambda raised $4B at a $14.5B valuation”
“Singapore-based data center operator DayOne Data Centers, which is backed by Coatue, filed publicly for its US IPO.”
Source→“Robert Montejo joined Coatue as deputy general counsel and VP of commercial operations. He previously was a partner at Duane Morris.”
“Coatue and startup chipmaker MatX have been in talks to form a joint venture to the tune of billions of dollars to help the company finance memory purchases and capacity with manufacturers, per The Information.”
“Instinct... raised a $1 billion Series C round at a $10 billion post-money valuation... Investors included Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue.”
Source→“Instinct raised a $1 billion Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue at a $10 billion valuation.”
Source→“Instinct, a developer of general-purpose AI agents (i.e., rival to Meta's Muse), raised $1b at a $10b post-money valuation from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue.”
“Data center operator Firmus, which is backed by investors including Nvidia, Blackstone and Coatue, is seeking to raise $5 billion in its Australia IPO.”
Source→“In August, Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, led by Coatue, up 41.8% from the company's last valuation of $134 billion, priced in February.”
Source→“At least 95 investors – including Sequoia, Founders Fund, Coatue, and Altimeter – now hold stakes in both Anthropic and OpenAI, as the AI boom upends the old VC taboo against backing direct competitors.”
Source→“Stability AI Raises $76M Series B Round from Warner Music Group, Coatue, Greycroft — UK's notable raise; Warner Music Group as strategic backer signals media convergence.”
Source→“Enterprise usage is shifting from asking AI questions to letting it do the work.”
Source→“Shein...is targeting a valuation of up to $27 billion in its Hong Kong IPO.”
Source→“Cursor had raised over $3.3 billion from firms like Thrive Capital, Neo, Alameda Research (yeah, that one), OpenAI Startup Fund, a16z, Dorm Room Fund, BoxGroup, WndrCo, DST, Coatue, and Accel.”
Source→“Cursor had raised over $3.3 billion from firms like Thrive Capital, Neo, Alameda Research (yeah, that one), OpenAI Startup Fund, a16z, Dorm Room Fund, BoxGroup, WndrCo, DST, Coatue, and Accel.”
Source→“Energy storage annual additions grew from 10GW to 100GW in just 4 years — solar took 8 years; wind took 15.”
Source→“Databricks raised a $5 billion round led by Coatue at a $190 billion valuation.”
Source→“Firmus recently raised US$2b at more than a $10.5b post-money valuation from Blackstone, Jane Street, Coatue, and Nvidia.”
Source→“Singapore-based data center operator DayOne Data Centers, which is backed by Coatue, confidentially filed for a US IPO.”
Source→“Corma, a frontier AI lab for defensive cybersecurity, raised $60m in seed funding. Sequoia Capital led, joined by Khosla Ventures and Coatue.”
“Firmus, a Sydney-based AI infrastructure company, 'raised $2 billion at a valuation above $10.5 billion from investors including Coatue, Nvidia and Blackstone.'”
Source→“Firmus, an Australian AI infrastructure company, raised US$2b at more than a $10.5b post-money valuation from Blackstone, Jane Street and insiders Coatue, and Nvidia.”
“"Base Core" as a product launch signal worth tracking. This productization moment in grid-edge companies is often where valuation inflection occurs, yet it receives only a single clause: "We're excited to see Base Power launch Base Core today."”
Source→“We're excited to see Base Power launch Base Core today and to keep backing Base Power and others reindustrializing the U.S. grid.”
Source→“Max Cook (Coatue) - Referenced as a thinker on the death of keyboards as an interface”
Source→“Databricks raised $3B from Coatue at a $188B valuation”
“Rather than immediately launching a second company after selling Deephi (深鉴科技), Yao spent three years systematically mapping every adjacent frontier — laser lidar, brain-computer interfaces, controllable fusion, quantum computing, commercial rockets — by joining Coatue (经纬) as a venture partner.”
Source→“Coatue is leading Databricks' new venture capital round.”
Source→“Data and AI platform; still private; ~$188B valuation (Coatue-led round, July 2026); ~$5.4B ARR, 65%+ growth; positive FCF”
“"We're going from a world in which you have 60 to 80 apps to an agentic AI world where you've got a lot fewer than that, two, three, four apps... It's not the keyboard and the mouse. It's probably natural language."”
Source→“We've always conformed ourselves to computers like with that by inputting specific data with a keyboard and a mouse. And now we're finally entering the era where computers have to conform to us.”
Source→“Databricks...signed a term sheet for a strategic funding round led by previous investor Coatue at a $188 billion post-money valuation”
Source→“Databricks "is raising around $3b at a $188b valuation. Coatue is set to lead."”
“The fundamental shift Coatue identifies is that AI agents — not humans — are now the primary drivers of CPU workloads. Tasks previously requiring human cognition and manual execution are now run autonomously in continuous loops.”
Source→“Blue Origin | Rocket company | Reportedly raising $10B at $130B pre-money valuation, led by Coatue.”
Source→“Norm AI, a legal services startup, raised $120m in Series C funding at a $1.2b post-money valuation. Khosla Ventures led, joined by Blackstone, Craft Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, Vanguard, New York Life, and TIAA”
“Cadence...raised a $100 million Series C round led by Spark Capital, with Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Coatue, B Capital, Corewell Health Ventures, Memorial Hermann, and Duke Health also pitching in.”
Source→“Firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue invested in SpaceX, xAI and Cursor before the acquisition and are now tripling down on the Musk ecosystem.”
Source→“SpaceX's $60B all-stock acquisition of Cursor has created a new cohort of investors either entering or deepening exposure to the interconnected Musk ecosystem (SpaceX → xAI → X → Cursor). Firms like a16z are now 'quadrupling down.' Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue invested in SpaceX, xAI and Cursor before the acquisition and are now tripling down on the Musk ecosystem.”
Source→“The index blends "hiring, job change, and AI funding data into a single score" — and each crisis visibly unlocks a new cohort of breakout companies plotted directly on the chart.”
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