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“There is growing political anxiety over data centers that underlie the AI revolution, particularly as energy prices rise, and private equity's involvement pours populist fuel on the fire.”
“Senator Warren's letters to BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, and KKR signal that congressional scrutiny of private equity's data center footprint is intensifying.”
“Jason Miller, CEO of Foresight, who spent years unifying data at BlackRock, Point72, and Greycroft before building a platform to solve it for everyone else.”
“Jeff Bezos' AI startup, Prometheus, secured a $12 billion round from investors including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock at a $41 billion valuation.”
“BlackRock ordered at least $5 billion worth of shares, per the Wall Street Journal — other buyers included sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and retail investors who reportedly requested more than $100 billion.”
“The company raised $75 billion, making it the largest IPO of all time. It's a wide collection of investors in the round, which Bloomberg reported was four times oversubscribed.”
“Prometheus raised $12B in Series B funding at a $41B valuation, backed by JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners.”
Source→“Prometheus, Jeff Bezos's industrial AI startup, raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion post-money valuation — from blue-chip institutional investors including JPMorgan, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs.”
“BlackRock is 13 or 14 trillion. Like these are giant, giant firms.”
Source→“Vanguard and BlackRock have between the two of them have $25 trillion in assets because they've dominated low cost indexing.”
Source→“Xnrgy Climate Systems...Considering sale at up to $10B valuation”
“Armada raised $230M at $2B valuation with BlackRock participation. 'Edge platform combining connectivity, compute, and AI for remote operations.'”
Source→“Larry Fink / Larry Summers / Rob Goldstein — Named as personal investors in Lead Bank's $180M raise — a significant signal of credibility from establishment financial figures.”
“The last 12 months have completely changed. They're like, oh my God, AI is here. Guys aren't going to last at all. The last thing I want to do is write a big check in hopes they can reboot for AI.”
Source→“I haven't seen the last pipeline. Laugh around, but I saw $20 billion of pipeline companies that were, they were looking at, about splitting the cash flows and buying for a dollar.”
Source→“'Joined StepStone Group as head of U.S. defined contribution. She previously was with BlackRock.'”
“Capital group manages three trillion in assets... the competitors were probably right to be terrified of this sort of communist act... But also sort of wrong because Capital Group, BlackRock, Fidelity — these are all giant profitable companies.”
Source→“GMR Solutions, a Lewisville, Texas-based emergency medical services company, set IPO terms... It would have a $4.7b market cap, were it to price in the middle... KKR, Koch Industries, and BlackRock as major shareholders.”
“Sold $1 billion of existing shares in a secondary share sale at a $9.4 billion valuation.”
“Project Prometheus...is close to a $10b fundraising at a $38b valuation. JPMorgan and BlackRock are among the investors.”
“Project Prometheus, a five-month-old San Francisco startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos...is reportedly close to finalizing a $10 billion round at a $38 billion valuation. JPMorgan and BlackRock are expected to participate.”
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