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Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.com
More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise.
A few successes:
• Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures
• Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs
• Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by... See more
Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen and top institutions back New $30m Browder Capital Fund Four:
Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ve raised Browder Capital Fund Four, a $30,000,000 fund backed by Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Arthur Patterson (founder of Accel), Walter Kortschak (founder of... See more
I wasn't planning on sharing this today but since the news leaked, I feel obliged to comment:
I've raised over $200M in my career and have learned a lot about what works & what doesn't.
This time around, I decided to do a few unconventional things. First, I decided to forgo the silly... See more
Dan Sirokerx.com
Harmonic starting to show unannounced rounds.
Interesting.
@harmonic_ai https://t.co/EXu96Ae8fD
IN NEWS: Mariana Minerals raises a Series A led by @a16z bringing its total funding to $85M.
Mariana coins itself as the world’s only software-first, vertically integrated minerals developer, using an AI platform to turn every step, from discovery to refining, into a live, data-driven... See more
TBPNx.com
Bret Taylor’s conversational AI agent co reportedly raising @ $4B+
The product can speak back & forth to customers with service specific context
They raised at $100M last year and $1B earlier this year
Bret is chair of OpenAI, fmr CTO Meta, CEO Salesforce,... See more
