 | Weekly digest · Monday, October 5 |
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there, here's your week in AI — all in one place. 12 deals worth $102B, 12 stories, 5 new members and what's coming up. |
Deals this week 12 $102B · 2 M&A | | Lounge AI Index -4.5% this week · equal-weight |
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| Anthropic Debt financing · led by Blackstone · $4.6B 2025 revenue (IPO prospectus) | $60B | | OpenAI Growth round (final tranche) · led by SoftBank · val. $852B | $20B | | World Labs Acquisition · acquired by AMD · pre-revenue | $8.2B | | Amazon Debt / asset transfer | ~$8B | | Listen Labs Acquisition · acquired by Salesforce · $30M ARR | $2B (reported) | | Instinct Series C · led by Sequoia Capital · val. $10B | $1B | | FieldAI Series C · val. $10B · $135M+ revenue & contracts | $700M | | GMI Cloud Series B + debt · led by Archiv | $223M equity + $445M debt | | EliseAI Growth · led by Andreessen Horowitz · val. $4B | $350M | | ElevenLabs Secondary | $300M | | Armadin Series B · led by Andreessen Horowitz · val. $2.5B+ | $255.5M | | Kahua Private equity | $250M |
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Lee Radloff corporate · Austin — GTM Engineer, SaasRise Ricardo founder · Brussels — Founder of Patricia.app and Betterpic.io Cristian Frunze founder · Amsterdam — Founder of Ken.so - AI email & LinkedIn outreach Steve Canfield developer — Developer, Independent Ryan Allis founder · Austin — Founder of Lounge.ai |
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| Patricia Patricia · AI coworker for small marketing agencies: client reporting, spend alerts, recaps and follow-ups in Slack. |
| Viktor Viktor · AI employee inside Slack and Teams that proposes and runs automations across 3,200+ tools. |
| Instinct Spear Street Technology · Personal AI assistant you text or call; it runs tasks on its own cloud computer. |
| Lightfield Lightfield · AI-native CRM that updates itself from your email, calls and meetings. |
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Members get more The full deals desk, ARR Leaderboard, Stocks and Investors — plus the masterminds, groups and $2M in perks. Developer membership is $9/mo. See plans → |
Member perk of the week Perplexity — Perplexity for Startups: 3 months of Enterprise Pro (up to 50 seats) + $5,000 in Sonar API credits ($11,000 value) Three months of Perplexity Enterprise Pro for your whole team (up to 50 seats: frontier models, deep research, file search, team workspaces) plus $5,000 of cred Claim this perk → |
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