Rebecca Torrence

Fireworks AI, a startup that helps companies run artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise a new round of funding that would value the company at $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cognition AI Inc. has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $26 billion valuation, the latest sign of strong demand for companies using artificial intelligence for software development.

Ramp, a corporate spending management platform, has raised $750 million in a new funding round at a $44 billion valuation, a sign of investor enthusiasm for using artificial intelligence to help companies with their bookkeeping.

NinjaOne, an IT management platform, has more than doubled its valuation to $12.3 billion in a new financing deal, bucking the trend of investors shying away from software-as-a-service companies over AI fears. The startup is set to announce Tuesday that it’s raised $400 million in a secondary share sale. Wellington Management, Iconiq Capital, Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG and Sequoia Capital participated in the deal, which saw some early investors and longtime employees sell equity. NinjaOne was prev

Later investments are producing much higher returns than in the past

The initial public offering for SpaceX is poised to generate billions of dollars in profits for the fortunate few investors who got in early on Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company.

La oferta pública inicial de SpaceX está encaminada a generar miles de millones de dólares en ganancias para el reducido grupo de inversionistas que apostó temprano por la empresa de cohetes, satélites e inteligencia artificial de Elon Musk.

A small number of firms are set to net tens of billions of dollars in returns from SpaceX’s initial public offering at a nearly $1.8 trillion valuation, marking one of the most significant windfalls in venture capital history.

The IPO will return piles of capital to private markets that have been starved of liquidity for years. Only 23 venture-backed tech firms went public in 2025, down from 77 just four years earlier, according to data compiled by University of Florida professor Jay Ritter.

Der Börsengang von SpaceX beschert einigen Venture-Capital-Firmen Renditen in zweistelliger Milliardenhöhe. Beim IPO zu einem Unternehmenswert von nahezu 1,8 Billionen Dollar (1,6 Billionen Euro) zählen die Gewinne zu den größten in der Geschichte der Branche.