Craig Stephens | Access IPOs retweeted
Noel Moldvai, our Co-Founder and CEO, explains why if you're trying to buy shares of a private company, you may get quoted 100 different prices.
“Sometimes there's a carry attached to that price.“
Craig Stephens from the @AccessIPOs podcast was joined by @noelregrets to talk about all things Augment, who Noel is, private markets, pricing and so much more.
Craig Stephens | Access IPOs retweeted
Fidelity is lowering the minimum eligibility for IPO investing to $25,000.
“The IPO market is on pace for its most active year since 2021 for new IPOs.”
Fidelity is lowering the minimum eligibility for IPO investing to $25,000.
“The IPO market is on pace for its most active year since 2021 for new IPOs.”
Craig Stephens | Access IPOs retweeted
Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional @bretttejpaul joined the podcast to talk about access to upcoming IPOs on the @Coinbase app.
Here's a clip where Brett reveals how @brian_armstrong is involved in securing IPO access for Coinbase customers $OURA $SPCX $COIN
Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional @bretttejpaul joined the podcast to talk about access to upcoming IPOs on the @Coinbase app.
Here's a clip where Brett reveals how @brian_armstrong is involved in securing IPO access for Coinbase customers $OURA $SPCX $COIN
New podcast: @bretttejpaul joined the show to talk about Coinbase IPO investing, allocations, flipping policy, tokenization, and institutional crypto rails. $COIN
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Craig Stephens | Access IPOs retweeted
SCOOP: Anduril is set for a roughly $90 billion valuation with its latest employee share sale.
The tender launched yesterday, and has a $1.3 billion cap, per sources.
w/ @EdLudlow @KatrinaManson @nmasc_ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Augment CEO @noelregrets joined the show this week to talk about pre-IPO access and the new Private Liquidity Network.
I asked how Augment can offer $10k minimums (or less) to accredited investors. @AugmentMarkets
Watch the 1-minute clip 👇
New podcast: @AugmentMarkets CEO @noelregrets joins the show to talk about pre-IPO access and the new Private Liquidity Network.
Augment aims to make pre-IPO ownership as easy as using your favorite stock trading app.
youtube.com/watch?v=1-WgABpF…
Also on Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/61Q…
This newsletter is packed. I learn something new every week.
Anthropic's leaked prospectus shows $518B in compute commitments. OpenAI shipped near-Astra smarts at a fifth of the price and is reportedly raising at $1.4T. SpaceXAI finally made orbit. Saronic broke ground on its shipyard and booked a fleet of autonomous ships the same day. Kalshi lost in the Sixth Circuit and is reportedly raising at $40B anyway. Lambda is paying its own power bill. Gecko Robotics got NVIDIA's safety stamp. Varda raised $251M to make drugs in orbit. Valar Atomics wants to put 456 reactors in the Utah desert.
Let's get into it.
📈 Portfolio Pulse
🧠 @AnthropicAI posted nearly $4.6B in revenue against an $8B+ operating loss and $518B in mostly locked-in infrastructure spend in its leaked prospectus, eyeing a raise of up to $100B at $2T+ likely after the midterms, while shipping a faster, cheaper Sonnet 5.5 and splitting a DC Circuit loss with a Trump dinner.
🤖 @OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of Astra's price plus always-on dots agents, reported 1.2B weekly users, and is reportedly in early talks to raise $30B+ at around $1.4T, even as image-leak disclosures and an Australian Senate inquiry add pressure.
🚀 @spacexai took Starship to orbit for the first time on Flight 14 despite an early Raptor shutdown and off-target splashdown, while Musk says Colossus 2 runs 550k Blackwell chips and could top 1.2M by year end.
⚓ @Saronic broke ground on its $3B+ Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville and won a Navy production award for the 180-ft Marauder in a 30-vessel MUSV program, though its own contract value remains undisclosed.
🎯 @Kalshi dropped to 1-for-3 in circuit courts after a Sixth Circuit loss on sports contract preemption and moved to end its volume incentive program, yet is reportedly near a $1B raise at roughly $40B, nearly double its May valuation.
🏗️ @lambdamarkets1 is building an Oklahoma AI data center while paying 100% of its own energy costs with closed-loop cooling, a signal that self-funded power is becoming the cost of getting permitted.
🦎 @geckorobotics was named a launch partner on NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, using OpenShell as an independent enforcement layer on its Navy-deployed Komodo robot, turning auditable safety into a sales edge.
💊 @VardaSpace closed a $251M Series D at a $1.6B valuation led by Lux and Natural Capital, bringing total funding to $598M ahead of its first two-capsule flight on Transporter-18.
⚛️ @valaratomics filed with BLM for Project Beehive, a roughly 9.6 GW, 456-reactor data center power site in Utah targeting first reactors in 2028, with permitting and local buy-in as the real hurdles.
👀 Watch List
☀️ @Helion_Energy quietly softened Orion's 2028 goal from electricity to initial operations, with full power now pegged at 2029 or later, putting its Microsoft grid deadline at risk.
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NEW: Anthropic investor day invites have gone out for October 14th at HQ in San Francisco, putting the company on track for an IPO in November bloomberg.com/news/articles/…










