What’s happening in tech • Stay informed with my weekly digest👇🏻

New York, NY
Joined September 2022
New life sciences company just launched founded by former CPO at OpenAI raised $215M Series A
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Snap Maps has to be Snapchat’s best product. It’s so slept on
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These guys just raised a $1B series A
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WOW Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Braze, a leading customer engagement platform, for $5.6B... 👆🏻 Swipe for more details on the acquisition
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Wow how much did they pay him?
Lights on. 💡 Introducing SPECS x Robert Downey Jr. SPECS.com
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GTA 6 could cost the US $1B per day due to gamers calling days off or even slacking at work
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Love this city. Walk around at 10PM and there’s nonstop liveliness, people everywhere, stores still open, everyone and everything are alive… No other place in the US compares 👌🏻
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One of the strangest acquisitions of all time has to be Square acquiring Tidal (Jay-Z’s music-streaming service)… In 2015, Jay-Z bought it for $56M. Then in 2021, he flipped it to Square for $297M.
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You have to be in nyc
New York is becoming one of Databricks’ biggest AI hubs. 🗽 We’re expanding at 5 Bryant Park to ~120,000 square feet across five floors, including a dedicated Engineering and Research floor. With teams building technologies behind Genie, Unity Gateway and CustomerLake, our momentum in NYC is only growing.
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Anthropic and Elon Musk have pledged to donate a portion of their equity to a Public Benefit Fund and to the general public, respectively... Is this the start of Universal High Income? Swipe images to read details
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If you want exponential equity growth over the next few years, join an early robotics company (or invest in their seed rounds)
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Wow salesforce is in talks to buy Listen Labs for $2B 🤯
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The Trump administration has been exploring taking an equity stake in various AI companies like OpenAI where a portion of returns would be shared to the American people so everyone can benefit from the success of AI.
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Meta plans to raise BILLIONS in equity to fund its AI buildout efforts
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NYC > SF any day
NYC is absolutely electric right now. Perfect weather. Knicks in the Finals. Hyrox going on. Interns. Summer Friday. Every bar is buzzing. Everyone is outside. I honestly can’t remember the city having more energy than it does today
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Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab focused on design and ui
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SpaceX IPO now showing on Robinhood
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SpaceX targets IPO at $135 a share
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Market research firm AlphaSense raises a new $350M at a $7.5B valuation
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Robinhood reaches $400M annualized revenue for its prediction markets business
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For context, it’s hitting over $4B total annualized revenue this year
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