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Oct 1, 2026
Ed ZitronGUEST
And on top of it, I remember the information I had a story a few months ago saying that Broadcom was financing a chunk of the chips for OpenAI's jalapeno.
Ed ZitronGUEST
So it's getting involved in a much, actually, NVIDIA is by comparison actually being a little smarter because NVIDIA classically does equity investments that then are used to raise money with the Valor Equity Partners deal with GROK, or sorry, XR, whatever that company's called these days, SpaceX, there we go.
Ed ZitronGUEST
They did this deal where they put $2 billion into it, and then the money was raised to buy the GPUs back from them.
Ed ZitronGUEST
Lancium, the Stargate Abilene data center developer, they did an equity investment.
speaker_1HOST
A Silicon Valley startup called C-Scale has come out of stealth with $145 million in Series C funding to build optical connections for AI computing.
speaker_1HOST
The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Premji Invest, with NVIDIA and Intel Capital joining as strategic investors.
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C-Scale has now raised $188 million in total.
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The company is working on what the industry calls Scale-Up Interconnect, the very fast links that let thousands of accelerators act like one much larger computer.
JamieHOST
It is secondary liquidity rather than new capital, and no revenue was disclosed.
JamieHOST
Flow Engineering raised fifty million dollars at a seven hundred fifty million dollar valuation led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides, with Sequoia participating.
JamieHOST
Its agents align CAD drawings with requirements and simulation results for customers including Anduril, Rivian, and GM.
JamieHOST
Both bets sit on specialized layers: a voice stack holding ground against Frontier Lab's native voice models and a vertical agent built around domain verification loops.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Antonio Gracias is a long-term Musk ally and sitting member of the SpaceX board of directors.
Patrick BoyleHOST
He also runs a private investment firm called Valor Equity Partners.
Patrick BoyleHOST
According to the IPO prospectus, SpaceX and X AI are carrying more than twenty billion dollars in AI infrastructure lease obligations tied to agreements with entities connected to Valor.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Some of these deals are structured as what accountants call failed sale leasebacks.
Anthony PowerHOST
And Crusoe, you know, if they do go to IPO, certainly looking to get to 30 billion without too much trouble.
Anthony PowerHOST
Now, Crusoe previously completed initial 1.3 billion oversubscribed series e-funding round in October 2025. led by Valor Equity Partners.
Anthony PowerHOST
And that valuation put them above 10 billion, but this was hot on the heels of a 600 million Series D round just 10 months earlier at a 2.8 billion valuation.
Anthony PowerHOST
So you can see every time they're going out getting additional funding to grow the company, these valuations really increase.
Tom PattonHOST
Rocket Lab says it plans more updates to the technology to support future missions.
Tom PattonHOST
impulse space has raised another 308 million dollars extending its series d round to a combined 808 million the redondo beach california company builds spacecraft that moves satellites and other payloads between orbits after launch the extension builds on a 500 million dollar series d that closed in june Existing investors took part, including 137 Ventures, Banner VC, DFJ Growth, Lintz Capital, Lux Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.
Tom PattonHOST
Impulse didn't disclose an updated valuation.
Tom PattonHOST
It also didn't say how the new money will be split among hiring, manufacturing, and other costs beyond supporting product development and team growth.
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The AI infrastructure provider announced on September 17 the initial close of an anticipated $3.9 billion Series F round at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation.
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NVIDIA joined the round alongside investors including Founders Fund, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority, and TPG, while Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners co-led the financing.
CassidyHOST
Crusoe's initial close is $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion valuation, and NVIDIA is investing in a cloud company that buys NVIDIA hardware.
CassidyHOST
Call it vertical integration if you like.